MMartin Bowling3d ago · 5 min readThe Celebrity Neuron Is Not a NeuronI wanted to know if you can make Qwen3.5-4B believe it is a celebrity. The answer is: you can, but not with a single neuron, and not for every kind of celebrity. Single neurons and three-neuron trios martinbowling.com
MMartin Bowling4d ago · 10 min readI Audited the Viral Qwen Neuron ZooThe viral Qwen Neuron Zoo poster makes a very stupid, very compelling claim: push one MLP neuron in Qwen3.5-4B and the model becomes Jesus, a cartoon mascot, or a creature that can only talk about coomartinbowling.com
MMartin Bowling4d ago · 5 min readThree-Neuron BangersSingle neurons are fun. Combinations are where it gets weird. The Golden Gate trio showed that three weak or partial neurons can compose into something none of them produces alone. So I ran ten more tmartinbowling.com
HHaithem Slimi5d ago · 30 min readTeaching 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 lnightthoughts.me
MMihai_LeanZeroOct 16 · 29 min readBest Local Image Generation Model on Mac: ERNIE vs FLUXIf you're after the best local image generation model on a Mac, my pick after tonight's test is ERNIE-Image Turbo under mflux. On our Mac Studio it took a median of 80 seconds for a 1600x896 image andleanzero.hashnode.dev
HHaithem SlimiOct 9 · 50 min readComplete Guide: Always-On Mac Server with MLX, oMLX & QwenPawThe foundation guide for local AI on Apple Silicon. This guide builds a headless, always-on Mac mini that survives reboot without any GUI intervention, serves local models through oMLX with persistent1nightthoughts.me
DDragos RouaOct 3 · 4 min read[ Video ] How To Set Up Local AI on a 16GB MacBookOne of my YouTube subscribers asked, in a comment, how to set up a 16GB M1 MacBook Pro so it runs models in a more comfortable way, not necessarily in the terminal. This came as a reaction to my localdragosroua.hashnode.dev
MMihai_LeanZeroSep 23 · 26 min readGoose 3.0: Local Models, MLX and LeanZero LinkGoose Swarm 3.0 is our desktop build of the goose agent for running local models on Apple Silicon. It has its own MLX engine, the MCP servers come bundled, and it can put every Mac you own to work thrleanzero.hashnode.dev
MMihai_LeanZeroSep 19 · 34 min readQwen3-Coder-Next + MXFP8: The 128GB Local LLM That Runs PredictablyQwen3-Coder-Next + MXFP8: The 128GB Local LLM That Runs Predictably Why This 2026 Release Matters for Local AI Development When an AI model can run 80 billion parameters on a consumer laptop while del2Bleanzero.hashnode.dev
MMihai_LeanZeroSep 19 · 13 min readMLX vs GGUF on Apple Silicon: Benchmarking the Same Local Model Two WaysMLX vs GGUF on Apple Silicon: Benchmarking the Same Local Model Two Ways You've pulled a local coding model onto your Mac and you're staring at two downloads of the same weights: a GGUF build and an Mleanzero.hashnode.dev
