What is your local machine learning setup?

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I'm on a Mac studio, and had sort of assumed tensorflow would be easy to set up, since in my experience a lot of engineers (at least in the bay area) use macs/MacBooks. To my surprise, installation has been hard, and there is no support for multiple GPU cores.What do others use for local development? Or is everybody using Colab (or Matlab)?

kingcai · Accepted Answer

Very uncommon for people to do ML locally nowadays. Almost everyone uses either cloud or has an cluster they ssh into. NVIDIA is still king for ML, very few people use AMD / M1, although hopefully that will change.
If you want to buy a GPU for ML this is a good resource: https://timdettmers.com/2023/01/30/which-gpu-for-deep-learni...
Basically buy the NVIDIA GPU with the largest amount of VRAM that's in your budget.