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Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#91
Amusing qualifications for the senior engineering roles they’re hiring for:

“Deep understanding of what is a computer, what is computer software, and how the two relate.”

Right after the senior ML role that requires people understand how to write “algorithms and programs.”

Kinda hard to take those kinds of requirements seriously.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#93
post #79

Curious about this and I just download it. Want to try uncensored models. I have a question, looking for the most popular "uncensored" model I just find "TheBloke/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored-GGML", but it has 14 files to download between 2 to 7 GB, I just download the first one: https://imgur.com/a/DE2byOB I try the model and it works: https://imgur.com/a/2vtPcui I should download all the 14 files to get better results…

Honest question from someone new to exploring and using these models; why do you need uncensored? What are the use-cases that would call for it? Again, not questioning your motives or anything, just straight up curious. To use your example, any of us can find bomb building info online fairly easily, and has been a point of social contention since the Anarchist's cookbook. Nobody needs an uncensored LLM for that, of c…

Curiosity and entertainment. Also have an experience that isn't available on the current popular consumer products like this.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#94
post #75

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Thanks for the link. I expected it to not let me run this. I have an intel Macbook, was expecting that I'd need Apple Silicon... am I misunderstanding something? I get fairly fast results at the prompt with the default model. How's this thing running with whatever shitty GPU I have in my laptop?

that's the magic of llama.cpp! I include a universal binary of llama.cpp's server example to do inference. What's your machine? The lowest spec I've heard it running on is a 2017 iMac with 8GB RAM (~5.5 tokens/s). On my m1 with 64GB RAM I get ~30 tokens per second on the default 7B model.

Macbook Pro 2020 with 16gb of system ram. I think the gpu is Iris Plus? But I don't much keep up on those.

I'm now delving into getting this running in Terminal... there are a few things I want to try that I don't think the simple interface allows.

Also, I've noticed that when chats get a few kilobytes long, it just seizes up and can't go further. I complained to it, it spent a sentence apologizing, started up where it left off... and got about 12 words further.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#95
post #79

Curious about this and I just download it. Want to try uncensored models. I have a question, looking for the most popular "uncensored" model I just find "TheBloke/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored-GGML", but it has 14 files to download between 2 to 7 GB, I just download the first one: https://imgur.com/a/DE2byOB I try the model and it works: https://imgur.com/a/2vtPcui I should download all the 14 files to get better results…

Honest question from someone new to exploring and using these models; why do you need uncensored? What are the use-cases that would call for it? Again, not questioning your motives or anything, just straight up curious. To use your example, any of us can find bomb building info online fairly easily, and has been a point of social contention since the Anarchist's cookbook. Nobody needs an uncensored LLM for that, of c…

None of your business.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#96
post #51
post #28

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Ollama does this. I run it in a container on my homelab (Proxmox on a HP EliteDesk SFF G2 800) and 7B models run decently fast on CPU-only. Ollama has a nice API and makes it easy to manage models. Together with ollama-webui, it can replace ChatGPT 3.5 for most tasks. I also use it in VSCode and nvim with plugins, works great! I have been meaning to write a short blog post about my setup...

If I may ask, which plugins are you using in VSCode?

I'm using the extension Continue: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=Continue...

The setup of connecting to Ollama is a bit clunky, but once it's set up it works well!

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#97
post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

that's the magic of llama.cpp! I include a universal binary of llama.cpp's server example to do inference. What's your machine? The lowest spec I've heard it running on is a 2017 iMac with 8GB RAM (~5.5 tokens/s). On my m1 with 64GB RAM I get ~30 tokens per second on the default 7B model.

Macbook Pro 2020 with 16gb of system ram. I think the gpu is Iris Plus? But I don't much keep up on those. I'm now delving into getting this running in Terminal... there are a few things I want to try that I don't think the simple interface allows. Also, I've noticed that when chats get a few kilobytes long, it just seizes up and can't go further. I complained to it, it spent a sentence apologizing, started up where…

hm yeah i think I need to update llama.cpp to get this fix https://github.com/ggerganov/llama.cpp/pull/3996

Thanks for trying it!

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#98

Curious about this and I just download it. Want to try uncensored models. I have a question, looking for the most popular "uncensored" model I just find "TheBloke/Luna-AI-Llama2-Uncensored-GGML", but it has 14 files to download between 2 to 7 GB, I just download the first one: https://imgur.com/a/DE2byOB I try the model and it works: https://imgur.com/a/2vtPcui I should download all the 14 files to get better results…

No, each download is just a different quantization of the same model.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#99
post #17

I don't mean this as a criticism, I'm just curious because I work in this space too: who is this for? What is the niche of people savvy enough to use this who can't run one of the many open source local llm software? It looks in the screenshot like it's exposing much of the complexity of configuration anyway. Is the value in the interface and management of conversation and models? It would be nice to see info or even…

It's actually quite handy. I built all the various things by hand at one point, but had to wipe it all. Instead of following the directions again I just downloaded this.

Being able to swap out models is also handy. This probably saved a couple of hours of my life, which I appreciate.

Re: LM Studio – Discover, download, and run local LLMs

#100
post #91

Amusing qualifications for the senior engineering roles they’re hiring for: “Deep understanding of what is a computer, what is computer software, and how the two relate.” Right after the senior ML role that requires people understand how to write “algorithms and programs.” Kinda hard to take those kinds of requirements seriously.

The second one isn't that bad in context. But the Senior Systems Software Engineer is wild, with "Deep understanding of what is a computer, what is computer software, and how the two relate" followed by "Experience writing and maintaining production code in C++14 or newer". You'd think the latter would imply the former, but maybe not...

They seem to have even lowered expectations a bit. Two months ago [1] they were already hiring for that role (or a very, very similar one), but back then you needed experience with "mission-critical code in C++17", now just "production code in C++14".

1: http://web.archive.org/web/20230922170941/https://lmstudio.a...

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