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 A labyrinth of darkness stretched out before me, each passage looking identical in the gloom. My pulse raced as panic began to rise. I couldn't afford to take the wrong path, not when they were right on my heels. I squeezed my eyes shut, trying to quell the rising hysteria. Think, Aria! There had to be a clue, something to guide me. I opened my eyes and let them roam over the brickwork until they landed on a faint etching in the stone. An arrow, pointing down one of the paths. A chill that had nothing to do with the cold seeped through me. Someone else was down there... and I was going to follow them straight into an unknown trap. But I had no other choice. Swallowing hard, I squared my shoulders and plunged into the darkness, praying to whatever gods still listened that I wasn't marching myself willingly into the clutches of those that sought my ruin. The splash and clatter of my pursuers rang out behind me, driving me ever faster through the labyrinth even as fear clenched icy fingers around my heart. I only hoped that my path would lead to salvation...and not to my doom. Only time would tell. And I had a feeling I was about to find out very soon. The story continues...
 
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+<h2>Special Thanks:</h2>
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+Special thanks to all the following, and many more...
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+All the model makers, fine tuners, mergers, and tweakers:
+- Provides the raw "DNA" for almost all my models.
+- Sources of model(s) can be found on the repo pages, especially the "source" repos with link(s) to the model creator(s).
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+Huggingface [ https://huggingface.co ] :
+- The place to store, merge, and tune models endlessly.
+- THE reason we have an open source community.
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+LlamaCPP [ https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp ] :
+- The ability to compress and run models on GPU(s), CPU(s) and almost all devices.
+- Imatrix, Quantization, and other tools to tune the quants and the models.
+- Llama-Server : A cli based direct interface to run GGUF models.
+- The only tool I use to quant models.
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+Quant-Masters: Team Mradermacher, Bartowski, and many others:
+- Quant models day and night for us all to use.
+- They are the lifeblood of open source access.
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+MergeKit [ https://github.com/arcee-ai/mergekit ] :
+- The universal online/offline tool to merge models together and forge something new.
+- Over 20 methods to almost instantly merge model, pull them apart and put them together again.
+- The tool I have used to create over 1500 models.
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+Lmstudio [ https://lmstudio.ai/ ] :
+- The go to tool to test and run models in GGUF format.
+- The Tool I use to test/refine and evaluate new models.
+- LMStudio forum on discord; endless info and community for open source.
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+Text Generation Webui // KolboldCPP // SillyTavern:
+- Excellent tools to run GGUF models with - [  https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ] [ https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp ] .
+- Sillytavern [ https://github.com/SillyTavern/SillyTavern ] can be used with LMSTudio [ https://lmstudio.ai/ ] , TextGen [ https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui ], Kolboldcpp [ https://github.com/LostRuins/koboldcpp ], Llama-Server [part of LLAMAcpp] as a off the scale front end control system and interface to work with models.
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