Tag: ollama
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Local AI for Students — The Study System That Beats Tutoring
A complete local AI study system for students: refurbished M1 MacBook with Ollama, Whisper lecture transcription, Feynman-technique prompts, Anki flashcard generation, and an honest take on AI vs human tutoring and academic integrity.
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Make Siri Actually Smart — The Local LLM Bridge Trick
How to bridge Siri to a local LLM using Apple Shortcuts, Ollama's API, and Tailscale. Voice-query your Mac's AI from your iPhone anywhere, with the exact JSON config and realistic latency numbers.
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Local LLMs with Ollama: Thermal budget of a MacBook pretending to be a server
A field-tested take on the thermal budget of a MacBook pretending to be a server with Local LLMs with Ollama: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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I Made My Mac Read Every Contract Before I Sign It
How to review contracts with a local LLM on Mac. PDF to text extraction, a complete structured legal review prompt, context window settings for long documents, and why local AI matters for leases, NDAs, and employment contracts.
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LM Studio vs. Ollama — The Local AI Showdown Nobody Wrote Honestly
An honest LM Studio vs Ollama comparison on Apple Silicon. MLX vs llama.cpp performance benchmarks, model storage locations, how to share GGUF files between both, and which local AI tool fits developers vs tinkerers.
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The AI Reading Workflow That Lets Me Process 50 Articles a Day
AI reading workflow on Mac: article capture with reader mode, local LLM triage with Ollama, a verbatim summarization prompt template, RSS newsletter filtering, and the honest math behind processing 50 articles daily.
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Run DeepSeek-Class Models on a Mac — The Complete Guide
Complete guide to running DeepSeek-R1 distills and reasoning models on Apple Silicon Macs: distill sizes from 8B to 70B, quantization choices, realistic tokens-per-second by RAM tier, Ollama and LM Studio setup.
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The Mac Terminal Commands That Unlock Hidden AI Power
Power-user macOS terminal commands for local AI: Ollama CLI flags, Modelfiles, OLLAMA_KEEP_ALIVE, pbpaste one-liners, Simon Willison's llm tool, jq parsing, and shell aliases for AI tasks.
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Local LLMs with Ollama: Running evals locally before trusting a new model
A field-tested take on running evals locally before trusting a new model with Local LLMs with Ollama: what it rewards, where it breaks, and how to keep the workflow honest.
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The 7 AI Mistakes Mac Power Users Keep Making
Seven common local LLM mistakes on Mac and how to fix them. Covers Ollama context length, quantization tradeoffs, VRAM limits on Apple Silicon, swap death spirals, Modelfiles, and hybrid cloud-local routing with exact commands.
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Why Every Writer Needs a Local LLM (and How to Set One Up)
How writers can use a local LLM on Mac for manuscript feedback, line editing, and research summarization. Ollama setup guide for non-technical writers, model recommendations, and two ready-to-use editor system prompts.
