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Essays, briefs, comparisons and letters from George Pu. Original publication dates determine the order; a correction or a newly added web copy does not make older writing new.
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Newest original writing first. Editorial notes remain with each article.
About $50 in GPU Compute for Our Fine-Tuning Run
Evidence and cost-scope clarification — October 11, 2026: This essay was originally titled “Fine-tuning your own AI doesn’t cost $35,000. It cost us about…
GPU Cloud Shopping in Canada: Three Weeks Later
Three weeks ago I wrote a post called GPU Cloud Shopping in Canada: What's Actually Available. The short version: I checked every major cloud provider with…
Why I'm Open-Sourcing My Portfolio
What active thesis investing actually looks like — and why I'll publish every bet I make.
I Tried to Buy a Mac Studio This Week. Here's What Happened.
Historical research — October 11, 2026: This records my April 14 shopping experience. Store inventory, rental rates, reported benchmarks and future-chip…
I'm Starting to Write About Money
George’s April introduction to writing about financial products, personal choices and the numbers behind them.
We Swapped Our TTS Model. The Older, Free One Won.
Model and comparison context — October 11, 2026: This is our April 8 model-swap account and listening preference. It does not include exact tested…
When to Build vs Buy in AI (My Edition)
Historical account — October 11, 2026: These are the two mistakes I described on April 7: building too much support surface and depending on an abandoned…
AWS and Google Cloud Are Designed to Keep You. Here's What We Do Instead.
Historical cost and portability context — October 11, 2026: This April 7 account preserves our reported month-long migration with three developers. The…
What I Learned After Developing & Deploying Ghost Narrator
Project and license context — October 11, 2026: This is the April 2 account of discovering a license problem and accepting a community correction. The…
Announcing Ghost Narrator: Self-Hosted AI Narration Stack
Historical launch context — October 11, 2026: This is the March 31 Ghost Narrator announcement. Publishing-volume, narration coverage, hardware/setup…
What You Kill > What You Build
OpenAI killed Sora Chronology and source correction — October 11, 2026: This preserves my March 30 site-removal account. The corporate comparison below was…
Constant Change Is Not New
Historical reflection — October 11, 2026: The core of this March 23 essay is my October–December 2025 cycle of twenty plans and the anxiety of tying…