petargyurov

I like this but the trends and comparisons would much easier to see/do if the data were presented as a chart.

I've been to the Altamira cave reproduction and I was skeptical at first on whether I'd feel immersed but they've done an incredible job of it. You quickly forget it's "fake" and sink back into time... It's marvellous.

It makes me wonder how much palaeolithic art has been lost because it wasn't done inside a cave.

On a similar note, for this August's total solar eclipse (in Europe), I 3D modelled the sun's position in the sky from the viewpoint that I am planning to go to. The eclipse will happen late in the day when the sun will be low, so I wanted to make sure that nothing will obstruct my view!

I've been meaning to post about it.

Here's the link to the repo:

https://github.com/petargyurov/virtual-bookshelf

And you can take a look at my blog repo to see how I've used it with Jekyll:

https://github.com/petargyurov/petargyurov.github.io

Back in 2022, my little virtual bookshelf made the rounds on HN [0]. Since then, quite a few people have implemented it into their own sites.

Well, 4 years later I decided to push a small update [1]. Ladies and gentlemen, we now have slanted books. The future is now.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31293727

[1] https://github.com/petargyurov/virtual-bookshelf

PS: I need to read more.

This is fantastic, great work. I will attempt to run it on my 16GB M1 but I doubt it'll run.

Out of curiosity, how did you go about replacing the CUDA specific ops? Any resources you relied on or just experience? Would love to learn more.

I recently built Cranki [0], a free little PWA that generates crosswords using your Anki flashcard lists. It's aimed at language learners (who find flashcards boring and crossword fun!).

To be honest I built it just for me and then decided it might be useful for others.

It's all local, no server, no database, etc. Mobile and desktop friendly.

[0] https://cranki.app

I recently built Cranki [0], a free little PWA that generates crosswords using your Anki flashcard lists. It's aimed at language learners (who find flashcards boring and crossword fun!). To be honest I built it just for me and then decided it might be useful for others.

It's all local, no server, no database, etc. Mobile and desktop friendly.

I did build it with the help of AI, but no AI inside the actual thing.

[0] https://cranki.app

Thanks for the feedback!

Yeah, it's more of a flashcard-crossword rather than a real crossword. I will have a think about how I can make the clues more interesting. I wanted to make this simple to use (and free) so adding an LLM in there might complicate things.

Thanks for trying it!

I like this but after 3-4 messages I got the AI to agree that my flight should be refunded yet the confidence was not zero. The tips just said to keep explaining why the particular law applies in my situation but I already kinda did that.

At my job [0] we work in this exact space, but on the data analytics side of things. We build computer vision pipelines for corrosion, components, defects, etc. We process imagery from drones, helis and satellite.

This is a tough problem to solve and for a lot of operators ultimately comes down to cost.

We're based in the UK but reach out if you wanna chat!

[0] https://keen-ai.com/

It's easy but it's not cheap. Well, price is relative but capturing video is certainly cheaper.

Also, I am not sure how heavy LIDAR units are, but remember that the heavier the payload the more the flight time is reduced. Some drones can only have a single payload, so if you also want to capture (high-res) video/imgs you need to fly again.

It all depends on the use-case.

Love it :)

I also rate the author's slogan: "make things, not too much, mostly crap". A reference to Michael Pollan's "eat food, not too much, mostly veg".

You aren't the one deciding what is a crime and what isn't.

I too have fond memories of my dad driving me around in our navy blue Lada. Not sure what the model was, but it was the one with rectangular headlights, not round. The chassis on that thing was solid metal.

I remember one time when I was in the back and my dad took a rather sharp turn at a major junction and the rear door swung open. I calmly alerted him to the situation and with one hand on the steering wheel and one hand reaching behind, somehow got the door closed whilst I sat semi-afraid for my life.

I remember the horn also broke so he rewired it to a custom red button that he mounted on the driver's door handle.

No privacy policy.

No terms and conditions.

No thanks.

And that's on top of the already questionable product.

Looks nice. Would be way more convenient to use if I could just do `?` in the command line after a failed command. I suppose one could create an alias.

Regarding your README, I would add a text version of the example in the demo.

Anyone remember that one time, a year or so ago, when some company teased a physics based generative model which showcased a drop of water sliding down a beer bottle and the model could display the forces acting on it?

Whatever happened to that? Vapourware?

I think it already has.

We'll get more incremental updates and nice features:

* more context size

* less hallucinations

* more prompt control (or the illusion of)

But we won't get AGI this way.

From the very beginning LLMs were shown to be incapable of synthesising new ideas. They don't sit there and think; they can only connect dots within a paradigm that we give them. You may give me examples of AI discovering new medicines and math proofs as a counter-argument but I see that as re-enforcing the above.

Paired with data and computional scaling issues, I just don't see it happening. They will remain a useful tool, but won't become AGI.

And whether they stay affordable is a question of time; all the big players are burning mountains of cash just to edge out the competition in terms of adoption.

Is there a level of adoption that can justify the current costs to run these things?

On this episode of "Trying to make AI useful"...

Seriously, who's idea was this? It can't be a money saving feature; surely it costs more to upscale all these videos than to just host the HD version.

And even if you argue it can be used only on low res videos to provide a "better experience", the resulting distortion of reality should be very concerning.

Yeah I think you're right. You can see it early on that there's just too many connections to make sense of it easily.

I wonder if 3D clustering would allow for more space.

If only I could add this to the YouTube app on my TV (as well as uBlock Origin)

When I first encountered this on Reddit I was really confused... They were (are?) translating even the text INSIDE an image. Can't believe how expensive that must've been across the entire frontpage.

But hey, another way to shoehorn AI into being "useful".

Next.js feels like a tech demo that exists to demonstrate a bunch of highly optimised paths to frontend development. Yes, my page probably will load faster if I did so and so, but all the work required for it is not worth the 2ms saved.

I'm sure someone will chime in with "skill issue", and that's true to some extent, but you gotta admit it's an over-engineered "solution".

The microscope used for this is mind blowing. Falls squarely into the list of things I want but do not need.

To boost my career? Probably some management stuff.

Otherwise, Blender. Been using it at work for a left field innovation project and I'm kind of hooked.

[BUG #3451249]

Unlimited resource drain caused by conscious blobs of particles (a.k.a humans) invoking recursive thought patterns over their own existence.

Workaround: ponder function can return a feeling of existential dread accompanied by increased weights for headache "sensation", causing blob to terminate process.

Estimate: M

Label: Backend

This is an incredibly useless comment [0]

At least say why you think so and contribute to the conversation a bit.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html#comments

Looks nice but why wouldn't one use Shortcut [0] instead? It's got a completely free tier.

[0] https://www.shortcut.com/

And the red grapefruit apparently!

Would you recommend Tamed?