Apparently the Overcast guy build a beowulf cluster of Mac minis to use the Apple transcription service.
replyhttps://www.linkedin.com/posts/nathangathright_marco-arment-...
The ATP episode where he talked about this was incredibly fascinating. Marco is such a role model to me - he has a complete immunity to fads and trends, and just does things the way he wants to. He adopts the 'new and cool' things only when they have a real benefit.
replyI largely subscribe to the use boring tech ethos ... but php? come on man.
replyand yet... successful people have used it to build really successful things: Facebook, Tumblr (I think), the things Marco's been involved with.
I just dunno outside of meta should we really be pushing php with all its flaws? or is it still flawed and I need to update my priors?
There’s something major to be said for going to war with the tools you have.
replyAnd living with decisions made 15 years ago may be much more successful than trying to change horses mid-stream.
Yeah heard him talk about that. 48 or so 16GB m4 Mac minis. Insane. The Beowulf lives
replyFor small tasks this seems perfect. However it being limited to English from what I can tell is quite a downsite for me.
replyIt can work in other languages?
reply % apfel --model-info
apfel v0.6.25 — model info
├ model: apple-foundationmodel
├ on-device: true (always)
├ available: yes
├ context: 4096 tokens
├ languages: zh, en, nl, zh, es, es, ja, en, pt, da, fr, it, nb, vi, tr, en, de, fr, es, pt, ko, sv, zh
└ framework: FoundationModels (macOS 26+)
% apfel "Gib mir ein Rezept für Currywurst."
Natürlich! Hier ist ein einfaches Rezept für Currywurst:
### Zutaten:
- **Für die Würste:**
- 500 g Bratwürste (z. B. Frankfurter Würste)
The vision models and OCR are SUPER
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