AI

Machine learning systems, model releases, and the engineering around them. 3 articles.

  1. OmniWatch: Fusing 48 Open Sources Into One Intelligence Dashboard

    A self-hosted OSINT platform that normalises 48 public data sources into a single event schema, with a local LLM correlation layer on top. Here is what it does, what it does not do, and where the design trade-offs sit.

    TechnologyAnalysis4 min read

  2. Poco X8 Pro Max: A Serious Edge-AI Host, With One Catch

    An 8,500 mAh silicon-carbon battery, 12 GB of LPDDR5X, and a 3 nm chipset make the X8 Pro Max a credible host for quantised local models. Whether you can actually run them depends on software support, not silicon.

    TechnologyAnalysis4 min read

  3. AI Weather Models Are Coming for Traditional Forecasting

    GraphCast, Pangu-Weather, and FourCastNet showed that learned models can match or beat physics-based forecasts on reanalysis data. ECMWF now runs one of them operationally. The limits matter as much as the results.

    GeoscienceAnalysis5 min read