Weights & Words

Weights & Words.

Daniel blogging about AI and Data Science — from technical and economic perspectives.

Recent essays
Economics05 May 2026

Can I Keep My $20 Claude/Cursor Subscription?

Everyone's predicting raising prices. The economics might say otherwise.

Can I Keep My $20 Claude/Cursor Subscription?
News Media08 Aug 2025

A Third Way: Charging AI Platforms per Reader, not per Crawl

A Third Way: Charging AI Platforms per Reader, not per Crawl
Experiment03 May 2025

Football AI Agent: An Experiment in Why Structured Data Beats Web Search

Built with ReAct Agents, LangGraph, SQL, and fallback web search

Football AI Agent: An Experiment in Why Structured Data Beats Web Search
Experiment31 Dec 2024

AI Development Tools in 2024

A Practitioner's Journey Through Automation, Agents, and Web Apps

Experiment06 Jun 2024

Can Generative AI Replace Coding? A Data Scientist's Attempt at Web Development

Creating a Website from Scratch with No Prior Knowledge Using ChatGPT: An Experiment and Reflective Insights

Experiment25 Jan 2024

Experimenting with Fine-Tuning Stable Diffusion

A Practical Guide with Examples

Experimenting with Fine-Tuning Stable Diffusion
Models05 Sept 2023

Beyond The Prompt II

A Journey into Computational Complexity & FLOPs

Beyond The Prompt II
Models22 Aug 2023

Beyond The Prompt: A Deep Dive into Memory Consumption of LLMs

How to estimate and reduce the memory consumption of training and fine-tuning LLMs by using various techniques.

Beyond The Prompt: A Deep Dive into Memory Consumption of LLMs
Experiment18 Jun 2023

Building a Chatbot: Fine-Tune LLMs with WhatsApp Data

Building a Chatbot: Fine-Tune LLMs with WhatsApp Data