wazowski

wazowski, 2 years ago

ty 🤗

the code for the bot isn’t yet ready, because i just started the project, and i’d be comfortable releasing it once i added some more functionality and customisability, around the moment i’d be making the bot public

and there’s one issue i have to overcome before making the bot itself public: the computer i’m running this bot on is kinda old (like 2010), and it has a gpu that doesn’t support recent versions of cuda, which is the gpu compute library used by one of the libraries in this project, therefore all the inference is run on the CPU, which is slow and very computationally intensive

i’m not sure what to host this on: i’ll probably wait until the GPU prices have come down, and see if i can purchase some modern-ish GPU in order to run this on, bc renting so much GPU compute can cost a looot

i’m using a pre-trained model for this called BART, because training a good NLP transformer model of such magnitude (0.5 billion parameters) is an astronomical task not only in terms of computation, but also in terms of the required expertise, which i certainly do not possess at the moment (i just graduated high school lol)

let me know if you’d like to use something like this bot :)

wazowski, 2 years ago

i've been using berty for a couple of months now, not as a primary messenger, but more so in situations where I want to transfer some information in the form of text/images/videos in situations where there is no internet connection

it has some issues, but it's relatively robust imo

wazowski, 2 years ago

i’m not familiar with briar, so i can’t really tell :(