farsalo writingExperiments, tools, and essays from farsalo.https://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/enAn Albanian Edge LLM - Part 1: The Visionhttps://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/an-albanian-edge-llm-part-1/https://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/an-albanian-edge-llm-part-1/Albanian is a low-resource language with around 7.5M speakers.Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTAn Albanian Edge LLM - Part 2: Sourcing the Datahttps://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/an-albanian-edge-llm-part-2/https://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/an-albanian-edge-llm-part-2/I ended up building 22,369 training pairs from scratch using multiple AI models.Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding an Albanian Edge LLM - Part 3: The Roasthttps://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/building-an-albanian-edge-llm-part-3/https://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/building-an-albanian-edge-llm-part-3/I tried a bunch of different approaches. Most failed!Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding an Albanian LLM - Part 4: The Pour: Quantization & iOS Deploymenthttps://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/part-4-ios-deployment/https://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/part-4-ios-deployment/I got a 7GB model down to 934MB using 4-bit quantization. Then I used Apple's MLX framework to run it on iPhone.Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTBuilding an Albanian AI - Part 5: Results and Future Planshttps://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/part-5-the-taste-test/https://farsalo-staging.pages.dev/writing/part-5-the-taste-test/69.2% accuracy on my tiny 13-phrase test set. Basic phrases work. Proverbs mostly fail.Thu, 29 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT