From PDF to Markdown with Local LLMs Revisited What Gemma 3, Gemma 4 and four specialized OCR models taught me about historical books, Fraktur, resolution and page breaks Gwang-Jin · October 24, 2026 Remember the little Gemma 3 script? In April 2025, I published From PDF to Markdown with Local LLMs — Fast, Private, and Free. From PDF to Markdown
Stop Watching Your Coding Agent: Build a System You Can Trust Inspired by Lauren Tan's (SpaceX) talk. Recently, I watched Lauren Tan's talk about Agents (SpaceX, working a lot with Cursor) and found it difficult to understand. So I rewatched and rewatched and tried to write my own conclusions from it. This article is the result of
Stop Restarting R For Debugging Use options(error = recover), options(warn = 2), and dump.frames() There is one debugging habit that wastes more time than almost anything else in R. The moment something fails, we change the code and press Run again. It feels productive. But it isn't. That rerun destroys the very
How to Set Up a Common Lisp IDE in 2026 From Zero to a Green Test Suite This article is also published in: How to Set Up a Common Lisp Development Environment in 2026Install SBCL, manage dependencies with ocicl or Quicklisp, choose Emacs, VS Code, or mine, and build a tested Common Lisp project with CI.Data Science CollectiveGwang-Jin I
How to Spot a Stock Before It Becomes a 100-Bagger Three independent studies reached surprisingly similar conclusions about what extraordinary companies looked like before everyone noticed them. One question kept bothering me: If companies like Amazon, Apple or Monster Beverage eventually became obvious investments, what did they look like before they were obvious? That’s a much more interesting question
The 96% Problem Why Picking Stocks Is Much Harder Than Most People Think When hunting for multibaggers, one has to look for small , founder-led, quickly-growing companies, large markets, and high returns on capital. Today I want to explain why we need such a strict filter. Because the statistics are far more brutal than
Why East Asia Made Tofu Instead of Cheese And Why Tofu Feels Like Their Mozzarella The first time you notice it, it feels almost suspicious. Europe has cheese everywhere. France has cheese that smells like a philosophical argument. Switzerland has cheese as infrastructure. Italy has mozzarella, ricotta, parmesan, pecorino — an entire dairy opera. Then you go to Korea
Relearning Thinking After Asking ChatGPT First Too Often 5 prompts to activate your own brain before you activate the machine Recently, I read an article about someone stopping ChatGPT for 30 days. The article was dramatic, maybe a little too dramatic, but the core idea was hard to ignore: many of us are losing our tolerance for mental
Running Gemma 4 on a Mac With MLX — Without Ollama or LLama.cpp The shortest path for trying Gemma 4 on your Mac. You have probably already heard of Gemma 4. So had I. And like every reasonable local-AI person, I wanted to try it out. The shortest path is Ollama. It supports MLX-powered Apple Silicon support in preview now. This installs the
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“I forgot to create the GitHub repo again.” One command that fixes it If you use Git a lot, you’ve lived this scene: You’re in a new project folder. You do the disciplined thing: * git init * add files git add --all * commit git commit -m "commit message" And then the satisfying final move: git
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