This blog post outlines how to make a homelab accessible from the internet, covering topics such as setting up Static IP or DynDNS, securing SSH connections, using a VPS as a reverse proxy, bypassing public firewalls with sslh on port 443, enabling HTTPS for your domain and subdomains, configuring NGINX for multiple endpoints, and adding basic authentication to your services.

This article examines the criticized Bloom-7B language model, comparing it to newer open-weight competitors like LLaMA-7B, Falcon-7B, and Mistral-7B. It explores claims of obsolescence, addressing architectural features (e.g., Alibi embeddings and tokenizer size), training limitations (undertraining on fewer tokens), and alternative design choices in newer models (SwiGLU, RMSNorm, GQA). The findings suggest Bloom’s underperformance stems more from undertraining than outdated architecture. Despite the critiques, the article argues for the potential of open-source models like Bloom, emphasizing the need for better scaling and data strategies to unlock their competitive edge.