This is the personal website of Jacob Zymet, showcasing what I think about, what I build, what I study, and the technical background behind it.
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Notes on technology, design, and life.
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EngineeringJuly 23, 2026
Increased Feasability of Local LLM Inference On Consumer Hardware
Local LLM inference on consumer hardware has been in a weird place for a while. You can certainly run smaller, quantized models locally, but they are very often less intelligent than a brick. Hardly anyone is using them for any kind of serious, quality work, not because they don't want to, but simply because the models are too dumb...
July 14, 2026
Employers Shouldn't Be Proud Of Overworking Their Employees
There's a difference between critical, high-stakes deadlines for groundbreaking technologies that can positively transform the world, and a highly bureaucratic, often fundamentally...
June 1, 2026
The Often Misplaced Focus of Americans And Our Dying Infrastructure
It goes without saying that every country has its own set of unique problems and...
April 7, 2026
Space Is The Final Frontier
Space is the final frontier of exploration. Like Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a Russian...
March 30, 2026
Shanghai is the best city in the world
I've lived in China for close to 8 months now, and will continue to live here until at...
