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LookML over LangChain: what I learned shipping AI in a Looker dashboard for a US nonprofit
The bottleneck in your AI-for-analytics project is not the model. It is the metric.
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SoulBoxFT: the 986 MB therapist I trained and shipped to the edge
Therapy doesn't speak the languages most people think in. I built SoulBoxFT to test a bet: a small multilingual CBT assistant, trained on disciplined synthetic data and guarded by a recall-1.0 safety layer, can run on hardware that costs under $60. The whole pipeline fits on a laptop. No cloud GPU. No API spend.
The Ocean's Intelligence Gap: Why Your Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Can't Talk to Its Digital Twin
80% of the ocean remains unmapped. Autonomous underwater vehicles are the instruments that will close this gap. But they're held back by a fundamental problem nobody is solving: how to keep a digital twin synchronized when bandwidth is measured in kilobits per second and latency is measured in seconds per kilometer. A new research vision at UNO aims to fix it.
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