I'm training a basic model using an M1 MBA with tensorflow-metal 0.7.0 and tensorflow-macos 2.11 installed, using Python 3.10 on macOS 13.2.1. CPU-based training runs as expected with about 10 s/epoch on this model. However, GPU-based training is orders of magnitude slower and doesn't learn. Here's a model to generate Irish poetry, based upon the example https://github.com/susanli2016/Natural-Language-Processing-in-TensorFlow/blob/master/Irish%20Lyrics%20generated%20poetry.ipynb. CPU training on this dataset takes 10 s/epoch. The ETA with GPU training with a batch size of 32 is over 2.5 hours, and many minutes for a batch size of 2048, and 20 s for a batch size of the length of the training data. Furthermore, GPU training does not work—there is no increase in accuracy. import numpy as np import os import platform import subprocess import tensorflow as tf from textwrap import wrap from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.text import Tokenizer from tensorflow.keras.preprocessing.sequence import pad_sequences from tensorflow.keras.layers import Embedding, LSTM, Dense, Dropout, Bidirectional from tensorflow.keras.models import Sequential from tensorflow.keras.optimizers import Adam from tensorflow.keras import regularizers import tensorflow.keras.utils as ku from tensorflow.python.framework.ops import disable_eager_execution, enable_eager_execution # use the GPU disable_eager_execution() irish_lyrics_file = '/tmp/irish-lyrics-eof.txt' irish_lyrics_url = 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AliAkbarBadri/nlp-tf/master/irish-lyrics-eof.txt' if not os.path.isfile(irish_lyrics_file): subprocess.run(["curl", "-L", irish_lyrics_url, "-o", irish_lyrics_file]) with open(irish_lyrics_file, 'r') as fd: data = fd.read() corpus = data.lower().split('\n') tokenizer = Tokenizer() tokenizer.fit_on_texts(corpus) total_words = len(tokenizer.word_index) + 1 # create input sequences using list of tokens input_sequences = [] for line in corpus: token_list = tokenizer.texts_to_sequences([line])[0] for i in range(1, len(token_list)): n_gram_sequence = token_list[: i+1] input_sequences.append(n_gram_sequence) # pad sequences max_sequence_len = max([len(x) for x in input_sequences]) input_sequences = np.array(pad_sequences(input_sequences, maxlen = max_sequence_len, padding='pre')) # Create predictors and label xs, labels = input_sequences[:, :-1], input_sequences[:,-1] ys = ku.to_categorical(labels, num_classes=total_words) xs = tf.convert_to_tensor(xs) ys = tf.convert_to_tensor(ys) model = Sequential() model.add(Embedding(total_words, 100, input_length=max_sequence_len-1)) model.add(Bidirectional(LSTM(150))) model.add(Dense(total_words, activation='softmax')) adam = Adam(learning_rate=0.01) model.compile(loss='categorical_crossentropy', optimizer=adam, metrics = ['accuracy']) batch_size = 32 steps_per_epoch = int(np.ceil(xs.shape[0]/batch_size)) history = model.fit(xs, ys, epochs=100, batch_size=batch_size, steps_per_epoch=steps_per_epoch, verbose=1) ku.plot_model(model, show_shapes=True) model.summary() import matplotlib.pyplot as plt def plot_graphs(history, string): plt.plot(history.history[string]) plt.xlabel('Epochs') plt.ylabel(string) plt.show() plot_graphs(history, 'accuracy'); index_word_dict = {index: word for word, index in tokenizer.word_index.items()} seed_text = 'A poor emigrants daughter' next_words = 100 for _ in range(next_words): token_list = tokenizer.texts_to_sequences([seed_text])[0] token_list = pad_sequences([token_list], maxlen=max_sequence_len-1, padding='pre') predicted = np.argmax(model.predict(token_list, verbose=0), axis=-1).item() if predicted in index_word_dict: seed_text += ' ' + index_word_dict[predicted] print('\n'.join(wrap(seed_text)))

We use a proxy.pac file to redirect connections to blacklisted URLs by PROXY-ing the request to a local server proxy. For example, the proxy.pac file sends requests to https://unwarranted.tracker.website/?whatever to PROXY http://my.blackhole.server:8119 This has worked for years on Safari iOS, and still works on Safari macOS, but has stopped working for HTTPS requests on all i-devices after updating to Safari on iOS/iPadOS 15. Most requests are HTTPS. The observed behavior is that Safari 15 bypasses the PROXY and sends requests to https://unwarranted.tracker.website/?whatever. I hypothesize the reason is that the proxy returns 400 for such HTTPS CONNECT requests. Its behavior, expected for HTTPS CONNECT requests,looks like: curl -I --proxy http://my.blackhole.server:8119 https://unwarranted.tracker.website/?whatever. HTTP/1.1 400 Bad Request Server: nginx/1.21.3 Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2021 19:17:07 GMT Content-Type: text/html Content-Length: 157 Connection: close curl: (56) Received HTTP code 400 from proxy after CONNECT Is bypassing a proxy.pac’s PROXY if the proxy server returns a 400 code expected behavior for Safari iOS? We would like to be able to block unwanted requests on iOS with a proxy.pac file.