The idea of capable local models could be a huge unlock here if they are able to do the bottom-up context collection research / tagging / etc. at scale.
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#33My take is that B2C AI applications are kind of structurally limited by how hard it is to build personalized context. The idea of capable local models could be a huge unlock here if they are able to do the bottom-up context collection research / tagging / etc. at scale.
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I have researched for quite a bit and so far the fastest runtime is the oMLX one. But there's a caveat: ttft on MLX on M4 Pro is enormous. On M5 Pro it has been greatly sped up.
Curious if you tested llama.cpp and still found oMLX faster? I haven't tried the latter myself, might give it a go.
Llama is about 1/3 slower on Apple Silicon.
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#35I ran Gemma on a 2015 thinkpad to do something similar. Fortunately, I could upgrade the memory otherwise it would have been a painful exercise. Not gonna lie, llama.cpp had the fans spinning at max speed. But it worked and I got the job done.
This always confuses me - don't people want their computations to run as fast as possible and thus inevitably produce more heat that needs to be vented?
I suppose sometimes it is just an analogy for "its utilizing 100% of my resources" (which I'm guessing it is here), but I've definitely had people say it as an actual complaint in different contexts
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Hey friend, try something in this ballpark, your post has a bunch of painful AI tropes: https://github.com/blader/humanizer You get a pass here because you're doing really cool stuff but it's kinda tough to read past the AI nonsense, and it's relatively easy to screen out "it's not x it's y" kind of things and the bolded bullet points.
Thanks for this! This is exactly what I was looking for. Tbh, I have a lot of thoughts and ideas and things to share and I do spend time and effort trying to de-AI-ing it but this should help a lot. I'll try it out. In fact, I was expecting getting shit on by HN readers for this but was pleasantly surprised that readers moved past it.
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Hey friend, try something in this ballpark, your post has a bunch of painful AI tropes: https://github.com/blader/humanizer You get a pass here because you're doing really cool stuff but it's kinda tough to read past the AI nonsense, and it's relatively easy to screen out "it's not x it's y" kind of things and the bolded bullet points.
Thanks for this! This is exactly what I was looking for. Tbh, I have a lot of thoughts and ideas and things to share and I do spend time and effort trying to de-AI-ing it but this should help a lot. I'll try it out. In fact, I was expecting getting shit on by HN readers for this but was pleasantly surprised that readers moved past it.
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Thanks for this! This is exactly what I was looking for. Tbh, I have a lot of thoughts and ideas and things to share and I do spend time and effort trying to de-AI-ing it but this should help a lot. I'll try it out. In fact, I was expecting getting shit on by HN readers for this but was pleasantly surprised that readers moved past it.
Yeah I think you'll find these days that there's a lot of respect for substance like what you're doing, even past the noise of the AI. I also use a lot of AI but you really have to demand quality from it, whether it's writing, media, or code. It's clear you've got the taste from your media work, and we're all still learning as we go, so I'm very glad that I could point you in that direction.
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Yeah I think you'll find these days that there's a lot of respect for substance like what you're doing, even past the noise of the AI. I also use a lot of AI but you really have to demand quality from it, whether it's writing, media, or code. It's clear you've got the taste from your media work, and we're all still learning as we go, so I'm very glad that I could point you in that direction.
I'm curious: how, exactly, did it go from this is painful to read due to AI, to no one cares about AI use and you demanded quality when you used it and delivered?
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Oops! My bad. Fixing it now. And yeah, I can share the Skill file. Give me 5 mins.
Ok I scrambled to finalize a name for it and create a new repo for it - https://github.com/Simbastack-hq/framedex PS - I just put this together in the last few mins, removed my personal files and references. So it's not tested properly, please let me know if any issues. It's still an early hack, but I have thousands of still images as well from my camera which I've not processed and I need to do the same analysis for…