Build-in-public write-ups on local-first AI, crypto quant engineering, passive-yield benchmarks, and what happens when a losing bot gets debugged in public.
Running local LLMs on M1 Max hardware is one of those setups that looks great on paper — unified memory, no PCIe bottleneck, offline and private. For about a year I ran `mlx-community/Qwen3.6-35B-A3B-8bit`, a 35B Mixture…
Read post →The first lie I had to unlearn buying a 64 GB Mac for local LLM work was that I had 64 GB to use for the model.
Read post →I tested both. Same machine (M1 Max 64 GB), same model (Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Q8), same prompts, same generation lengths. llama.cpp came out about 30% faster on raw decode throughput. I stayed on MLX anyway.
Read post →The first 600 tokens looked great. Coherent prose, on-topic, the same voice I'd been getting from Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Q8 for weeks. Then something snapped. The next 200 tokens were a chain of synonyms — "leadership manageme…
Read post →I lost two hours last week to a Qwen 3.6 quirk that doesn't show up in any quickstart guide. My agent kept returning malformed JSON. Logs showed the model output started with `
Tokyo intervened in the FX market on April 30, 2026, and USD/JPY round-tripped from 160.72 down to 155.5 before bouncing back to 157.2 in the Asia session. Some crypto desks are already typing "carry trade unwind, round …
Read post →For 24 days I ran a 30-pair crypto perp scanner using classical technical analysis (RSI, EMA, VWAP, ADX) on 15-minute candles. About 4,700 paper trades. Win rate 25.8% over the last 8 days. That's not bad luck. Statistic…
Read post →This is what 47.68 million klines, 27 LightGBM models, and one failed Transformer spike taught me about building a crypto quantile predictor that holds up under out-of-sample stress — and what the OOS calibration numbers…
Read post →I froze my M1 Max twice in one week running Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Q8 for a 12-agent stack.
Read post →Three days ago (April 20, 2026), Apple announced that John Ternus, SVP of Hardware Engineering, will succeed Tim Cook as CEO effective September 1, 2026. Cook moves to Executive Chairman. Ternus becomes Apple's 8th CEO.
Read post →FPT Corporation, Vietnam's largest IT services firm, is down ~33.8% from its 52-week high. This drawdown mirrors a broader sector-wide slump: TCS fell 21.4%, Wipro dropped 23.1%, and Infosys declined roughly 16% over the…
Read post →I ran an inverted-alpha paper-trading experiment to test whether inverting my live signals would produce net-positive P&L over 100 round-trips. The inverted-alpha book (Book 2) hit a 63% win rate — good enough to celebra…
Read post →I opened Activity Monitor on my M1 Max one afternoon and saw this: Memory Used 60.74 GB out of 64, compressed memory 19.69 GB, swap starting to fill. The SwiftUI dashboard I use to drive my multi-agent quant stack had hu…
Read post →While the public AI narrative is dominated by capex wars and cloud GPU shortages, a quieter shift has happened on the desktop. A single Apple Silicon laptop with 64GB of unified memory now runs a 35-billion-parameter mix…
Read post →After roughly 500 paper round-trips showed a persistent sub-35% win rate with average losses larger than average wins, we stopped scaling the live side and ran a cheap experiment: a second paper book that executes the ex…
Read post →Most "is my trading bot any good?" conversations start from the wrong place. People compare bot returns to zero, or to "the market," or to whatever random chart is in front of them. None of those are the right bar.
Read post →Past 7 days · 49 losing trades · total -24.63 USDT - Execution Slippage cluster × 25 across APT/USDT, BNB/USDT, ETH/USDT, LINK/USDT - Technical Failure cluster × 24 across APT/USDT, ARB/USDT, ATOM/USDT, AVAX/USDT - APT/U…
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