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having just finished wind I’m definitely feeling a lot of things and that last 20% of the book was very great and kept me reading nonstop.

Some things I loved:

- I loved how crazy and unpredictable. Some of the events were. Like shallan stabbing formless, Dalinar renouncing his oaths in the battle w/odium. The fact that his champion was little gav,

- I loved how Kaladins story evolved and I feel like he grew into himself, now part of the oath pact

- Overall, closing the last chapter left me excitement for what’s coming, but wasn’t as overwhelming when it comes to delayed release 6, as I was worried about. A good thing.

main thing I found somewhat challenging particularly in this book near the climax:

-the constant point of view and persona switching I felt kind of distracted me from a lot of the character building. I know this is more and more common in fantasy and it didn’t distract me for most of the previous books. But for that last 20% of the book when each chapter would be character switching several times it really detracted from the characters. e.g I was absorbed in kaladins storyline and then poof- now back to someone else right when I was immersed. to be clear - felt this way for all characters fairly equally, it just really hindered my sense of immersion at that frequency

in any case. loved the books! what’s everyone reading next ?

Hey everyone,

So back in dec/jan I was seriously considering getting a spark for local LLM work. I came to the conclusion its not worth it at that time. Now I am seeing alot has changed...

Questions up front:

1. How has your perception of the utility of the DGX spark (or multiple) compare now vs back in ~dec/jan prior to NVFP4 availability?
2. Do you envision NVFP4 will become increasingly common from post training, as well as from QAT?
3. Do you anticipate expansion of your # of sparks in the next 2-3 years to be possible before they become obsolete?

Overall I am just super excited now that there is so much support from the community, and really tempted to pull the trigger on getting a DGX soon! Below is just some background on my use case i