DDR5 has gone down dramatically compared to launch. You can get 64GB with a very fast bus for under 200 dollars now. At launch 32GB would easily set you back 250+. AMD has made a killing with Ryzen. Never mind the new naming convention that Intel came up with to make it even more complicated to choose the right CPU for your use cases, ridiculous. As for Nvidia GPU drivers, at the end of the day, they just work, regardless their proprietary drivers philosophy (which, again, I agree sucks). But if the OP is going to be doing AI development, machine learning and all that cool stuff, he’d be better served by getting a few CUDA TPUs. You can get those anywhere from 25 dollars to less than 100, and they come in all types (USB, PCI, M.2). coral.ai/products/#prototyping-productsI have 1 USB Coral running the AI on my Frigate dicker for 16 cameras, and my CPU never reaches more than 12% while the TPU itself barely touches 20% utilization. You put 2 of those bad boys together, and the CPU would probably not even move from idle 🤣
Those aren’t “CUDA” anything. CUDA is a parallel processing framework by Nvidia and for Nvidia’s cards.
Also, those devices are only good for inferencing smaller models for things like object detection. They aren’t good for developing AI models (in the sense of training). And they can’t run LLMs. Maybe you can run a smaller model under 4B, but those aren’t exactly great for accuracy.
At best you could hope for is to run a very small instruct model trained on very specific data (like robotic actions) that doesn’t need accuracy in the sense of “knowledge accuracy”.
And completely forgot any kind of generative image stuff.
Despite me being an absolute performance addict beyond reason, I have decided not to write my dice roller entirely in C++, for now. At least not until Godot 4.2 comes out, which brings hot-reloading to GDExtension.
GDScript is slow, and I really hate wasting people's CPU cycles, but prototyping the game logic is just so much quicker because it's right in the editor and changes are applied immediately.
I am also certain that I will be able to convert GDScript to GDExtension C++ fairly easily, because all I do is call engine functions, basically. It's just a matter of translating the syntax.
Last but not least, It would make a nice case study to directly compare the same implementations in GDScript and GDExtension C++.
Okay, variables and if/else logic in prototyping for @Figma is going to be a game changer, we can finally go beyond click click prototypes and have logic. Welcome to the Axure area of Figma my friends! (Next step: actual form controls that can use keyboard and more?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEuwKJAz7Jg #Figma#Prototyping
👋🏼 HNY! Thought I'd do a quick #introduction now I've moved to mastodon.social.
I’m Guy, an independent designer making websites, apps, motion graphics + that sort of thing. I consult with organisations small + large on their digital products, branding, motion graphics and more.
My newsletter about #prototyping, https://prototyping.news, slowly fizzled out during the pandemic… But I would like to revive it! What types of newsletters do you enjoy the most?
Now that the envelope control board (middle) is working properly and talking to the Nucleo (left), I'm gonna try to send some MIDI to the Raspberry Pi that runs the synth engine, and control the synth with its own hardware for the first time. #electronics#synth#prototyping
Update: I found https://freesound.org, a great place to find CC-licensed sounds. I found a handful of CC0 (free to use without attribution) for my toy app.
Cloudinary seems to be a great tool for prototyping in the browser. You can change your image dimensions and crop at any time simply by changing the url in the img tag:
Test plate en conditions réelles : la disposition est ultra confortable. Il y a juste un petit bug : les "modifiers" sur le côté sont en 1.5u au lieu de 1.25u. C'était donc une bonne idée de tester. #keebs#bépo#prototyping
Woo! I can finally get back to the new product testing and development this week! No more screwing around with BOMs that are decades out of date! Got pulled out of my actual tasks for like 2 months to clean up the messes of engineers past to support our database migration. #engineering#prototyping#FurriesInSTEM
Looking to build my first PC in almost 30 years; What should I be on the look out for?
It looks like !buildapc community isn’t super active so I apologize for posting here. Mods, let me know if I should post there instead....