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Franco's avatar

Strong preference for good local too. I have recently updated my notebook and I feel the peace of being able to work locally and don't rely on complex setups. I don't require that much gpu, lightgbm goes brrr in a couple of cores

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Vuk's avatar
Jan 29Edited

Great points. When I invested in my latest workstation, the usual comment was “Why spending money on that when you can use the cloud?”

I would rather have a strong machine than a cloud subscription.

If I can run it locally, I will run it.

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Francisco Javier Arceo's avatar

💯💯💯

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Randall Bennington's avatar

Reading this it seems like the best local setup today would be 4 Mac Mini Pros x64G for a 256G @$8K. Does that sound right to you?

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Vuk's avatar

Why Mac? You can’t use CUDA locally on Mac for example.

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