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Claude? No. Cucumbers? Yes!
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No? Just me then. How about this - 99% accurate COPD cough count...with a itty bitty convolutional model, on a $30 Adurino.
https://www.edgeimpulse.com/blog/ai-dont-like-the-sound-of-that-cough/
Why this might be cool. Different coughs correlate to different conditions (aka there is work going on in cough acoustics as a diagnostic signal / proxy for spirometry and breath sounds).
The above was trained on his coughs...it's not far from there to "was that a healthy cough, wet cough, dry cough, wheeze? Is this a Blue Bloater or Pink Puffer?"
I've long suspected PoC (Point Of Care) systems could be adapted to use language models. Imagine - Qwen3.5-2B (with --mmproj) that lives on your phone...and you can point at mole or freckle and ask "hey...is this fucky or what" - and it actually KNOWS because it has access to DermNZ and can classify based on ABCDEs