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Posted by Luc 14 hours ago

Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer(www.brangus.io)
337 points | 138 commentspage 4
_zendar_ 7 hours ago|
Sorry if this is a dump question but I was wondering why not fine tuning each model to get 100% accuracy on those topics?
riazrizvi 12 hours ago||
I saw emergency and I immediately thought in case I couldn't access online docs or get my coding/platform questions answered day-to-day.

Apocalypse emergency I don't need help on. My crisis brain has collected more than enough info and capabilities over the decades.

semireg 10 hours ago||
What this needs is a recipe or script that you can point your local agent at and it builds a bespoke implementation that’s, by definition, highly resilient.

Edit: see project nomad.

mentalgear 13 hours ago||
This could be made a lot more practical (and safer) if made searchable via a simple vector search / embedding that can run on any ordinary computer.

The source (data collection) seems the most important feature here worth reusing.

niobe 2 hours ago||
"Survival LLM, the power is out and there's no food, how do I turn your computer on to ask your questions?"
CalChris 10 hours ago||
Odd that it doesn’t run on phones. It isn’t that large, 212MB on a Mac. Phones are basically everyone’s EDC and most are quite powerful.
jkahrs595 10 hours ago|
That’s just the size of the app. It then downloads the appropriate model given the specs of the machine.
jonathaneunice 12 hours ago||
Alternate idea: Download Unsloth Studio https://unsloth.ai/docs/new/studio#quickstart

From the command line: unsloth studio

Browse to the URL it gives you (eg http://127.0.0.1:8888/)

Download a good fast local model e.g. Gemma-4-12B (small machine) or Qwen3.6-35B-A3B (larger memory). Or a Nemotron model, if you prefer that.

Then you'll have both your backup/emergency assistant that runs on your own computer and be gaining skills in a common, frequently-updated, well-supported program.

amelius 10 hours ago||
The only way Big AI labs will sell us appliances is when the internet was somehow destroyed.

Not sure where this would fit in.

scotty79 10 hours ago|
Qwen 3.8 27B runs well on my laptop. And I can fit terabytes of human knowledge on it.
good1andrew 13 hours ago|
pretty cool I like it. could you support more (small) models in the future, e.g. from the qwen or gemma family?
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