This summarises my thoughts as well. People used to give away children that were too much of a burden. With higher mortality, some were also not expected to make it.
We're in a societal place where we have set the bar high in terms of an expected level of education and quality of life for our kids. kids are expensive and we've grown the population massively. There is also a social stigma associated with having lots of kids in Western countries.
I worry about my kids. But im always fascinated when they stretch the boundaries and show me how resilient they are. So I let them push limits but explain the pros and cons hoping they build their own feedback loops with some sense of perspective.
It's a delicate balance as a parent. I'm consistently fascinated how others parent. It's amazing how changes in parental style can be generational and show how long the changes will take to change.
> People used to give away children that were too much of a burden. With higher mortality, some were also not expected to make it.
Don't confuse that for them not loving their children or not being devastated by the deaths when they happened. We don't know how often kids were given away, but there isn't strong evidence it happened often.
I think the main limitation, right now, is hardware. For GPUs the main limit is the VRAM available on consumer models. CPUs have plenty of memory but don't have the bandwidth or vector compute power for LLMs. This is why I think the Strix Halo is so exciting: it has bandwidth + compute power plus a lot of memory. It's not quite where it needs to be to replace a dedicated GPU, but in a few iterations it could be.
I'm interested in other opinions. I'm no expert on this stuff.
How does the shared memory model for GPUs on Apple Silicon factor into this? These are technically consumer grade and not very expensive, but they can offer a huge amount of memory since all the memory is shared between CPU and GPU, even a midtier machine can easily have 100 GB of GPU memory.
If you squint the M4 is the same as the Strix Halo. The M4 has roughly
* double the bandwidth;
* half the compute; and
* double the price for comparable memory (128GB)
compared to the Strix Halo.
I'm more interested in the AMD chips because of cost plus, while I have an Apple laptop, I do most of my work on a Linux desktop. So a killer AMD chip works better for me. If you don't mind paying the Apple tax then a Mac is a viable option. I'm not sure on the software side of LLMs on Apple Silicon but I cannot imagine it's unusable.
I am also very interested in AMD's Strix Halo for running LLMs locally. For that I have a Framework Desktop in order (batch 1!).
Alex Ziskind on Youtube does videos comparing Strix Halo, M4 Mac mini and MacBook Pro, Nvidia 5090, etc. including power consumption. The only downside is one has to pull out the numbers from the videos, there's no tables or anything. Here is the recent video with testing Strix Halo and a Mac mini: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7GDr-VFuEo
I don't know, what's worst with people running LLM locally compared to running any software locally?
There is nothing fundamentally new in having freedom in edge of societies. Yes it can lead to horrible situation, like someone kill neighbors, using the single handable bright new tool available to all. But that's far less of a concern than having the powerful new tool staying in full concentrated control of the greediest humans out there, who will gladly escalate any hindrance to genocide whenever something doesn't fit their perspective.
it was my experience of college. many I know would agree, and few would agree with you. I'm sure there are some that didn't feel this way, but strange sweeping statement to make.
I agree with this. If she's adding value and her input is worth her place on the cap table then it should be easy to resolve.
You do need to think carefully about what a breakup would look like. Relationships can go sour and if that happened what would the arrangement be if they couldn't work together.
Also, who makes the decisions? Does her allocation give them both a majority of voting rights?
It's not a typical arrangement, that doesn't mean it can't work but your co-founder has added complexity into the process.
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On a less facetious note, Solar needs time to renew the energy it made the day before as well. Time scale is very important to questions of renewables, and people have been sustainably burning wood for a long time. Unsustainably too, but I would bet that’s not the case here if it’s being included in a census of sustainable sources.
Turing is a Godfather of AI. But you can't say there never will be another. In light of recent achievements there should be new pioneers and Godfathers. Its the nature of innovation.
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