wrote a blog post trying to understand how local LLMs work so I can (in part 2) run a couple and squeeze as much performance out of them as possible on meager hardware

it's 1800 words, no pictures, very boring, i dont blame you if you dont read it, i wrote it mostly for my own amusement

https://blog.decryption.net.au/posts/local_llms_1.html

My Notes on Running LLMs Locally (Part 1)

As Rage Against The Machine wisely said, know your enemy.

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@decryption This was great, thanks!
@wallamba glad someone found it useful :)
writing part 2 now and damn anything remotely useful is expensive - best bet is a tidy ryzen 395 with 128gb of RAM off AliExpress for $3500-ish

@decryption Yeah definitely useful, I had a general understanding of how they work, but your write-up connected a few dots for me.

That Ryzen 395 is a little beast, but honestly I was expecting more than $3.5k for 128gb of RAM.

Look forward to part 2!

@wallamba they seem to be in the $4500-ish range but this one is an outlier

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