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Technical writing on deterministic verification, Private AI, post-LLM architectures, applied epistemology, and local inference infrastructure.

April 2026 · Meta-knowhow · AI Engineering · Critical Thinking

Meta-knowhow: the new superpower in the age of AI

A professional's value was once measured by what they knew. Today, when AI systems aggregate and refine information faster than any individual, raw knowledge is no longer the differentiator. Controlli...

March 2026 · Architecture · LLM · Knowledge Graphs

GPUs are for interpretation. CPUs are for operational knowledge.

Most people think AI infrastructure ends with the model. It doesn't.

February 2026 · LLM · Neurosymbolic AI · Prolog

Fluency is not reasoning. LLMs need a logic layer.

More than a year ago, I wrote that a serious direction for AI was Transformers + Prolog. Today I would phrase it more precisely: LLMs need a declarative logic execution layer.

February 2026 · Epistemology · Semantic AI · Grounding

Semantics alone is not enough.

A system may connect concepts, organize symbols, and produce highly coherent language. It may relate sleep, stress, glucose, hydration, and behavior in ways that appear meaningful. But semantic cohere...

January 2026 · Medical AI · Clinical AI · Epistemology

From Prediction to Admissibility in Medical AI.

The point is not whether a model performs brilliantly on benchmarks, papers, or clinical datasets. The real question is different: what is the epistemic status of its output on the individual patient?

March 2026 · Self-hosted AI · Homelab · GPU

How I Test Vibration and Cooling Before Trusting Expensive AI Hardware.

Almost nobody talks about what happens when you actually turn it on.

December 2025 · Self-hosted AI · GPU · HPC

My first local inference test lasted 180 seconds.

Four NVIDIA K80 GPUs, GPT-J, standard tower server. At 85°C thermal throttling started. At 90°C, all four cards shut down. Adding aftermarket fans gained about 5°C. Irrelevant.

March 2026 · AI Engineering · Software Engineering · LLM

Epistemic Software Engineering.

The marginal cost of producing software with AI is approaching zero. The cost of knowing whether that software is reliable is not.