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Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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My 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.

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

#33

My 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.

Is it really local models that unlock this? Surely stateless model APIs would yield the same benefits? I get that local can be “cheaper” depending on usage, but we’ve been renting storage and compute from clouds at a premium for ages..

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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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.

Oh yeah I did test various solutions and different settings and quants

Llama is about 1/3 slower on Apple Silicon.

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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I 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.

> the fans spinning at max speed

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

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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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.

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.

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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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.

They haven't: this is the top thread, and the entire threads is saying its unreadable and explaining step by step how to do the basics you should have done before you posted. I'm not sure why you're pleasantly surprised, I would have expected embarrassed, and taken down the HN post to get at least the basics down before sharing it under my name (if possible, dunno how HN submissions work)

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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post #29

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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.

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?

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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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?

It didn't, it went from "this reeks from AI after edits, here's a tool that can help" to "people can read past it but there are better ways, you must demand quality". I don't think those two things are inconsistent.

Re: Indexing a year of video locally on a 2021 MacBook with Gemma4-31B (50GB swap)

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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…

Btw I like your article, it does feel a bit AI generated but I think the problem and setting are interesting enough that it was a pleasant read.
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