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Pete Warden
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CEO of Useful Sensors, founder of Jetpac, bought by Google, Xoogler who helped build TensorFlow, Stanford PhD student. Email: pete@usefulsensors.com
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I was deeply moved by Richard Mosse's last infrared film of the refugee crisis, I hope his latest documentary comes to soon too.
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Illegal cattle ranching, logging, wildfires and “wildcat” mining are among the illicit practices that Richard Mosse documents in “Broken Spectre”, a powerful work of video art econ.st/3U9fX6C
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This is starting now!
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Tomorrow's #tinyMLTalks "No-Code Edge #ML" with @petewarden. us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist. In this talk, Pete will discuss how "ML Sensors" can make adding common capabilities like presence detection, gesture recognition, and voice interfaces to your projects as easy as connecting...
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I'll be giving a free #tinyml talk on ML sensors tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8am Pacific: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist
Looking forward to geeking out about what we've been working on recently.
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Application of LLMs are truly remarkable, but AI is going to be everywhere. Incredible that this capability is now <$10 for sample volume. In volume I’m sure it’ll soon be <$1.
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I built a face-following pan/tilt stand using a person sensor, here's a @Hacksterio project guide:
hackster.io/petewarden/fac
This little fella has a lot of personality!
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I built a face-following pan/tilt stand using a person sensor, here's a project guide:
hackster.io/petewarden/fac
This little fella has a lot of personality!
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Build a spooky eyeball that follows you around the room with a Pico and a Person Sensor:
hackster.io/petewarden/spo
Thanks for the original code, and happy Halloween to everyone!
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Useful Sensors is focused on leveraging ML to improve our everyday lives through smarter interfaces. Tune in Wednesday as co-founders and Manjunath Kudlur join Edge Impulse's CTO and Head of ML for a chat about their new Person Sensor and more!
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Virtuoso: Massive Multilingual Speech-Text Joint Semi-Supervised Learning for Text-To-Speech
abs: arxiv.org/abs/2210.15447
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Negative Pressure Room is a technical-legal-sanity requirement for biolabs or infectious-control hospitals to prevent pathogens being leaked out. Now an attack is demonstrated to fool the sensors into turning it off ... with specially crafted sound. Scary! arxiv.org/pdf/2210.03688
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Useful Sensors is focused on leveraging ML to improve our everyday lives through smarter interfaces. Tune in next Wednesday as co-founders and Manjunath Kudlur join and for a chat about their new Person Sensor and more! youtu.be/d8CYoPR2q7w
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A good example of how the threat of layoffs causes people to leave. The people who leave will tend to be the better people because they have the best options elsewhere. Not good for Twitter. And probably not good for the other tech companies talking about layoffs either.
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At least 500 employees have left Twitter in the past 90 days amid the company's court battle with Elon Musk, about 60% more than had left Twitter during the previous quarter. businessinsider.com/meta-google-co via data analysis of #LinkedIn (Edited tweet: added “where did they go” pic)
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Apparently can't ship to Milton Keynes, a city of 200,000 people in the UK? I know there are a lot of roundabouts there, but this seems a bit severe.
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‘The IPK was intended to be a static data point: a way to maintain a single mass value for all time. But, as a physical artifact, it was unavoidably fallible. All matter must leak and decay, absorb and emit.’
on technological proxies:
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Don't miss this talk from showing how to add #MachineLearning to your product with at DevSummit: devsummit.arm.com/flow/arm/devsu
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The wiring is easy to the Person Sensor: just a Qwiic/StemmaQT cable off the QTPy. (The SPI TFT is wired up as before). My code has a hacked up chunk of Pete's "screen lock" demo he describes here: hackster.io/petewarden/aut
Took about 15 mins to get going!
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I got my #CircuitPython eyeball stuff working w/ the $10 I2C Person Sensor from 's Useful Sensors and an QTPy RP2040. It's really fun! Kinda spooky! Thanks for shipping so quickly! Code & hardware description🧵below
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New episode! @todbot shares news on a low cost RISC-V chip and discusses the Person Sensor from Useful Sensors. Listen and subscribe: zencastr.com/z/v0rAezrm
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. has introduced an ultra-cheap #RISCV microcontroller with 2KB SRAM, 16KB flash, and up to 18 GPIOs selling for under 10 cents. #MCU #embeddedsystems
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Wi-Peep: Using fake wifi packets and a drone to locate devices (and so people) in a building to within a meter!
dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.114
No easy mitigations either.
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Do you want to see a video of me play Face Pong? Of course you do!
youtube.com/watch?v=BO2H_j
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For the past couple of weeks I have been working with the new Person Detector from @UsefulSensors … and I came up with Face Pong! Play the classic game of Pong just by moving your face around.
TinyML FTW!
hackster.io/robotastic/pla
TinyML FTW!
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Use the $10 Person Sensor from to auto-lock your laptop screen whenever you step away, and even minimize the main window if somebody's looking over your shoulder! bit.ly/3gogdjt
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Useful Sensors' new $10 Person Sensor includes a camera and microcontroller in a tiny package, and comes pre-loaded with an ML algorithm that can detect people: bit.ly/3EXsEgw
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By founding , intends to accelerate the addition of AI-enabled features to home appliances, by providing manufacturers with “something they can actually use, something that meets their requirements.”
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I'm finally able to talk about what I've been up to for the last six months!
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Stacey on IoT: Former Googler creates Tiny ML sensor startup: ift.tt/xFqUrnE
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I can't get over how good a show is. has a wonderful review that captures a lot of what I love about it:
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500 frame-per-second lightning detector cameras re-purposed to detect bolides; When two different spacecraft image them in stereo you can get trajectory info!
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This is really useful for meteor detection, which can be used to derive height when the same fireball is observed in stereo.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/149381/
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parents, PLEASE check your children’s halloween candy this year. i just opened my daughter’s snickers and there was an adoptable Senior chihuahua inside. i feel sick
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Coming soon to a computer near you 🐸🚀
We're releasing the Coqui Studio... our first fully-fledged AI voice studio!
Get early access now 🔥 coqui.ai
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One of these days, we'll be at the same conference and I'll have a sticker for you.
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Inspiring Saturday with awesome community. Love what , & co are building at AIX, it’s definitely one of most quickly emerging & genuine communities in Silicon Valley
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Websites these days... 😙👌
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アクセル全開なJunniのWebサイト制作しました！
めっちゃ頑張ったのでぜひご覧ください
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#threejs #webgl
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I know someone in this position and it's heartbreaking. The insanest part is that there's zero justification for the stamping, these are people who can legally stay in the US, it's just an arbitrary bureaucratic barrier that prevents people from seeing dying family members.
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Indians working in the US who want to renew their visa can't go back home. Because the waiting period for their visa appointment is 833 days. If they leave, they won't be able to enter US without a visa stamp. I know atleast two people whose parents are ill and they can't go back
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re: your blog post, I wrote a web app to access Pico logs and do plotting. Only requires Chrome:
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Fascinating introduction to the jury approach to social dataset annotation and classification by in CS300. I love the idea of making the labeler demographic composition explicit and tunable.
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Google insiders explain why Google launches many products and then abandons them.
Hint: It has to do with chasing promotions. 🤦♂️
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