NotesACYCLIC / NOTES

Working notes
from the field.

Research and implementation questions we are developing. Entries below are drafts, not published findings.

Technical notes, delivery letters, and applied research.

FIELD NOTES / INDEX

We write about the engineering decisions that change whether a system can be trusted in use.

DRAFTPRIVATE AI / SYSTEMS

Running 500B+ parameter open-weight MoE models on a single workstation

Expert streaming, speculative decoding, and the practical boundary between available hardware and useful inference.

DRAFTPRIVATE AI / SERVING

Coordinating multiple models on shared hardware

Scheduling, contention, and the operational choices behind a multi-model service.

DRAFTDELIVERY / ACCEPTANCE

Acceptance criteria for software that touches the books

How to specify reconciliation behavior, exceptions, and review points before implementation.

DRAFTFIELD ENGINEERING

What an embedded engineer needs to learn in the first week

Finding the real workflow, the record of truth, and the person who can accept the result.

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