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LLM Fundamentals
The Anatomy of an LLM Request
What actually gets sent to an LLM: system prompts, tools, MCP, memory, skills, messages, caching, and the complete tool-use loop.
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Local AI
The Lifecycle of a Local AI Model: A Beginner's Map
A beginner's map to Hugging Face, Transformers, PyTorch, GGUF, safetensors, Ollama, LM Studio, Unsloth, MLX, vLLM, SGLang, and the rest of the vocabulary.
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