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AI Alphabet Soup: A Fast, Fun Guide to Generative AI Models "AI" gets used as one giant catch-all word, which is a bit like calling every vehicle on the road "a car." Let's sort the traffic. First, the Three Big Buckets Almost everything people mean by "AI" falls into one of three nested...

From Toaster to Supercomputer: A Field Guide to Qwen 3, Size by Size Somewhere between "runs on a Raspberry Pi" and "needs its own power substation" sits an entire universe of AI models, and almost nobody explains what actually changes as you climb that ladder. So let's climb it — using Qwen 3,...

Fast, Local, and 6-Watt Powered: Squeezing an AI Chatbot into Grav CMS In the previous article, Self-Hosting Local AI on a Celeron N4100 Laptop, I proved that a low-spec, 6-Watt Celeron laptop with 8 GB of RAM could comfortably run Ollama and serve lightweight models like Qwen2.5 (0.5B)....

Self-Hosting Local AI on a Celeron N4100 Laptop: A Step-by-Step Guide (Yes, Really) The premise: you've got a spare budget laptop gathering dust in a drawer — an Intel Celeron N4100 with 8 GB of RAM. You want to turn it into a private, self-hosted AI server using Ollama. Is it ridicul...

Ollama on Intel Celeron, Part I: Squeezing Local LLMs Out of a sub-$100 Laptop Picture the "local AI" setup everyone talks about: a gaming rig with a glowing NVIDIA GPU that costs more than a used car. Now picture the opposite — an Intel Celeron N4100 mini PC with less than 8 GB of usable RA...