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== Introductions ==
* [name] - [background]. [goals for meetup, or interests to explore]

* Loren - meetup -- host to talk
* Greg -- interested in self-hosted things generally, made an RSS reader in rust (with llms over the weekend)
* Oliver -- arrived today from Switzerland, travelling CA, bay today. Professionally a software engineer, home lab, cybersecurity & networking experience. 
* Kat -- background in speech recognition, working for google for the last few years. Explore the open source domain again, rediscovering the work.  Really interested in AI in the OSS space.
* Doug -- spending the last week chopping up images -- looking for a silver bullet -- difficult algorithms required. Write some software. 
* Cloud -- used to write ... Got exposed to TTS/STT, Tor, encryption.

* Jake -- do backend dev at work, video games on the side, toying with llms lately, alwasy interested in self-hosted stuff
* Tucker -- first time here, note sure what's here. Video games, self driving cars, working with llms. Working on a project, self-hosted, jarvis -- extensive home automation
* Logan -- like playing minecraft, only work on, only play
* Moof -- here with Login, only play with rust, only thing I work. The game.



== Lessons or Demo ==
* Read aloud: clarify for meetup. We are taking notes in a riseup pad (or I am--help appreciated, and links). We have meeting notes posted to the wiki. noisebridge.net, search Infra, or Meetups/Infra. (the Infrastructure page has a disambiguation link.)
* Shell, web services, self-hosting, networking!


Speech models, 
Nvidia -- ramping up, quietly but solidly. Reimplementing stuff published a few years ago. 

Tokenizaion -- often happens in spectrum.

* https://rss.ichigo.everydayimshuflin.com/
* https://code.everydayimshuflin.com/greg/rss-reader

Written with cursor -- $20/mo. 
Have yet to try cursor against my own lengthy nix configuration.

Workflow with cursor, how fast was the iteration speed?  It comple


* more introductions

JVM engineer. 

* Theme: more -- what have you been building with llms --
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Tucker -- jarvis home
iOS app -- doing local development -- live update wihtout 
nginx, flask, llm 

 prompt -- you are jarvis -- you should act in this way.
 a little bit of system context gets injected -- system status, e.g. speaker  disconnection, 
 streaming back reply
 11labs -- sentence by sentence. Lower latency but lower quality speech. 
 
bottlenecks 


 overnight sleep/dream/hallucination

 secretary front end -- just dispatches task requests
 task-specific requests
 based on 

 faiss -- 

phone / watch / vuez-its $800 (sp)/$500 -- (no camera --  1) screen 2) custom code on it 3) look normal-ish  -- would love mic/speaker/camera.  Meta Orion project, $25k.  



Last few things:

- aliexpress -- oura ring formfactor, can run python code, at least hr
- streamlit -- snowflake open source -- ml demos, takes care of html
- bunnylol -- / cony. 



* Loren: make signs/designs, make networked LAN web app.


== Questions, Discussion, or Coworking ==
* [Issue] 
= For next time =
== Questions ==
== Readings & Exercises ==
* Readings
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* Exercises
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== Join online ==
* Try it yourself!
** Join libera.chat #nb-meetup-infra

https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Meetups/Infra