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Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by dbmikus »

duderific wrote: post #112
eldavido wrote: post #43

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No kidding. I find it impressive both that he put aside (not found , this had to be a very deliberate decision given the demands on his time) 100 hours to do this, AND that he got all of it done in 100 hours. Is there anything written about his personal schedule/habits? When does he go to sleep at night? When does he wake up? What kind of hours does he work? I mean really, he has a kid, is CEO of a huge company, exer…

When you are a billionaire, you can certainly outsource all that mundane stuff (like raising a kid) to extremely capable helpers. He only has to do exactly what he wants to do. Pretty sure Zuck isn't changing any diapers or walking the dog unless he decides he feels like it right at that moment.

I'm not sure I'd call raising a kid mundane... hahaha

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by mack1001 »

pinnbert wrote: post #138
mack1001 wrote: post #40

Mark is at a place that he can really envision and execute a lot of things relatively easily that is unimaginable for people who are struggling for basic acceptance and success i.e most of us. Success usually begets success and more determination.

Nice honesty. Try having empathy for Mark--maybe that will help?

Trust me I do. I was just trying to highlight just how successful people find time and resolve to do things which a lot of others cannot even imagine doing - like learning Mandarin or building Jarvis.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by taneq »

andrewstuart2 wrote: post #91
ChuckMcM wrote: post #44

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I agree with the sentiment, the hours of course are the assembly time. When people ask me the role of an architect I try to impress upon them that well architected subsystems will be readily composable into a variety of forms and uses. That amplifies the millions of hours of research and development into a tool that can be wielded by a motivated individual or team to tremendous advantage.

95% of the time, good software creation is really just construction, not engineering. There are great paradigms and solutions to the majority of problems. There's room for design and UX, but you shouldn't need to custom engineer the walls out of carbon fiber or some aerospace composites unless you're launching the house to Mars. The engineering aspect really only comes into play when no components meet your needs. Th…

When you're talking about civil/mechanical engineering, good engineering is 'just construction' too. Your job is to take well known, tried-and-tested techniques and combine them in a safe and reliable way to produce a design which meets all of your requirements and can be built for your target price.

Engineering isn't really a place for more than very limited creativity. That place is R&D.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by deadbunny »

dickbasedregex wrote: post #106

Neat but this is underwhelming considering who it is with his resources. I've seen dozens of setups like this from random nobody developers over the past 10 years or so. One-off home brew projects like this are neat but until someone creates and releases a good, extensible foundation to build on top of, meh... And even then it would probably be terrible because they would try to spin it into some business effort (whi…

Check out Home Assistant [1], exactly what you're describing.

http://home-assistant.io

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by balamaci »

deadbunny wrote: post #150
balamaci wrote: post #81

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Rather what the hell happened to the guy that had tape on his laptop camera and microphone. Suddenly he's got an always on listening device. How does one go from one to the other?

Securing a local network is orders of magnitude easier than a laptop which accesses the internet constantly. Stick the cameras on a vlan only accessable to the (local) servers doing the face recognition, stick the servers on a vlan that has no direct connection to the internet. Compare this to a laptop which is connected to the internet with multiple attack vectors (browser, email client, etc...)

Does he have some custom build network router that he trust? Putting tape over your camera means you know enough to not trust the laptop hardware neither the OS or browsers like you said.

But he says: "We use .. Sonos system with Spotify for music, a Samsung TV, a Nest cam for Max". So all of his appliances do get outside. I did a double-take on Nest cam. So he's streaming videos from his house on the internet with a closed source hw and software.

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by deadbunny »

mack1001 wrote: post #152
pinnbert wrote: post #138

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nice honesty. Try having empathy for Mark--maybe that will help?

Trust me I do. I was just trying to highlight just how successful people find time and resolve to do things which a lot of others cannot even imagine doing - like learning Mandarin or building Jarvis.

Or maybe the fact they do find the time for thing like this is why they are successful?

Re: Building Jarvis

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Post by erikb »

At first I read "Building Jenkins" and there I was thinking "Well, finally someone gets how hard that is" (trying it on Linux and not being a Java main)
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