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Thinking Different, Thinking Slowly: LLMs on a PowerPC Mac
There is something incredibly satisfying about breathing new life into old hardware. Vintage computing is one of my favorite hobbies. The ch...
I have been diving into the world of large language models (LLMs), and a question began to gnaw at me: could I bring the cutting-edge of AI to the nostalgic glow of my trusty 2005 PowerBook G4? After making improvements, the code becomes rather elegant and removes all calls to exit in favor of status propagation when any aspect of initialization or inference fails. This antique extension set is poorly documented on the web, but Gemini did an excellent job of helping provide code examples when none could be found.
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