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  "title": "Scott Leimroth",
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  "description": "Essays, research and projects by Scott Leimroth: psychophysiology, music, and local AI.",
  "language": "en-AU",
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    {
      "id": "https://scottleimroth.com/consulting/",
      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/consulting/",
      "title": "Consulting",
      "summary": "Scott Leimroth consults on music and auditory science, social and business marketing, and practical AI including private local AI. PhD candidate at UoW, based in Wollongong, NSW.",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
          "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/"
        }
      ],
      "content_text": "Scott Leimroth consults in three areas: social marketing and marketing for small and specialist businesses, with Berrima Diesel Service as the worked example; music, audio and auditory science, including music and sound direction, listening sessions and talks, and measurement through Sonic Reach; and AI and technology, including private local AI on NVIDIA DGX Spark and other GB10-class machines. He is based in Wollongong, NSW, works across the Illawarra and Sydney and remotely, and offers one-off advice, workshops and set-up projects to individuals and businesses.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-29T00:00:00+11:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/local-ai-and-the-iron-age/",
      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/local-ai-and-the-iron-age/",
      "title": "Local AI and the Iron Age",
      "summary": "Patrick Fitzsimmons argues Bronze Age empires fell because iron could be smelted anywhere. Where that holds for local AI models, and where it stops short.",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
          "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/"
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      ],
      "content_text": "Patrick Fitzsimmons' essay Weapons of mass decentralization argues the Bronze Age empires fell because iron could be smelted anywhere, and makes the same case about now. This essay asks where that comparison holds for open-weight AI models running on your own hardware, the four places it stops short, and why the gap between the best local and API models is the thing to watch.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-27T00:00:00+11:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/how-the-144-let-people-record-at-home-and-what-local-ai-is-doing-now/",
      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/how-the-144-let-people-record-at-home-and-what-local-ai-is-doing-now/",
      "title": "How the 144 let people record at home, and what local AI is doing now",
      "summary": "How Tascam's 1979 four-track 144 cassette recorder changed who could record music at home, and what local AI compute such as the DGX Spark does now.",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
          "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/"
        }
      ],
      "content_text": "In 1979 Tascam released the 144, a four-track cassette recorder with a built-in mixer, at US$899; before that, multitrack recording needed large, expensive studio machines. The essay explains how it changed who could record and release music at home, and what local AI compute, including the DGX Spark, is doing now for tasks that used to require a server.",
      "date_published": "2026-10-18T00:00:00+10:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/the-second-tier-of-wisdom/",
      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/the-second-tier-of-wisdom/",
      "title": "The Second Tier of Wisdom: Why Abstract Intelligence Requires a Name",
      "summary": "From Aranda skin names to the Pythagorean catechism to the names we give AI agents: why new things cannot be reasoned with until they are named.",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
          "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/"
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      ],
      "content_text": "An essay arguing that new things cannot be reasoned with until they are named. It moves from Aranda and wider Central Australian skin names, which place a person by generation, family responsibilities and social obligations, to the Pythagorean catechism and the names we give AI agents.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-12T00:00:00+10:00"
    },
    {
      "id": "https://scottleimroth.com/research/eeg-ecg-music-listening-scoping-review/",
      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/research/eeg-ecg-music-listening-scoping-review/",
      "title": "Exploring EEG and ECG in Music Listening: A Scoping Review",
      "summary": "A scoping review of 18 studies recording EEG and ECG together during music listening; only a small subset analysed the two together. Psychophysiology, 2026.",
      "date_published": "2026-09-03T00:00:00+10:00",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
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      ]
    },
    {
      "id": "https://scottleimroth.com/research/eeg-ecg-music-listening-scoping-review/talk/",
      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/research/eeg-ecg-music-listening-scoping-review/talk/",
      "title": "Use the Review: Talk to the Paper",
      "summary": "Screen a study against the review's eligibility criteria, check your reporting against its charted items, or talk to the paper through an AI assistant.",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
          "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/"
        }
      ],
      "content_text": "The charted data on the 18 studies in the scoping review Exploring EEG and ECG in Music Listening (Psychophysiology, 2026) is now a small open-source tool. You can ask the paper questions through an AI assistant, check your own reporting against the same items, or screen a study against its eligibility criteria. The full text, appendices and charted tables are published as plain files under CC BY 4.0."
    },
    {
      "id": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/spark-benchmarks/",
      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/ai-technology/spark-benchmarks/",
      "title": "DGX Spark Benchmarks, DGX Spark Benchmarks",
      "summary": "Measured benchmarks of local LLMs on NVIDIA DGX Spark, one box and two: agent tasks, tool calling, speed, memory and context on the same hardware.",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
          "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/"
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      ],
      "content_text": "Fifty-five model configurations measured on NVIDIA DGX Spark hardware, on one box and two, with every number traced back to a raw measurement file. The boards cover agent tasks, tool calling, speed, memory and context, and when a configuration underperforms or the server dies, that is recorded as a result."
    },
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      "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/wifi-radar-demo/",
      "title": "Wi-Fi Radar",
      "summary": "Wi-Fi Radar turns nearby wireless activity into a radar-style view of movement, coverage gaps, signal overlap and changing patterns across real spaces.",
      "authors": [
        {
          "name": "Scott Leimroth",
          "url": "https://scottleimroth.com/"
        }
      ],
      "content_text": "Wi-Fi Radar turns nearby wireless activity into a fast visual read of signal behaviour across a real space. Its radar-style display shows movement trends, coverage weak points, device clustering and overlap between networks, which is easier to grasp than raw scan lists or static tables."
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