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[Day 166] Buying a new book + pseudocon in Seoul + using Gradio for a quick demo app

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 Hello :) Today is Day 166! A quick summary of today: attendend the 8th pseudocon by pseudolabs in Seoul went to a big book store and bought a cool little book  created a space on huggingface for fine-tuned whisper on our Glaswegian dataset Firstly, about the pseudocon It was decently big - many people. And was organised in the same Microsoft office area as the Microsoft Azure hackathon I attended a few weeks ago.  Some interesting bits from the sessions which covered a wide range - open source, genAI, AWS, stable diffusion and games.  Found out that firebase has free db hosting (again?). I used it back in 2018 when I was initially learning about webapp dev so I might give 'an old friend' a try again Found a nice community of AWS learners - startAWS There was a session on using AI to generate characters for games. It is a touchy topic among gamers and even more among artists, but it is something that as presented today 'can massively decrease cost' Also in the final