Author: Jose S
Useful things a local AI model can do on your laptop without internet
Use a local model already on disk to rewrite, outline, extract fields, or quiz yourself from your own file. Skip live web facts, citations, current prices, and anything…
How to download AI models safely from the internet
A GGUF from a random Hugging Face account is software you run on your machine. Prefer official orgs and known converters, read the model card, match file size…
How to use Gemini in Google Sheets to explain formulas and clean up data
Sheets plus Gemini is for explanations, cleanup plans, and validation ideas you test on a scratch tab. Implement in a copy, verify known rows, then promote. Never invent…
How to set up one local AI stack with Ollama, from start to finish
Pick one local stack and live in it. Three apps on three ports is a raffle, not a setup. This guide walks a 30-minute Ollama path and shows…
How to test whether an AI model is good enough for your own work
A Slack rank is not a quality test. Run five real tasks from your week, score pass or fail, and ignore a 0.3 point LMSYS jump when the…
