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Vast.ai mentions (223)

• Nvidia pursues $30B custom chip opportunity with new unit

  There are already ways to get around this. For example, renting compute from people who aren't in datacenters. Which is already a thing: https://vast.ai. - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• A SETI-like project to train LLM on libgen, scihub and the likes?

  By "SETI" I assume you mean the SETI@Home distributed computing project. There's a two-way market where you can rent out your GPU here: https://vast.ai/. - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  - https://vast.ai/ (linked by gchadwick above). - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Ask HN: What's the best hardware to run small/medium models locally?

  Have you considered running on a cloud machine instead? You can rent machines on https://vast.ai/ for under $1 an hour that should work for small/medium models (I've mostly been playing with stable diffusion so I don't know what you'd need for an LLM off hand). Good GPUs and Apple hardware is pricey. Get a bit of automation setup with some cloud storage (e.g backblaze B2) and you can have a machine ready to run... - Source: Hacker News / 6 months ago

• Budget-friendly Cloud server to host OpenAI Whisper?

  I have heard vast.ai is cheap but I haven't tried it out. https://websiteinvesting.com/reviews/vast-ai-review/. Source: 6 months ago

Amazon Textract mentions (35)

• Ask HN: How to OCR a PDF and preserve whitespace?

  Did you try textract? https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ In my experience it works amazingly well with columns / tabulated content. - Source: Hacker News / 5 days ago

• Classifying and Extracting Data using Amazon Textract

  Amazon Textract has an Analyze Lending API for evaluating and categorizing the documents contained in mortgage loan application packages, as well as extracting the data they contain. The new API can assist in processing applications quicker and with minimal errors, therefore improving the end-customer experience and lowering operational costs. - Source: dev.to / 5 months ago

• Ask HN: OCR for 100 year old (German) handwritten cursive script?

  You could try something like https://aws.amazon.com/textract/ or https://cloud.google.com/vision/docs/handwriting. Both have support for modern handwriting. I don't know if it will work with a script written a century ago though. - Source: Hacker News / 5 months ago

• Deploy and Test AWS Step Functions with Node.js

  Create a main.js file inside the look-for-github-profile-step project folder. Implement the code that parses the resume and plucks the GitHub profile URL. This step function is responsible for using Textract (an AI service from AWS) and passing state back to the state machine. - Source: dev.to / 8 months ago

• Automate invoice processing using AWS Textract

  The primary challenge in processing invoices is extracting the relevant data. This is where Amazon Textract can help. It is a service provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) that uses advanced Machine Learning (ML) algorithms to automatically extract structured and unstructured data from scanned documents, images, and PDF files. It can detect typed and handwritten text in different types of documents including... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago