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So, you want a capable home lab for serious AI work, but you don t want to take out a second mortgage to pay for it? Here is how you can do it on a shoestring budget. Requirements: As many optimal Continue reading The post AI Lab on a Shoestring Budget appeared first on Altechnative .
If you use LLMs on your own hardware, you almost certainly already know that memory needed for the context increases exponentially with the size of the context window. Even if you have multiple reasonably VRAM-heavy GPUs, you will still likely Continue reading The post Ollama / LLMs Squeezeing More Context Size out of GPU s VRAM appeared first on Altechnative .
Public AI Pros: Performance higher performance than what you can put together yourself on the cheap Cost free for limited / minimal usage No setup needed Cons: Privacy never discuss with it anything that you wouldn t openly Continue reading The post Affordable Private AI and LLM Guide appeared first on Altechnative .
Google Trends can show incorrect and misleading data. Real world evidence, analysis and what to use instead. Continue reading The post Google Trends Outright Lies appeared first on Altechnative .
I ve recently been trying to put together a remote gaming setup, and while I got it to work with Windows 10, the hardware H.264 encoding was a little flakey it would drop out all the time at higher resolutions, Continue reading The post Virtualized Windows Server 2016 for Remote Desktop Gaming appeared first on Altechnative .
I recently decided to test effectiveness of LLMs at certain tasks. Since I have some older semi-retired but still reasonably powerful servers with a lot of PCIe slots and some spare reasonably capable GPUs, I wanted to use that equipment Continue reading The post Ollama With GPU Acceleration Without AVX CPU Instruction appeared first on Altechnative .
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How to update Audi MMI 3G High Firmware and Maps, and how to avoid the most common sources of problems during the process. Continue reading The post Audi MMI 3G High Firmware and Maps Update appeared first on Altechnative .
Updating VW RNS-510 to latest firmware and maps. Continue reading The post VW RNS-510 Firmware and Maps Update appeared first on Altechnative .
Reducing memory consumption on small systems can make the difference between useless and useful. Continue reading The post Optimizing Memory Consumption on Small Systems appeared first on Altechnative .