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How To: Running Your Own Large Language Model On Linux

Mon, 15 Jan 2024 19:30:55 +0000

With the recent advent of large language models, the open source community has done what they tend to do quite often, and they created their own. There are all sorts of tools out there for running your own large language models, and all sorts of pretrained models that you can use out of the box or even build on top of. I’ll be going over the easiest way (updated and still accurate for 2025) to run your own large language model on your own computer.

Creating A Default DEV Container File For GitHub Codespaces

Sat, 02 Dec 2023 11:46:12 +0000

GitHub Codespaces is an incredible offering that lets you run Visual Studio Code within a Docker container in the cloud, from your browser. What makes this offering a real game changer is when you couple that with all the dependencies needed to get a development environment configured correctly. Imagine how much time this would save developers working on larger complicated projects. I know I’ve definitely worked on projects where I spent hours finding all the random dependencies and compiler settings needed just to get the project to build. For some of my projects, I made an effort to set up some files for Codespace to use that would get other developers set up in less than a minute.

Finding The Largest Directories on Linux

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:45:42 +0000

Managing disk space on a Linux machine is a critical aspect of system administration. As data accumulates over time, it’s essential to identify which directories are consuming the most space. One powerful command that can help you with this task is ‘du’ (disk usage) in combination with ‘sort’. In this article, I’ll go over how to use the ‘du’ command along with ‘sort’ to find the largest directories on a Linux machine.