fubarx
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Local grocery store pharmacy put up a sign last week. Our health plan started yesterday (Sept. 9th). We went ahead and got it yesterday along flu shot, since kid was heading back to school in 2 wks.
I've had both. Got the 2024 booster yesterday and they only had Pfizer. TBH, the reaction has been milder than the Moderna last year. Also got the flu shot at the same time last year and this time, so I figure that cancels out.
FWIW, have been told multiple times by pharmacists and doctors that mixing is OK.
I'd pay $10 for the coffee cup -- if it came with a certificate of authentication.
$2 if not.
Most Arduinos don't have enough horsepower to run a full assistant stack. They're designed as limited resource microcontrollers.
Basically, here are some choices, depending on what your priority is:
- Run Micropython on the board. This gives you python, but no assistant.
- Run a microcontroller with limited wakeword recognition, as a front for an assistant service running elsewhere: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3_box_voice_assistant/
- Run a more performant system like ESP-IDF which is based on FreeRTOS: https://github.com/espressif/esp-skainet (these get you closer to an assistant, but don't get you python, though)
- Train a model separately, then run it on a Micropython with pytorch bindings: https://luvsheth.com/p/running-a-pytorch-machine-learning
- Alternate version: upytorch - https://github.com/ljk53/upytorch
- Lastly, an integration between Tensorflow-Lite and Micropython: https://github.com/mocleiri/tensorflow-micropython-examples (python and ML but not Arduino).
Depending on what you want to do, I'd suggest the easiest is #2, as a frontend to HomeAssistant, with the assistant running either on a beefy server or on the cloud.
Edit: "Arduino" actually can reference three different things:
- the branded boards from arduino.cc
- the software stack with C/C++ bindings running on top of a range of microcontrollers, or
- the company called Arduino.
If you have a classic Arduino board, they usually have very limited power and run on a basic Atmel processor. An ESP-32 processor is a bit beefier and can run Arduino software (as well as FreeRTOS). And to make things even more confusing, Arduino the company sells an Arduino-branded board that runs the Arduino software stack, but on top of different processors, including an ESP-32: https://docs.arduino.cc/hardware/nano-esp32/
You may want to watch out which version of "Arduino" you want to work with.
The Gradient Descent, Hallucination, and Insufficient Training Data jokes just write themselves.
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When this whole 'training' trend started a few years ago, there were companies offering image and video labelling services.
It turned out they were mostly sweatshops in low-income countries, where people sat in front of monitors and just dragged boumding boxes around sections of images and picked from an icon menu. Here's a car, here's a person, here's an apple. That sort of thing. You didn't even need to know how to read or write.
Of course, the quality was questionable, so they needed a second layer of supervisors verifying the choices. But even with that, the cost was way lower than having an engineer or QA person do it. IIRC, there was a bit of hue and cry when stories came out of big tech companies supporting sweatshop conditions.
Sounds like it's still ongoing.
Just spent an hour following all the links to the original obits. The man sure could write.
- Loading dishwashers properly requires an official government license and a test.
- Putting a flat plate in front of a bowl means a year of hard labor.
- Loading any of the good kitchen knives is an automatic 10 years.
VW announced a $5B joint venture with Rivian a couple months ago. Wonder how all this will affect that deal?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185946/vw-rivian-joint-venture-investment-software-r2
Only significant change: a camera shutter button. π