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Bad code is kudzu(vickiboykis.com)

57 points by surprisetalk 1 month ago | 16 comments

Build Yourself Flowers(vickiboykis.com)

109 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 2 comments

Running local models is good now(vickiboykis.com)

1490 points by jfb 4 months ago | 569 comments

Vicki Boykis blog post arguing that running LLMs locally on a 64GB M2 Mac is now practical, describing models like Mistral 7B, Gemma 3, OpenAI OSS-20B and Qwen 3.

We should be more tired than the model(vickiboykis.com)

171 points by tosh 5 months ago | 135 comments

Querying 3B Vectors(vickiboykis.com)

73 points by surprisetalk 7 months ago | 9 comments

How big are our embeddings now and why?(vickiboykis.com)

29 points by surprisetalk 1 year ago | 1 comments

How big are our embeddings now and why?(vickiboykis.com)

86 points by alexmolas 1 year ago | 13 comments

How large should your sample size be?(vickiboykis.com)

29 points by sebg 1 year ago | 22 comments

20 Years of YC / HN(vickiboykis.com)

149 points by mooreds 1 year ago | 36 comments

Why are we using LLMs as calculators?(vickiboykis.com)

14 points by fzliu 1 year ago | 7 comments

Don't Worry about LLMs(vickiboykis.com)

25 points by sebg 2 years ago | 10 comments

GGUF, the Long Way Around(vickiboykis.com)

222 points by Tomte 2 years ago | 24 comments

Retro on Viberary(vickiboykis.com)

163 points by alexmolas 2 years ago | 25 comments

Why if TYPE_CHECKING?(vickiboykis.com)

21 points by BerislavLopac 2 years ago | 33 comments

What are embeddings?(vickiboykis.com)

212 points by Anon84 3 years ago | 37 comments