Courses · Level 5 Frontier
Local Models
Models on your own metal — and honest maths about whether to.
Models on your own metal — and honest maths about whether to.
Open-weight models, taught by mechanism rather than benchmark folklore: quantize weights on the page and watch the rounding error appear, size your hardware with a real calculator, and work out whether local actually wins for you — from your electricity, your hardware, your rates, not someone else’s blog post.
Press play and a teacher talks you through the whole build, with a read-along transcript that highlights as it speaks.
Working, offline interactives — not screenshots. When the narration says "try it", the thing is right there.
No account, no app, no subscription. It runs from a single HTML file and will still run in ten years.
Every number is computed live on the page from inputs you can edit. Nothing is asserted that cannot be checked.
Written for builders considering their own hardware.
Explain what quantization costs you and why it varies
Size memory for a model and context length correctly
Compute local vs API economics from your own inputs
Know the cases where the API wins and it is not close
13 chapters, the first four free
The free preview is not a teaser: those chapters are complete, and the paid chapters are physically absent from the preview file rather than hidden behind a script.
What this hour is, how to use the page, and the interactive demo you will keep coming back to.
Part of the free preview — the full narration, page content and exercises, nothing held back.
Part of the free preview — the full narration, page content and exercises, nothing held back.
Part of the free preview — the full narration, page content and exercises, nothing held back.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.
Narrated in full, with the on-page build and exercises for this idea.