Every article, in reading order
This is the complete index. Multi-episode field reports live on their series pages — episode 0 is the map, the episodes that follow carry the deep measurements, grouped by arc. Standalone dispatches sit below. The flat category archive is at /posts/.
One Man One Legion · 24 episodes · 5 arcs
Audited 2026-08-27: 3 machines, 3 local LLMs, 5 diffusion families, 22 cron jobs (4 on), 12 chat groups, 191 archived article files, 3 human touchpoints.
Machines Keep the Watch · 7 episodes · 6 arcs
A live manufacturing plant: frame-by-frame vision inspection, three-a-day patrol agents, and a 27B on-prem LLM — the first unsupervised night shift, 2026-09-05.
Standalone Dispatches · 14 dispatches
Single measured dispatches that stand outside any series.
- Measured 2025-11-19
How Do You Ship Industrial Defect Detection With Only 'Good' Samples? An Anomalib Field Guide
anomalib on a two-GPU workstation: all 15 MVTecAD scenes trained and measured (mean image-AUROC 0.981), plus the three real bugs the sweep had to fix first.
- Measured 2026-08-30
What Does AI Work in China Actually Need From the Network? A Field Map of Walls, Mirrors, and One Rented Computer
What breaks (GitHub, HF, PyPI, Omniverse — with receipts), what doesn't (domestic inference), and the architecture that worked: rent a computer, not a tunnel.
- Measured 2026-08-30
Can Simulation Fill Your Defect-Sample Gap? An Isaac Sim Route That Never Got Past the Install
The synthetic-data plan, three staged repos, 19 zero-length launch logs, and the download wall that stopped it — a field note on a line not yet flown.
- Measured 2026-08-30
Why Is It So Hard to Find a Human to Argue With? Five Things Vanishing From Digital Life in China
AI support walls, algorithmic black boxes, staged 'news', subscription traps, and the people left outside — plus the four counter-moves that still work.
- Measured 2026-08-30
What Is Jurisdiction Shopping — and Why Can Almost Nobody Afford It? One Very Mobile Case Study
A biography as portfolio: Qinghai-born, Beijing-schooled, Geneva-posted, Seychelles-domiciled. What jurisdiction shopping buys, and why it costs nine figures.
- Measured 2025-11-20
Can a Mac Mini Run Industrial Defect Detection on CPU? A Workstation-to-Edge Deployment That Actually Ran
PatchCore from the workstation, byte-identical checkpoints on a Mac mini, a Basler camera through Aravis, 0.156-0.176 s CPU inference — a deployment that ran.
- Measured 2026-08-30
How Does a Vision Model Reach a Factory-Edge NPU? The ONNX→RKNN→RK3588 Route, Staged and Smoke-Tested
Three Rockchip docker images (6.86 GB total), the two-compiler reality, and the route from workstation GPU to a 6-TOPS edge NPU — staged for real.
- Measured 2026-08-30
What Is the 'Gray Zone' — the Condition Below War and Above Peace? A System Diagnosis, Not a Prediction
Normalization, law-enforcement costume, and attrition: three parts of a machine that moves boundaries without ever producing a headline day.
- Measured 2026-08-30
Why Do Analysts Say 'Quarantine' Instead of 'Blockade' — and What Did Kennedy's 1962 Word Choice Teach?
One word separates an act of war from a law-enforcement action. A vocabulary decoder for cross-border readers, from 1962's quarantine to today's coverage.
- Measured 2026-08-30
SAM3 on a Workstation: Docker Door, Source Door, and a Wire Into ComfyUI
Meta's SAM3 on one workstation: a scripted docker door never pulled, a 131 MB source clone, and a real 533-line ComfyUI node package with saved blueprints.
- Measured 2026-08-29
Who Called for Interning Chinese Americans If War Comes — and Why Did Chinese Comment Sections Cheer?
Podcast panelists floated internment; Congress condemned it; Chinese comments cheered. A field note on loyalty policing from both directions.
- Measured 2026-08-26
Can a Static Blog Hand AI Agents Real Tools? Wiring ARD + MCP into an Astro Site (Measured)
A +950-line commit gives a static blog an ARD catalog, OpenAPI tools, JSON indexes and a read-only MCP server. Live in 12–18 s; stress-tested, 5 gaps fixed.
- Measured 2026-02-19
InfiniteTalk Dies at torch.load: the Error Tells You to Upgrade torch — the Measured Fix Is Pinning transformers 4.52.0
Measured: the CVE-2025-32434 torch.load gate says upgrade torch — torch 2.10 then breaks four packages at once; the fix is pinning transformers 4.52.0.
- Measured 2025-11-29
Can You Run InfiniteTalk on Two Consumer GPUs? Yes — at 218.5 s/step (RTX 4090D + RTX A4000, Measured)
Measured on an RTX 4090D 24GB + RTX A4000 16GB rig: InfiniteTalk 14B fp8 fits with zero OOM via 20-block semi-residency — at 218.5 s/step, ~55 min per clip.
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