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knicholes

1,251 karma · joined October 22, 2012

I work at Adobe as a software engineering manager. I love StarCraft II and AI. When Deepmind combined the two, it blew my mind.

My current projects are a smart toilet paper roll holder that tells you how much TP you've got left and a breast augmentation outcomes visualization AI. More recently, I've built GopherGeyser, an at-home splash pad and animal-themed app. https://gophergeyser.com/

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knicholes··on Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust
Those customers are already pissed off, yet record sales every quarter. This will be great to offer this diminished experience to them until they start using AI to do all of their editing.
knicholes··on Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust
It's deep with a small number of very loud people.
knicholes··on Adobe Creative Suite Cleanroom Port to Rust
Adobe employee here. We have access to LLMs and tokens as well.
knicholes··on OpenTPU – An open-source AI accelerator, developed by AI
AI (GPT-Sol-6:xhigh) isn't even capable of using Altium to re-layout a board without introducing a bunch of problems by a user who isn't an electrical engineer or familiar with board layouts.
knicholes··on Court agrees with EFF: Utah's VPN law demands a technical impossibility
I think "The Church" (The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints) is trying to keep Pornhub from publishing stats of how many ~people~ ~righteous Church members~ Melchizedek Priesthood holders are whacking to "cosplay porn" and "lesbian porn".
knicholes··on LLM Ass Bench
Assert your dominance
knicholes··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Read the link! It's in there.
knicholes··on MiMo v2.6
Two legs on one side is a little sus.
knicholes··on Grok 4.7
How do I obtain this morality build?
knicholes··on EVE Online moves to Python 3
Dune: Awakening tried this. Was kind of fun while it lasted (and before the bug stole all of my resources I was trying to sell. The support was zero help on getting that resolved. That killed it for me immediately).
knicholes··on Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis
The big bang is a theory. It's not JUST a theory, however.
knicholes··on AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
I think I mentioned the need for them to have committed a sufficiently egregious crime before imprisonment. You're jumping to a lot of extreme conclusions in a very short period of time.
knicholes··on DeepSeek costs OpenCode Go user $1.14/day; dual DGX breaks even in 24 years
Why not rent those out on vast.ai and make a little money each month?
knicholes··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
How long have you been working in tech?
knicholes··on AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
I didn't say kill. Not sure if I believe we should go all Hunger Games on them. Prison works just fine for me when they commit crimes sufficiently egregious.
knicholes··on AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
Sounds simple to me. Remove them from society.
knicholes··on MiniMax H3 Day-0 Support in ComfyUI: Open Weights, Native Audio, and 2K Video
Whoah, could this mean we can treat layers like a jpg, where we come up with a formula that estimates the weight values of a layer instead of storing all of the weights?
knicholes··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
We're getting new models every three months. They'd have to work quickly to get those chips made and installed.
knicholes··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
I'll update it this weekend with the updated AI-generated fun (and correct the flat-out ai-generated lies in the README). Meanwhile, you can see the project here. https://github.com/knicholes/ah-my-groin-button
knicholes··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Ohhhhhh! Yes, that's exactly the problem. It all makes sense now. I was just piecing together an existing microcontroller and a mp3 module by printing a custom circuit board.
knicholes··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
I'll acknowledge that I don't know what I'm talking about. I really appreciated the clarity! Surely you find value in knowing that creating your own custom chips is almost doable by someone who doesn't know what they're talking about! (also, I am a troll, but in this case, just clueless)
knicholes··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
Right. KiCAD for PCB design. Blender for 3D CAD. Oh, are you saying I should have used something other than the KiCAD MCP server for better results?
knicholes··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
I tried making a button using Claude entirely (including the 3D printed enclosure) and it effed up pretty hard with the traces and the header spacing. The project was a big red arcade button that plays the "ah-my-groin.mp3" when pushed (from Simpsons). It did cool work on saving battery life, and the 3d enclosure was awesome, but yeah, I'm convinced I'd have to do another version or two of the custom chip until it came back right. I used a Blender MCP for the 3d modeling. I used a KiCAD MCP server for the chip design/validation.

I think we're not there yet. I've been meaning to look at this flux.ai to see if it has the prompts/workflow worked out better than what I was able to cobble together in a few hours. Maybe Alteryx's MCP server would have been better. I'll try that this weekend for another board I've got.

knicholes··on Reviving Papers with Code
I just don't see how you could have read the title (and comments) and not figured out that PwC was Papers With Code as a human, especially as it's mentioned in the comment with that acronym.
knicholes··on Reviving Papers with Code
Are you a bot? Look in the title. Papers with code.
knicholes··on Harness engineering: Leveraging Codex in an agent-first world
Everyone is criticizing the number of lines of code and the lack of attention that must certainly have been applied to generate that code and push it into production. What is being ignored is this awesome prompt that is almost certainly better than having no agents.md or plans.md or whatever you've come up with, to add validation steps for committed changes. You're still free to look at your code, the changes, and ask the agent to clean up. Try it. It's really nice.
knicholes··on Was my $48K GPU server worth it?
He didn't consider the possibility of renting it out during the downtime to Vast.ai to make some money back.
knicholes··on Elon Musk has lost his lawsuit against Sam Altman and OpenAI
Getting to Mars, it would seem.
knicholes··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
Oh yeah, I bought a few different types of ear plugs to test them out. The silicone putty and the loops left my ears sweaty. I'd pull them out at night to dry them out. Tmi, I know, sorry, but yeah, I tried 'em.
knicholes··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
My suspicion from regular use of ear plugs is that the wax sticks to the plug every night. I use a new set every night. Pretty wasteful, but man, I need my sleep.
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