Latest in Info Tech!: October 2023

Monday, October 16, 2023

Ace your AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam!

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner is the first step towards your advanced AWS certifications!

So, in this blog, I am going to share how I cleared the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner exam on my first attempt!

First of all, on a daily basis, you have to dedicate a couple of hours to self-study, I prefer late at night!
Create a free account in AWS / ACG and keep it ready
Understand the high-level domain/section and the number of questions/weightage for each domain/section.
Go through the recorded AWS training materials and videos.
Create a mind map of the topics. Here is the screenshot of my mind map.

You can download the PDF version here.

After each chapter/section, try it on AWS / ACG, which you created earlier
After all the training is completed, attempt free sample/trial exams provided by AWS and other learning platforms.
Check where you made mistakes during the sample/trial exam, and take down error notes.
Review the mistakes before the next sample/trial test, and come up with a strategy.
Finally, schedule the AWS certification exam and attempt it with confidence!
Wish you all the best and let me know in the comments if this was helpful!

Check out my AWS Certificate!

Also, please check out my other posts related to this subject

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MLOps Made Easy with Kubeflow on vSphere: Streamlining Machine Learning Workflows

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Cloud Computing and Data Analytics fundamentals

IT Operations Management

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Tuesday, October 3, 2023

My Private AI setup on laptop - Step by step guide to install LLM on your local Windows Laptop!

Are you fascinated by LLMs like GPT by OpenAI, and at the same time wondering if you will compromise your privacy, IP leak, Security, or Model Inaccuracies? well, the answer is PrivateAI!

Check out how you can install and configure LLM like LLAMA 2 on your Windows laptop, and overcome the concerns listed in the above paragraph!

Before we start, I highly recommend all of you see my earlier blog which lists the difference between AI, ML, DL, and GenAI

Pre-requisites: Windows 11, minimum 10GB RAM, Nvidia GeForce MX570 GPU

Manual Steps

1) Download and install Visual Studio Build Tools, use the defaults like the following screenshot.

2) Install Conda / Anaconda, Git, wget

3) Go to the Start menu and launch "Anaconda Powershell prompt" Run as Administrator

> conda install PyTorch

> conda install cuda --channel nvidia/label/cuda-11.7.0b

4) Visit the Meta AI website and register to download the model/s. After registration you will get an email, please don't delete this email.

> mkdir llama2

> cd llama2

> git clone https://github.com/facebookresearch/llama

run the download.sh using Git Bash

Provide the URL that you get from the email

Choose 7B-chat

It will take a while to download the model (it took nearly 22 min for me)

5) Once the model is installed, you can use it programmatically and interact with it, for which you need some GUI.

Automated way: If you are finding it difficult to follow manual steps, you can try following steps

Using the command prompt, clone the repo "git clone https://github.com/oobabooga/text-generation-webui"
From the folder, double-click on install_windows.bat
This will install the required software on your laptop and start the UI http://127.0.0.1:7860/.
Create an account at https://huggingface.co/ using the same email address that you have used to download the LLAMA 2 from the Facebook website.
In the local UI, in the model tab search for meta-llama/Llama-2-7b and click download
For the download to start, your request should have been approved by Meta and you need to set HF_USR and HF_PASS environment variables in your local machine by generating a token in the Huggingface > Settings > Access Tokens.
Once downloaded, you can refresh, select the LLAMA, and load it (Please refer the following screenshot)
Then navigate to the Chat tab and start using it without worrying about privacy, IP leaks, Security etc.
If you are facing issues in downloading Meta LLAMA, then try VMware/open-llama-7b-v2-open-instruct
Enjoy your Private AI LLM set!