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by mk_stjames 1y ago
It's really hard to explain if you don't know how CAD kernels produce final BREP shapes via their process trees, but, try give an example- something like "this is a 2mm fillet" requires a 'fillet solver' that i
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I want to point out that LLMs can be completely deterministic if the final sampler is run with 0 temperature (picking the highest probability token), no top-k, fixed seed, etc.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I wanted to do some quick math on this idea- supposed we trained a vanilla transformer model from scratch, as GPT2/GPT3 was done- the number of seen input tokens is known perfectly, as is the sources of those training tokens (since the
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
70-100 kilobytes on a single sheet of paper by tiling QR codes is pretty dense. I find it interesting that, if you were print 4 sheets double sided you would have roughly the same amount of information stored as a 720kb 5 1/4" flo
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
They literally have a locations information site, which has a map, and shows if the locations are open or closed. So, they already have a web team capable of doing this because they already have it. https://locations.wafflehouse.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I'm surprised at some of the comments here that don't see Waffle House's side of this. You're a company, and some third party makes a website that very much looks like it could be official, using your name and logo in pa
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Make tram cars that sit on giant plates that straddle giant cuboids of ice, and rail beds that are like luge lanes, pulled along by overhead ropes. Have the water in the lanes flow at the ends into waterwheels that help drive the ropes as
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
From the same people that brought you "Vibe Coding", comes "Vibe Acquisitions".
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
The next step for a project like this would be to incorporate a better, perhaps bepsoke SDR device more focused on the astronomy to be performed as most small off the shelf RTLSDR dongles have pretty horrible frequency drift. The addition
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
This post does not contain any actual information about the thesis. Also, the title of this submission is incorrect: Prevost does not have a PhD, this dissertation was to obtain a Doctor of Canon Law, which is often abbreviated as 'JC
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Post wants to talk about money spent and smart ways to prepare... and then goes and links the portable battery system used and it is a 4kwh battery+inverter+solar charger combo with a few 200W solar panels that costs... get this.. $4399. Th
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
Using code to do graphical layouts is... tedious. In case anyone wants to get more artsy with their traces and are also using KiCad, here's a more hands on approach to try: Layout your parts in KiCad, but don't route any traces.
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
All these glasses have so many layers of abstraction I don't want between something I develop and the display. Let me connect via bluetooth direct to the glasses with anything and just tx/rx via a serial port and some low level pr
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-51-A brought two satellites back in the cargo bay that had not reached their proper orbit on a prior launch. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STS-32 brought back the
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I have had insane numbers of problems being someone who travels/moves countries a lot with banks wanting their app to 2fa before allowing transactions, the app not working, my phone dying just when I am trying to pay my bill at a resta
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
To add, all the new audio models (partially) use diffusion methods that are exactly the same methods as used on images - the audio generation can be thought of as an image generation of a spectrogram of an audio file. For early experiments
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by mk_stjames 1y ago
I have a very long and maybe ill-formed in-person rant about medical costs in the USA and the cost of higher education in the last 30 years and how these issues are are n-sides of the same n-sided coin but it takes about 8 beers to get thro
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
My constructive crit: I'd really like to be able to just answer the puzzle without answering any of the intermediate stages. It is a much more challenging feat to just hold it all in your head and then type out the one long answer tha
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
I'd really like to see this coupled with some SLAM techniques to essentially allow really accurate, long-range outdoor scene mapping with nothing but a cell phone. A small panning video of city street, right now, can generate a pretty
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
I'm almost positive I've seen those drivers that are being used on the cutting head before... They look like.... yeah: Waterproof audio transducers, make by a company called PQN and designed for hot tub sound systems. https:&#x2F
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
I've referenced this paper many times here; it's easily in my top 10 of papers I've ever read. It's one of those ones that, if you go into it blind, you have several "Oh no f'king way" moments. The intere
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
The transmittance of light through the human eyelid is about two orders of magnitude greater at the start of the near-IR (~700) nm than it is at 450nm. [1] [1] "Measuring and predicting eyelid spectral transmittance" Journal of Bi
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
Two random things completely tangent to the article's main topic: 1. The bit at the end about the happenstance of having stock in "every hotel, airline, bank, and similar I use" as a chip to potentially use in a customer serv
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
Throughout the 90's it was said that during tours they would send someone in each city to various pawn shops and bought up Yamaha DX7's- you could easily find a DX7 in thrift stores for $100 or less in those days, the FM sound was
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
... one of my favorite NIN bits of a recent release though was what you got mailed for 'Not The Actual Events' if you chose it- The album was digital only, which I too was disappointed at. But if you chose to, they mailed somethi
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
So the 300A is an accelerator coupled with a full 24-core EPYC and 128GB of HBM all on a single chip (or, packaged chiplets, whatever). Why is it I can't buy a single one of these, on a motherboard, in a workstation format case, to use
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
A "Panphonic Poem" is what may do well here. As in... The pleasure of Shawn’s company Is what I most enjoy. He put a tack on Ms. Yancey’s chair When she called him a horrible boy. At the end of the month he was flingin
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
3D printing via paper sheet stacks was one of the first 'rapid prototype' technologies. It was around in the automative industry at least in the mid 1980's, and was called LOM - Laminated Object Manufacturing. The machine
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
This is essentially the paradigm what Karpathy deemed to be "Software 2.0" in an article in 2017: https://karpathy.medium.com/software-2-0-a64152b37c35
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by mk_stjames 2y ago
Wild, that was the first title I tried as well. It is such a specific word, hence why I tried it first. It's actually said eight times in the movie (I ctrl+f'd an .srt file). The page mentions the methodology was to use opensubti

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