Christian Foucault
Analytical services, design fabrication, and working notes.
Analytical Services Design & Fabrication Discussions & NotesAnalytical Services
Whether you are looking for an instrument repaired, validation services or help with selecting the proper instrument for your laboratory, I can help.
I’m a freelance consultant with more than 25 years experience in Analytical Chemistry Service, Support and Sales. Checkout some of the services I offer and send me an email to begin the discussion.
Design & Fabrication
I’m a maker at heart.
Since as far as can remember I was always tinkering with, dismantling and reassembling things. In more recent years I have formalized this with proper tools and am now able to properly build quality pieces.
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Discussions, notes & working hypotheses
This section replaces the old books and quotes shelf with a living record of conversations I want to preserve: technical investigations, market notes, political questions, automotive ideas, and other subjects worth tracing over time.
Select a rounded discussion card to open the preserved log.
Frontier biology · Discussion log
COVID origins, Wuhan transparency, and mirror-life red lines
A preserved reasoning chain about lab-origin uncertainty, missing research access, dual-use biology, and whether frontier wet-lab work needs hard prohibitions rather than soft governance.
Porsche 997 · Technical note
997.1 ownership notes
Sport Chrono, oil-level behavior, PIWIS, pre-purchase inspection logic, VIN details, and practical notes from maintaining a 997.1 Carrera S.
Markets · Ongoing
UNG, commodities, and vehicle risk
Notes on long-duration natural gas exposure, losses without gains, futures roll mechanics, and the difference between a good thesis and a poor instrument.
Public finance · Position essay
Debt repayment versus new national funds
A fiscal-policy thread comparing household-style balance-sheet discipline with government borrowing, national investment vehicles, and debt citizens never personally chose.
Instrumentation · Field notes
Analytical equipment thinking
A technical corner for ICP-OES and MP-AES maintenance logic, service documentation, calibration habits, and bench-level troubleshooting discipline.
Local AI · Build research
Open-source models at home
Notes on local model hosting, LoRA and QLoRA fine-tuning, rack-mounted systems, and where automation becomes useful rather than decorative.
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