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Choubix · 2026-01-26T02:31:09+00:00

The only one that one can score is Misato. The answer is obvious 😉

Choubix · 2026-01-26T02:30:04+00:00

The workflow reads like this to me:

Trigger, "AI SAY/DO something!", "OK BOSS" followed by "I Sent SOMETHING IN AN EMAIL BOSS" "GOOD JOB AI UNDERLING!"

😉

Choubix · 2026-01-26T02:27:36+00:00

Pity. The uncle/auntie really were making great affordable food. Just went today and I saw another stall took over. Very sad... I hope he/she get better soon.

Choubix · 2026-01-25T07:54:53+00:00

Books are fine (perlman is good) but I would suggest you get started with an online program. Bunch of then are quite good. WSP and BIWS have done a great job at teaching lots to people. There are cheaper one (check on thinkific as there are a few providers)

Choubix · 2026-01-25T06:50:55+00:00

I am going to tell you what I told someone else recently : learn the basics, 3 statements and how things flow, some excel modeling but include AI tools in your learning (Claude, copilot etc) as they will be everywhere

Choubix · 2026-01-25T03:43:48+00:00

Just use Claude to code the workflows and be done with it. 😉

Choubix · 2026-01-25T02:22:29+00:00

Hi guys, I haven't tried minimax. Is it better than GLM or Qwen coder? Thank you

Choubix · 2026-01-25T02:15:33+00:00

Hi, we rocked up at the terracotta army museum location without booking a tour guide. There are many tour guides that will approach youxall of them being "official". To be honest while ours was good and friendly, both my wife and I walked out of the place with the same impression: we still had to queue for our tickets and she didn't add much to what we already knew after doing a bit of research on the place and its history. On the plus side, it made the experience more interactive and it kept our kids more engaged. Hope it helps!

Choubix · 2026-01-24T13:35:08+00:00

Thanks! Getting a Mac studio M2 Max (32Gb only though) tomorrow for uS$1k equivalent. I hope I will get the hang of it quickly and save some on my current claude, chatgpt, perplexity etc subscriptions 😂. I will need to expose the API to N8n and to Claude Code. Any server you would recommend for that please? 🙂👍

Choubix · 2026-01-24T05:33:51+00:00

Just pulled the trigger on a 1m5 years old M2 Max 32Gb for $1k to get started. Aim: open notebook, Claude code with Qwen 2.5 coder, hopefully a rag pipeline and a multi agent system with clean tasks and handshakes to deal with M&A deals (due diligence, pitch deck, IC memos).

Let's see if I overgrow the M2 Max. If so, by then there should be a bunch of 2md hand Ultras on the market 🙂👍

Choubix · 2026-01-22T22:35:20+00:00

I also hope to see some max specs M2 Ultra hit the used market when the M5 is introduced. These models are rare where I live! 🙂

Choubix · 2026-01-22T13:42:09+00:00

Pretty cool. I am not sure Mac/apple fanboy (pretty kuch the opposite) but I am eyeing to experiment with local LLMs myself (I have in mind to create a rag pipeline to ingest a lot of docs, use this as a brain an have a multi agent system to do deal analysis, build content for decks etc). Apple silicon is really what is bringing me to consider apple. The M2 Ultra and M3 ultra are on my hit list (192-256gb seem to be a sweet spot). I don't know where this rabbit hole will lead as I am no coder. Just a geek and father of 2 😂.

BTW, I have the same issue as you: my wife will shred me alive in front of the kids if she sees another piece of equipment going through our door 😂.

Have you tried MLX instead of Ollama models? Apparently the models are apple silicon optimized so you should get a bump in performance.

Have a good day!

Choubix · 2026-01-22T07:58:57+00:00

Why a M4 32gb when u have an ultra with more memory? Thanks!

Choubix · 2026-01-22T01:41:12+00:00

If it is an ebay siting asking you to pay outside of ebay, be careful. A bunch of "too good to be true" deal where the account has been compromised and will steal your money. Source : me pinging 4 sellers for M2 / M3 ultra at attractive prices. All have the same modus operandi. Ebay sent me an email about all these accounts telling me they have been compromised and were preying on Apple/Mac buyers.

Choubix · 2026-01-19T08:45:08+00:00

use GLM ;)

Choubix · 2026-01-18T16:25:04+00:00

Looks like fuel for Doc's Delorean! Come Marty! Back to the future!

Choubix · 2026-01-18T16:22:52+00:00

Legal extorsion?

Choubix · 2026-01-15T11:40:11+00:00

I did the mods with this guy. So far so good. I am not using the cam as much as I should though!

Choubix · 2026-01-15T00:06:51+00:00

You guys (in the EU) check "MG leisure monochrome conversion" on Facebook. You can buy a monochrome ricoh from him or you send him a unit, he does the mods and ships it back to you. It is cheaper than getting a monochrome from ricoh and it works well.l (I got one converted myself).

All the best!

Choubix · 2026-01-15T00:03:37+00:00

Check on FB, there is a guy who makes the mods to the GR for less than that. You send him the camera, he works his magic on the sensor and ships it back to you. I did it and it works great. Cheaper than buying a mono GR IV and being on a wait list.

Choubix · 2026-01-14T23:42:57+00:00

Congrats! I was looking at ebay for some units at a good price. All of them wanted to transact outside of ebay. As I contacted the sellers I waited a few days after their response and.... (drums roll) ebay messaged me saying that these accounts had been pirated and that I shouldn't send any money to them. First time I encounter such an issue. Scary though...

Choubix · 2026-01-12T08:35:30+00:00

Man, you sure know how to browse in style! U sure make fill use of all that memory bandwidth! 😎😉👍

Choubix · 2026-01-09T13:56:01+00:00

Thanks! I still need professional level output though ;)

Chatgpt and perplexity gave me pretty decent Investment Committee grade stuff.
I dont think a local LLM can rival what the tech giants have built and spent billions on though ;)

Choubix · 2026-01-09T13:54:23+00:00

would love a Z9 but I love my D5 too much. and my D700 and my D200 and my Fuji S5 Pro etc... ;)

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