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"Do-it-yourself" seems like a not quite appropriate title for an interface that calls a webservice with pre-built vision ML.
by techbio 6y ago
"Do-it-yourself" seems like a not quite appropriate title for an interface that calls a webservice with pre-built vision ML.
- parasanti 6y agoI was thinking the same thing. If it was all localized to a Pi then yes, but outside services isn't really DIY so much. Maybe half DIY if such a thing.
- sokoloff 6y agoOn the other hand, I would tend to agree that this project is a "DIY Alexa" (edit to add: in the minds of most readers of Instructables website): https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Amazon-Alexa/ https://www.instructables.com/id/DIY-Amazon-Alexa/
- hundchenkatze 6y agoThis is another example of what the GP comment is complaining about. It's not a DIY Alexa. Alexa is the virtual assistant API. This is a DIY Amazon Echo that still relies on the Alexa service.
- sokoloff 6y agoAs an engineer and a technologist, I agree that you and GP are precisely correct. If you showed it to and asked a string of randoms off the street, I think way more than half would agree with the "DIY Alexa" label as reasonably communicative description and more useful than a longer but more precise title.
- hundchenkatze 6y agoYeah, that's a good point. It's easy to get caught up in our little tech bubble :)
- varispeed 6y agoThis is CIY - cobble it yourself.
- Breza 6y agoThat's a fantastic description. Never seen it before. I'm a data scientist. Some of my projects are DIY and some of them just consist of writing code to link data with existing models and I might start using "CIY" to describe them.