https://shiv.me/tags/benchmark/ Recent content in Benchmark on Shivanand Velmurugan — Product leader. Systems thinker. Hugo en © Shivanand Velmurugan Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:17:00 +0530 https://shiv.me/posts/2026/from-digger-to-deepseek/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:17:00 +0530 https://shiv.me/posts/2026/from-digger-to-deepseek/ <p><img src="https://shiv.me/images/imagine-buddy-bTMTggEt5s4-unsplash.jpg" alt="Cover Photo"> Photo by <a href="https://unsplash.com/@imaginebuddy?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Imagine Buddy</a> on <a href="https://unsplash.com/photos/a-person-placing-a-block-into-a-pile-of-wooden-blocks-bTMTggEt5s4?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText">Unsplash</a></p> <blockquote> <p>The bug bytes again;<br> Beneath the hood, the hidden<br> Sparks begin to run.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h1 id="from-digger-to-deepseek-a-quest-for-a-local-ai-model">From Digger to DeepSeek: A quest for a local AI model</h1> <p>It was June 1988. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev had just wrapped up the Moscow Summit, Steve Jobs was fueling intense industry rumors with his upcoming <a href="https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1988/#102641154c15dfdf0647c2fe6f02271c">NeXT workstation</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee">Tim Berners-Lee</a> was quietly circulating the first informal notes at CERN for what would become the World Wide Web. On the radio, Michael Jackson was dominating the summer charts as &ldquo;<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_Diana">Dirty Diana</a>&rdquo; became his record-breaking fifth consecutive number-one single from <em>Bad</em>. Meanwhile, Russia was prepping the launch of its ill-fated <a href="https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/heasarc/missions/phobos1.html">Phobos 1 Mars Orbiter</a>, and I was an 8-year-old in Paris getting the bug — the desire to build my own computer.</p>