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Aotearoa Weekly Kōrero 11/4/2024 (self.newzealand)
submitted 7 months ago by Dave to c/newzealand
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[–] NoRamyunForYou 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

During my research, I've been seeing a lot of talk around Docker. Is that sort of like in between a Venv & VM?

My understanding is that is you use a Coral TPU, it basically allows you to run things such as Image recognition on much lesser hardware than would otherwise be possible? In theory, does that mean you don't need the top of the line everything else if you're trying to run something like that?

[–] eagleeyedtiger 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I’m not going to pretend like I’m an expert at either of these. Unraid has come a long way now that installing app containers is pretty trivial. I am going to link this reddit comment that does a pretty good ELI5: Here

With the Coral, I think it’s literally the tensor processing unit (hence TPU) or coprocessor that is found usually on GPU’s for AI and machine learning. So you can use it with lower powered devices that can’t fit a discrete GPU or offload the processing to the TPU instead of using CPU/GPU. I think. Don’t quote me on that 😆

[–] NoRamyunForYou 3 points 7 months ago

Looking at what others have done online, it seems the corals can really benefit inference speeds for image recognition. Hopefully I'll be putting my order in to test it out :)