● AI Engineer / Field notes
I'm thucpham, an AI Engineer. I build with LLMs and machine learning, and write down what actually works.
Welcome to my blog! I am ThucPham, an AI Engineer. This blog is where I share my knowledge and experience around AI.
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thucpham
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AI Engineer
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llm/ ml/ agents/ self-hosting/
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Published posts
Since 2023
Writing in the open
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Topics covered
AI Engineer
thucpham
01 / Selected work
Open source / Self-hosted
Write in markdown. Ship on your own box.
This blog: a self-hosted Next.js + PostgreSQL stack with a markdown editor, running in Docker behind a Cloudflare Tunnel.
$ docker compose ps NAME STATUS app Up (healthy) db Up (healthy) tunnel Up $ curl -s around-ai.com/api/health {"ok":true} $
02 / How I work
How I approach AI work: start from the real problem, measure everything, and leave notes the next engineer can use.
Background & experienceStart with the real constraint.
Latency, cost, privacy and the people using the system shape the design from day one.
Make decisions measurable.
Benchmark the options. Write down the tradeoffs. Trust evidence over a polished demo.
Build understanding that lasts.
Share the reasoning and the lessons so the next build starts further ahead.
03 / Current explorations
Agents, RAG and tool use that hold up outside of a notebook.
Training, evaluation and the boring parts that make models useful.
Self-hosting models and infra: what it costs and what it takes.
04 / Field notes
A close look at DictationDaily: a listen–type–fix loop over real YouTube videos, a Next.js/React/MUI stack on Cloudflare, in-browser grading and Whisper-powered Shadowing. Why an old idea feels this polished.
Summary of a NICS 2022 paper: ResNet50 with transfer learning on 1,777 I-131 SPECT scans detects residual thyroid tissue with AUC 0.93. AI concepts explained simply.
A walkthrough of our paper: two standardised thyroid scintigraphy datasets from 559 Vietnamese patients, and a transfer-learning benchmark of 8 CNNs for detecting residual thyroid tissue after surgery.
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