Teaching a Small Language Model to Triage Incidents: A Beginner’s Unsloth and QLoRA TutorialMost fine-tuning tutorials stop when the training loss decreases. I wanted to answer a more useful operational question: can a small language model learn to turn an unstructured incident alert into a 24KN1d ago · 30 min readnightthoughts.me
Beyond DeepSeek and Qwen: Five Teams Building China’s Open-Source AI FoundationsThe most important Chinese contribution to open-source AI may not be a model at all. International coverage tends to organize Chinese AI around a familiar cast: DeepSeek for reasoning, Qwen for open-w3d ago · 8 min readnightthoughts.me
Teaching a Small Local Model to Think in DifferentialsMost fine-tuning tutorials end when training loss decreases. I wanted to answer a more interesting question: given a synthetic patient’s symptoms, can a small local model learn not only what is most l5d ago · 30 min readnightthoughts.me
Technical Breakdown of Ornith-1.5-122B: Impressive Data, MoE Architecture, and Licensing CaveatsOrnith-1.5-122B was released on October 20, 2026, positioning itself as an efficient Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model designed for single-GPU deployment. Its marketing centers on three claims: state-of-Oct 21 · 6 min readnightthoughts.me
Onyx: The Open-Source AI Assistant That Keeps Company Data at HomeMost companies have information scattered across Google Drive, Slack, Jira, Confluence, and dozens of other tools. When an employee needs an answer, they spend hours searching. AI can help, but sendinOct 21 · 6 min readnightthoughts.me
