Bug Hunting

In the world of Linux, the often-overlooked nice command holds the power to harmonize the demands of competing processes vying for system resources. This unassuming utility allows you to adjust the scheduling priority of a process, making it more or less “nice” to other processes…

As the field of large language models continues its rapid advancement, a key area meriting further research is the balance between model parameter count and numerical precision. While traditionally focusing on 32-bit or 16-bit floating point representations, recent explorations have unveiled the promise of quantizing…

What is Mamba? Before we dive into using Mamba models with the text-generation WebUI, let’s first understand what Mamba is. Mamba is a new type of language model architecture that offers an alternative to the widely-used Transformer models. It’s called a “linear time, state-space model,”…

Today’s mainstream Linux distributions have outstanding stability and compatibility. Distributions like Manjaro and Ubuntu have a plug-and-play aspect that can give their closed source alternatives a run for their money. That said, you still occasionally run into hiccups. External GPUs, or eGPUs, have increased in…