Local and self-hosted artificial intelligence for developers and ops teams. Coverage includes LLM inference and serving, quantization formats (GGUF, GPTQ, AWQ, NF4, INT8, 4-bit), and runtimes/backends (llama.cpp, vLLM, ExLlamaV2, TGI, MLC, ONNX Runtime) alongside chat UIs (Ollama, GPT4All, Open WebUI). Guides detail GPU and CPU setups on Linux, Windows, and Apple Silicon, CUDA and ROCm configuration, VRAM sizing for consumer GPUs, and Docker or Kubernetes deployment. Applied workflows feature RAG with embeddings and vector databases (FAISS, Qdrant, Milvus, Chroma), agents and function calling, structured JSON output, sandboxed tool use, and evaluation. Speech and multimodal pipelines include Whisper and WhisperX, forced alignment, diarization, voice activity detection, TTS, and real-time streaming. Articles include benchmarks, tokens per second, latency, memory footprints, quality metrics, cost modeling, KV cache, batching, and monitoring. Use cases span web apps, WordPress, ecommerce search and support, data pipelines, and automation. Emphasis on privacy, offline inference, reproducibility, fine-tuning and LoRA, dataset curation, and failure analysis.
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