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Llama.ttf: A font which is also an LLM
llama.ttf: A font file which is also an LLM
In particular, this "arbitrary" code could in principle be an entire LLM inference engine with trained parameters bundled inside, relying on treating text containing magic symbols for fake "ligatures" to initialize the LLM and use it to generate text. At the end of the day, what this means is that you can just use the font to run the LLM and e.g. get text generation in any Harfbuzz-based application; your favorite text editor/email client/whatever without having to wait for the vendor to include the "Copilot"-like features that everyone is rushing to implement these days. If this didn't seem pointless enough, here are some other weird things people have done with fonts and LLMs:
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