Set up the CLI version of NDLOCR-Lite on Apple Silicon Mac, then tested OCR result correction with Qwen 3.5 and Swallow. Includes experiments with direct image reading and the anchoring effect.
Went 0-for-13 trying to train an Illustrious-XL LoRA on a Mac Studio M1 Max 64GB. With help from multiple AI agents, pinpointed the root causes and finally succeeded on a RunPod RTX 4090. The full record: three fatal parameters and the sd-scripts trap.
Overview of Black Forest Labs' FLUX.2 Klein 9B model and how it performs on M1/M2/M3/M4 Macs. Covers the key factors behind the CUDA vs MPS performance gap, including memory bandwidth and FP8 quantization.
A plan to build an internal help desk RAG system using a Mac mini M4 Pro and Dify. Highlights what's new in Dify circa 2025 and tips for running local LLMs.
Introducing a Mac mini M4 Pro to build an in-house RAG system. A plan for setting up a LoRA training environment during downtime while waiting for specs to be finalized.