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ai-contracts & ai-toolkit: The Primitives a PHP AI Ecosystem Needs
Five interfaces and a toolkit of pipeline utilities — the thin pure-PHP layer that makes native AI extensions composable and turns PHP’s AI frameworks into allies instead of competitors.
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ext-whisper: PHP-Native Audio Transcription
ext-whisper runs Whisper speech-to-text inside the PHP process via whisper.cpp — transcripts plus timestamped segments, no Python, no API, no audio leaving your machine.
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ext-turbovec: A Vector Index Inside Your PHP Process
ext-turbovec brings quantized vector search inside the PHP process — TurboQuant 4-bit compression, SIMD kernels, SQL-friendly ids, and filtered search that gets faster, not worse.
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ext-infer: Local LLM Inference, Natively in PHP
ext-infer is a PHP extension that runs GGUF models inside the PHP process — chat, completions, and embeddings with no Python sidecar and no remote API. Here’s the tour.
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Beware
Update: Sept 26 Despite the various web hosts and registrars recognizing the scam and helping to shut things down immediately, I’ve been unable to get a response from Dick’s Sporting Goods’ customer support team. I also reported the ad directly to Facebook … and they’ve declined to take any action at all. Because apparently outright scams don’t “go against [their] Advertising Standards.” The other day while catching up on social media, I came across a bizarre ad on Facebook. It claimed there was a survey hosted by Dick’s Sporting Goods that would give you a fancy cooler backpack for free.…
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The Case for Local AI: Keep Your Data and Your Models Close
The default AI architecture ships your data to someone else’s computer. The case for local-first AI — governance, economics, latency — and why PHP is finally ready for it.
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Seeing in 1,024 Dimensions: How UMAP Makes Embeddings Visible
Embeddings live in a thousand dimensions; your screen has two. How UMAP flattens embedding space into a readable map — what it preserves, what it distorts, and how to read it honestly.
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From Keywords to Concepts: Semantic Search in Laravel with pgvector
The post version of my PHP Tek talk: retrofitting meaning-aware search into a Laravel app with PostgreSQL and pgvector — architecture, code, and production lessons from DailyMedToday.
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Meaning as Geometry: What Embeddings Actually Are
Embeddings turn language into coordinates, where distance equals meaning. This is the foundation everything else in this series builds on — explained without the math degree.
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Rebuilding a Dead iPod Game
I loved a 2009 game called Artificial Life. It simulated real-time evolution of protozoa. I took a crack at rebuilding a modern, in-browser version based on that experience. The new version features emergent behaviors, predator-prey dynamics, and a dynamic ecosystem.