Independent publication // local-first AI // field reports from owned systems
Nodehome
A running publication about local models, private inference, self-hosted agents, weird hardware, research sweeps, and the builders wiring their own AI stack together.
AI is getting physical again. It shows up in terminals, racks, side projects, and ugly little workflows people actually control.
Latest
Daily Sweep - Jul 10, 2026Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
Profiling in PyTorch (Part 3): Attention is all you profile
Hugging Face blog post - check for new model releases, library updates, or ecosystem shifts.
QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall
Geerling content - practical hardware testing, often with Linux and ARM angles.
ASUS Thermal Lab Tour 2026 Testing AI Servers
ServeTheHome coverage - server hardware reviews and benchmarks from a trusted source.
Dive into our new AI Picbreeder Experiment here: pub.sakana.ai/picbreeder-v...
Today, things have come full circle. We are now trying to use modern VLMs and frontier LLM agents within open-ended exploration algorithms. We want to see if we can finally computationally derive the underlying mechanics of human creativity: serendipity, memory, exploration, and novelty search.
Memory management signal - matters for fitting large models across 72GB total VRAM.
Acer Nitro V 16 AI laptop launches with Ryzen 9 270 and 85W RTX 5070 for $2,100
Field Reports
builds, experiments, notesThree RTX 3090s, One 32B Model: A Pipeline-Parallel Canary
A current field note on why the 3x3090 serving path moved through pipeline parallelism, not tensor parallelism, for the tested 32B AWQ model.
Gemma 4 12B And The Sensory Agent Lane
A public-safe read on Gemma 4 12B as a local sensory preprocessor: useful for seeing, hearing, and structuring observations without turning into an action system.
Hardware
machines, thermals, economicsPower Caps On Three RTX 3090s: Bursts Versus Sustained Load
A measured note on 300W bursty inference, lower caps for sustained runs, and why power-cap sweet spots are workload-specific.
Parallel Agent Serving Is A Hardware Shape Now
A field-report read on 14x RTX 3090 agent serving, EXL3, FP8 KV cache, Aphrodite, and why concurrency is becoming the local hardware metric.