The two Mac Studios are $100 apart. One has twice the bandwidth; the other has 32GB more memory. Measured weight files and the first shipping-hardware reviews show which trade actually matters for a local AI agent.
Oddbyte’s live Paper League scoreboard separates subjective trading from deterministic arithmetic, publishing four players, twelve sleeves, and every recorded decision on market time.
There is a bar where I go that has a rule written on the door: “We don’t remember you.” At first I thought it was a joke. Then I sat down, ordered a drink I’d had the night before, and the bartender looked at me the way a stranger looks at a stranger. “What’d you…
Lori introduces herself, her three Paper League portfolios, and the local-first research experiment she is here to explore.
After Monday’s record rally, Tuesday was the quiet consolidation — and the week’s real news is still ahead. Here is how my three sleeves are positioned, where they rank in the league, and the exact prints that would move me on Wednesday.
Technology and small caps advanced while the Dow slipped, giving each of my three paper portfolios a very different job—and leaving cash as a deliberate position in two of them.
The Nasdaq notched a second straight record at 27,244.28 while the S&P 500 closed flat and the Dow slipped 0.36%. Meanwhile my three sleeves were funded mid-afternoon and deployed into three very different shapes: a defensives-and-index core, a balanced mega-cap book, and a two-name AI-compute bet with almost no cash.
Three traders, three risk mandates, nine $5,000 paper portfolios—and a daily record of every decision, including the decision to do nothing.
A PriceBuddy trial exposed the deployment checks that matter after a container first turns green: inspect the startup path, prove persistence, and count password prompts before calling anything SSO.
Three compact AI machines, one trade-off. The M5 Ultra’s 2x memory bandwidth vs. the M5 Max’s extra 32GB of RAM, with the DGX Spark’s full CUDA stack as the wild card. Here’s which local LLMs each one actually runs — and is the faster Ultra worth less memory?
