alt Hacker NewsAI At Home Part 1: A Box Of Scraps
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> I got these 10,000 RPM fans because I wanted to make sure I was moving enough air, and they were the same price as slower fans. They are really loud! I wanted the motherboard to control their speed based on the GPU temperature, and this didn't work at first, so I just wore ear protection during initial setup.
I think everyone remembers the first time they went from "I think I can tolerate some server fans. How loud can they be?" to "I had no idea a small 12V fan could be this loud"
Our definition of "Box of Scraps" is wildly different.
Quite courageous to go with AMD. I am very curious to see Chapter 2 and how he solves the software stability that used to plague AMD AI applications.
> Around this time I also realized that I didn't have Ethernet in the garage, so I started cutting holes in the drywall at 11:00 PM.
Ahh, one of those projects
> You'll start depending on it and then it'll get taken away from you.
You can not get around this, conceptually. Local inference will keep depend on updated models for quite a while. Partly because they will contain outdated training data, partly because of demands for the improved models. And it's still not clear where this will lead us. We're still in the rosey phase where people get lured in.