But... why?
It's a joke that's meant to ironically allude to the fact that M1 computers don't generate fan noise.
An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
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Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
#12Reminds me, 10 years back, battery cars suddenly seemed so much silent, that they added engine noise played on speaker to alert pedestrians.
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#13Guilherme Rambo's famed skills at discovering unannounced features and products may be a thorn in Apple‘s side, but this is inadvertently the best ad he’s ever made for them.
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#14It makes me a bit sad that for ten years I took it for granted that Moore’s law is dead and notebooks are constantly overheating incapable computers just to learn that the whole issue was Intel messing up their process nodes.
It's both. It's harder and harder to grind out progress (and if you compare M1 to where the 90's-early 2000's exponential progression, we're not so close).
As it gets harder, it becomes more capital intensive and the probability of success on any given process node decreases. The marginal utility of a doubling of computing is likely decreasing with time, too.
At some point, these factors are going to compound to slow progress. Or: exponential progressions never continue forever.
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#15But... why?
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#16But... why?
It's part of my workflow
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#17This is funny, but I prefer my computers silent. Semi-related: I can hear the inductors on my NVIDIA GPU, which is somewhat useful. When I am training deep learning models, the coil whine follows very regular patterns. Also, the pattern changes between training and validation. So, I can literally hear when an epoch is done. (Of course, TensorBoard for the real monitoring.)
I can relate 100%
I could literally hear the minibatches running, they sound more or less evenly spaced treek..treek.. and when it's at the end of the epoch, the larger batch for validation begins, it's a much longer treeeek
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#18This means I can finally upgrade, thanks! Not having the fans to scream against during my Teams calls was a real dealbreaker for me ;)
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#19Reminds me, 10 years back, battery cars suddenly seemed so much silent, that they added engine noise played on speaker to alert pedestrians.
In both the USA and the EU, that’s more or less (doesn’t have to be engine sounds, I think, but sounds are required) by law. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_vehicle_warning_sound....
Re: An app for M1 Macs that plays the sound of a fan as CPU usage goes up
#20This is funny, but I prefer my computers silent. Semi-related: I can hear the inductors on my NVIDIA GPU, which is somewhat useful. When I am training deep learning models, the coil whine follows very regular patterns. Also, the pattern changes between training and validation. So, I can literally hear when an epoch is done. (Of course, TensorBoard for the real monitoring.)
Do you also hear this when your speakers/audio system are off?