Pete Warden's Blog
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Pete Warden is an Engineer, CTO of Jetpac Inc, author of The Public Data Handbook and The Big Data Glossary for O'Reilly, builder of OpenHeatMap and the Data Science Toolkit, and other open source projects. Explore my articles on machine learning, big data and more in my blog.
Pete Warden's Blog
6d ago
I’ve never been much of a podcast or video creator but recently I’ve started posting a series of short chats with my friend Ann Spencer on YouTube and it’s been a lot of fun. I realized I hadn’t mentioned it here, so as they say, please like and subscribe. I’ve also embedded one of my ..read more
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2w ago
I’ve been writing this blog for nineteen years, and in over 1,100 posts I’ve never once brought up politics, but I can’t ignore what’s happening in our country. We’re facing such a profound crisis right now in the US that not speaking up at this point would be breaking the oath I took in 2014 ..read more
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3w ago
Guest post by Nat Jeffries, Founding Engineer at Useful Sensors. At Useful Sensors we love using disposable frameworks to deploy on-device transformers. Having built several such frameworks, I realized that, while there are great resources for understanding and training transformer models, there are few guides for deploying them on-device. The following are some lessons I ..read more
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3M ago
I’ve been using the ONNX Runtime a lot recently, and while it has been a lot of fun, there are a few things I’ve missed from the TensorFlow Lite world. The biggest (no pun intended) is the lack of tools to shrink the model file size, something that’s always been essential in the mobile app ..read more
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5M ago
When I first tried ChatGPT, it blew my mind. Its ability to respond intelligently to almost any prompt I gave it was astonishing, it was obvious to me it was the future. It seemed like we’d finally built the kind of AI we’ve all seen in the movies. Over time though, one big limitation became ..read more
Pete Warden's Blog
6M ago
Can you imagine using a keyboard where it took a key press two seconds to show up on screen? That’s the typical latency for most voice interfaces, so it’s no wonder they’ve failed to catch on for most people. Today we’re open sourcing Moonshine, a new speech to text model that returns results faster and ..read more
Pete Warden's Blog
6M ago
I’ve long been a fan of Qualcomm’s NPUs, and I even collaborated with them to get experimental support for the underlying HVX DSP into TensorFlow back in 2017 (traces remain here). That meant I was very excited when I heard they were bringing those same accelerators to Windows tablets, offering up to 45 trillion ops ..read more
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6M ago
I’m excited to announce Torre, a new product that translates instantly between Spanish and English. A lot of native English speakers I talk to don’t understand why a better approach to translation is needed, since there have been phone apps around for years. The best way I’ve found to explain is “Can you imagine watching ..read more
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7M ago
Have you ever wondered why ChatGPT and similar advanced AI systems are known as Large Language Models? What are “language models”, even? To answer that, and understand how remarkable the current state of the art is, I need to jump back a few decades. Understanding language has always been a goal for artificial intelligence researchers ..read more
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8M ago
According to a survey last year, less than 50% of appliances that are internet-capable ever get connected. When I talk to manufacturers, I often hear even worse numbers, sometimes below 30%! Despite many years and billions of dollars of investment into the “Internet of Things”, this lack of adoption makes it clear that even if ..read more