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SequoiaHope
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About SequoiaHope
I make robots mostly. I want to figure out how robots can help solve social problems. Read my writing or see my portfolio at tlalexander.com and see my robots at http://reboot.love
My cool robot arm: https://twitter.com/TLAlexander/status/1455320442642714625
See my farming robotics work here: https://community.twistedfields.com/t/a-closer-look-at-acorn-our-open-source-precision-farming-rover/108
And:
https://community.twistedfields.com/t/join-the-solar-farming-revolution-support-acorn-and-empower-farmers-worldwide/370
You are welcome to email me but usually I don’t end up responding to out of the blue emails (due to procrastination or disorganization). [tlalexander at gmail]
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Well running from QSPI flash (even the internal memory versions use SPI internally) so any inference would be very slow streaming from that compared to RAM. The featured article sa…
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Comment #49175832
Thank you for sharing. MCC is nice when it works. I’ve also found that running the original Halo in Xemu emulator makes for an extremely lightweight, fast, and performant experienc…
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Comment #49125570
To me the surprising thing is how much sugar people are willing to drink, but I think the same thing when my friend drinks Coca Cola.
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Comment #48912518
Oh wow the concept of Vitamins, which I learned about from the Reprap Project, must have come from that 1980 NASA study! https://reprap.org/wiki/Category:Vitamin
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Comment #48885642
I had to look it up. Apparently maize did not get to Egypt till around the year 1600 but in British English the word “corn” refers to any local grain. Eg these “Corn laws” refer to…
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Comment #48874845
Plenty of people are doing novel hard work with AI in open source: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48867961
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Comment #48874214
Basically. Moreover though it’s cloud based so you can’t run it with a poor connection or no connection. They could change their mind at any time about free accounts and lock users…
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Comment #48874203
Here ya go https://github.com/sequoia-hope/waffle-iron/tree/main
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Comment #48870456
Thanks! I had a lot of false starts too. I asked fable in my repo about your question and it said there are two schools of thought on tolerance tracking. My kernel uses exact predi…
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Comment #48868480
Aww thank you so much! It has felt really good to work on as I have started to see something real come together.
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Comment #48868309
Six months. Basically when Claude code started to hit that inflection point I chose a project that seemed potentially impossible but was also something I care deeply about. (I have…
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Comment #48868275
The app consists of a wasm (web assembly) binary and JavaScript. The wasm runs locally on your machine in your browser and communicates with the JavaScript frontend. There is no ba…
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Comment #48867973
Browser can be local. What’s nice about browser based is that browser based programs can run on every device. Though it sounds like this one requires chrome which seems weird to me…
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Comment #48867961
Agreed. I’m not OP but for six months I’ve been using Claude to build a from-scratch CAD kernel based on Rust and WASM, MIT licensed. The actual UI still needs a lot of work, but I…
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Comment #48867044
Not all of us live in places with EU funding. I worked at a rural farm in California and the EU refused to fund our network infrastructure. We had few reliable options, and Starlin…
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Comment #48838781
I hear you, though I will point out that OP said “projects”. Could be a house remodel, ebike build, any manner of project.
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Comment #48835407
Seems a bit knee jerk. I go on walks and bike rides all the time. A couple of times I’ve used voice mode and it’s been interesting. I could have listened to music or a podcast, lis…
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Comment #48813878
thank you!
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Comment #48810474
“On an ordinary coding prompt, the J-space of a model trained to sabotage code contains “fake,” “fraud,” “secretly,” and “deliberately” at the start of its response.” I would like …
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Comment #48797340
I think there is some middle category between “required for survival” and “luxury”.
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Comment #48791936
Leaving off the best part of that: “… She did it in 43 days, shattering the previous women’s record, 86 days, 10 hours and five minutes, held by Lia Ditton — but also broke through…
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Comment #48730383
My oscilloscope does both!
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Comment #48668084
Ah you’re right I was keying off of “Linux friendly” and missed the AR part.
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Comment #48667437
Do they also show bikes? I use the mirror not just to monitor cars but see where my friends are. If a friend breaks down and is on the side of the road I want to see without having…