> If you looked at a graph of GPU power in consumer hardware and model capability per billion parameters over time, it seems inevitable that in the next few years a "good enough" model will run on entry-level hardware.
Of course there will always be larger flagship models, but if you can count on decent on-device inference, it materially changes what you can build.
I'm making some assumptions about what they're saying, but it seems clear they have no idea what they're about and that they're betting their competency on this technology.
If you're not paying attention to what's happening with small models, I suggest you take a closer look. Keeping parameter count constant, the quality of small models is rising fast. When you look at what you could do with Llama just 3 years ago vs Gemma 4 on the same 16GB hardware, the trend is clear.
Meanwhile, this year Apple bumped the base of their Mac lineup from 8GB to 16GB RAM, and the iPhone 17 Pro ships with 12GB. The Neo is at 8GB but is a brand new product tier which is not comparable to any past model.
Small models are gaining useful reasoning ability and that's a genuinely helpful development, but they'll be heavily limited in world knowledge for the foreseeable future. BTW, the base of the Mac lineup is now once again a 8GB device with a small and low-performance SSD. Many people will tell you that it's broadly comparable (though of course not identical!) to the original base model M1.
For many tasks, including lots of agentic applications, world knowledge is not a "must-have."
To me the Neo is an exception, and doesn't represent the core Mac lineup, which is all at 16GB+ of RAM. If you're developing pro software that would rely on an on-device LLM, you probably wouldn't be targeting the Neo anyway.
Anything can technically "run" on almost any hardware, the meaningful question is what's the real-world performance. I for one have made a case in this thread that DeepSeek V4 is de facto optimal for wide batching, not single-request or single-agent inference - even on consumer hardware (which is unique among practical AI models). I might still be wrong of course, but if so I'd like to understand what's wrong with my assumptions.
The way I read that question was: where can other people see this information about me once I’ve published the app? i.e. say I just published an app, where would you navigate to find this info?
If you sign an app your legal name gets embedded into the .app bundle. You can use e.g. `codesign` in the terminal to read it back, or if you publish to the App Store it will be in the UI, along with the others.
I've seen individual developer's names in the App Store, but the parent comment is also claiming that Address and Phone number is published. I've done a bit of digging, and can't seem to confirm this.
In France, in absence of contrary indications (ie: absence of signs, traffic signals, or line markings), it's "Priority to the Right".
So if it's an actual roundabout (aka, "rond-point"), then normal traffic rules apply for intersections: Priority to the Right. Vehicles already on the roundabout must yield to cars entering it.
Often, you have what is referred as "Carrefours à sens giratoire", which can very much look like "rond-points", but priority is to the vehicles already on the roundabout. For this reason, there will be a yield sign at the entrance of the roundabout to make it clear there's a special rule that applies to it. Sometimes you have traffic lights as well.
> Vehicles already on the roundabout must yield to cars entering it.
Yeah but that's theory and theory only.
I would say that 99.9% of anything that look like a roundabout is a "normal roundabout" where the priority is for people in the center, not for the ones entering. This is currently the same than the rest of Europe.
Place de l'étoile is an exception, not a rule and the total number of roundabout like that in the country can probably be counted on one hand.
Most of the world doesn't have 6x6 lane uncontrolled intersections where people need to yield to the right. In fact your average 2 lane intersection with traffic lights, here in North America, once those traffic lights don't work for some reason it becomes almost impossible to navigate the intersection despite the "priority rules" being more or less known. It just becomes total chaos because there is usually enough traffic to just keep one direction going forever given that everyone slows down.
Even with one lane intersections North America usually uses "all stop" if there's any amount of traffic to regulate the flow.
I just hate multi-lane roundabouts in general but the French ones I dislike even more. There's a lot more that you need to keep track of, the traffic in the roundabout and the traffic that wants to enter.
> In France who has the right of way? The car that is already in the roundabout or the car entering the roundabout?
Actually it's pretty consistent all across Europe. Almost everywhere, every entrance to the roundabout has the yield sign [1]. Without the yield sign, every incoming traffic is right hand traffic and those already on the roundabout have to give a way.
Now the trick is that yield signs at the entrance are so common that drivers assume they are always there.
Unfortunately, the most extreme is that it's the new normal that now, there's >0 chance that someone, whether they are a US citizen or not apparently, child or adult, can end up in a camp, with no due process.
Imagine, a llm trained on the best thrillers, spy stories, politics, history, manipulation techniques, psychology, sociology, sci-fi... I wonder where it got the idea for deception?
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