Hugging Face Meets Spiral Eyes Face

So I started learning Hugging Face!

It feels like a labyrinth of never ending—never endings with no true starting place.

And even finding a starting place took a month, got dang it! It took me a month to get to the point where I am able to get the inference API running and giving me at least a translation, if not garbage text based on the model I use.

What’s worse is I haven’t got to a working place where I feel like I can explain what I just went through in order to write myself notes or share insights with others. It’s like with all my hackathon experiences, nothing is working, I walk away, come back, and all of a sudden one line, one work one connection makes everything work. I can’t begin to explain the magic of what I have been doing for nearly 20 years as a software engineer but I do enjoy it enough to keep hacking at it. Sorry I am a doer not a teacher.

What can I say about getting started with Hugging face that got me to where I am? One simple working example, live for others to see and interact with.

I JUST KEPT F’N HACKING AWAY AT IT!!!

My steps included falling a sleep to videos, waking up to video explainers, reading every medium post and slowly slugging my way through documentation all to avoid debilitating fear of being barked at by folks who do this all day long and sit on forums ready to devour newbies. Newbies such as myself, who are just trying to update their skills into a world they thought started in 2022 but low and behold they been here since 2000. Yep, 2000 when I was in high school being stared the wrong direction not told about anything I had to eventually teach myself over the years to be able to eat.

Word to the wise anything you want to learn you can learn yourself just keep hacking at it.