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> reliably run TensorFlow

What reliability issues are you having with TensorFlow on M1 Macs?


We've followed five different instructional and documentation pages to make it happen and none seem to consistently install. Throw in a corporate system where you need IT for root access to make changes and it is game over. So i've got an M1-max fully loaded and cant get TF running on it.

Now i've got a team of data scientists in a fully MBP shop and we're holding off upgrades to M1 until this all gets resolved.

On my personal M1, I managed to make it work, but its hard to know the layers of changes made and what exactly allowed it to work.


You can get off this GPU circus and simply go with purpose-built AI solutions.

You can buy single tensor accelerators from Google: https://www.coral.ai/products/

You can buy a bunch of those integrated into a single PCI-E card. https://iot.asus.com/products/AI-accelerator/AI-Accelerator-...

Cheap too. Some of these work with Mac. More of them work for PC, because the hardware interface is outside of Apple's thin vertical slice/garden.


These are devices for Tensorflow Lite which is more appropriate for IoT etc. not doing the intensive initial training of a complex model


Could be worth tracking what you did and make a new set of instructions, and trying to reproduce with a fresh install.


This is something Apple should pay people for.


Deep learning support for Mac is not going to happen at a level of quality you can rely on for research & dev work (like PyTorch + TensorFlow). The underlying problem is no big company cares about Mac platform and the work to maintain framework support for a specific piece of hardware is way beyond a hobby project. If you want your own on-prem hardware just buy Nvidia.


Good points about lack of cryptography in the current standards, but the fix there seems to be a function of profit: as long as NFT resales are up & to the right evidently security doesn’t matter

The rise of platforms like OpenSea are interesting because the solution seems to be disenfranchisement: if Chrome/iOS/Android had direct node access we wouldn’t need the OpenSea API calls to display the NFT images. But then you’re giving even more power to existing Google and Apple platforms.

The web3 platform wars begun have they…


Upvoting for the use of kabuki in explaining the melodramatic pantomime of crypto hype, if only we were all more artisanal in building out this nascent blockchain tech. Imagine if tcp/ip were invented today with all this pre-marketing by VCs


Disclaimer, sister team but what are the friction points you have when using Colab?


Good answers! I’m a happy user of manypixels.co but they are limited in their focus and so glad to see your differentiation here. Will check it out!


I think your question might be too broad. Segment your query into quadrants, deal type (transactional sales vs. strategic) and customer type (retail, smb vs. enterprise). Strategic enterprise selling is very different than transactional smb.


Curative Inc, a CDC certified Lab in LA is working to spin up faster testing through "raw material" test kits that can be crowdsourced. They mean the kits can be assmebled by non-tech folks to allow greater self-sourcing of test kits; the testing will be only conducted in certified labs.

https://www.curativeinc.com https://www.covid19-response.com/projects



Love it. Have found that the closer you get to hardware groups at any of the FAANG's, the higher the average age. Met several happily employed grandparents in the groups, adding value and telling the best stories.


> Have found that the closer you get to hardware groups at any of the FAANG's, the higher the average age.

Hm that makes sense given the relative infancy of the software industry.

Not to mention that enrollment in CS programs has been increasing so the talent pool is skewed towards younger people


Anyone care to confirm that Intel Custom Foundry is still up & running?


Do you mean at 14nm? I guess once they successfully migrate their actual production line to 10/7nm, whenever that might be..


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