[HN Gopher] Teachable Machine
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       Teachable Machine
        
       Author : tosh
       Score  : 58 points
       Date   : 2025-05-20 16:07 UTC (6 hours ago)
        
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       | woah wrote:
       | Could this be used to determine whether or not a food item is a
       | hot dog?
        
         | eitally wrote:
         | Or differentiate between a chihuahua and a muffin?
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         | https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/chihuahua-or-muffin-my-sea...
        
         | lxe wrote:
         | Yes
        
         | blitzar wrote:
         | Like Shazam for food
        
       | ge96 wrote:
       | Curious if you did make something can you export it into some
       | format and use it in like an RPi somehow (provided the inference
       | power isn't crazy). I have used a Pico Voice model before for
       | example set it up on a computer, brought it into a Pi and used it
       | there with a mic.
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       | Edit: I do see languages in there like NodeJS so yeah must be
       | 
       | "export your model" TF.js ahh yeah nice
        
       | varunneal wrote:
       | I believe this is from 2019 or 2020. Any LLM e.g. Gemini could
       | one shot any problem here, I believe.
        
         | pzo wrote:
         | correct, youtube video shows it was uploaded 5 years ago -
         | doubt it is relevant today even if someone don't want to use
         | VLM for those tasks. Google dropped ball on tensorflow lite and
         | their rebrand to LiteRT is still WIP.
         | 
         | Probably safer bet is to use onnxruntime or executorch if
         | someone needs to deploy on edge devices today. At least for
         | onnx, community is huge on hugging face and plenty of modern
         | SOTA models already in transformers and transformers.js.
        
         | Wowfunhappy wrote:
         | It's useful for teaching kids about machine learning. Actually,
         | IMO it's the _only_ tool for doing so that isn 't complete
         | garbage. Everything else in the space is terrible.
        
       | puzu wrote:
       | I use it to explain machine learning to kids. You can integrate
       | it in a custom version of scratch:
       | https://playground.raise.mit.edu/create/
        
         | profsummergig wrote:
         | I agree that it is a useful tool for teaching students about
         | ML.
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         | I'm going to use it in a course to teach a machine to recognize
         | claps vs finger-snaps.
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         | If you know of other simple, light tools like this that can be
         | used to teach / demonstrate ML, please share.
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         | Thank you.
        
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