Amit Bahree’s (useless?) insight!

I had been thinking for a while to move away from WordPress for the blog to something simpler and cleaner. WordPress has been great for me when I first moved to it from another engine. However, over time, I found that things have gotten slower, as I added themes and add-ins. Some of these have been great, and others are not really needed. I also wanted to dogfood some of the things we built at work, though in my case that wasn’t the primary motive, just another nice to have....

Here is an example of how one can using a text prompt generated a series of frames, that then are stitched together into a video. The prompt I used was: “a man walking in the parking lot with a miniature poodle”. the final video generated is shown below. There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it. AI-generated video from a text prompt of a man walking in a parking lot with a miniature poodle...

I have said this before - with the advent of large AI models, Prompt Engineering is critical and is the next challenge for us to master. What is Prompt engineering? Prompt engineering is the process of fine-tuning large models and often are written in natural language, outlining the intention of the user. Prompt engineering is a key element that allows the output to be accurate and reflect the needs of the user....

I recently needed to install Visual Studio 2022 on one my existing machines to debug a new zeroshot model that has a dependency on our Speech SDK. The Speech SDK is one of our key #AI services in Cognitive Services (as part of #AzureAI). I already had VSCode running, but in this case I need the bigger brother. After installing Visual Studio, I could not get any nuget packages to install; I could not even fetch anything and didn’t matter what I used - the package manager console in Visual Studio, PowerShell, etc....

I recently installed Ubuntu on one of the Pi’s are home and installed Podman - which I hadn’t heard of until recently and is a container engine, similar to docker but doesn’t have a daemon. When trying to get a basic alpine test image running I got this error: Error: error creating build container: short-name "python:3.7-alpine" did not resolve to an alias and no unqualified-search registries are defined in "/etc/containers/registries.conf"...

The mysterious life of developers have evaded many of us, until now … There should have been a video here but your browser does not seem to support it. Mysterious life of a developer (courtesy Spoon Norge)

If you have a Tesla, then you should absolutely check out TeslaMate which is data logger for your car(s) that one self-hosts. This uses the car’s API and gets all different kinds of telemetry of your drives, charging, batter conditions, acceleration, braking, parking, etc. I personally prefer this, over other online services (of which there are a few) - as it is giving away the keys to the kingdom - literally in this case (the Tokens used to authenticate and login)....

It is 2021. And we have #AI writing #AI code. 🤪 It is quite interesting, but also can be quite boring once you get beyond the initial technology, and just think of it as one of the tools in your arsenal. And getting to that point is a good think. As part of a think at work I recently started playing with GitHub Copilot, which is using GPT3 to be your pair programmer – helping write code....

Reinforcement Learning is teaching by example – it is how most of us learn. Reinforcement Learning (#RL) is a different approach to ML – it is a set of techniques that allows AI algorithms to experiment and learn from experience. RL falls in between supervised and unsupervised learning – there isn’t any labeled data, but at the same time it isn’t unsupervised either. At its most simple form, RL is a computational approach for automating goal-oriented decision making and learning....

I been kicking the tires with Open AI’s #GPT-3. Based on the screenshot below, it might be easy to think “oh boy does the model think highly of itself”, but as with most things in life - devil is in the details.😃 The screenshot below was a forked version of davinci engine and follows the Q&A structure. Using OpenAI’s API is quite simple; perhaps too simple! It is quite easy to unleash the beast as the code snippet shown below....