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aallan

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Scientist, author, hacker, maker, and journalist. Writes, speaks, and builds. An accidental privacy advocate. Previously wrote things down at @Raspberry_Pi. You can reach me at 📫 alasdair@babilim.co.uk. #MachineLearning #TinyML #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LLM #EdgeComputing #Embedded #IoT #Mobile #Apple #BigData #Space #SmallSat #CubeSat

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aallan, to ML
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By me for @hackster_io, "Benchmarking TensorFlow and TensorFlow Lite on Raspberry Pi 5." The big take away from these new benchmarks is that the Raspberry Pi 5 has similar performance when using TensorFlow Lite to the Coral TPU, displaying essentially the same inferencing speed as Google's accelerator hardware. #ML #TinyML #AI #TensorFlow #RaspberryPi #CoralTPU https://www.hackster.io/news/benchmarking-tensorflow-and-tensorflow-lite-on-raspberry-pi-5-b9156d58a6a2

aallan,
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The benchmark code is now available on @github. The repository includes all the resources needed to reproduce the benchmarking results, including models, code for all the tested platforms, and the test imagery used. https://github.com/aallan/benchmarking-ml-on-the-edge

stroughtonsmith, to random
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For a platform that was effectively leaked in full, extended, minute detail ahead of last WWDC, we've heard shockingly little about anything coming to visionOS 2.0…

aallan,
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@stroughtonsmith I mean, is anyone actually excited about VR, Apple's VR or anyone else's?

aallan, to infosec
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Well. Not good. 😐 https://doublepulsar.com/snowflake-at-central-of-worlds-largest-data-breach-939fc400912e

aallan, to random
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By me for @hackster_io, "Bringing GPT-4o in From the Cloud to the Edge." https://www.hackster.io/news/bringing-gpt-4o-in-from-the-cloud-to-the-edge-289fbf6e0978

aallan,
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@burtyb @hackster_io @alexglow Now I'm back at Hackster I'll nudge Artie and Jessica. Maybe!

aallan, to random
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By me for @hackster_io, "Creating cross-platform Small AI with PicoLLM." https://www.hackster.io/news/creating-cross-platform-small-ai-with-picollm-3cf6076db9ec

aallan, to random
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By me for @hackster_io, "Sparking Cosmic Pixels." #citizenscience https://www.hackster.io/news/sparking-cosmic-pixels-87a2672564d0

aallan, to security
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By me for @hackster_io, "The End of the Default Password?" https://www.hackster.io/news/the-end-of-the-default-password-b915e8a874a5

aallan,
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@karlauerbach @hackster_io Yup! Back in 2018, https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/05/california-passes-law-that-bans-default-passwords-in-connected-devices/.

aallan, to llm
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By me for @hackster_io, "Hacking on Llama3," https://www.hackster.io/news/hacking-on-llama3-9af53ff8c520. #llama #llm #ai

aallan, to SpaceX
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By me for Hackster.io, "Direct from space to your cellphone," https://www.hackster.io/news/direct-from-space-to-your-cellphone-198bc7a1f922. #SpaceX #Satellites #Starlink #LTE #LoRaWAN

aallan, to random
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By me for @hackster_io, "Deploying MobileNet on Microcontrollers," https://www.hackster.io/news/deploying-mobilenet-on-microcontrollers-31f2623ab383. #TinyML

aallan, to random
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By me for @hackster_io, “The beginnings of Small AI, https://www.hackster.io/news/the-beginnings-of-small-ai-64ef3768b7b5.”

aallan, (edited )
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It’s sort of interesting to see the financial markets paying attention to . That means that anything that affects “big” AI is important enough to move the markets. Makes sense, if it’s going to affect the $NVDA stock price, it’ll affect the market. https://finimize.com/content/small-talk

scottjenson, to random
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@simon
Simon, I'm working with @homeassistant a bit and we just had a fascinating discussion about 'nanoLLMs' that could run locally. They would NOT need the sum-total-of-all-human-knowledge but would really just be there as a smart parser for speech-to-text commands, keeping everything local. This is clearly still not trivial but hopefully one way to reduce the model size.

Do you know of any 'reduced' LLMs that could work in this more limited context?

aallan,
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@scottjenson @simon @homeassistant It's an fascinating area that a lot of people are looking at right now. Moving the LLMs to edge hardware is certainly possible, I'm running LLaMa on my phone locally for instance. But you have to think about architectures. I've seen some interesting architectures built around key framing and feeding LLMs from TinyML models that look potentially pretty powerful.

ben, to homelab
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Any suggestions for the cheapest place to get hold of a USB Coral TPU in the UK

Looking to play with Fargate

aallan,
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@ben Mouser has stock right now? https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Coral/G950-01456-01?qs=sGAEpiMZZMve4%2FbfQkoj%252BNzzHFZgWGqIphwvwTL5xvk%3D

aallan, to random
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After just over four years, today will be my last day at @Raspberry_Pi. It’s been a great place to work! I’ve really enjoyed my time there and hope I’ve visibly made some difference to the quality of writing and documentation around the products. Because documentation is always just about helping people get things done.

aallan, to random
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Feels very much like one of those deliberate leaks from a government minister trying to figure out whether the public outcry around a policy will be too much to handle. But I think in this case they'll find nobody cares about AI-powered search. https://www.ft.com/content/2f4bfeb4-6579-4819-9f5f-b3a46ff59ed1

aallan, to random
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Yup. A year on, you should still just buy that Brother laser printer that everyone else buys. https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework

aallan, to ai
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We’re now far enough along the adoption curve for that we’re seeing the collapse of the smoke and mirrors stage, as we enter the trough of disillusionment. https://gizmodo.com/amazon-reportedly-ditches-just-walk-out-grocery-stores-1851381116

aallan,
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@artemesia The original claim from Amazon was that they were using AI for their “just walk out” technology. The scan as you go? No. We’ve had that in the U.K. for about 20 years. It’s not exactly new.

aallan,
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@artemesia A lot of AI startups seem to be relying on smoke and mirrors and minimal AI for their MVP. The surprising thing here is that Amazon was doing the same. Although I guess we’re seeing it with self driving cars, so maybe not.

aallan,
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@LewisWorkshop I worked on distributed agent-based systems — back when they were briefly the thing — and pretty much every slide deck I gave around that time had a picture of the Turk in it somewhere. Mostly when I talked about limitations, magic, and what problems "intelligent" systems could and couldn't be expected to solve.

juliaferraioli, to ArtificialIntelligence
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Next week I head to London for #MonkiGras! I have heard such wonderful things about it over the years, and I'm thrilled to attend my first, this one about #ArtificialIntelligence and culture.

Super excited to see Farrah Campbell and Brooke Jamieson speak 🎉

aallan,
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@juliaferraioli Argh! Doubly annoyed that I'm missing it this year. You'll love #MokiGras, it's a great group of people.

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