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by dimatura 4d ago
I designed and deployed several custom CNN-based AI models to ipad hosts around 2018-2020. It was a finicky process - CoreML didn't give you much control (or even feedback) on what parts of your model would run on the CPU, GPU, or ANE
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by dimatura 16d ago
It's not such a big deal compared to pip for a typical python package, but a couple of use cases where the speed is a nice feature are tool running with uvx and inline dependencies in scripts - you'll still see something is instal
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by dimatura 23d ago
I've had similar thoughts in regards to generative AI applied to the arts. Taste is subjective, but if you ask 100 random people to rank an AI-generated techno or country track versus one created by an "average" human creator
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by dimatura 28d ago
Yeah, I've been using this for a long time, works fine.
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by dimatura 1mo ago
I remember similar observations for an earlier use case in computer vision, loop closure and place recognition for visual SLAM algorithms. In this case the goal was to find a needle (or needles) in a big haystack of visual descriptors (in s
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by dimatura 2mo ago
I agree with everything you're saying, but if you consider that this is a single-person company, the "hardware is as hard as you make it" statement makes sense. He saw a need, found out that it would be feasible to make a pro
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by dimatura 2mo ago
I think "hardware is as hard as you make it" would've been a better title. The author made the smart decision of keeping things very simple on the hardware side, and that happened to be possible for the kind of product he wan
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by dimatura 2mo ago
Yeah, I think a lot of the "hardness" of hardware is of a different flavor than software. The author mentions how many lines of code are in the software, but that really is more of a symptom of something that makes software "
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by dimatura 3mo ago
They are simpler and can be read by more devices, especially legacy devices that are still pretty widely deployed. Other than that, not much to say in their favor. They have lower data density compared to 2D codes such as QR or datamatrix.
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by dimatura 3mo ago
Very cool work - refreshing to see a of different approach. I learned about Kuramoto oscillators many years ago from a book called Sync, by Steven Strogatz, which I highly recommend.
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by dimatura 3mo ago
There's also git-annex and iterative DVC. I used xethub a fair bit (was the earliest user, in fact) and I thought it was better than git annex, git-lfs and DVC, but still did start to struggle past a certain size. I think part of the p
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by dimatura 3mo ago
Of course it can. Is it good at it? I guess we'll find out, for sure people will try (I might if I get some spare time). At a glance some of the tech used resembles that of xethub (of which I was a user, until they got acquired by hugg
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by dimatura 3mo ago
Yeah, that's the main challenge in research. Once you get immersed in an area, it's not that hard to come up with ideas that haven't been done before. It's also not that hard to do things that improve the performance of
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by dimatura 4mo ago
QOI supports a VERY limited set of use cases compared to jpegXL.
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by dimatura 6mo ago
Seems like there's some overlap with the iceoryx project https://iceoryx.io/
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by dimatura 6mo ago
Not a bad idea, seems like data that would be be easy to monetize if it took off.
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by dimatura 6mo ago
I usually feel the same when starting something new. The "STUFF" is annoying and often feels like overkill when a project is new and minimal. Installing/building ROS, the package boilerplate, etc. And often I can get away wit
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by dimatura 7mo ago
Yes, we were on the starter $6 plan. The feature we got messaged about was SSH management, iirc.
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by dimatura 7mo ago
I think how it works usually is that they let you use the features from higher tier plans than the one you're on; once you use them enough they send you an email asking to upgrade. That's what happened to us and I've seen oth
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by dimatura 7mo ago
Yeah, they're not direct replacements. I think both models have have their pros and cons. In fact I tried both around when covid shutdowns started (server being in the office, me at home), and liked zerotier better; it was faster, and
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by dimatura 7mo ago
Our company pays for the premium business plan, $18/mo/user. You have to pay for at least the lower tier plan once your team grows beyond a handful of people. And there's several quite useful features (though maybe not essent
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by dimatura 8mo ago
About 5-6 years ago, I worked a fair bit on an iOS app, primarily in swift (there were some obj-c and C++ bits). Until then, 90% of what I had written was either C++ or python on Linux, and I had never worked on a mobile app and had barely
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by dimatura 8mo ago
This is neat! It's a bit amusing in that I worked on a somewhat similar project for my phd thesis almost 10 years ago, although in that case we got it working on a real drone (heavily customized, based on DJI matrice) in the field, wit
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by dimatura 8mo ago
I preordered the hardware version sometime before it was released. At a $50 price point, I thought it was worth a gamble. I wasn't disappointed! It's more of a hacker's device at the moment - for better or worse - but it&#x27
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by dimatura 9mo ago
PNGs of screenshots would probably compress well, and the quality to size ratio would definitely be better than JPG, but the size would likely still be larger than a heavily compressed JPG. And PNG encoding/decoding is relatively slow
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by dimatura 9mo ago
Yup, when reading this I immediately thought of jsmpeg, which I'm fond of.
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by dimatura 9mo ago
About eight years ago I was trying to stream several videos of a drone over the internet for remote product demos. Since we were talking to customers while the demo happened, the latency needed to be less than a few seconds. I couldn't
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by dimatura 10mo ago
"worth the money" is hard to say, especially for devices like these where the value is not really so much on the plain features as much as a more subjective factors like the design and the UI. I would say that purely based on feat
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by dimatura 10mo ago
There's a fun podcast by Arman Bohn/Distropolis (who himself has made some cool small-batch hardware synths) where he interviews makers of small hardware synths, https://open.spotify.com/show/30USGHPeGQ9ZyWQDy
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by dimatura 10mo ago
were you using single cycle waveforms or longer samples? in the former case, I guess there's not much to it, you just cycle through the waveform (in which case the waveform you choose would usually start and end at a zero crossing by c

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