Comment by softfalcon

Comment by softfalcon 3 days ago

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For anyone who wants to see some real workstations that do this, you may want to check out Alex Ziskind's channel on YouTube:

https://www.youtube.com/@AZisk

At this point, pretty much all he does is review workstations for running LLM's and other machine-learning adjacent tasks.

I'm not his target demographic, but because I'm a dev, his videos are constantly recommended to me on YouTube. He's a good presenter and his advice makes a lot of sense.

zargon 2 days ago

His reviews are very amateurish and slapdash. He has no test methodology and just throws together random datapoints that can't be compared to anything. In his Pro 6000 video he compares it with an M3 128GB with empty context. Then he runs a large context (a first for him!) on the 6000 and notes how long prompt processing takes, and never mentions the M3 again!

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  • embedding-shape 2 days ago

    Seems pretty spot on for what you'd expect from YouTube developers, most of the channels are like that to be honest. Something about "developer" + "youtube" that just seems to spawn low effort content that tries to create drama rather than fair replacements for blog posts that teach you something.

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fm2606 3 days ago

> I'm not his target demographic Me either and I am a dev as well

> He's a good presenter and his advice makes a lot of sense. Agree

Not that I think he forms his answers on who is sponsoring him, but I feel he couldn't do a lot of the stuff he does without sponsors. If the sponsors aren't supplying him with all that hardware then, in my opinion, he is taking a significant risk in buying all of it out of pocket and hoping that the money he makes from YT covers it (which I am sure it does, several times over). But there is no guarantee that the money he makes from YT will cover the costs, is the point I'm making.

But, then again, he does use the hardware in other videos so the it isn't like he is banking on a single video to cover the costs.

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hereme888 3 days ago

Dude... what a good YT channel. The guy is no nonsense, straight to the point. Thanks.

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