667 karma · joined December 6, 2012
The LLM they were involved in last year (Apertus) still was a letdown.
As someone who actually went there, my impression is that Europe in general is complacent when it comes to computers, and any bright eyed student will get their motivation choked out of them in academia here.
If you want to do things with AI in Europe, you can have a bigger effect by working for a consulting company than being at a university. That's … not a good sitatution.
2) using an Intel Mac as your main computer, for most tasks != using it as a home server
Psychopaths: tok/SEC
Also relevant: including libraries written by others in your own software.
As always it comes down to finding a healthy balance.
Second, when cloud models become unavailable or otherwise deteriorate, these will be all you have. May as well prepare.
And multithreaded is 10 cores vs 6 cores.
I appreciate Apple being kept on their feet, but they're not dethroned yet.