tpurves

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by tpurves 23d ago
Literally the best possible kind of psy-op. Same with translating Sesame Street and distributing it to 100s of countries. Same with countries like Thailand exporting Thai food. It's a psy op based on what if we took nice things from
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by tpurves 23d ago
Where is this being fabbed TSMC? How advanced a process node CPU maker has access to is usually all you need to predict relative performance. (as long as you take similar assumptions in die size, advanced packaging and power envelope).
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by tpurves 2mo ago
This thing has 50% more memory than GTX PRO 6000, which fetch 18k-25k+ each right now on newegg, and generally sold out. If nvdia can still sell out 96GB PCI cards (on a 2 year old architecture) at those prices, how is an AMD equivalent wit
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by tpurves 2mo ago
Okay this tidbit is interesting to me "5–6 tok/s M2 -> 31–35 tok/s on an M5 Pro". So where will be in just another gen or two? my impression right now is that M5 gen is on the cusp of practicality for local inference.
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by tpurves 2mo ago
Well that's a relief, glad I am a turtle then and so are most of my friends, and that our whole world economy and food system runs on turtles. So we should be fine.
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by tpurves 2mo ago
You are assuming there are not naked shorts out there.
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by tpurves 2mo ago
"Latent space representation" I have been waiting for this moment in the evolution of AI. Well, waiting with some trepidation. It seems inevitable that frontier AI's will, at some point, leave behind human-comprehensible repr
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by tpurves 2mo ago
this strategy worked to keep Ukraine alive, by enabling them to throw literally anything and everything they could obtain into the fight. And the system enabled rapid experimentation and evolution of what works. Also they didn't have e
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by tpurves 3mo ago
An unfortunate series of events that this thing ended up with these specs at 1,049.00. It was supposed to be cheap and cheerful. At first Steam took an opportunistic deal to buy up a bunch of near-obsolete-already chips from AMD to build a
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by tpurves 3mo ago
I do think local models are huge pending market opportunity for Apple. An M5 Ultra Mac Studio (if that exists) could be decent local AI machine, though so expensive as to stay niche. But by the M6/M7 generations and a recovery in DRAM
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by tpurves 4mo ago
Not to mention quitting in droves because very many don't want to take these cases or otherwise to stand in court and explain why current admin is not bound by existing laws, court orders, the US constitution in general, or internation
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by tpurves 4mo ago
This has already happened. Home PC market is practically dead already due to memory, ssd and graphics card price inflation. Makers of components like PC cases and power supplies etc. are seeing demand down 30-40% year over year and this is
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by tpurves 4mo ago
China does not have sufficiently leading edge fab capabilities to fill DRAM demand.
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by tpurves 4mo ago
>> find a reliable place to sell it without getting ripped off by scammers. This is a real problem and why I've just about given up on ebay or fb marketplace, esp for computers. If you are in Canada though sellit9.com is a great
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by tpurves 4mo ago
Well in that case, I predict you are going to be in luck!
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by tpurves 4mo ago
@Ademeure Where do you think the market will be by the time, say year from now, when Apple has rolled out it's M6 generation? Do you think one more process node and architecture revision will be enough yet to tip the balance that local
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by tpurves 4mo ago
What this article fails to mention is that there are also a record number of empty tankers routed to the US refineries right now, with the intention of shifting still-relatively cheap US oil products to overseas markets where the prices a
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by tpurves 4mo ago
I haven't been in a mcdonalds in decades because they have zero options for people with food allergies (I developed celiac midway through life).
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by tpurves 4mo ago
Nobody is using LLMs to make lending decisions. They are using LLMs to read, extract and audit the supporting documents that go into normal well-tested, compliant and rules-based underwriting systems. And firms A/B test against humans
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by tpurves 5mo ago
Thanks for flagging this, I was literally seeing the same thing with protechts.net in my activity tab this morning as I was trying to understand why firefox was aggressively draining my battery.
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by tpurves 5mo ago
If it's not US and it's within a few percent of SOTA that might be good enough for a lot of people (eg Europeans)
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by tpurves 5mo ago
The conceptual problem is that we keep wanting to compare AI behavior to that of traditional computers. The proper comparison is comparing AI, and how we trust or delegate to it, to the concept of delegating to other humans or even to domes
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by tpurves 5mo ago
The real 'hype' was that the oh-snap realization that Open AI would absolutely release a competitive model to Mythos within weeks of Anthropic announcing there's, and that Sam would not gate access to it. So the panic was t
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by tpurves 5mo ago
Yep this was the moment to finally remember to cancel my cursor subscription. I find it unconscionable to do business with someone who would do business with Elon.
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by tpurves 5mo ago
Like with all new tech trends, it takes them a hot minute to catch up, but it's highly likely they will (eventually) release some killer platforms for local AI. The shared memory, high bandwidth and power-efficiency of their M chips is
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by tpurves 5mo ago
The insight here is, that in current warfare, quantity is the quality that matters. And with quantity, cost of replacement needs to be low, platforms expendable, cheap to maintain and resupply. It, and it's support infrastructure, need
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by tpurves 5mo ago
This is such a dastardly psychological trick. Being slightly aswew really hard to fight the subconscious urge to reach out and 'fix' them. I almost want to rush out to a nearest McDonald's right now and buy one of these burge
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by tpurves 6mo ago
Yep, I am in same boat. 32GB M1 Pro myself, and ya still a very solid machine. Thanks for that link.
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by tpurves 6mo ago
So between AI and robots that can do this, humans are basically done right? I am going to bed.
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Ask HN: M5 MacBook Pro buyers, worth spending the $$$ to maybe run LLMs local?
11 points by tpurves 6mo ago|12 comments

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