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I Ran DeepSeek V4 Flash Across Two DGX Sparks Over Ethernet

I Ran DeepSeek V4 Flash Across Two DGX Sparks Over Ethernet

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VRAM and RAM for local LLMs — honest planning bands, not a GPU tier list

VRAM and RAM for local LLMs — honest planning bands, not a GPU tier list

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Running Ollama on a 32 GB MacBook Air: A Practical First Setup

Running Ollama on a 32 GB MacBook Air: A Practical First Setup

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Running llama.cpp on a 32 GB MacBook Air: A Direct Comparison with Ollama

Running llama.cpp on a 32 GB MacBook Air: A Direct Comparison with Ollama

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Running a 35B MoE Model on an 8 GB Laptop GPU: Testing FreeToken

Running a 35B MoE Model on an 8 GB Laptop GPU: Testing FreeToken

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Temperature 0 is not reproducible. I measured 30 percent of my output changing between identical runs.

Temperature 0 is not reproducible. I measured 30 percent of my output changing between identical runs.

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Our 4B beat Claude Opus on a 440K-token corpus. Then it came last on the public benchmark.

Our 4B beat Claude Opus on a 440K-token corpus. Then it came last on the public benchmark.

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I told the model to separate fields with <TAB>. It did exactly that, and I lost 79 percent of my data.

I told the model to separate fields with <TAB>. It did exactly that, and I lost 79 percent of my data.

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A 4B on a 6GB laptop matched frontier-model accuracy on aggregation — except when the answer is a number

A 4B on a 6GB laptop matched frontier-model accuracy on aggregation — except when the answer is a number

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Your agent truncates the corpus and answers anyway. Two harnesses, and a router that picks between them.

Your agent truncates the corpus and answers anyway. Two harnesses, and a router that picks between them.

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How to Run a Free AI Coding Assistant Locally with VS Code, opencode, and LM Studio

How to Run a Free AI Coding Assistant Locally with VS Code, opencode, and LM Studio

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What really fits in 8GB VRAM

What really fits in 8GB VRAM

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Moving Scheduled LLM Curation from Cloud APIs to Local Models

Moving Scheduled LLM Curation from Cloud APIs to Local Models

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Nine ways to talk to a local model

Nine ways to talk to a local model

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A 4B model on a 6GB laptop beat Claude Opus on our 440K-token corpus. The fix was giving the model less to do.

A 4B model on a 6GB laptop beat Claude Opus on our 440K-token corpus. The fix was giving the model less to do.

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