119: Why So Many Llamas?

What this episode covers

Alex rolls back a major server upgrade, and we have fun playing with local large language models. Special Guest: Wes Payne. Sponsored By: Tailscale: Tailscale is a Zero config VPN. It installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere. Get 3 users and 100 devices for free. This Week in Bitcoin: A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable. Support Self-Hosted Links: ⚡ Grab Sats with Strike Around the World — Strike is a lightning-powered app that lets you quickly and cheaply grab sats in over 36 countries. 🎉 Boost with Fountain FM — Fountain 1.0 has a new UI, upgrades, and super simple Strike integration for easy Boosts. Training AI to Play Pokemon with Reinforcement Learning Open WebUI — Open WebUI is an extensible, feature-rich, and user-friendly self-hosted WebUI for various LLM runners, supported LLM runners include Ollama and OpenAI-compatible APIs. Ollama — Get up and running with large language models, locally. Alex's Nix Nvidia Config tlm — Local CLI Copilot, powered by CodeLLaMa. LM Studio - Discover, download, and run local LLMs — 🤖 - Run LLMs on your laptop, entirely offline 👾 - Use models through the in-app Chat UI or an OpenAI compatible local server 📂 - Download any compatible model files from HuggingFace 🤗 repositories 🔭 - Discover new & noteworthy LLMs in the app's home page Hugging Face — The Home of Machine Learning 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇 — Let's put an official time down on the calendar to get together. The Yardhouse has always been a solid go-to, so sit down and break bread with the Unplugged crew during the lunch break on Saturday!