{"id":141,"date":"2025-02-05T18:38:46","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:38:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/?p=141"},"modified":"2025-02-05T18:38:46","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T18:38:46","slug":"deepseek-for-the-common-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/?p=141","title":{"rendered":"Deepseek for the common man"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My meagre experience and knowledge of the AI seems to have garnered the below two conclusions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1: You need powerful hardware<br>2: You need to run a version of Deepseek that&#8217;s better than 1.5b<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>No doy, right? That&#8217;s exactly what every other youtube video I have watched recommends. I have found that the bottom line is running the 7b (that&#8217;s 7 billion parameters version) and it kills my MS01 12600 with 32 gigs of RAM. Well, it makes the fan run really loud anyway. I would recommend running the LLM with a couple of GPUs and a decent CPU, as well as plenty of space to download the upper tier versions of the LLM. I would imagine that it would be better with a graphics card of some type to offload the simulation onto when processing the question and generating the answer, but that&#8217;s not something I have access to right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That being said, I have a lot of older gear around here and I am going to spend the next few days experimenting with what I have in the hopes of getting something usable and quick running &#8211; I will check back in when I can!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My meagre experience and knowledge of the AI seems to have garnered the below two conclusions: 1: You need powerful hardware2: You need to run a version of Deepseek that&#8217;s better than 1.5b No doy, right? That&#8217;s exactly what every other youtube video I have watched recommends. I have found&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":142,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-flexing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/unifiguy.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}