Two ways to show a model its tools
Side by side: a JSON schema pasted into the model, or a short name list. Same job. About half the text. Not a faster answer. The UCL product from the Universal Conditional Logic preprint.
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Coho and Chinook with Dad, Frankfort
Fishing trip with Dad out of Frankfort, Michigan on August 28, 2026 — Coho and Chinook salmon on Lake Michigan. Smoked September 3.
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Maxwell's Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, in Python
I digitized Maxwell's 1873 Treatise into three repos: a source edition, an OCR pipeline, and maxwell-modernized — a Python library covering all 866 articles.
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Constraint-aware systems: from data pipelines to multi-agent orchestration
Lessons from constraint-aware data pipelines (15–30% mailing cost cuts, ~70% less manual reporting) and multi-agent orchestration work including LOOM and BMAD agent templates.
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Local-first AI agents on client devices
How I built Lemonade Interviewer—a local-first multi-modal interview agent with Whisper ASR, on-device LLMs, and multi-turn reliability under Ryzen AI constraints.
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Universal Conditional Logic and token-efficient prompts
Universal Conditional Logic (arXiv:2601.00880): a formal specification approach that reduced token usage by 29.8% (p<0.001) via indicator functions, structural overhead modeling, and early binding.
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Welcome to anthonymikinka.com
Anthony Mikinka’s site for local-first AI agents, open source, Universal Conditional Logic research, and projects.