erwincoumans

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   by erwincoumans 19d ago

   Very cool projects, and amazing a 14 byte nn can do it. Would be fun to analyze its approach, converting it to a Code-as-Policy.
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   by erwincoumans 19d ago

   Very cool. Are you familiar with the game Voxile? Its author also created custome languages, and the game uses Lobster.
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   by erwincoumans 2mo ago

   Thanks for the really nice in-depth post! Hoping for a future one about: "Much recent work on auto-research, self-improving agents, and evolutionary program search can be organized around this question. Other work on model self-play, s
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   by erwincoumans 2mo ago

   Brings back memories of Soundmonitor (Commodore 64, 1986) with vertical scrolling, hex note tracking, and 3-channel column layouts.
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   by erwincoumans 3mo ago

   Another happy customer, bought two Jamcorder units. Not just the hardware is simple, the software as well: it just works, quietly in the background. I just had to enable daily auto-reset otherwise it eventually had issues. Whenever someone
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   by erwincoumans 3mo ago

   Makes me feel old, as original Bullet creator.
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   by erwincoumans 3mo ago

   Great to finally see Box3D released! Glad to see some healthy physics simulation options, next to Jolt, PhysX and https://github.com/newton-physics/newton (using MuJoCo Warp, which I've been pushing at NVIDIA). Bu
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   by erwincoumans 4mo ago

   I got bifocal monthly contact lenses (-7, +2 and correction for astigmatism). It has been such a relief to read screen/phone without needing to wear reading glasses while still seeing far away). The daily soft lenses didn't correc
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   by erwincoumans 4mo ago

   Agreed Gemini maybe not the best, but it is still pretty good. And their research was the foundation of others (Attention is all you need paper).
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    by erwincoumans 4mo ago

    Gemini is pretty good.
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    by erwincoumans 5mo ago

    and active suspension, now attach wheels.
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    by erwincoumans 5mo ago

    Just a matter of time until they add wheels to its feet, and the legs will act as active suspension. See also https://youtube.com/watch?v=srPz8TRpZ_8 and https://youtube.com/watch?v=iI8UUu9g8iI (at around 1
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    by erwincoumans 5mo ago

    >> I am curious what you mean by rework tweezers. Link please! Hakko FM2023-05 Mini Hot Tweezers Kit or Hakko FX8804-02 Hot Tweezer for Hakko FX-888 for example. >> I wish there was some way to switch tips that didn't invol
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    by erwincoumans 5mo ago

    Agreed on stereo microscope, also suggest flux and a good iron with exchangeable tips and hot tweezers (I enjoy the Hakko).
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    by erwincoumans 5mo ago

    Very nice project. If you like this, the Pupper quadruped robot project by Stanford University is also interesting, with RL training pipeline as well and well-documented open source instructions for 3d printing etc. https://puppe
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    by erwincoumans 5mo ago

    Green Beret and Rambo: First Blood Part 2 tunes are still amazing, Martin is a wizard.
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    by erwincoumans 5mo ago

    There is a 122TB nvme PCIe SSD: https://www.solidigm.com/products/data-center/d5/p5336.html
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    by erwincoumans 7mo ago

    CentralComputers is worth visiting, if you were into Frys.
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    by erwincoumans 7mo ago

    It is common for header-only libraries: you need to include this header in one c++ using the macro for linking (don't use that macro in other c++ files to avoid duplicate symbols). In C++, you can declare a function as many times as y
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    by erwincoumans 8mo ago

    I highly recommend starting with the very affordable and well documented Lerobot SO101 arms. You can 3d print or buy parts and actuators, camera. Lots of tutorials and training policies, data collection and simulations. https://h
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    by erwincoumans 9mo ago

    Indeed, magic. How about the Commodore 64, there was a game (Eindeloos, Radarsoft, 1985) within 64kb that has a huge map. Someone recently (after 40 years!) extracted the map (500 screens) and the png alone is 800kb. See the story an zoom i
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    by erwincoumans 9mo ago

    If only exfat had symbolic links.
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    by erwincoumans 9mo ago

    Nice shots, would fit well in the Baraka (or Samara) movie.
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    by erwincoumans 10mo ago

    Yes, an amazing and detailed post, enjoyed all of it. In AI, it is common to use jit compilers (pytorch, jax, warp, triton, taichi, ...) that compile to cuda (or rocm, cpu, tpu, ...). You could write renderers like that, rasterizers or ray
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    by erwincoumans 10mo ago

    Pretty complex project, brings up C64 assembly programming memories (with some freeze cartridge with monitor to enter asm OP codes). It would be interesting to see all the actual LLM queries to get those results.
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    by erwincoumans 10mo ago

    I wonder if they used silent computer fans? I love the quiet Noctua fans, and replace all noisy fans with them: fans in pc, wifi router, playstation 5, mister fpga, robots, jetson orin etc.
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    by erwincoumans 10mo ago

    I tried Bluesky and wanted to like it. My account got flagged as spam, still no idea why. Ironically it could be another way of loosing ones voice to an LLM :)
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    by erwincoumans 11mo ago

    Yeah the Mister Pi makes more sense, financially. On the C64 side, there is the upcoming C64 Ultimate https://www.commodore.net , that looks almost identical to the original one
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    by erwincoumans 11mo ago

    Thanks, your comment made me buy the icode prebuilt preloaded MiSTer FPGA, 128mb ram, hope that is sufficient for Amiga Vision. I used to own an Amiga 500 with internal HDD, long ago. Guru meditations still exist? https://www.ico
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    by erwincoumans 11mo ago

    It is good to point it out it is for offline simulations. There is some related recent work, Offset Geometric Contact that is suitable for interactive use: https://ankachan.github.io/Projects/OGC/index.html