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Because the blog post is advertising for the service. The goal is to make it look like enough of a pain in the butt that it's worth paying someone else to do it
by smogcutter 9y ago
Because the blog post is advertising for the service. The goal is to make it look like enough of a pain in the butt that it's worth paying someone else to do it, but not such a big pain in the butt that a cloud service would be expensive or impractical.
- sarthakjain 9y agoI agree with the fact that there is potential for bias. The post starts of with a disclaimer explaining the conflict of interest. Anything else we can do to make the post more objective and less prone to bias?
- smogcutter 9y agoHonestly I didn’t mean that as negatively as it sounds. It’s good advertising. Squeezing a full blown ML tutorial into a blog post is a tall order. Of course it’s too thin to really do it yourself without a lot of further research, you can’t really expect anything else. But I think the title leads people to expect more detail, hence posts like this and the owl cartoon above. Maybe add a breakdown of performance for doing this local on a pi vs using the api? Would make it easier for people to weigh pros and cons.