https://blog.lukasmay.com/deep-dives/Recent content in Deep Dives on Deep Dives & Weekend ProjectsHugo -- 0.161.1en-usFri, 06 Mar 2026 23:07:26 -0500https://blog.lukasmay.com/deep-dives/deep-learning/Fri, 06 Mar 2026 23:07:26 -0500https://blog.lukasmay.com/deep-dives/deep-learning/<h2 id="intro">Intro</h2> <p>This is an attempt to cover what I know about DL to some degree. Some stuff is very skippable, and I don&rsquo;t really remember everything that I put in here, so there might be some repeating, but not much.</p> <h2 id="the-foundations-of-deep-learning">The Foundations of Deep Learning</h2> <p>To understand how machine learning models work, you have to completely discard the idea that it &ldquo;understands&rdquo; anything. A model does not read text or see images. At the absolute lowest level, a neural network is just a massively complex sequence of mathematical operations executed on silicon. To feed data into that silicon, we must first translate reality into a format that a GPU’s compute cores can process. That translation layer is the tensor.</p>https://blog.lukasmay.com/deep-dives/ai-stack-part-1/Mon, 16 Feb 2026 01:16:08 -0500https://blog.lukasmay.com/deep-dives/ai-stack-part-1/<h1 id="overview">Overview</h1> <p>I have been looking into self-hosting LLMs, and this is my attempt to put everything I&rsquo;ve learned about the subject in one place (so I can stop forgetting things). Alongside that, I wanted to include information about the setup I use to self-host LLMs on my laptop and the steps I took to build and optimize it. While that will come in the future, as there are still some things I am changing, and this is long enough already, I removed some of those parts to put in the next section.</p>