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eurekin

1,035 karma · joined September 6, 2012

"thoughtful considerations about practical applications"

Self hosting, SBCs, AI/Vision/LLMs

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eurekin··on The iPhone 15 Pro’s Depth Maps
I was generally flabbergasted by that "My Workstation" section existence in the article at all...

Is it in any way relevant?

eurekin··on If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
> and expects others to knife them in the back

Sounds a lot like a projection, of what they would actually do

eurekin··on If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
Another wild, unsubstantiated guess... The reason for him interrupting others, might be the stress caused by not understanding what's being said, but having to hold the professional image
eurekin··on If you are useful, it doesn't mean you are valued
> However I will never forget how the one man, who never actually did any work, who interrupted everyone, and who made these accusations, was basically doing everything he could do "seem like he had a job".

Judging from your description, you could actually be a threat to his position. So that might be a preemptive strike.

eurekin··on Sleep apnea pill shows striking success in large clinical trial
Any way to discern one from another?
eurekin··on How we made our OCR code more accurate
I'm guessing to automatically scrape videos for future training rounds.
eurekin··on Material 3 Expressive
Challenge: find positive comment about m3 here
eurekin··on I don't like NumPy
That's one area LLMs hugely helped. You can just ask it and ask to generate tests to verify
eurekin··on LegoGPT: Generating Physically Stable and Buildable Lego
Metaheurestics? I always thought it's similar to "I don't know how many neurons to put in the hidden layer... and I also don't know how many hidden layers I need, so, let's make it a part of the optimisation problem to find out on it's own".
eurekin··on Teaching LLMs how to solid model
I have come across a significant number of non engineers wanting to do, what ultimately involves some basic CAD modelling. Some can stall on such tasks for years (home renovation) or just don't do it at all. After some brief research, the main cause is not wanting to sink over 30 hours into learning basics of a cad package of choice.

For some reason they imagine it as a daunting, complicated, impenetrable task with many pitfalls, which aren't surmountable. Be it interface, general idea how it operates, fear of unknown details (tolerances, clearances).

It's easy to underestimate the knowledge required to use a cad productively.

One such anecdata near me are highschools that buy 3d printers and think pupils will naturally want to print models. After initial days of fascination they stopped being used at all. I've heard from a person close to the education that it's a country wide phenomena.

Back to the point though - maybe there's a group of users that want to create, but just can't do CAD at all and such text description seem perfect for them.

eurekin··on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
I have no real or deep knowledge, just some casual pop news reading.

Isn't ketosis the state, in which the body switches to fat as the primary fuel?

eurekin··on A flowing WebGL gradient, deconstructed
Googled "luminescence" and OpenGL -- don't seem to return relevant results. Could you point to where it's described?
eurekin··on How many supernova explode every year?
Isn't the observable universe finite? There can't be a infinite number of anything in a space of radius R, even if R is very big.
eurekin··on Temu pulls its U.S. Google Shopping ads
Concur. Even a planetary, cycloidal or strain wave reducers. To be honest, I don't know, where else I could find such diverse product catalog.
eurekin··on Show HN: Nue – Apps lighter than a React button
Don't forget to mention "vibe coding" somewhere too
eurekin··on Qwen2.5-VL-32B: Smarter and Lighter
I've tried using it, but it's browser tab seems to peg one core to 100% after some time. Anyone else experienced it?
eurekin··on Poland says it may need alternative to Musk’s Starlink in Ukraine
Actual "tweets"/x-posts:

https://x.com/sikorskiradek/status/1898700362460070080

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1898759859459203457

eurekin··on Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
Cycle's renders are beautiful, but 10 minutes per frame can be a hard sell... I wonder, if anybody tried rendering in cycles to output eevee's primitves. I remember that was one of the tricks that architecture rendering community used - just paint with lights in places that a full blown global rendering/path tracing would do.
eurekin··on Blender-made movie Flow takes Oscar
I haven't seen the movie, but based solely on your comment, it reminds me of how Miyazaki films are often described—full of fantastical, otherworldly wonders that evoke the joy of exploring the unknown.
eurekin··on Violence alters human genes for generations, researchers discover
Typical policymaker: "noted, so we have confirmation for condemning whole generations"
eurekin··on Emergent Misalignment: Narrow finetuning can produce broadly misaligned LLMs [pdf]
That sounds like typical soon to be ex playbook
eurekin··on Show HN: I made a site to tell the time in corporate
> CloudFlare Content Blocked > This has been blocked due to the DNS Default Deny [CONTENT CATEGORIES] rule

I'm seriously considering reporting the site, as blocked in error.

eurekin··on South Korea bans new DeepSeek AI downloads
For those confused about the download ban - it's about the DeepSeek mobile app, not weights
eurekin··on Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
Very impressive!

I've never looked into RC builds before - how are they controlled? Do you connect the PS4 controller directly to the esp?

eurekin··on Show HN: ESP32 RC Cars
In my case it went from a patchy 1mbps to a stable 20mbps right away, according to my router's admin page - right after resoldering the resistor and connecting the antenna.

Resoldering the 0 ohm resistor was like an adventure, but somehow managed to connect the correct pins. The end result looks like following:

https://imgur.com/a/LJflZ80

eurekin··on Run DeepSeek R1 Dynamic 1.58-bit
I have similar set-up - can you help out with running it? Was it in ollama?

EDIT: It seems that original authors provided a nice write-up:

https://unsloth.ai/blog/deepseekr1-dynamic#:~:text=%F0%9F%96...

eurekin··on Qwen2.5-1M: Deploy your own Qwen with context length up to 1M tokens
Can context be split on multiple GPUs?
eurekin··on The Toyota Prius transformed the auto industry
This video cleared up my confusion and corrected my misconceptions, giving me enough knowledge to hold a one-hour discussion with an actual Toyota mechanic.

Highly recommended!

eurekin··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
It's just experience from a video monitoring project we made for a Telco operator - we had to pay up quite a few JPEG related tech, just to get a certification. Even despite that tech being free.

Historically video related field was one of the most patent and license encumbered. That's why AV1 exists.

eurekin··on Canon wants us to pay for using our own camera as a webcam
I'm not sure this is the case, but to play devils advocate - Sony themselves might have to license it from a third party
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