Thanks to @loktar00 for the tip that Microcenter has a screamer deal on these 4TB SSD’s. I saved some money on my Mac Studio by going with the 2TB version. I couldn’t justify $3000 more just to go from 2TB to 8TB. In an external TB5 enclosure they won’t be quite as fast as internal, but I can use the 2TB internal drive as “cache” while not relying on the NAS to store all the models and quants I will be flipping between.

Thanksgiving Day, my first year abroad. The campus was a ghost town. All restaurants were shuttered. I had no family within six thousand miles. I was doing laundry at a desolate laundromat on a freezing evening, surviving on instant noodles. An elderly Black veteran was sitting three seats down, watching clothes tumble in a giant dryer, listening to Motown on a radio. He got up, unzipped an insulated lunch bag, pulled out a massive Tupperware container packed with roast turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and sweet potato mash, and handed me a plastic fork. I shook my head, embarrassed: 'Sir, that's your holiday dinner. I can't.' The old man frowned, sat right next to me, cracked open the container, and shoved a forkful of turkey into my hand. 'Son,' he said with absolute moral authority, 'it is against federal regulations to eat cold noodles on Thanksgiving when there is warm bird in the room. Now eat before I get offended.' We sat together on plastic yellow chairs listening to the rinse cycle, passing the cranberry sauce back and forth like family.

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Thanks @Tesla for inviting us to visit Austin’s gigafactory. Unfortunately we can’t film inside, but still super impressed to learn how efficient the Cybercab production will be.

Thanks to @MorganLBrennan for having us on. We don’t know who ultimately wins the frontier-model race. We do know that each new one keeps improving. That keeps the case for AI infrastructure investment intact.

Thanks to the members of the community for creating the congratulatory video. @Mugiwarabnb The TapeOut community is open-source, enthusiastic, friendly, and possesses a strong builder culture. Thank you for walking with us all the way; keep building! @Blonskr @bitcoin2themars @93bitmap @CryptoLoser9 @iruletrenches