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john_minsk··on Blender 5.0
Is there any good test scene that one can download to "test" capabilities of different software? Sorry if it is an ignorant question
john_minsk··on Marble: A Multimodal World Model
You also can't regenerate with the new point of origin. Generate -> stop ... No way to continue?

Update - it is a paid feature

john_minsk··on Marble: A Multimodal World Model
This is great. Can I use it with existing scan of my room to fill the gaps? Not a random world

Update - yes you can. To be tested.

john_minsk··on Perkeep – Personal storage system for life
Can it be used with AI to create your personal context?
john_minsk··on Spatial intelligence is AI’s next frontier
We think alike. Have you tried to replace point cloud of white wall with a generic white wall automatically?
john_minsk··on A definition of AGI
True, but a human child is taught a language. He doesn't come with it. It is an important part of how our brains form.
john_minsk··on A definition of AGI
Well, you can explain to a plant in your room that E=mc2 in a couple of sentences, a plant can't explain to you how it feels the world.

If cows were eating grass and conceptualising what is infinity, and what is her role in the universe, and how she was born, and what would happen after she is dead... we would see a lot of jumpy cows out there.

john_minsk··on A definition of AGI
Agreed. Everything that looks like intelligence to ME is intelligent.

My measurement of outside intelligence is limited by my intelligence. So I can understand when something is stupider compared to me. For example, industrial machine vs human worker, human worker is infinitely more intelligent compared to machine, because this human worker can do all kinds of interesting stuff. this metaphorical "human worker" did everything around from laying a brick to launching a man to the Moon.

....

Imagine Super-future, where humanity created nanobots and they ate everything around. And now instead of Earth there is just a cloud of them.

These nanonobots were clever and could adapt, and they had all the knowledge that humans had and even more(as they were eating earth a swarm was running global science experiments to understand as much as possible before the energy ends).

Once they ate the last bite of our Earth(an important note here: they left an optimal amount of matter to keep running experiments. Humans were kept in a controlled state and were studied to increase Swarm's intelligence), they launched next stage. A project, grand architect named "Optimise Energy capture from the Sun".

Nanobots re-created the most efficient ways of capturing the Sun energy - ancient plants, which swarm studied for centuries. Swarm added some upgrades on top of what nature came up with, but it was still built on top of what nature figured by itself. A perfect plant to capture the Sun's energy. All of them a perfect copy of itself + adaptive movements based on their geolocation and time(which makes all of them unique).

For plants nanobots needed water, so they created efficient oceans to feed the plants. They added clouds and rains as transport mechanism between oceans and plants... etc etc.

One night the human, which you already know by the name "Ivan the Liberator"(back then everyone called him just Ivan), didn't sleep on his usual hour. Suddenly all the lights went off and he saw a spark on the horizon. Horizon, that was strongly prohibited to approach. He took his rifle, jumped on a truck and raced to the shore - closest point to the spark vector.

Once he approached - there was no horizon or water. A wall of dark glass-like material, edges barely noticeable. Just 30 cm wide. On the left and on the right from a 30 cm wide wall - an image as real as his hands - of a water and sky. At the top of the wall - a hole. He used his gun to hit the wall with the light - and it wasn't very thick, but once he hit - it regenerated very quickly. But once he hit a black wall - it shattered and he saw a different world - world of plants.

He stepped into the forest, but these plants, were behaving differently. This part of the swarm wasn't supposed to face the human, so these nanobots never saw one and didn't have optimised instructions on what to do in that case. They started reporting new values back to the main computer and performing default behaviour until the updated software arrived from an intelligence center of the Swarm.

A human was observing a strange thing - plants were smoothly flowing around him to keep a safe distance, like water steps away from your hands in a pond.

"That's different" thought Ivan, extended his hand in a friendly gesture and said - Nice to meet you. I'm Ivan.

....

In this story a human sees a forest with plants and has no clue that it is a swarm of intelligence far greater than him. To him it looks repetitive simple action that doesn't look random -> let's test how intelligent outside entity is -> If entity wants to show its intelligence - it answers to communication -> If entity wants to hide its intelligence - it pretends to be not intelligent.

If Swarm decides to show you that it is intelligent - it can show you that it is intelligent up to your level. It won't be able to explain everything that it knows or understands to you, because you will be limited by your hardware. The limit for the Swarm is only computation power it can get.

john_minsk··on Twake Drive – An open-source alternative to Google Drive
How is it shady?

It beats WA on UI in most cases (especially on desktop), has open source client, much better groups/channels for one-to-many, many-to-many communications. Has bots support like I never seen on WA.

john_minsk··on Show HN: Timelinize – Privately organize your own data from everywhere, locally
Amazing project. In the era of AI I can see the software like this being used daily.
john_minsk··on Download responsibly
If the data changes, how would a torrent client pick it up and download changes?
john_minsk··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
Is it realistic to have enough power in such a small form factor for this effect?
john_minsk··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
Interesting idea, but I would say that it is orders of magnitude harder compared to having an integrated system. Vibration in such a compact space with a very sharp blade... I want this system be stable around me.

I would say, if this idea becomes popular, knife producers can create their own versions in the new models, or retrofit old knives at the shop.

john_minsk··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
That escalated quickly. Thank you!
john_minsk··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
I don't use knives in my kitchen. My romantic partner does. Yesterday I decided to cut some tomatoes only to find out that all knives are dull.

She never said anything, I didn't know it. Why?

Because she is just "used" to it and to her these knives were just fine. So she never thought about sharpening knives in the first place.

I will take those knives to a pro and he will sharpen them for me, as in a rental I stay in, I don't have the tools to do that and as I said in another comment - I don't have a pain free process to do that as I don't do it often.

john_minsk··on Ultrasonic Chef's Knife
I admire you. You are a minority, you know that, right?

I don't have time in my schedule at the moment, which says "sharpen the knifes". So for me - it would be amazing if someone solved this problem in a radical way.

Sporadically I would sharpen the knives and since I don't have it in my "skills" section of the brain, I always have to "figure out" sharpening process.

john_minsk··on For all that's holy, can you just leverage the web, please?
It doesn't work for me in Chrome either. Oh irony.
john_minsk··on Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU
May be. I don't know. Thanks for answering - will check the excalidraw!
john_minsk··on Tiny-tpu: A minimal tensor processing unit (TPU), inspired by Google's TPU
How did you create such amazing animation with svgs? Cool docs
john_minsk··on I'm betting against AI agents in 2025, despite building them
Valid point, however the promise of AI is that it will be able to manufacture a metaphorical “plane” for each and every prompt user inputs I.e. give 100% overall reliability by using all kinds of techniques (testing, decomposing etc) that intelligence can come up with.

So until these techniques are baked into the model by OpenAI, you have to come up with these ideas yourself.

john_minsk··on Exposed MCP servers across the internet
Hmmm. I thought that's the idea of MCP server - give LLM an interface to use your service. Why would it require authentication? One of the tools could be to authenticate. Please destroy this position if I'm wrong.
john_minsk··on Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
Did you get funding in the end?
john_minsk··on Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after
Because it spits out the most probable answer, which is based on endless copycat articles online written by marketers for C-level decision makers to sell their software.

AI doesn't go and read a book on best practices, then comes back saying "Now I know Kung Fu of Software Implementation" and then critically thinks looking at your plan step by step and provides answer. These systems, for now, don't work like that.

Would you disagree?

john_minsk··on Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
Just went trough Yo-Yo. Any good strategies on how to overcome it for good?
john_minsk··on Jensen Huang – Nvidia GTC 2025 Keynote
It means that Disney, company which is a CGI/movie/cartoon producing company(Pixar created OpenUSD format) can use the same tools and make physical robot walk on stage.

If the venue, where the presentation took place also has readily available 3D model made with OpenUSD in SimReady level of details, Pixar could just download this model to their cartoon tools and start training virtual model of the robot in the virtual model of the venue before the event and troubleshoot any issues with the program.

Isn't it mindblowing?

john_minsk··on Jensen Huang – Nvidia GTC 2025 Keynote
Metaverse is changing the world. Just as you could see in this presentation - Data centers are first being built as digital twins in Omniverse and later in real world.

It is a profound change, but it will take time for significant number of digital twins being build. However digital twin is a CAPEX in a way. You build 3D model of your warehouse only once and then use it for years to manage operations, robots and everything else.

john_minsk··on Jensen Huang – Nvidia GTC 2025 Keynote
Amazing video of Omniverse. So many announcements!
john_minsk··on The Deep Research problem
Can I have a joke?
john_minsk··on My Life in Weeks
So what's the number?
john_minsk··on 5G networks meet consumer needs as mobile data growth slows
So true. I remember the first time I got access to 5G was on a short visit to Dubai. I got a sim card with ~20GB of traffic and was super excited to try speedtest. My brother told me not to do that because 5G is so fast that if speedtest doesn't limit the traffic size for the test it will consume all of it within 30 seconds the test runs. Guess what? I didn't run the test because I didn't want to pay another $50 for the data package. If I have 1Gbit connection even with 100G. What's the point? I'm still kind of on 4G if I want 100G to last me a month...
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