Laptop
topic on 5 shows · 9 statements across 9 episodes
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Burazin: Personal laptops cannot handle high AI agent concurrency due to compute limits
“The other thing is you can't do concurrency. So you can do multiple to the amount of compute that you have in your laptop, which will be quite limited. And so you might want to spin up 10 or 20 or 50 or a hundred or a 100,000, whatever that number might be. An…”
Stern: Smartphones Will Never Go Away Despite AI Wearables
“The phone is never going away, just like laptops didn't go away when the phones came, and all of our other technology built on each other, right?”
Kumar: Smartphones and laptops will not be replaced anytime soon
“No one's going to replace phones anytime soon, or laptops for that matter.”
Ahmad Al-Dahle: 8-billion parameter models can run locally on phones
“So an eight billion parameter model is small enough to sort of run, On phones or even laptops at the higher end of those.”
Tade Oyerinde: Campus gives every student a laptop and subsidizes Wi-Fi
“Instead of a MetroCard, because most of our students are fully online, we give every student a laptop, and we pay about a third of their Wi-Fi bills if their Wi-Fi is too, too slow or unreliable.”
Weisbrot: China leapfrogged laptops straight from desktops to smartphones
“What a lot of people don't realize about China is they had desktops and they kind of leapfrogged laptops into smartphones. Where laptops were a thing in the West for like a while before smartphones came out.”
Casado: Physical access to a laptop almost guarantees compromise
“If I have physical access to your laptop, I can probably break in.”
Evans: Apple's 2016 MacBook Pro update is largely an incremental speed bump
“Apple announced a upgrade to their laptops that people have been waiting for, and it's an upgrade. It's another speed bump with a new design with this interesting touch bar thing on it.”