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October 08, 2024    
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Introduction to Hummingbird 2 framework
Hummingbird 2 is a major new framework for the Swift on Server ecosystem. It’s a feature rich, robust and performant solution, ready to implement your next server application! This talk will show you what’s new, and how it can help you build a robust and maintainable backend.


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October 08, 2024    
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LM Studio 0.3.4 ships with Apple MLX
LM Studio 0.3.4 ships with an MLX engine for running on-device LLMs super efficiently on Apple Silicon Macs.


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October 02, 2024    
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Manage virtual screens with BetterDisplay
If you need to manage multiple screens on your Mac in the cloud, BetterDisplay is an ideal solution. Fully compatible with Apple Remote Desktop, it allows you to create and customize virtual displays with a variety of settings to suit your needs.


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September 13, 2024    
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The state and future of Apple silicon
The Secret Behind Apple's New Silicon: The Next Big Move is coming


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September 06, 2024    
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Open Source Email Servers for Apple macOS
The 15 most popular free and open-source email servers for Apple macOS with setup guides, tutorials, videos, and instructions.


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September 03, 2024    
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Fine Tune a model with MLX for Ollama
Unlock the secrets of AI model fine-tuning in this easy-to-follow guide!


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August 29, 2024    
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Theo: Why I Gave Up On Linux
MacOS and Apple may be controversial, and they may not make me a "real developer", but the end result? I'm happy.


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August 13, 2024    
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Add payment options to your apps with FreemiumKit
FreemiumKit is the ultimate solution for Apple platform developers to integrate and manage in-app purchases and subscriptions effortlessly. With support for all Apple platforms, FreemiumKit provides a seamless and efficient way to handle your app’s monetization.


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August 07, 2024    
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LibreChat is a great AI chat frontend platform
This open source web UI offers vast customization, supporting numerous AI providers, services, and integrations including Apple MLX framework and models.


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August 01, 2024    
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Xcode BETA: how a Mac in the cloud makes sense
Waiting to use new software releases is a common practice. By waiting for a few updates or patches, users can avoid many of the initial problems associated with new software releases and enjoy a smoother, more reliable experience...


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July 29, 2024    
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Apple Intelligence Language Models
This report describes the model architecture, the data used to train the model, the training process, how the models are optimized for inference, and the evaluation results.


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July 22, 2024    
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CrowdStrike aftermath
Macs weren’t affected thanks to protections put in place by Apple, but Microsoft has reportedly claimed that antitrust law means it’s unable to take the same approach.


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July 22, 2024    
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Running Mistral 7B with Core ML
Apple offers a platform for developers to run models on-device, known as Core ML. This software stack allows you to run ML models across all 3 compute units (CPU, GPU & Neural Engine) available on Apple Silicon hardware.


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July 19, 2024    
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DCLM-7B: Apple’s Open Source 7B Model
A significant step for Apple in the open-source AI landscape, showcasing their commitment.


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July 09, 2024    
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FastMLX, high-performance server for MLX models
High performance production ready API to host MLX models, including Vision Language Models (VLMs) and Language Models (LMs).


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July 02, 2024    
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Apple demo of AI models
Apple has released a public demo of their 4M AI model on the Hugging Face Spaces platform.


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June 26, 2024    
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Swift on servers
Learn the new capabilities of Swift on servers for your backend or web apps.


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June 24, 2024    
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Apple MLX versus Pytorch
This repository contains benchmarks comparing two popular artificial intelligence frameworks.


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June 17, 2024    
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Build Android apps with Swift
Skip brings Swift app development to Android. One language for all platforms.


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June 13, 2024    
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WWDC: Accelerate machine learning with Metal
Learn how to accelerate your machine learning transformer models with new features in Metal.


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June 12, 2024    
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WWDC: Explore Swift on Server
Swift is great for writing your server applications, critical services across Apple's cloud products.


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June 12, 2024    
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WWDC: Migrate your app to Swift 6
Experience Swift 6 migration in action as we update an existing sample app.


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June 12, 2024    
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WWDC: What’s new in Create ML
Explore updates to Create ML for building object tracking models for visionOS apps.


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June 12, 2024    
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WWDC: Support real-time ML inference on the CPU
Discover how you can use BNNSGraph to accelerate the execution of your ML model on the CPU.


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June 12, 2024    
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WWDC: Deploy ML, AI models on-device with Core ML
Learn how to convert and run machine learning and AI models through Core ML.


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June 12, 2024    
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WWDC: Bring your ML, AI models to Apple silicon
Learn how to optimize your machine learning and AI models to leverage the power of Apple silicon.


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May 06, 2024    
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Amazing milestone for visionOS
More than 50% of fortune 100 companies are already using Vision Pro.


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April 26, 2024    
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Apple’s New Open Source LLM
OpenELM and Corenet are great additions to the OSS world.


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April 24, 2024    
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Large language models from Apple
Apple has released a family of open-source large language models named OpenELM


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April 08, 2024    
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Macs lead global PC growth
Mac shipments, market share, and growth stacked up against Dell, HP, Lenovo, and more


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April 05, 2024    
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XPS 14 versus MacBook Pro
Recent Intel processors cannot catchup with Apple silicon chips


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March 11, 2024    
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Welcome to MLX Server
Open source solution for AI inference on Apple silicon servers using Apple MLX framework


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February 27, 2024    
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Chat with MLX
This open source project is explaining in details the benefits of Apple MLX framework


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February 22, 2024    
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Stable Diffusion with MLX
Stable Diffusion in MLX for Apple Silicon Macs - Create Stunning Images


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February 16, 2024    
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Apple’s New JSON/YAML Killer
New Apple language for configuration files to be programmable, scalable, and safe


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February 15, 2024    
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M3 Max MLX beats RTX4090m
The M3 Max chip is even more capable in ML workflows with Apple MLX Framework.


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February 14, 2024    
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Apple Keyframer AI engine
Apple Keyframer generates AI animation from a still image and text prompt


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January 29, 2024    
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Deploying LLMs with Apple’s MLX
A technical deep dive into the new deep learning library MLX. The way to deploy on a Mac server.


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January 20, 2024    
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A Guided Tour of Apple Vision Pro
Experience what it’s like to use Apple’s first ever spatial computer. Video made by Apple.


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January 05, 2024    
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Xcode Cloud in details
Check this article explaining that Xcode Cloud service is still very complicated to use....


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December 29, 2023    
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Machine Learning Research
Apple is investing in AI since many years with many projects in development....


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December 07, 2023    
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Screens 5 goes universal
The excellent VNC remote desktop app for Apple devices, has finally gone universal with Screens 5.


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December 05, 2023    
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MLX Framework by Apple
Machine learning research on your laptop or in a data center, built for Apple silicon.


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December 01, 2023    
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Inside Apple chip lab
Inside Apple’s chip lab, home to the most ‘profound change’ at the company in decades.


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November 28, 2023    
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M3 Max AI benchmarks
Video running Llama models using the new M3 max with 128GB, comparing it with a M1 pro and RTX 4090.


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November 27, 2023    
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M3 Chips in details
In-depth analysis of Apple's new 3nm chips: M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max with the TSMC N3B process node.


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November 24, 2023    
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Apple silicon performance
A collection of short llama.cpp benchmarks on various Apple Silicon hardware.


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November 22, 2023    
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Mojo in details
A system programming language for heterogenous computing with the syntax of Python. Built for AI projects.


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November 21, 2023    
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The future of Apple silicon
What's next for the Cupertino Giant as we move into the future. What comes after M3, M3 Pro and M3 Max?


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November 08, 2023    
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The Mac in the Age of AI
Mac is not absent from the conversation when it comes to silicon capabilities of running large language models.


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November 07, 2023    
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Evolution of Apple Neural Engine
A Mac can use of a specialized neural processing unit called Apple Neural Engine (ANE).


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November 01, 2023    
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Llama 2 AI assistant
You can install a self-hosted, offline, ChatGPT-like chatbot. Powered by Llama 2, code assistant too.


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October 24, 2023    
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The Next Era with AI
Insights to help CIOs stay out in front of this new era of human-machine relationships and AI.


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October 17, 2023    
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Llama2 Ports on M1 Max
Llama2 Ports Extensive Benchmark Results on Mac M1 Max using Mojo language.


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October 17, 2023    
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macOS Docker containers
Native MacOS Docker Containers are Now Possible with macOS Containers.


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October 12, 2023    
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Emirates airline choice
Emirates airline has equipped 20,000 cabin crew members with Apple hardware.


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October 12, 2023    
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Mac in the Enterprise
How Cisco Boosted Employee Satisfaction and Security with Device Choice.


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October 11, 2023    
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Getting started with VisionOS
Dilmer walk you through the process of adding RealityView, custom components, and more.


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September 29, 2023    
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Mac is more secure for IT
New IDC Report: more IT departments are supporting Macs today because they’re more secure.


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September 28, 2023    
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Benefits from macOS Sonoma, iOS 17
How businesses will benefit from macOS Sonoma and iOS 17


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September 28, 2023    
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Core ML Stable Diffusion
You can run Stable Diffusion on Apple Silicon with Core ML. Easy app integration.


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September 24, 2023    
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Optimizing Metal
There is a vast array of ways to optimize your Metal graphics code to get top performance.


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September 22, 2023    
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Mojo: the performance of C
Mojo is a new language for AI that can be thousands of times faster than Python.


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September 22, 2023    
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What Cisco learned about Mac
Macs are less vulnerable to cyber threats than PCs and less expensive over time.


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September 20, 2023    
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Enterprise shift to Macs
IDC anticipates the number of Macs sold to business users will jump by 20%.


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September 18, 2023    
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Bun 1.0 is available
Bun is an all-in-one JavaScript runtime & toolkit designed for speed, an alternative to NodeJS.


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September 10, 2023    
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Swift on servers
Learn about unique characteristics that make it specifically suitable for Server applications


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September 08, 2023    
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Open Interpreter on Mac
OpenAI's or Llama Code Interpreter in your terminal, running locally


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September 07, 2023    
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Llama 2 outperforms GPT 3.5
A look at Llama inference performance on RTX 3090 and Mac M2 Ultra


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September 07, 2023    
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Uncensored Llama 2 on a Mac
Ollama is the simplest way of getting Llama 2 installed on apple silicon


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September 07, 2023    
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LLaMA2 install on Mac
Install LLaMA2 on an Apple Silicon Mac, and run some code generation


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September 07, 2023    
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Machine Learning on Neural Engine
Taking machine learning out for a spin on the new M2 Max and M2 Pro


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September 06, 2023    
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The Next Decade of Software Dev
Richard Campbell is explaining that Apple Silicon is the best chip architecture at 14:30


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August 19, 2023    
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Apple Silicon Developer Setup
Setting up a Mac for some programming and development


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August 19, 2023    
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Cisco employees are going Mac
Fletcher Previn at Cisco, says the Mac fared well in the company’s employee work program.


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August 18, 2023    
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M2 Ultra Mac Studio: King of Macs
After 200 hours since launch, the Mac Studio with the M2 Ultra chip has surprised me


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August 18, 2023    
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M2 Ultra vs Nvidia for AI
Can Apple M2 Ultra Run Falcon 40B FASTER than nVidia? open discussion


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August 18, 2023    
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The Secure Enclave explained
The Secure Enclave is a dedicated secure subsystem integrated into Apple SoCSs


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August 17, 2023    
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SSWG 2023 Annual Update
The Swift Server workgroup (SSWG) reflects on recent community accomplishments


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August 09, 2023    
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M2 Ultra versus Intel Mac Pro
Hw much better is it than the old Intel Mac Pro? You'll be shocked!


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August 06, 2023    
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Setup a Mac for Machine Learning
A Mac can be used for data science and machine learning with PyTorch


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August 06, 2023    
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Is Apple’s biggest CPU/GPU faster?
Is it enough to overtake nVidia, AMD and Intel? Reply in the video!


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July 27, 2023    
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Apple Silicon Mac Pro Review
Apple’s M2 Ultra powered Mac Pro is the final step in their Apple Silicon transition


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July 13, 2023    
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Using a Mac as a Software Engineer
Why the MacBook M1 Max has been a game changer for me


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July 06, 2023    
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M2 Ultra BLEW MY MIND
I was gobsmacked by the amount of performance gains


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July 06, 2023    
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M2 Ultra Mac Studio Review
Look at this, This is the MacPro Now. M2 Ultra Mac Studio is a beast


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June 16, 2023    
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VS Code, Python on Apple Silicon
VS is a free, open-source code editor developed by Microsoft


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June 16, 2023    
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Health AI research
A script written in Swift was used to train and evaluate four machine learning models


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May 19, 2023    
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Apple’s Secret Operating System
Did you know your Mac runs multiple OSes at once? Learn about the secure enclave


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May 11, 2023    
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TensorFlow with Docker on a Mac
How to use TensorFlow inside of a Docker container with any Mac


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April 04, 2023    
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LLaMA & Alpaca on Mac
You can run state-of-the-art large language models on Mac computers


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February 01, 2023    
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What are Apple’s GPU cores?
In Apple Silicon, at least for the M1 series, Each core is split into 16 Execution Units


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January 24, 2023    
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M2 Pro Mac Mini Review
This tiny computer out-benchmarks the base Mac Pro... and the price went down


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September 06, 2022    
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When M1 DESTROYS a RTX card
Testing the M1 Max GPU with a machine learning training session


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May 01, 2022    
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The future of server side Swift
What's going to happen with Swift on the Server? Distributed actors, Vapor 5 and more.


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September 06, 2021    
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Customize macOS Terminal
A take you through customizing it to make for a much better experience


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September 06, 2021    
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How a CPU Works in 100 Seconds
Apple Silicon M1 versus Intel i9. Learm more about the advantage of Apple architecture