← Khalid Salman

Writing

Notes on training and evaluating language models, and on the hardware underneath them. Mostly things I got wrong first.

I built my own AI workstation, and here’s what renting GPUs never taught me

Two RTX 5090s and £8,817.78 of parts. What the machine cost, what it changed about which experiments I’m willing to run, a measured thermal problem worth six or seven degrees, and the £500 power supply I destroyed learning why extension leads are a bad idea.