From Artificial Intelligence
to Artificial Wisdom
Lessons from medical device regulation, aerospace and quality systems for building trustworthy AI.
Read the essayAtelier.
Same deep dives, different decade and different stakes.
OrthoSystem's Atelier documents the construction process: the problems encountered, the solutions discovered, and the tools built along the way.
Working notes by Alan B.C. Dang, MD
01 / Latest from the bench
October 15, 2026Benchmarks & analysisNemotron 3.5 Super VL
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL
vs. Qwen 3.8
Why I don't rely on published benchmarks for AI models
Notes from testing Nemotron and Qwen on local hardware, including the practical cost of getting an answer.
Read the comparison
From the article · Methods, results and qualifications in the full comparison.
02 / From the workshop
Ideas, machines & making.
Hardware on the desk, software in use, and the questions that connect them.
From Artificial Intelligence
NVIDIA DGX Spark Review
A closer look at the Grace Blackwell desktop workstation and its 128 GB of unified memory for local AI workloads.
Read the reviewHP ZBook Ultra G1a Review
Strix Halo on the move: a mobile workstation with 128 GB of unified memory, put to work for local AI inference.
NVIDIA DGX Spark: OrthoSystem Demo
Nemotron models for orthopaedic education. Watch the live demonstration on YouTube.
DDx Diagnostics
Hardware diagnostics for CPU, GPU, memory bandwidth and multi-node communication.
Digital Physics Academy
The science of computing: understanding what happens beneath your algorithms.
03 / About the Atelier
The work behind
the work.
In French, atelier means workshop—the space where craftspeople practice their trade. The term carries connotations of skilled labor, apprenticeship, and the iterative refinement of technique.
These are working notes from active development: a place to document the experiments and share what they teach.
The OrthoSystem story