Joke Scoring in five minutes with Deepseek-R1

Since Deepseek has released distilled Qwen models under a generous MIT license, it&rsquo;s simpler than you might expect to create a quick assistant for small reasoning tasks on your own hardware. I could see a researcher spinning up an instance of this to sort through and classify documents, for example, without worrying about uploading them to a 3rd party or having an AI vendor monitor your…