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mtw14

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    Comment #48900254

    lol a jaw drop reaction could be awesome. Or like maybe extra tail flaps when it thinks it’s warranted.

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    Comment #48900161

    Okay so what I’m hearing is more flux. Thank you for these tips I’ll look into it!

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    Comment #48900015

    I’ve seen other people hack Billy bass using other tech but they 3D printed a new casing for it. I looked for it again but couldn’t find it to send you a link though.

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    Someone else suggested Gemma E2B which I can run on Ollama def going to try that next. I can also write a lil cronjob to have it wake up and do things on its own then wire up the b…

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    Hahaha it was my first time!!! I am but a mere software person. You wouldn’t want to see my soldering joints… it wasn’t pretty but it got the job done

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    You can actually run a local model with strands using Ollama pretty easily so you could just swap the model provider out in like 4 lines of code. So this would not be hard to do. G…

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    Yes I agree! not intuitive at all. I tried to lay out everything I did so someone could easily recreate it.

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    Comment #48897561

    That’s awesome! Billy bass has always been a fave for this sort of thing I found a couple of guides that were similar to mine when I was working on it too

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    Yess a nice dose of nostalgia. I want to download the original songs so he can still sing those too and just load them up as audio files it can play. I had it reading the news and …

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    Comment #48896612

    I built BillAI Bass just because I could. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and Strands Agents with bidirectional streaming, and the repo includes the code and hardware setup. Happy t…

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    What was the gap you discovered that made it not shippable? This is an experimental project, so I'm curious to know what sorts of problems you ran into when you tried a similar app…

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    I'm wondering if the post-condition checks change the perspective on this at all, because yes the code is nondeterministic and may execute differently each time. That is the proble…