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It was a sad surprise last week when we tried to upgrade the workspace AI plan for some of our team members to Ultra and it was gone. We're moving to Claude/Codex.

DINOv3 11 months ago

That's awesome. DINOv2 was the best image embedder until now.

I’ve been using DinoV2 for some months now. I’ve tried the models with 4 register tokens along with CLS + patch tokens. I’ve several embeddings (tokens) from previous model (no registers) which are part of my solution, so I didn’t adopt the newer “register” models because the CLS tokens are not aligned between 0 registers and 4 registers models. It would be nice if the CLS and patch tokens were somehow aligned between those models.

Thanks, @rasmi. I have a feedback for you guys. The pricing for predictions inference in GCP is not very fair. If I deploy a small model (like a SqueezeNet or Mobilenet) I pay almost the same price of someone deploying large models (like Resnet or VGG). That’s why I’m deploying my models on serverless environments and paying about 5 dollars for 1 million inferences.

The pricing of GCP is: $0.10 per thousand predictions, plus $0.40 per hour. That’s more than 100 dollars for 1 million inferences.

Thanks for the answer. Currently I’m using AWS Lambda to deploy my TensorFlow models. But it’s pretty hard and hacky. I need to remove a considerable portion of the code base that is not needed for inference only routines. I do that so the code loads faster and to fit the deployment package size limit. If TensorFlow Lite is already a compressed code, then it may be much easier to deploy it to a serverless environment. I’ll be trying it in my next deployments.

Every now and then I have to train models (mostly neural networks) that bypass captchas.

My company provides web automation in Brazil, not for spam, not for marketing purposes. Sometimes the client has a website (like an intranet) that she wants to automate through screen scraping. I know it sounds stupid, but that is pretty frequent.

The models are fast (most captchas solved under 100ms in AWS Lambda) and accurate (95 to 100%). I have about 40 different captchas being solved this way.

My team is still working on a solution to nocaptcha recaptcha. The problem for me is not solving the challenges, but submitting them like a human would do.

I'm progressing with chromium headless. As more and more sites add this captcha, I need to find a solution to automate it. And I'm confident I will find.

I'm partner of a B2B business.

We send cards and/or gifts on Christmas for every client. I and my partner write all the cards. We always thank the client for being with us another year and we ensure them we will do everything possible for the next year to be even better.

We haven't lost a client in the past two years. We have about 30.

You can sign up for the newsletter at http://www.mlyearning.org/. Andrew will be releasing more draft chapters in the next week.

I've already read the first 12 chapters. I found it very practical for developers who have already worked with NNs. Basically the book discusses common problems and how to deal with them. Gold resource.

I'm a client of Bradesco, a popular bank in Brazil. I've chosen to migrate my account to a digital account called "Bradesco Prime Digital". The main communication channel with my account manager is WhatsApp, so he can take the day off.

I'm also selling my house and I'm pretty sure that every Real Estate agents in São Paulo use WhatsApp as the main communication channel. So no visits today.

I was having a conversation with the pediatrician of my children, so no answers today on what to do with my baby vomiting. It's not so serious to make a call, but it was fine to send a message.

My mother is 63 and sends WhatsApp messages every day to me, so no mommy messages today.

Well, it's not all that bad... I think today may be a very productive day for me.