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 Finally, the third and most profound part of the silence at the inn lay not in any lack or anticipation, but in something more elemental. This was a quiet that descended from the deep wellspring of ages past, the cumulative hush of countless nights, the collective sigh of centuries of weary travelers. A silence like the calm at the heart of a hurricane, this third aspect was as old as stone itself, ancient as the first whispered secrets exchanged in hidden corners by early settlers of this land long since vanished or assimilated. In this respect, the Waystone Inn had borne silent witness to a thousand histories, its timbers listening intently, absorbing every tale told, each jest shared and each secret whispered, then locking these away within its stony heart to be unearthed by later generations.
 
 
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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.