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Re: Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

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Post by jamesblonde »

rospaya wrote: post #60
SiempreViernes wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is this type of cloud based computing called serverless? To me "putting all the work on remote machines you don't manage" seems pretty cloudy, and I naively expected "serverless" to mean something like runs locally, not "uses a shit town of someone else's servers".

A good analogy I heard is that serverless uses servers as much as wireless uses wires. It does, but it's not part of your responsibility.

Nice. If anybody has installed and operated an MLFlow server (open source, great product), but then switched to use a serverless platform like weights and biases, you would instinctively get the term serverless. DynamoDB is called a serverless database. Obviously there are servers, it's just somebody else's job to maintain them.

Re: Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

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Post by DieAgainAli »

madaxe_again wrote: post #57
s3000 wrote: post #55

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Compare it to cars. New cars are more complex but collectors pay the most for the old, simple cars with a bonus for beauty and speed.

On your old car, you can just take it apart and see how it works. Don’t have the part? Improvise. It’s heavily skill-based, and a little knowledge will take you a long way. As long as you know your fundamental toolchains, you can make any part, do any job. On your new car, it’s a series of black boxes, cables, and tubes - you don’t know and don’t care what happens inside the boxes, just what goes in, and what comes o…

Being an ex-mechanic I second this. You HAVE to specialise otherwise you’ll be left with the simple competitive jobs like tyre replacement.

I specialised in new vehicles and then you have specialise in brand to actually know whats going on and how to fix said black boxes and systems.

My reason for training to become a software engineer was mainly because I felt like the knowledge and on-going training you need to retain/constantly learn was not worth the money earned.

Instead now I earn my bread from what was my hobby, essentially the same work ethic as far as knowledge is concerned just less back breaking to put into practice.

Re: Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

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Post by 867-5309 »

ncr100 wrote: post #22
abidlabs wrote: post #10

Neat use of Gradio & Modal

FFMPEG is in there too, of course! Such a powerful tool. https://youtu.be/9kaIXkImCAM humor

that was the first video I have watched start to finish without skipping in years. brilliant, thanks

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Post by TacticalCoder »

madaxe_again wrote: post #57
s3000 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compare it to cars. New cars are more complex but collectors pay the most for the old, simple cars with a bonus for beauty and speed.

On your old car, you can just take it apart and see how it works. Don’t have the part? Improvise. It’s heavily skill-based, and a little knowledge will take you a long way. As long as you know your fundamental toolchains, you can make any part, do any job. On your new car, it’s a series of black boxes, cables, and tubes - you don’t know and don’t care what happens inside the boxes, just what goes in, and what comes o…

On new cars one that recently got me is this: they don't even have spare tires anymore.

I blew a tire on my car and due to its unconventional size and delays I had to wait 3 weeks for new tires to arrive.

Then, during those three weeks, wife's car blew a tire too. Gigantic hole in the side of the tire: probably a defect back from when we bought the car that eventually made the tire blow (I kinda noticed it when we bought the car but the official dealership told me the car had been inspected and the tires were fine).

Thankfully it's a BMW with "run flat" tires: even if you blow a tire you can still drive up to 50 mph for up to 80 miles (officially, you can always try your luck too) on that blow / totally deflated tire.

But yup, even something which was as normal as having a spare tire in your car and being able to swap it yourself (something I've done several times in my life: for me and to help others) is a long gone skill.

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Post by ajuc »

shadowgovt wrote: post #29
Mizza wrote: post #16

I'm really hoping somebody comes along and puts this in a format that I can attach to my head inconspicuously.

Google Glass has already been rejected by the public; I imagine anything more inconspicuous would arouse even deeper suspicion.

It was ahead of its times (and wasn't that useful), in 10 years it will be perfectly acceptable.

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Post by loa_in_ »

sj8822 wrote: post #42
DerSaidin wrote: post #41

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> I have so many ideas > I want to jump in, badly. How would one go about picking up the skills needed to create stuff like this? Have you tried to make any of your ideas? If not, pick one and try to make it.

This is a great approach. I want to build a benevolent, kind, caring and nurturing AI that one can go to for learning, understanding and support in navigating this world and being human. I want to dump key knowledge into it that I have been fortunate enough to discern during my lifetime and knowledge from others that I regard highly. Kind of like what characterai is doing, but highly fined tuned and customized. What…

OpenAI GPT-3 fine-tuned models as per their documentation

Re: Serverless Video Transcription inspired by Cyberpunk 2077

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Post by fragmede »

madaxe_again wrote: post #57
s3000 wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compare it to cars. New cars are more complex but collectors pay the most for the old, simple cars with a bonus for beauty and speed.

On your old car, you can just take it apart and see how it works. Don’t have the part? Improvise. It’s heavily skill-based, and a little knowledge will take you a long way. As long as you know your fundamental toolchains, you can make any part, do any job. On your new car, it’s a series of black boxes, cables, and tubes - you don’t know and don’t care what happens inside the boxes, just what goes in, and what comes o…

Some of that's down to the internal combustion engine being this insane, complex mechanical device, with 160 years of evolution on top of it. In comparison, electric motors, are much simpler. I'm sure that all of the technology in an EV 60 years from now will be amazingly advanced, but at least for now, an EV has no PCV valve to replace, no timing belt to synchronize a crankshaft and the camshaft; no O2 sensors.
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