- Catch 22
- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (series)
Where you rotate so far right you end up at the left.
Back in college, a local doughnut shop would open at 3am to start making the run for the day. If you were stoned or pulling an all-nighter, it was worth the 15m walk. They would sell you fresh, warm doughnuts out the back.
Nowadays, a lot of places do the fresh doughnut thing. But it's not the same, getting it at 3am.
https://www.espressif.com/en/news/ESP32-S3-BOX-3
There's a model with a more expensive dock, or one without. The one without worked fine. But it had to be the Box 3 not Box 2. It worked pretty well and you could create custom images to indicate whether it was listening, thinking, etc.
Instructions here: https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/s3_box_voice_assistant/
The box isn't powerful enough to run an LLM itself. It's just good enough as an audio conduit. You can either use their cloud integration with ChatGPT, or now, Anthropic Claude. But if you had a powerful Home Assistant server, say an Nvidia Jetson or a PC with a beefy Nvidia GPU, you could run local models like Llama and have better privacy.
This is from earlier this year. I imagine they've advanced more since then.
Their LLM integration is super cool. I messed with it for a previous job. Way better than Alexa or Google Home.
They missed speculation, hearsay, and guesstimation.
A few jobs ago, everyone hated the tech stack. The people who had come up with it had long left. I talked to everyone, then came up with a plan to transition to a modern stack. Got buy-in from management.
Half the people (and all who had said they hated the status quo) threatened to quit if we made the change.
Fortunately, it was just in time to collect the 1-year retention bonus. Life's too short. Walked away.
Let's hope no single person worked on that thing for the full 8 years under development. Would be crushed.
VW announced a $5B joint venture with Rivian a couple months ago. Wonder how all this will affect that deal?
https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185946/vw-rivian-joint-venture-investment-software-r2