Research archive

Research

Technical notes, experiments, theories, and build logs from my work across local AI, systems, infrastructure, and early web projects.

Quantum Computing Technology Forecasting

Quantum Computing 2026-2126: A Reasonable Century of Progress

A physics-constrained scenario for how quantum computing could move from NISQ to fault-tolerant and distributed infrastructure without assuming its growth curve should look like AI.

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Century Forecast
Local AI Media Automation

Building a Private Local Transcription App with Whisper

A Dockerized audio and video transcription workflow with local Whisper inference, NVIDIA acceleration, CPU fallback, and privacy-focused defaults.

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Local Build
Local AI RSI Research

ANNIE V4: Building a Persistent Local AI Runtime

An in-depth look at my local AI system for durable memory, research, project work, controlled tools, voice, and evidence-backed recursive self-improvement.

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System Overview
Virtualization Local AI

Building LAN-VM-BRIDGE for Isolated Local AI

A private-network systems test that routes browser chat through a VirtualBox host and isolated guest VM to a local Ollama model.

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Live Lab
Short-Form Media Automation

Testing Short-Form Video Automation at Scale

A field test of how much Instagram and TikTok content production could be automated with premade clips, including the method's peak audience results.

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Field Results
Local AI CUDA TTS

Building a Local CUDA TTS Testing Bench

I built a local Docker and PowerShell bench for testing CUDA TTS voice cloning models on an RTX 5070, with notes on first run setup, model tuning, and rough inference speed.

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Benchmark Notes
Local AI Agent Systems

ANNIE V2: Diffusion-Inspired Cognition for a Self-Thinking Local LLM

ANNIE V2 explores memory, self-monitoring, and background cognition loops around a local model while keeping the system private and controllable.

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Architecture
Reasoning UI Memory

ANNIE: A Local Reasoning Assistant Interface

My first local AI harness, now publicly preserved as an archival proof of concept with memory, search, vision, voice, file handling, and early code-review tools.

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Build Log
AI Research Capability Test

QSTOE: An Early AI Research Experiment

A February 2025 test of whether a leading LLM could develop a novel research concept and structure it as a complete paper.

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Historical Experiment
Web Development Origin

How I Got Started in Web Development

The first step in building this site and the curiosity that pulled me into software, systems, and product work.

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First Post