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The first conformant M1 GPU driver
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Please don't do this.
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#23They are doing such good work. That was amazing to read and I learned something about finding hidden instructions by thinking about how a HW engineer would encode bits.
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#24"Of course, Asahi Lina and I are two individuals with minimal funding. It’s a little awkward that we beat the big corporation…" Love the euphemism. This puts Apple to shame, plain and simple. They obviously don't care about standards, or compliance, because they like people to be walled in their own little private garden (still waiting for the facetime standard, or any kind of cross-platform technology created in the…
Apple ended up in a battle with a patent troll over FaceTime, which could be part of why it hasn’t been opened up.
Lol. It's intentionally closed, so network effects can drive usage. Common Apple strategy, straight from Jobs.
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#25Wow, very interesting that mesa can now emit an instruction (and use a hardware feature) that even Apple's GPU driver does not support.
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#26I assume that this primarily benefits games and not any deep learning right? The most attractive aspect of Mac M1 is the huge memory boost. Might not be great for training due to the inability to distribute across multiple cards, but it makes for a great inference engine for stable diffusion, llama, and other large models.
Correct. You need CUDA, or ROCm, MPS (native to macOS) backends for running deep learning. I found it relatively easy to train some Pytorch model on beefy server with CUDA and running interference on my Macbook Air.
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#27"Of course, Asahi Lina and I are two individuals with minimal funding. It’s a little awkward that we beat the big corporation…" Love the euphemism. This puts Apple to shame, plain and simple. They obviously don't care about standards, or compliance, because they like people to be walled in their own little private garden (still waiting for the facetime standard, or any kind of cross-platform technology created in the…
Sometimes I think the biggest secret in this industry is that 2 people can outproduce even the largest companies. The only thing keeping everyone's job secure is that nobody can accurately identify which 2 people.
A rational economic system would eliminate the distinction between education and production so that people are constantly learning/improving while occasionally contributing to massive breakthroughs. We systemically under-develop every single human being on a global basis right now.
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#28Extremely impressive!
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#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Apple ended up in a battle with a patent troll over FaceTime, which could be part of why it hasn’t been opened up.
Lol. It's intentionally closed, so network effects can drive usage. Common Apple strategy, straight from Jobs.
Jobs is the guy who claimed they were going to make it an open standard originally.
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#30Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sometimes I think the biggest secret in this industry is that 2 people can outproduce even the largest companies. The only thing keeping everyone's job secure is that nobody can accurately identify which 2 people.
A rational economic system would eliminate the distinction between education and production so that people are constantly learning/improving while occasionally contributing to massive breakthroughs. We systemically under-develop every single human being on a global basis right now.
Everyone deserves an experience like that, at the very least – everyone deserves to be in a position where they have the opportunity to really enquire, or engineer, or know what it's like to solve new problems. It really is a good purpose that education could meet.