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Local LLM setup: how to use RAG and an embedding model to stop wasting context

Local LLMs degrade fast when context fills up. An embedding model and RAG pipeline fixes that — and runs entirely on your machine.
TheServerSide

Run Llama LLMs on your laptop with Hugging Face and Python

There are numerous ways to run large language models such as DeepSeek, Claude or Meta's Llama locally on your laptop, including Ollama and Modular's Max platform. But if you want to fully control the ...
Condé Nast Traveler

Has the Giant Water Bottle Gone Too Far? Me and My Micro Bottle Think So

I'm no stranger to water bottle trends—it seems like every few years a new viral favorite makes its way onto the scene, each bigger and supposedly better than the next. From Hydro Flask's ...
VentureBeat

Karpathy shares 'LLM Knowledge Base' architecture that bypasses RAG with an evolving markdown library maintained by AI

AI vibe coders have yet another reason to thank Andrej Karpathy, the coiner of the term. The former Director of AI at Tesla and co-founder of OpenAI, now running his own independent AI project, ...
Forbes

PrismML Introduces The First Commercially Viable 1-Bit LLM

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Analyzing tech stocks through the prism of cultural change. A team of Caltech mathematicians at PrismML just fit a full-power AI ...
Gizmodo

Tech Employees Are Reportedly Being Evaluated by How Fast They Burn Through LLM Tokens

According to a column by the New York Times’ Kevin Roose, employees at companies including Meta and OpenAI compete on “internal leaderboards that show how many tokens[…]each worker consumes.” At Meta ...
Harvard Business Review

Researchers Asked LLMs for Strategic Advice. They Got “Trendslop” in Return.

Leaders and consultants are increasingly turning to large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT as silent partners in the boardroom. These tools promise to summarize complex information, produce ...
CNN

Save at least 50% on editor-approved Hydro Flask water bottles and coolers

Some of our favorite reusable water bottles hail from Hydro Flask, and this week the brand is clearing out its past season’s stock. Just before you begin reaching for your water bottle to cool down ...
GitHub

Flask-based analytics engine using Python for date handling and aggregations, LLM (Ollama Mistral) for query understanding, and SQL for data execution.

This project is an AI-driven natural language analytics system for e-commerce transaction data. It allows users to ask business questions in plain English (like “last week sales”, “items purchased ...