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Leaderboard of Open LLMs Ranked by LLM Judges
Machine-Learning
Large-Language-Models
Leaderboard
Evaluation
An evaluation of recent consumer-grade open LLMs based on ratings generated through an LLM-as-a-judge framework.
How to Run LLMs Larger than RAM
Machine-Learning
Large-Language-Models
Linux
A short experiment on running larger LLMs on low-end consumer hardware, with comments on performance trade-offs and practicality.
How Risky is a Correlated Hedge?
Investing
Hedging
Correlation
Risk-Management
A brief analysis of how much risk you can reduce by hedging with correlated assets. Even in a perfect world, a 90% correlation limits risk reduction to about 50%.
A Tale of T-Mobile Prepaid Billing Errors
T-Mobile
Prepaid-Plans
FCC-Complaint
Consumer-Protection
A discussion of an odd bug in T-Mobile’s systems, resolved only after filing an FCC complaint. This post details my experience, the support timeline, and some theories on the mysterious charges.
Why the Hell Is This Git Repo So Large? And How to Trim It Down
Programming
Git
Version-Control
Repository-Management
A guide on reducing the size of an oversized Git repository, using the Blowfish Hugo theme as a case study. Learn best practices for maintaining a lean repo and its history.
Analyzing Political Party Strength vs. Quality of Life in U.S. States
Data-Analysis
Data-Exploration
Politics
Quality-of-Life
Interactive
A data-driven exploration of how political lean correlates with quality of life metrics across the United States.