Yeh, except then youâ(TM)re paying a bandwidth penalty for accessing ram over PCIe or SLI, and a bandwidth penalty for having old GPUs, and a performance penalty for having GPUs that arenâ(TM)t as fast, or as flexible. So the result overall is not capable of doing this. When you use multiple GPUs to run AI, you load the whole model onto each GPU, you donâ(TM)t split it across GPUs, because the entire game is about having all the bandwidth available.

I mean, if you like, we can loosen the requirements and you can look for a desktop. Then the mac costs $5099. I'm not sure you're going to get a GPU with 128GB for that much, let alone the whole system.

I mean, if youâ(TM)re running AIs, youâ(TM)re gonna want 128GB at least, and a fast GPU. At that point, it being a MacBook Pro isnâ(TM)t going to make much difference. Itâ(TM)s gonna cost $7000, which I grant you is a lot of money, however⦠now find me another laptop with a GPU around the performance of the laptop 5080, and 128GB of RAM the GPU can access.

I somewhat disagree. They developed an engine using somewhat different building blocks. The first iteration of their design works on only one model, but guess what - a lot of the blocks will transfer to other AIs. Iâ(TM)d bet that this can be expanded to run at least other versions of Qwen, and plausibly other LLMs.

Ultimately, all software is about trade offs, and here theyâ(TM)ve made a somewhat different trade from others, but given how popular high end Apple silicon devices are becoming for running AIs, it doesnâ(TM)t seem unreasonable to see if you can make big gains like this for categories of models.

Hahaha, He's expressed his support of Tommy Robinson, who founded the English Defence League. The EDL is litterally a fascist organisation. He complains that Britain is no longer full of native brits, and went on to define "native Brit" to mean "white". He argued that Romani's in Denmark should be shot as you would wolves.

Sorry, but since when is literal fascism and overt racism the position of an "ordinary liberal"?

I would rather a 3 year wait, and a show that's high quality than a 1 year wait for another round of trash. As a brit, I find it hilarious that you guys think 10 shows is a *short* season. I get that you used to have the year divided in two and basically 20-26 shows a season in the past, but it just doesn't make sense. You can't have a show that actually has a cohesive plot, that every episode advances, and also have 22 shows between major events happening.

I'd generally agree with you, but not in the case of AppleTV. Their hit rate has been higher than most, and they haven't gone off cancelling things that people loved. For example, a recent survey said Apple's rate of a show being good, outstanding or exceptional was 50.8%, while Paramount's was 41%, Hulu's 40%, Max's 25%, Disney's 24%, Netflix's 20%, and Amazon's 14%. Their top hits have been:

- Ted Lasso
- Severance
- Silo
- Pluribus
- For All Mankind
- Slow Horses
- The Morning Show
- Murder Bot
- The Studio

every one of which is still running.

Whatâ(TM)s odd to me is that the Brits already have a solution to this, theyâ(TM)re just not deploying it. British councils *love* giving people 63 wheely bins for them to sort increasingly difficult to identify waste into. Why not just give out a container for people to put waste batteries/battery containing devices in? Alternatively, do the same as most councils do with glass, and put a big metal box in a fairly central location to contain them until the bin men come and empty it?

You have no clue if you think they dont. The M5 max GPU is roughly as fast as a laptop 5080. If you want either pro apps, or AI ability, the M5 isnâ(TM)t beaten by anything at all.

That doesn't really make any difference to the RAMpocalypse though - the thing that's hard to get is the RAM chips that go into those tightly integrated packages. Apple is having just as much trouble as everyone else getting RAM.

I'm not sure what the distinction you're making is.

The memory manufacturers stopped making your desktop memory in order to make RAM for AI data centres.
AI data centres are taking all the RAM.

These are the same statement.

Theyâ(TM)ve been hypothesised for a long time. Actually finding that little red dots actually are them, ⦠no, thatâ(TM)s not been a thing since 1994.

I mean, we don't know at all if they're making profit. I very much doubt it, but you're asserting that with extreme confidence, when it's not known.

At least in the UK, when you're operating a boat with a VHF radio, it's a requirement to leave it on channel 16 when not actively using it. Is that true in the US?

I really don't think that's true. Scientists studying the last universal common anscestor have found extremely short pieces of RNA that can self replicate https://www.science.org/doi/10.... The machinery of a cell is comparatively enormously complex compared to this simple self replicatiing chemical.