Hello, I’m Vlad.

Curiosity,
with a paper trail.

I like making ambitious things work on the machines I have.

A small laboratory workbench rendered in silver, glass and a pink cable

Illustration generated with Grok. The graphs use experiment data.

This is my open notebook for local AI: language models, quantization, speech, images, coding agents, and policies that learn from pixels. Some entries end in a useful deployment. Others end in a rollback, an incident, or a better question.

I want the part between “the model fits” and “the thing works” to be visible. That means actual requests, recorded outputs, resource measurements, and acceptance gates that can say no.

The editorial starting point is inspired by The Kaitchup — AI on a Budget: a practical question, a concrete experiment, and the result. The stories and measurements here come from my own experiment archive.

The reporting method

A result needs its context.

01

Say what was measured

Model, precision, hardware, runtime, workload and units stay attached to the numbers. Aggregate throughput and single-request speed get their own labels.

02

Keep the failures

A faster invalid output is a failed run. A rejected training checkpoint stays rejected. An incident is part of the story.

03

Show the boundary

A small frozen set, a proxy metric, or a repeat run has a limited meaning. Confidence intervals and unresolved checks remain visible.

04

Leave a trail

Each article links its source record. Figures include data tables, CSV, SVG, PNG and metadata. Supporting notebooks preserve the technical detail.

Archive & sources

The complete experiment index.

44 stories and 86 supporting notebooks were assembled from groxaxo/experimentos at revision 6550ead3945b. The source repository is private; its links require access.

Private workstation addresses and absolute paths are generalized. Raw inbox prompts and model responses, original user media, binary weights, and private session transcripts are excluded. Two legacy image-only entries have no narrative or timing records; they are listed below without inventing an experiment.

Agents & systems 2
Devices & tools 1
Game learning 6
Images & video 8
Language models 12
Speech & codecs 13
Training & adaptation 2
Image-only legacy entries
  • qwen21_combo: five legacy images, no narrative or benchmark data
  • qwen21_t2i_test.png: standalone legacy output
All supporting notebooks 86