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elephantum··on Faster Quantized Neural Network Inference with XNNPack
I see, in order to benefit, model has to be quantized. It is not super clear which kinds of quantization are supported. Both Fp16 and Int8?
elephantum··on Faster Quantized Neural Network Inference with XNNPack
Do the same optimizations apply to tensorflow/tensorflow serving?
elephantum··on Faster Quantized Neural Network Inference with XNNPack
Is this a drop in solution that works with every existing tflite model?
elephantum··on High-powered motorcycle vibrations might impact iPhone camera
I killed at least three iPhone cameras this way with my KTM 690.
elephantum··on Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute
Correction: random.randint + string interpolation
elephantum··on Inserting a billion rows in SQLite under a minute
I bet, that this is mostly random.randint benchmark and not SQLite.

Also interesting whether batched numpy version would compare better to Rust.

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
Not yet, but Duplos and Technic support is widely requested, we will add support for them
elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
Android app is under development right now.
elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
One of the founders got sick of looking for Lego pieces while playing with his son. And he thought that there should be an app for that :)
elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
So true!

We were hoping to start marketing alongside with the release of Android app )

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
Yes, Android app is being actively developed right now.

iPhone 6 would be very slow for a pleasant experience. If I'm not mistaken.

We use iPhone 8 as a "low end device" for testing.

Latest iPhones are performing extremely well on this task

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
Technically it can be done and we had prototypes that did something similar.

Hopefully mobile team will manage to implement all the improvements that come from users :)

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
We ignore color by default now.

MOCs library is not very big at the moment, but we did not intend to go viral either :)

The library of different builds will grow for sure!

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
> Showing me where pieces are located is the best part IMO as I’d usually spend most time looking for specific parts when building something.

Exactly that pain brought Brickit to life!

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
Not yet, but it seems that we will talk about it
elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
To dig deeper, there are couple of interesting nuances there:

- extreme number of objects on single photo, typical number of visible pieces in large pile is 1500-2000

- extreme number of classes in multi-class classification, there are ~1000 most common Lego bricks and up to 30000 classes if you include rare bricks and different patterns

- really hard data labelling: one photo can take up to a 5 work days to label

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
That's what Lego does.

It seems almost intentional that each set has several rare pieces that can not be found in other sets.

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
I see. It would make sense to self-host this video.

Will forward it to product guys

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
Several neural networks, lots of hard work in data labelling, more hard work in data synthesis, even more hard work in dataset curation.. et voila!

Source: it was me with the team who did all of that.

elephantum··on Brickit – scans your Lego bricks and helps you build new creations
You do not need any login to scan.

Just download the app and core functionality is ready to be used.

elephantum··on Q – Run SQL Directly on CSV or TSV Files
For completeness sake, I would like to mention, that Apache Drill works with local files and can be used for exactly the same purpose.
elephantum··on Factoring 2048 RSA integers in 177 days with 13436 qubits and a multimode memory
Do I understand correctly, that largest quantum computer that exists today contains less than 100 qubits?

Also it does not seem that there's an exponential grow in this area: https://www.statista.com/statistics/993634/quantum-computers....

They hit the wall in 2017.

We should be safe for now :)

elephantum··on Haskell is our first choice for building production software systems
It seems like you can substitute Haskell to Rust in almost every point they make.

(Or with many other great options)

elephantum··on Airflow 2.0
I did not, thank you for the tip!
elephantum··on Airflow 2.0
Thanks!

That's not exactly what I was looking for, though. Because every listed approach injects technical complexity in the middle of my business logic.

I.e. if I have two consequent tasks I have to define them as a separate scripts or commands, package them, upload and then orchestrate them in a completely different place.

While in Prefect I have all the niceness of writing almost plain Python (as with new tasks API in Airflow), then I can package and distribute the whole thing in docker image with a single command. It really matters!

elephantum··on Airflow 2.0
Are there any plans for DAGs packaging in docker containers similar to what Prefect does?

Would be perfect to have separate dependencies for different DAGs, otherwise we always end up with a pile of everything ever needed with no clear way to remove obsolete packages from setup.

elephantum··on Git partial clone lets you fetch only the large file you need
There’s an option for that: GIT_LFS_SKIP_SMUDGE=1 git clone SERVER-REPOSITORY
elephantum··on Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures
> The code is really just a pythonized version of the dot format.

Not exactly. By utilizing Python as a base language you gain access to control structures as `for` loops, `if`-s and functions. It can make your diagram script much more powerful and/or more complicated.

elephantum··on Bayard: a full-text search and indexing server written in Rust
Postgresql is quite good easy to integrate alternative to Elastic.

It has built-in fulltext search: https://www.postgresql.org/docs/12/textsearch.html

elephantum··on Intel Prepares to Graft Google’s Bfloat16 onto Processors
> At the end of the day, I cant run ANY accelerated workloads using Intel graphics or AMD ....because there's simply no software support anywhere.

You can, there’s an Intel framework: OpenVINO that is targeting Intel hardware, processors and HD video cards, you can convert TF graph to Vino and use their inference server, that mimics TF serving.

There’s TF ROCm port by AMD as well.

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