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‘Maybe I should’ve practiced for this’ was my first thought when we had our baby a few months ago, and she cried hard through the night in the first few weeks. I created this websi…

I have been experimenting with using 5 phases of movements with each phase covering different areas of the screen while being actively moving. The last phase makes the dot move in …

Ha! The timing is impeccable. This is a great demo. I've been experimenting with using gaze and eye tracking for cursor prediction as a side project. I like the idea of pressing 's…

That's exactly what I did first! I ran a CPU torture test at full clock speed and measured the power draw at the plug, then repeated the same test with the lowest clock speed setti…

Thanks! I initially just wanted to build a dashboard, with the power optimization part being a later addition. Based on the HN response, it seems that's the feature that resonated …

That's actually pretty cool. ESPs are awesome little things.

It's a 1600W PSU (Coolmaster 1600 V2 Platinum)

I'm actually using a 1600W PSU. 1400W is my target max draw. This is a dual EPYC (64 core CPU each) system btw. The max draw by the CPU+MB+Drives running at peak 3700MHz without th…

Thanks, I'll check it out.

Quick update: Definitely wasn't expecting this to end up on the front page. I was more focused on publishing the dashboard than the power optimizer service I'm running. I'll take a…

Thanks for the suggestion! I'm actually using dual EPYC server processors in this workstation, not Ryzen. I'm not sure EPYC supports PBO/Curve Optimizer functionality that's availa…

Thanks for the suggestion. Will check it out.

Sorry, I only open sourced the dashboard part as mentioned in the bottom of the blogpost. Still working on improving the 'Power optimizer' service so will open source that soon as …

Thanks! That's an excellent point. You're right that there's likely a sweet spot that would be more efficient overall than aggressive throttling. The current implementation uniform…

Good point. I'm often running multiple parallel jobs with varying priorities where uniform throttling actually makes sense. Many LLM inference tasks are long-running but not fully …

The power optimizer daemon has only been running for a few days, so it's hard to measure in $ value but based on my peak pricing I would estimate the savings to be around a few dol…

Definitely, I've been contemplating getting a 5-10kWh LFP battery backup with <10ms UPS switchover to run the workstation and home backup. This is an intermediate solution until th…

A cronjob would definitely work in most cases if the goal is just to auto change freq profiles during set ToU periods. I just wanted a more flexible system where the system can aut…

WattWise is a CLI tool that monitors my workstation’s power draw using a smart plug and automatically throttles the CPU & GPUs during expensive Time-of-Use electricity periods. Bui…

I've been putting off starting a blog to document my side projects for a long time. Finally having it up feels great - it motivated me to organize my thoughts and publish rather th…

Thanks! For audio based detection, I would start with collecting a large corpus of normal shows vs ad segment audio dataset. I assume the amplitude (volume changes) and frequency d…