Fastai on Apple M1

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Hi vahuja4 hope all is well!

Below are a few links talking about the Apple Silicon M1.

Fast.ai on Apple M1

Hi forum folks, I have been using paperspace.io for all my tinkering with fast.ai. I have recently been enticed by Apple’s new M1 chip/mac book air and I am debating trading in my current Macbook Pro (2019, 6-Core Intel Core i7) for the new mac book air with the M1 chip. Has any else made this switch and been using the new Apple chip for basic ML/DL tinkering?

Apple Silicon M1 Macbook air for 01_intro

Hello I am running Mac OS X Big Sur on Apple macbook air m1 with python 3.8 (the python provided by Apple on BigSur) learn.fine_tune(1) can not be done with Apple Silicon on 01_intro jupyter notebook i have this log message [W NNPACK.cpp:80] Could not initialize NNPACK! Reason: Unsupported hardware. [W ParallelNative.cpp:206] Warning: Cannot set number of intraop threads after parallel work has started or after set_num_threads call when using native parallel backend (function set_num_threa…

Deep Learning on Apple Silicon

Anyone thinking about doing this? New chips outperforming Intel. My only personal reservation where this would be more for my day-to-day (non-AI, VR stuff, mainly other web-dev and computational design) than a complete replacement for my custom build PC with a 3080.

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