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I'm pretty sure this tribe has a casino on their reservation, but I know the one in Utah doesn't, both get money from oil extraction, but I'm not sure if they are totally independent from each other?
My kids and their cousins are all great friends and it's well worth the sacrifice
Long story short, it wasn't. It was like taking away a crutch. Of course we could have been more diligent about testing before having QA validate it, but it slowed development down so much trying to learn all the things we never thought to test that QA did automatically.
Of course with those you'll also have to spend some money on motherboard, ram, SSD, PSU, CPU, ect.
I think the best bang for the buck is probably a Mac studio with as much ram as you can afford.
I bought an RTX A2000 (12GB VRAM), and it's fine for 7B models and some 13B models with 4 bit quantization, but I kind of regret not getting something with more VRAM.
Their tracking is all encompassing and invasive, even without a Google account. They are a menace to the world and it should be an obligation to block their ads. If Google disappeared tomorrow the world would be better off.