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Abliteration: Uncensoring an LLM (and Why You Might Want To)

Commercial models refuse a lot of legitimate requests. Here's why "uncensoring" an open-weight model is useful and how I achieved it. ⚠️ A note before we start. An uncensored model will answer almost...

LLMs, AI, abliteration, local ai

How AI Ruined My Favourite Colour

Purple used to mean the void, the threshold, the half-demon. Then a single Tailwind decision in 2020 propagated into every AI's training data, and now it means a generic SaaS landing page. A meditation on what AI does to cultural signifiers.

AI, Design, Opinion

1 Month into Local LLM - What I've learned.

One Month Into Local LLMs: What I've Learned It's been about a month since I went down the local-LLM rabbit hole. In that time I've: Built llama.cpp from source Written my own benchmarking software to...

AI, LLMs, LLM, local ai

The Two-File LLM

Andrej Karpathy's hour-long LLM talk is from late 2023. Most of it still holds up. A reread two-and-a-half years on.

LLMs, AI, Inference