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The prices of these boards have gone up it seems since the knowledge on how to bring them up and effectively utilize them has proliferated. After the crypto miners dumped them (tha…

Cheers- I guess I'll add, the turbofans that all modern airliners use are almost always referred to by their 'thrust' and you ofter see a lot of published numbers of takeoff thrust…

Man this is a middle-schooler level napkin math question. Take a Boeing 777, it has a wingspan of about 60 meters, and I'll ballpark an average upper wing chord of about 7 meters, …

Yes, just tried this, and my little exe ran on a Windows 10 64 bit machine just fine. Which means I just built a demo of a tiny 16 bit windows GUI applet, using emulated VB in Win …

Actually, yes, this was the experience I was recalling... it was 1995, not 1993, and it was the 'Turbo' version of Journeyman Project, which came in a CD pack bundled with Windows …

I just did something neat- I tried out the install of Windows 3.1, which has a version of Visual Basic installed. I created a small program in Visual Basic, with a window and some …

Nothing was worse however than getting a game used and not getting the manual included, when the manual contained very necessary information to progress through the game, and in an…

This is cool, I had some questions because I was trying to understand this more - not the diffusion model training part, because that I've actually seen before- but the actual way …

Neat. My only critique of the script is that I would have added a sleep 0.1 in the loop so that as this prints in a terminal it is actually readable; any modern terminal will scrol…

Interestingly the author shows a photo of a spot in Cape Town where there are two distinct structures in use - close up, in the photo, are actually Tetrapods - as pointed out in ot…

That's not 'malicious compliance'... it's 'Jevonsian insanity'.

In addition I'll give one more criticism: Above that reads this bit: >Its driver door panel consolidates mirror adjustment, mirror fold, door locks, all four window controls, and c…

Yes but specifically, in this article, the passage is written about a harness connector on a door window switch module as follows: >Fourteen pins in two parallel rows carry every s…

This sounds like copy written by someone who hasn't actually spent a lot of time with the automotive world and in trying to sound like they have. Electrical connectors on automotiv…

I have this little insight into PTO that I keep saved, from the book "Algorithms to Live By" by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths (a nice read). I think of it often when hearing abou…

I edit my /etc/hosts file and send domains that I've realized I'm addicted to (ahem, lichess) to 0.0.0.1 This gives enough friction to the point, when I muscle-memory type the URL …

I saw '1-bit' and my mind first went to 1-bit dithered B&W image generation, not 1-bit model weights.... and so now I'm wondering how cool /fast / compressed a diffusion image gene…

It seems like it should say "It takes Two Neurons to Steer an already moving Bicycle". The simulation is so simplified that I see no terms for the control of pedaling. Riding a rea…

I encounter this problem as well when looking at projects on Github on a near daily basis it seems. It just led me to finding this: https://kicanvas.org/ worth a bookmark.

Your comment on how you feel trying to execute a model is similar to the inverse of how many Mechanical Engineers (used to) talk about coding - they know what they want, they can w…

Everyone seems to love the Windows 7 era but for me, Windows peaked GUI-wise with Windows 2000 and everything since then has felt like a poor 'skin' or misplaced 'theme' on top of …

Since you are a wrapper on top of OpenCascade, I assume you have the ability to export STEP solids, and so one potential test you could run is have a series of standard objects tha…

Because the image generation is powered by a diffusion model that is only guided by the transformer model and still has somewhat vague spatial representation especially when it com…