maybe bookmarks and things didn't scale, but The Algorithms can be self-hosted. We just haven't developed the tools.
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State dependents - either benefits/welfare or employed - have a very different experience of the economy than others; the disconnected work/pay relationship.
The disconnect between income and effort is causing people to have warped priorities, which, ultimately, results in inflationary economics and impoverishment.
Seems everyone is building an inference platform lately, but this one is mine! And I'm enjoying it...!
The best engineers will have an awareness of overall problem, architecture, how pieces should fit together and what changes when the fits are made.
The top-tier will be able to adjust components, and identify gaps which can be filled by newly created, but properly shaped components to create new emergent properties from the combinations.
This has always been a requirement, but intertwined with the expression of the vision by coding. Are those two things really separate? I don't think people can be architects without coding, but I'm an old man with old ideas!
"You got a loicense for that PSU?" is my biggest fear!
This has been done in the EU/UK in the past (hoovers/vacuum cleaners) so the mechanism exists.
I'm in the UK and support your direction.
But instead of inserting controls around email addresses (as with paid services) or devices (as with contraband), the requirement is pushed to the application layer. It really makes no sense from a technical POV.
I've worked on ultrasound devices and data, the shadows from bone, and distortions caused by tissue types were very difficult. If this device can deal with those distortions it would already be useful for lung imaging.
The power draw from the wall is especially important, because a spike across multiple devices at the same time can cause issues which are really difficult to debug.
However, it's difficult to sell this to businesses who want contracts and KPIs, not staff and commitments.
Regulated industries will favour the closed sources, either by choice or mandate. The interesting question is whether they will have better models, or worse models. History says they will receive a worse service, but continue anyway.
Running locally is the bar; it's hard to make these things a service which scales.
thank you!
Always gets me
Thanks Ballard
Generative models are able to transform content between media types, and it feels like the original intention can be completed -- the server generates the appropriate form at request time, rather than serving a pre-rendered one.
A concrete example: an Image2Depth model estimates the depth of a scene from a standard image, encodes that information in the response, and returns it to clients capable of rendering depth -- 3D displays, VR headsets, and so on. The content is the same; the form is specialised to the client capabilities.