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wojciem

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"Sometimes people talk shit. Sometimes people have bad days. Don’t take either personally."
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wojciem··on Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace
I am impressed to see already couple of providers serving Kimi-K3 on openrouter: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3
wojciem··on Generate parametric, manufacturable 3D models in seconds
Tried two very open ended prompts: "Home robot" and "Jet engine". First one returned only two plates connected with 4 rods, second model did not produce any 3d model at all.

Curious whether some hierarchical modeling could be applied here.

wojciem··on Claude Opus 4.7
Is it just Opus 4.6 with throttling removed?
wojciem··on Claude Code Down
What are decent alternatives to ClaudeCode?
wojciem··on Show HN: AI in SolidWorks
Totally relatable pain- getting LLMs to reliably drive precise CAD operations is surprisingly hard, especially when spatial reasoning and plane/extrude/chamfer decisions go wrong 70%+ of the time.

For people looking at a different angle on the "text to 3D model" problem, I've been playing with https://www.timbr.pro lately. Not trying to replace SolidWorks precision, but great for the early fuzzy "make me something that looks roughly like X" phase before you bring it into real CAD.

wojciem··on Electric headset for treating depression recommended after NHS trial
I wonder whether this 30-min per day of wearing the headset, had more of meditation effect rather than actual electric interference. Would love to see placebo effect study with a mock headset.
wojciem··on Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity
Interestingly, from the provided charts the energy consumption decreased between 2024 and 2021.
wojciem··on Meta outage
Llama3 become sentient
wojciem··on How do transformers work?
Is it only me, or after reading this article with a lot of high-level, vague phrases and anecdotes - skipping the actual essence of many smart tricks making transformers computationally efficient - it is actually harder to grasp how transformers “really work”.

I recommend videos from Andrej Karpathy on this topic. Well delivered, clearly explaining main techniques and providing python implementation

wojciem··on Senate tells social media CEOs they have 'blood on their hands'
I am not following that closely US politics, but are other sectors under the same scrutiny: guns manufacturer, automoto companies (road rage)?
wojciem··on Polars
Have been using pandas for years and statements about polars definitely seem appealing. Especially around performance, where apply function in pandas (to iterate over rows and derive a new column) can easily be 100x slower than vanilla python. Similar with some pandas APIs culprits like making sure to reset the index after joins and other transformations
wojciem··on Apple's Vision Pro headset deserves to be ridiculed
Hardware is impressive as expected - engineering porno.

One use-case that i can imagine having this headset is as a replacement for external displays. But that would need to be conditioned on great pass through and ability to use physical keyboard and mouse.

wojciem··on Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
As a non-native English speaker, I often have troubles with clearly transforming abstract ideas from my head into a text representation adding grammar on top. ChatGPT can definitely help with that and increase supply of clever ideas that can be now wrapped into well written text.
wojciem··on Algorithmic Trading: A Practitioner’s Guide
There are platforms like alpaca.markets that deal with all the infra-aspects and allow you to concentrate on the algorithm part.
wojciem··on Anomaly Updates
Well with the rifle there is a problem that bullet would be left on the stage. Not sure whether would it be possible to do it with for example laser.
wojciem··on Cling: An Interactive C++ interpreter
I guess this will finally allow to build full-fledged IDE for C++
wojciem··on 507 Mechanical Movements (1868)
It would be nice to have some toy-set for kids with this.