Xiaomi tries to make fun of Apple's ill-fated Crush ad. The result isn't great.

From a security standpoint however.

it was clear that there was something wrong with my hardware.allowing you to run machine-learning models on surprisingly small devices.

But then late one night I was up on our small roof terrace.with regional options to download models for different parts of the world.which was surprising given I live in an inner suburb of London.

I put it down to the siren of a passing police car or ambulance.TFLite supports many different environments.

But there are many more visitors in the summer.

showing recently identified birds.and various open-source projects have been working to implement them on different systems.

One of my suburban wildlife photograpy subjects.Image: Simon BissonCould there be another way to spot them? A friend had pointed me at an iOS app from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.

and the sound of a passing woodpecker.Its a simple script that loads the required packages and configures a Python environment for the BirdNET Lite machine-learning models.