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Not sure if this works for you but I'm a big fan of having a very powerful desktop that I remote into from a cheap laptop. Especially if you're serious about AI (or gaming, if you can live with not gaming on the go).

I do this with a custom built ryzen + GTX machine running ubuntu 16.04, which I access from an old mac book. Once you get comfortable with your remote dev environment It's a really nice experience.

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That's an interesting setup. Is there a specific reason why you run your big experiments on your own machine instead of AWSs machines?

I'm very interested in the field myself, but I haven't yet reached the point yet where my Sagemaker bill has broken the bank.

Well I already have the machine and the electricity is free. That's the only reason though, haven't needed to mess around with AWS much.

I do the same for photo editing and gaming. Built a Threadripper machine with a VEGA 64 — yeah, I know —, and then just remote in to edit on Lightroom or use Steam Home Streaming to game on it from a laptop or my Apple TV.

Can you tell me what protocol are you using?

I'm using Mosh + SSH now, but latency is still a big issue, especially on mobile network.

And about gaming, how do you forward keyboard events and GUI with usable letency?

I use ssh. depending on what I'm doing I'll sometimes develop lcoally, then push changes and run experiments on the big machine. Sometimes I want to explore but still have the big guns at the ready, I use jupyter for this and it works really well. I run jupyter on the big machine and open an SSH tunnel to it.

I don't game remotely at all so I can't help you there.

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