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I am able to run Gemma 3 12B on my M1 MBP 16GB. It is pretty good at logic and reasoning!

This is consistent with my own experiments with local LLM models. I've also been experimenting with chaining the model to flagship LLMs when it is incapable of achieving the outcome using Langgraph.

It is good as a learning tool or to use in applications where latency is not a concern but there can be a high number of requests. But, not yet fast enough to do auto-complete on an IDE for instance.

To a casual observer, this seems like a big deal. Can knowledgeable folks comment on this work?

Is it feasible to create a mesh network using Bluetooth on participating smart phones?

In crowded places like college campuses, we could run campus IM on it for instance

I now use Firefox Focus as my default phone browser. It's great! Lacks a lot of the gestures that make Chrome good. But it deletes tab history by default on closing the app which makes it an adequate sandbox to open one-off links in

I already migrated from Keep just for this reason. It's ok to make temporary notes there but for long lasting organisation I prefer a different solution

Oops. I meant to say skydiving.

Apologies for the naive questions in advance.

Is it not possible to go up there in a hot air balloon to inspect it from a closer distance?

Also, what about base jumping onto it?

Are there any methods of getting it back to the ground intact?

At some point, AI will replace stuntmen with completely synthesized action scenes. Contrast that with the money that was poured into one scene in MI7 where Tom Cruise rides a bike off a cliff.

If AI could make us feel the same way as Tom Cruise himself jumping off a cliff, isn't it a no-brainer to use it?

If we stretch this scenario to the ultimate - Generating an entire movie using AI, it doesn't feel as fun, as real. But I wonder if it is the future

I had a fun game. Was disappointed that the AI blundered a piece fairly early in the game. Overall, I felt I was not being pushed at all.

True, in most cases, backgrounds with a lot of elements (ex: a house in the background) were part of real pictures

The chat thread looked so farcical that I had to double check it wasn't a parody account. Is it possible the text has been edited? It just looks too scripted, especially since Jack Dorsey had shared his thoughts regarding Twitter being intended as a protocol publicly.

I was confused too. At one point I got the same impression that the multiplayer collab was for building the apps. But in another section, it seemed to be for the app users.

Did you find out :D?

Excuse my ignorance. Is Jan really that good of a player to be Magnus' second? Somehow his laidback style commentary made me feel he was not too serious with preparation

Potentially naive question - If I had a non-user-facing CRUD admin backend, why should I not use this for validating the data while creating or editing records?

I went back and checked Apple's keynote and noticed that all their presenters faced the camera. But the camera itself was panning slightly which helped, as you said, to feel less stuffy. Nice!

One interesting thing to note is how much more high-budget Hollywood style Apple's event feels in comparison to Google's event. Having watched the two events on successive days, some things stand out -

Apple throws numbers repeatedly at you through out the presentation and you end up remembering quite a few useless statistics (55.7 billion transitors in M1 Max)

Apple makes a much bigger deal about each device with lots of close ups and pseudo x-raying of the product. Google just throws in a Pro with an extra camera that you can barely make out on the dark glass.

Apple spends several minutes talking about their SoC. Google says it spent years on Tensor and just leaves it as a shiny golden box.

The weirdest thing in the Google presentation is that several sections had presenters talking to a different camera than facing the screen. That just felt very strange.

As someone famous on YouTube says -

"Glass is glass. And glass breaks"

Have Macbook Pro sales been declining for the past few years? I can understand removing the touchbar as a bad experiment but I thought Apple was obstinate about the move to USB-C. Really did not expect this backpeddling.

Edit - I'm definitely pleased with the move to add more ports. Just surprised.

I have nothing against being thick. The 2012 model was thicker but I like its design

I don't really like the chassis design. It looks dated. But the rest of the Macbook Pro sounds really exciting!

For those who missed the keynote, here are some laugh-inducing moments - "Our Pro users love to use physical function keys. So we have added them"

"Our Pro users like to connect a lot of devices without using a lot of dongles"

Could you point to any good resources on this topic?

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I'm not sure I agree about Amazon being good with updates. They removed the ability to change orientation for no good reason!