Re: Neural Networks (MNIST inference) on the “3-cent” Microcontroller

On 28/10/2024 16:42, D. Ray wrote:

George Neuner <gneuner2@comcast.net> wrote:
 

Depends on whether you mean

 Perhaps you misunderstood me. I’m not the author, I just posted beginning
of a blog post and provided the link to the rest of it because it seemed
interesting. The reason I didn’t post a whole thing is because there are
quite few illustrations.
 Blog post ends with:
 “It is indeed possible to implement MNIST inference with good accuracy
using one of the cheapest and simplest microcontrollers on the market. A
lot of memory footprint and processing overhead is usually spent on
implementing flexible inference engines, that can accomodate a wide range
of operators and model structures. Cutting this overhead away and reducing
the functionality to its core allows for astonishing simplification at this
very low end.
 This hack demonstrates that there truly is no fundamental lower limit to
applying machine learning and edge inference. However, the feasibility of
implementing useful applications at this level is somewhat doubtful.”

It's fine to quote from a blog post or other such sources, as long as you make it clear that this is what you are doing (and that you are not quoting so much that it is copyright infringement).  Your first post in this thread was formatted in a way that makes it clear and obvious that it was your own original words, written for the Usenet post - but apparently that was not the case.  Remember, no one reading Usenet is going to click on random links in a post - we need very good reason to do so.  So please, next time write some introductory or explanatory text yourself and make the whole thing clearer.
I think it is quite cool to hear that it is possible to do something like this on these 3-cent microcontrollers, but I would not expect anyone to use them in practice.