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It started as a Sunday side project—something to do between the noon Bears game and yet another round of debugging vLLM authentication that night.
I decided to finally turn my Gmail archive into data. Fifteen years of messages. 103,000 emails. Fourteen gigabytes of text that should, in theory, show how I’ve changed: the tone of my writing, the way I negotiate, how curio...
Executives are buying GPUs like they’re staking gold claims. The pitch deck says “AI gold rush” and suddenly you’re spec’ing DGX clusters. But inference isn’t mining—it’s manufacturing. And most of you haven’t built the factory.
Gold has value when you dig it up. Oil has value after you refine it. Inference has value when you build a system that turns it into outcomes—r...
A European customer asked about their order history.
Your AI agent pulled data from the governance catalog.
Kubernetes scheduled the inference job on the fastest available GPU.
That GPU was in your US-West cluster.
EU customer data just crossed borders.
The compliance breach wasn’t caused by bad...
It signals NVIDIA’s belief that CUDA is now so central to AI development that developers — and by extension, enterprises — will continue to build their futures on it, no matter the cost.
And cost is exactly the point.The GB10 systems are priced at roughly twice what AMD OEMs are charging for their AI Max equivalents. From a pure hardwar...
A while back, my wife and I sat down with an architect to design our dream cabin in Tennessee.
We had ideas—a vision for how it might feel—but translating that into walls, windows, elevations, and flow? That’s where the architect shined.
As we talked, he sketched.As we hesitated, he adjusted.
He moved walls, flipped layouts, raised ceilings—all in real time.</p...
