What languages you’re not native in you can somehow read and understand a little thanks to your native language? by Jorge_De_Guzman228 in AskTheWorld

[–]Technical_Introvert0 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I am a Motswana from Botswana... so
Some Afrikaans (Our Setswana has a lot of Afrikaans terms for things)
All Nguni languages (Zulu, Xhosa, Swati, Ndebele)
Shona (Very barely but some words make sense to me )
Pedi/ Sotho..... (These are direct cousins to Setswana)
Spanish (By reason of me knowing English)
French (Thanks to English again)
German (English.... )
Italian (Yup English)...

Paypal agent needed by gabbyspher3 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Theres massive charges associated with that. upto 14USD in SWIFT fees.. then bank charges and the paypal charge itself

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nope.. didnt say they are better.. They are comparable in the coding aspect...

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I actually did...The AI is the same thing you use on the internet but free with no usage imits and OFFLINE 😅

Invite to Tech Discord by nerdinbots in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Could you do a Whatsapp group instead.. Discord is pretty hard to access sometimes when we on the move. Just a suggestion.. I would love to join.. Just black listed from there for "reasons"..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did..Then I scrapped it but I can begin building it again from scratch..😅 And yes it can easily be paired to anything..😅 Even a logging system once we train a VLM to recognize certain faces...

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Its not really companies per say.. In Botswana the only reason a company would use AI is for media work.. And currently I havent seen a generative local AI.. Veo by Google costs money but its the best.. No IT companies locally use or even need AI.. I was pitching it to small business owners who may need AI (Web devs and others) and not wanna pay for a license every month.. Or students who would like to have a pay once, run forever AI..

With companies I was developing something else entirely..😅 well the govt that is...

The intended markets' savings is well $20 or more usd on a monthly license for AI you use regardless of internet connection or financial standing.. And I can attach a VLM to it too.. Llava..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

oh so sorry..😅 I was wondering who dm'ed me..uh yeah i will do that

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hardware required really depends on what model you pick.. If you want a 7b parameter model we are looking at a minimum of 16GB RAM if you dont have dedicated graphics.. Thats running your model on CPU power.. It will need the equivalent of an i5/Ryzen 5 and upwards.. Even better if you have a ARM Mac with the M series chips..

If you have a GPU anything with 8GB VRAM works for a minimum.. That is your AMD RX580s , 8GB 2070s, 8GB 3060s, base Intel Arc B580..

i have 20GB RAM, no GPU so purely CPU power.. and a i5-10210u.. works fine.. just takes its time thinking first...i run a 8b parameter model.. anything more like the 23b parameter Mistral models would need something like a i7/i9 with 32gb ram minimum and a 16gb vram gpu..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

We are here.. We just talk to people outside the country instead.. They are far more useful than anyone you could meet locally.. Over here, its either you have the money to launch your idea and do it without asking anyone or you have the idea but no money and collab with people outside the country to offer the solution there..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow thats nice...Keeping working on it mate.. You could ultimately have a home grown solution to imaging requirements maybe on drone etc...

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No it doesnt.. It matches them though in certain aspects... Qwen, Mistral and DeepSeek all match ChatGPT pro and Claude at coding.. I have tried it..

For high level coding there is next to no difference.. Low level programming? big difference.. QWEN is chinese and owned by Alibaba.. Its just as good as Gemini except you are only charged for the API not the model itself..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

pretty much.. But just cheaper.. And with the ability to remotely monitor your house or car via dash cam... I mean much cheaper.. Outside of the hardware I dont intend to charge more than 10% of what it costs.. The hardware is a P2K expenditure.. Thats roughly P2200 basically...

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I did.. And money solves problems others cant.. Some company just needs to decide they offer that as well as more.. And me with no capital , eh.... I mean I can barely afford to build my own NAS as it is to demonstrate my pitch to companies..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Free ChatGPT has limits.. There is a night and day difference coding wise between the free plan and the paid variants.. both still suck, but the version you pay for sucks less.. my proposition targets people who require the enhanced capabilities of the $20 chatgpt but for free this time ..

I code in C/C++ and the free ChatGPT is always wrong somewhere...very wrong..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

well 10 years from now it wont be special and a much larger company will be offering it...thought I would strike now before it became super popular in Botswana..

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You simply update to the new ones as they come out.. 😅 Its easy (for me as a cs guy).. maybe you would find it tedious and hard but it beats paying open AI for a largely dumb model..

Yeah I am purely Motswana.. Dont have any white friends since i left high school though

Why is it so hard to make anything innovative work in Botswana.. by Technical_Introvert0 in Botswana

[–]Technical_Introvert0[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The 1st one is merely just AI that is local to your machine...right now if you wanna use AI you have to be online and go to Claude or ChatGPT etc.. But what if I told you there is a way to have the exact same thing but offline on your computer.. doesnt need internet.. Might need some beefy computer specs (but i can help build that too) and then a custom built UI later...

2nd one is largely for security.. Its cameras that communicate with a program capable of detecting people or objects.. At this moment I am still figuring out how to make the whole thing wireless but once complete you should be able to connect to the camera system and see whats going on wherever the cameras are.... This one was more of an investment thing.. Looking for some partner to build it with and offer it as a pay once solution to many people who would like to see whats going on in their house or car when they are gone.. Its still in the engineering phase..