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zuck-mbpl:~ zuck$ php j play some red hot chili peppers PHP as a shell scripting language. Old habits die hard, huh?
Quick startup, a good amount of CLI-specific APIs, available on many servers already, and no compiler or huge amount of tools needed.
It's a bit verbose for little scripts that should be in something like bash, but it's a great alternative to something like python if you are more familiar with it.
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Anyone setting out to do something like this will quickly see how much of a hassle it is to exfiltrate data from relevant services and your own devices. APIs and SDKs cover a lot of use-cases, and that is all great and commendable, but we don't truly own our own devices, data, or the algorithms that make them useful. I think this will continue to hamper our ability to have a truly useful 3rd party (your home in this…
Face recognition and speech recognition are the most obvious pieces that look to be proprietary, but there is lots of other useful open stuff that he explicitly links. FastText looks like it would be really helpful for at least the natural language piece of Jarvis-like applications.
Anyone setting out to do something like this will quickly see how much of a hassle it is to exfiltrate data from relevant services and your own devices. APIs and SDKs cover a lot of use-cases, and that is all great and commendable, but we don't truly own our own devices, data, or the algorithms that make them useful. I think this will continue to hamper our ability to have a truly useful 3rd party (your home in this…
If it's literally Zuckerberg building all this, I bet it's full of security holes (not that he's a bad dev, I wouldn't know, just that one dev can't reasonably be expected to develop a secure app at a pace even remotely quickly). Dunno what that means, just that it would be mildly funny if someone used this fact to try to get a job at Facebook or something.
If it's literally Zuckerberg building all this, I bet it's full of security holes (not that he's a bad dev, I wouldn't know, just that one dev can't reasonably be expected to develop a secure app at a pace even remotely quickly). Dunno what that means, just that it would be mildly funny if someone used this fact to try to get a job at Facebook or something.
Not saying you would do that, just saying for other people reading that it's not really a joking matter when it really happens =P
More than anything else, what stood out to me was his discipline for knowing how to manage his time in a way that enabled him to build something like this while still juggling the n number of other things on his plate.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
The grumpy snarky HN user in me says that a lot of the "I deployed a server to do X" and "I wrote code to do Y" in this blog post should actually say "A Facebook engineer provided me with direct API hooks to do X and Y" , but it's anyone's guess.
API hooks to what though? It doesn't seem like he's integrating with much if anything from Facebook. TBH, he seems happy enough getting his hands dirty that I would imagine he purposely did it unaided just for the satisfaction of it.
To use an existing private service, not nearly as much effort.
That being said: Of course he could have learned how to train a model himself, but even in that case he is using training infrastructure and data that is available to him that is not public. I highly doubt he had the time to build those sorts of things himself. But his goal was more talking to his home and using tools to build an interactive home assistant. Sounds like he was very successful at doing that. He wasn't out to build the individual AI pieces, doesn't make it not cool or interesting.