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Akash Paul

Akash Paul

@iakashpaul

Portal: Hole in your Palm

Submitted Jan 16, 2024

Portal: Hole in your Palm

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Through this initiative I’d like to revisit the almost 20 year old experiment of ‘The Hole in the Wall’ project by Sugata Mitra, which incorporated minimally invasive education by having a computer kiosk embedded in a wall at less fortunate locations across India.

Given the increased prevalence of smartphones throughout the country but with often limited internet/network coverage in far flung locations or restricted internet access. This along with families deciding on activating/deactivating internet plans to avoid paying high fees/rental plans leads to the friction of thinking about cost before getting answers to a question/query at any point of time.

I propose creating an Android app which can incorporate few of the smaller LLMs for tasks like general QnA, coding help, translation etc. Thereby making educational resources more accessible & available to users without depending on costly cloud GPUs or active internet connections. Adding modalities like STT/TTS on device along with possible image generation could be extensions to this app down the road.

GitHub: iakashpaul/portal

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