Wikis/docs have been painfully static for ages. Keeping them updated is a huge pain and they're hardly ever in line with what's actually happening. But now, with these LLMs, we're finally getting somewhere. They're starting to get clever in ways that may actually help. From what I've gathered from the blog post about this new version, here's the cool stuff it does:
- Smart Addition : Adds bits of info (snippets) by pulling from various tools.
- Smart Modif : Figures out (insights) and fixes contradictions or repeats in the info.
- Smart Search : Lets you search using plain language.
If I understand correctly, CPU clock speed is really relevant only for bursts in CPU use. Any meaningful steadying of processing speed at that peak,or near it, seems to be a question of power efficiency and cooling in tandem.
So now if Apple is well ahead of the competition in power efficiency, and if, on top of that, the Aijet is really a revolution in (silent?) cooling, then we have here a maximization of the value of all those Ghz.
As an amateur computer musician, this is exactly what I need: a continuous silent performance at a "budget" price.
There's a couple wrinkles here. For one, power efficiency varies with temperature, keeping chips cool, increases their efficiency, although you'd need a lot of data to determine if watts spent on cooling were comparable to watts saved by being cool at a given performance level.
The other is Apple chips target a lower clock rate than Intel and AMD do for laptop chips, this is a tradeoff. You get better perf/watt at lower clock rates, and a lower targer design can be smaller[1] and lower power. OTOH, you miss out on the top end of performance for those willing to power and cool the beast. It's a good tradeoff for Apple, who never provided ample cooling for their Intel based laptops, but it's hard to market for Intel and AMD when PC laptop makers do want to sell some devices that can clock to the moon all day if users want it. AMD is expirementing with their compact cores as power efficient cores in some laptop skus, so we'll see something there; Intel is going with the BIG.little approach of less capable little cores, rather than just clock limited little cores.
[1] see AMD's Zen4c which is about half the size as a regular Zen4 for the core+L1+L2, L3 cache footprint remains the same for a given size
On many laptops you can disable boosting speeds and lock down the frequency (thermals permitting). I don't know if Apple's devices allow for such measures, but close-to-constant performance without fan noise can be a matter of configuration.
You can try running these chips at their boost clock all the time by attaching coolers, but the hardware wasn't designed for that and neither was the software. It's easier (and more power efficient) to clock down if you care about maintaining a set speed. With a battery capacity designed for short bursts, you'll also lose out on battery life if you decide to crank the hardware.
The Macbook Air and its competition (MS Surface etc.) are completely silent because they are fanless, and I don't expect their performance to be inadequate for anything but the most CPU intensive tasks. The Airjet will add some airflow, so while the difference may be minjmal, it'll always end up louder than before.
If you overlook some idiosyncrasies due to its main purpose (references), Zotero really shines as a bookmark manager. It is mature and has a lot of advanced features. The last one I discovered is enabling hierarchical tags with an addon. [1]
I still welcome any new well-built alternatives like Grimoire, and I agree with you that a first-class UI is important.
Are there any good apps that allow you to add bookmarks to zotero from a phone? For example, I would like to easily bookmark websites that I come across in a HN app. I found Zoo for Zotero but it is pretty clunky in this respect.
If you are willing to explore non-open source options, there are free DAWS that may be "simpler" for you. I say "for you" because it is subjective to a certain degree. I encourage you to try more than one.
> Feels like a lot to process
> learn the fundamentals
Before reading the doc, you may find it less intimidating to watch some YouTube videos. Just don't let the huge quantity of available videos (or even of free daws themselves) overwhelm you.
If LLMs were available when I first started, I would definitely have them explain the hundreds of little questions I had on this vast subject. a kind of personal tutor.
IMO You will need to keep fooling around (rereading, linking, reclassifying and thinking about it all) for meaningful insights to arise. Personal insight can't be just "extracted", especially if you don't have a clear goal in mind. It will magically rise within you (and not on the computer screen) when you are fully immersed in all the data. So don't expect the database to do the work for you. It is just there to make it easier and give you a better foundation to work with.
LLm could help bridge that gap a little more, but never 100%.
[1] https://help.remnote.com/en/articles/6022755-basics-of-space...