LoRA Fine-Tuning Explained: Teach an LLM New Tricks on One GPU
How LoRA fine-tuning works, why it trains less than 1% of a model’s parameters, when fine-tuning beats prompting or RAG, and a minimal Hugging…
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How large language models work, run and fail.
Run an LLM on Your Own Laptop with Ollama (Private, Free, Offline)
Run an LLM on Your Own Laptop with Ollama (Private, Free, Offline)
Install Ollama, run open models like Llama and Qwen locally, call them from Python and Excel-friendly scripts, and create a custom model with a…
Read article →Why AI Chatbots Make Things Up (and 6 Ways to Catch It)
Why AI Chatbots Make Things Up (and 6 Ways to Catch It)
LLM "hallucinations" explained simply: why a next-token predictor can sound confident and still be wrong, and six practical habits to catch fabricated facts, formulas…
Read article →Temperature and Top-p Explained: Why the Same Prompt Gives Different Answers
Temperature and Top-p Explained: Why the Same Prompt Gives Different Answers
What the temperature and top-p settings in AI models actually do, with a worked numeric example, and which values to use for code, data…
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