Just like an investment though - you need to have the money to play. I wasn't buying a computer at the time because [snip a long list of other toys I bought instead].
My current plan is to stick with my existing computers for a couple more years and hope this blows over. Time will tell.
ETH Zürich is up there high, particularly for computer science.
The LLM they were involved in last year (Apertus) still was a letdown.
As someone who actually went there, my impression is that Europe in general is complacent when it comes to computers, and any bright eyed student will get their motivation choked out of them in academia here.
If you want to do things with AI in Europe, you can have a bigger effect by working for a consulting company than being at a university. That's … not a good sitatution.
He bought YouTube ads with his companies corporate credit card for his kid because his kid was complaining he wasn't getting enough digital attention… there’s so much wrong with this scenario and a couple steps beyond “my kid wants a new stuffy.”
Imagine buying a new luxury car's worth of virtual currency for your kid on your company's dime. sure, I wanted a Viper as a kid, but I don't think that would be a good enough reason for this.
Sure, but 2019s Intel Macs are aboslutely usable for most tasks, and given much of the agentic dev. happens... somewhere remotely, it is more an opportunity to reuse this equipment for various tasks, rather than pollute the already dirty Earth with more electronic waste.
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