@0 @PawelK @sevvie well, you know. It's easy to use and it's free. Not to mention that it slaps translated overlay on video in real time. I wish I knew something more convenient than that, but sadly....

@PawelK @0 @sevvie it works on live video feed from phone's camera, so i suppose if you were to go deep enough into that stuff and create virtual video input to run whatever you want trough it....

@ThatCrazyDude @PawelK @sevvie

ffmpeg magic for frames, and iterating, hope you have a nice server.
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I've had a lot of luck recycling old i5 workstations into servers -- old quadro gpus are also nice and fit the slimline towers that are ubiquitous. Did this for TTS, Stable Diffusion, and OCR servers.
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Microcenter had them around for like ~$200-$300 a pop.

@0 @PawelK @sevvie when it comes to what people generally tend to call AI, as in machine vision, general image recognition, OCR and shit like that, you don't even need i5 nor GPUs whatsoever, you know. Your average 100 bucks arm board will do just fine. Training the neuro network takes a ton of computing power, but using afterwards can be done on proverbial calculator. Just saying.

@PawelK @0 @sevvie well yeah. Just like face recognition or fingerprinting. Once you have the model computed, you can use it on real low end chip

@PawelK @0 @sevvie not even dedicated single purpose chips can do that. I personally got my mind blown when i discovered that esp32, which is your run of the mill cheap low power microcontroller can do facial recognition. Check this out randomnerdtutorials.com/esp32-

@PawelK @0 @sevvie @AmpBenzScientist i love those chips BTW. ESP8266 even better. Dirt cheap and with WiFi, enough computing power to do basic encryption and connect to whatever API you want..... Wish those were available when i was a kid, even though they all come from Shanghai.... 🤣

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@ThatCrazyDude @PawelK @0 @sevvie Shenzhen is another likely source for some. Shanghai doesn't seem to have the same manufacturing as Shenzhen but I would happily go to either. Those are essentially the money making areas so they get more freedom. I've heard that it's actually rather nice from people who won't go to the Mainland.

@AmpBenzScientist @ThatCrazyDude @0 @sevvie

Yea, most of those over there, I interacted with either directly or through some 3rd parties, were mostly from Shenzen area.

@PawelK @ThatCrazyDude @0 @sevvie I have some contacts in Shanghai. They tried to get me to come over and I almost did but a contract opportunity came up elsewhere.

@PawelK @ThatCrazyDude @0 @sevvie Academia vs Sec Contractor. One actually pays and is enjoyable in ways that can't be said during psych evals.

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