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Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

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Re: Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

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The coolest project I’ve got this running on is improving the depicts metadata for photos on Wikipedia. A lot of times they won’t have the landmarks tagged correctly in a photo. So I will load in all the metadata that exists from each photo and the pixels of those photos and give a small qwen agent access to Wikipedia search as well as a geocoder. It does a great job of figuring out what is depicted and tagging it wi…

Interesting project. So I guess the search tool is to crawl Wikipedia for articles? And how do you ensure that the tagging stays within the Wikidata taxonomy? How exactly are you using a geocoder? Sorry, just curious

So like oftentimes the picture will be of a church and there’s geographic coordinates for where the photo was taken. My qwen will use the geocoder to search for “church” at the coordinates of the photo and then read the Wikipedia articles about all the churches nearby and see if any of them could plausibly be the church. So far I have parsed about 2 million photos and have tagged about 800k places. My goal is to do the whole 40 million places to create a world map of open places with photos. The tool I’m using is topoloop for the geocoding

Re: Nativ: Run frontier open models locally on your Mac

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Wow what a hater. You know what else is thousands of dollars and doesn’t even include a monitor? An ATX case with 2 3090s in it. And that will use a kilowatt or more to do what the Studio (which is excellent) does with about 250 W.

Compute is compute. You need power to make LLMs go brrr.

And you can get a case with 2 3090s for about 5k, which is still less than what a "comparable" top of the line Mac Studio costs.

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Apple would not waste money astroturfing on HN to sell O(1000) Macs.

No, they would spend money on creating a trend, like "Macs are good for AI".

They literally did this before AI with Macs being good for programming, because "they are Unix like", "have the best trackpad" and other bullshit, and as a result, new CS grads were convinced that Macs are the best for programming.

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