- learning how llama works - learning how to implement various deep learning operations in C - generally removing abstraction from "AI" to give a better sense

- learning how llama works - learning how to implement various deep learning operations in C - generally removing abstraction from "AI" to give a better sense of what is happening in inference - as a template to follow for custom projects - as a basis for learning about applying hardware specific optimizations (say, trying to rewrite to use BLAS) - because it's cool