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Reebz commented on Show HN: Cactus – Ollama for Smartphones github.com/cactus-compute... · Posted by u/HenryNdubuaku

rshemet · 2 months ago

thank you! We're continue to add performance metrics as more data comes in.

A Qwen 2.5 500M will get you to ≈45tok/sec on an iPhone 13. Inference speeds are somewhat linearly inversely proportional to model sizes.

Yes, speeds are consistent across frameworks, although (and don't quote me on this), I believe React Native is slightly slower because it interfaces with the C++ engine through a set of bridges.

Reebz · 2 months ago

Looking at the current benchmarks table, I was curious: what do you think is wrong with Samsung S25 Ultra?

Most of the standard mobile CPU benchmarks (GeekBench, AnTuTu, et al) show a 20-40% performance gain over S23/S24 Ultra. Also, this bucks the trend where most other devices are ranked appropriately (i.e. newer devices perform better).

Thanks for sharing your project.

Reebz commented on Databricks acquires Neon databricks.com/blog/datab... · Posted by u/davidgomes

tqi · 4 months ago

I'm curious - as someone who hasn't been paying super close attention to the space, what does it mean to be a full data platform? Is it just having all the different flavors of DB you might need all from one vendor, or is there also tighter integration than if you cobbled it together from multiple vendors?

Reebz · 4 months ago

Essentially, yes. Different DB’s, federated queries (aka delta sharing, zero copy), definition/semantic layer tools, data engineering/pipelines, model training and notebooks, governance, data lineage, row/column/whatever access control.

It’s basically a luxury minivan. It’s may not be the fastest or prettiest or cheapest, but it’s a safe way for a large family of “data and AI people” to traverse a large organisation.

More seriously, I like to call it an “analytics workbench” in a professional setting.

Reebz commented on Buy, Borrow, Die – Explained old.reddit.com/r/BuyBorro... · Posted by u/nkurz

TrackerFF · a year ago

It always puzzled me how tax-adverse some wealthy people are.

I'm not talking about the wealthy people that have 100% of their wealth tied up to company (stock) that they operate - but the wealthy people that are just asset-rich, with zero operational duties.

Their wealth is handled by wealth managers, they probably don't even know what they own. But minimizing taxes and hoarding wealth is priority number 1.

Reebz · a year ago

Loss aversion is a major factor in behavioural economics that explains why people act this way.

Reebz commented on Replit cuts staff by 30 amid aggressive AI push in software development venturebeat.com/ai/replit... · Posted by u/petethomas

trevor-e · a year ago

I'm very confused what Replit's business model these days actually is. Their landing page says "Build software faster", and mentions some AI development/deployment platform. What is the actual product? Is it an IDE or something more like Heroku? Above the fold they show an example of some order form prototype. What am I supposed to take away from that? Why would I use a service for prototyping instead of my regular dev environment?

I don't mean to be harsh, but I'm really confused (and others probably are to) what they are actually selling.

Reebz · a year ago

It’s a cloud IDE, with 1-click deployments, a great code-focused LLM, and can be used from almost any device. Agree the home page can be tightened up, but if any of that sounds interesting, just give it a try.

I’m a hobbyist coder (not full time dev), and it’s been wonderful for me. Zero time to set up an environment (this is the huge one for me), super easy pushes to prod, and I can use my PC or iPad to code equally as effectively (really).

Reebz commented on Ask HN: AI Training for Executive Level · Posted by u/professorTuring

Reebz · a year ago

Executive level education is a tricky tightrope to walk in my opinion - often you’ll hear upon completion “I now know enough to be dangerous!”. Practically, and I mean this in the most endearing way, it translates to “I know enough to be confidently incorrect”.

AI is a wide field. The hot topic is generative AI.

If you really want to learn the depths, I’d start with brushing up on statistics 101 and 201. At least you’ll know how to run controlled experiments to see if these AI work.

For practical, hands-on learning it’s hard to go past either Jeremy Howard’s FastAi courses or Andrew Ng’s deep learning courses. The latter is via Coursera from memory, so you can put a little sticker on your LinkedIn if that’s a factor.

For executive education, I’d point back to my opening quote. Either do the hands-on learning that is rapid or sign up to a 2-year exec Masters program. MIT offer a fantastic, full-course load Exec MBA (that you get a regular MBA diploma at the end, it’s not watered down in accreditation or effort). In doing so, you can specialize heavily in AI/ML and you will be coding in those classes.

Reebz commented on Launch HN: Onu (YC W23) – Turn scripts into internal tools in minutes · Posted by u/lredd

lredd · 2 years ago

This is great feedback! Thanks y'all! We're starting with our hosted product so that folks can sign up and get started immediately. This has helped us get initial feedback and iterate super quickly. That said, releasing a self-serve, self-hosted version of Onu is a big item on our roadmap. We've heard lots of conflicting opinions on the necessity for a self-hosted version of the app, but this feedback definitely helps validate how necessary it will be.

Reebz · 2 years ago

I would expect any company over 500 staff with a functioning InfoSec team will want a more secure option to deploy. Just an idea, but if you must run the service on your end, another option could be single tenants/pods that you provision and the customer holds encryption keys in their KMS and can manage RBAC. Your staff would have only lower level admin ability to start/stop/delete the pod.

Reebz commented on What Is a Wildcard Person? wildcardpeople.com/what-i... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman

Manjuuu · 3 years ago

Everyone can self-identify as they like, the real ones in this case are easy to spot just asking them to tell you some stories of absurd problems they solved. They always have a boatload of war stories.

Reebz · 3 years ago

Exactly. The real ones, with experience, can regale with numerous stories of their trials and tribulations. Critically, it won’t come across as boastful, because they’ll detail how they loved the challenge, the context, and the solution.

Reebz commented on Be wary of imitating high-status people who can afford to countersignal robkhenderson.substack.co... · Posted by u/jger15

SoftTalker · 3 years ago

Very senior/wealthy people can get away with whatever they want. It's why Zuckerberg can look like a total slob at Facebook (notice he still wore a suit while testifying to Congress though).

If a senior executive wore a $200 suit to work, nobody would say a word.

Reebz · 3 years ago

Zuckerberg wears $800 tshirts amongst other carefully selected pieces of his wardrobe. He isn’t rummaging through a local Target for a basic tee and jeans. I think this is a good example of countersignal interpretation!

Reebz commented on Goodbye, data science ryxcommar.com/2022/11/27/... · Posted by u/sonabinu

Reebz · 3 years ago

>The work is downstream of engineering, product, and office politics, meaning the work was only often as good as the weakest link in that chain.

>The work was often very low value-add to the business (often compensating for incompetence up the management chain).

The chain is what is important. This is not a data science specific issue.

Swap in or rearrange any team names to the original list and the last position or two will find this article true.

Reebz commented on Australia gov wants telco Optus to pay for new passports for data breach victims rnz.co.nz/news/world/4756... · Posted by u/kiwih

peterkelly · 3 years ago

Because they're irresponsible. There's no reason to hang on to this information once they've verified it.

Reebz · 3 years ago

That’s incorrect. They are obligated by law to retain it for 6-7 years for KYC purposes.