RCRobert Collinsinselfenrichment.hashnode.dev·Jul 1 · 8 min readdgx-spark-inference - Keeping good habits around local inferenceLocal inference has a habit of becoming folklore. You launch a model from a shell history fragment you can never quite find again. A context setting lives in a note somewhere. A faster quantization ge00
RCRobert Collinsinselfenrichment.hashnode.dev·Jun 3 · 8 min readBF16 Edge Cases When Porting CUDA-Oriented TTS Models to MPS and MLX-AudioWhen porting CUDA-oriented TTS models to Apple Silicon, one subtle but important issue is BF16 behavior on Metal. This has shown up in DiaTTS work on MPS, and the same class of issue appears relevant 00
RCRobert Collinsinselfenrichment.hashnode.dev·May 11 · 16 min readRevisiting MetalGraph: What I Learned About MLX, Replay, and Sidecar PerformanceTo set the stage, this post covers follow-up work that made MetalGraph feel less like it is doomed to be only a pure investigation tool and more like something that could be useful in practice. MetalG00
RCRobert Collinsinselfenrichment.hashnode.dev·May 10 · 14 min readThe Honest Limits Reached With MetalGraphMetal Graph is an early-stage reusable explicit graph execution API over Apple Metal. MetalGraph started with a simple question: can I (or rather, chatGPT and I) build something graph-like around Appl00
RCRobert Collinsinselfenrichment.hashnode.dev·Dec 5, 2025 · 4 min readMy First Rust Crate: tinysetqueueThe FIFO Queue That Hates Duplicates This week I published my very first Rust crate, tinysetqueue. A couple of years ago I made a different data structure that was “library-worthy”, but I didn’t know how to use rust (or more specifically, crates.io) ...00
