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by glinscott 2mo ago
Thanks, yes the capstan animation is one of my favorites :). Great point on steel not being an option, I should have mentioned that. RE: Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection - cool, thanks for the details!
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by glinscott 2mo ago
RE: Things are more complicated - I totally agree. My favorite part of the article is probably the belt transmission section. I wasn't sure how it was possible for a leather belt to transmit so much power. Super fun to just dig in deep
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Thanks! And https://modelengineeringwebsite.com/Classic_ME_beam_engine.h... is almost exactly the CAD model behind this beam engine. Designing that on paper would have been quite a challenge.
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by glinscott 2mo ago
You are welcome! I agree, it's a really nice way to learn about something. Digging into the transfer of power with belts may have been one of my favorite parts here, even though it's not really steam directly :).
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Yes, great details! Not sure if you've read it, but "Richard L. Hills, Power from Steam: A History of the Stationary Steam Engine (1989)." is a truly wonderful overview, that really digs deep into the business. It has many le
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Thanks for the pointers! That is an area I've not explored much - reciprocating steam using modern technology. Using modern electronics, sensors and valves to optimize steam expansion would be a fun project. Perfect cutoff every time :
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Thank you, a lot of research went into it :). And 100% inspired by Bartosz's articles - he is the first line in the credits section.
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Fixed!
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by glinscott 2mo ago
It was a mix of techniques, this article has been in progress for quite a while :). The first part was modeling all the relationships for an accurate beam engine in onshape (great cad tool). Then, I built a custom exporter to cleanly expor
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Thank you! I have a few ideas for the next article. Locomotives are up there on the list, but they are the final challenge of steam engineering, there is so much to cover. Also considering the origins of precision - the intertwined evolutio
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Oh my. Yes, you are totally right. This was tricky because I needed to merge two different animations (the governor moves independently from the rotation of the wheel), and I seem to have messed that up. Fix shall be deployed shortly!
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Blondihacks is amazing. Beware though, you may be buying a lathe and a milling machine soon after you start watching :). It's a great hobby. Manual machining is totally different from writing code, but you get into a similar state of f
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Definitely a fun note :). I think I heard it first from a Jay Leno youtube video where he was showing his amazing collection of steam powered machinery. This is from the article, but governors also played a role in kicking off modern contro
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Thanks! RE: units - Good catch - there is almost certainly a better way to phrase this one. I always tried to give physical examples to make things more concrete. But who knows, maybe the bathtub will take off as a unit :).
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Awesome! It's pretty amazing all the concepts that need to come together for even these very old engines. I found I built a better understanding of what was going on as I built out the animations as well.
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by glinscott 2mo ago
100% - his articles were a major inspiration, and first line in the credits: - Thanks to Bartosz Ciechanowski, whose exceptionally well written and designed articles inspired this one. Glad you enjoyed the units :).
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Thanks! Yes, some of the animations were created from this onshape model, which I rigged for motion: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ebc9190f428cf30153c06148/w... . For other animations I put together a style gui
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by glinscott 2mo ago
Author here. The beam engine created power from steam, and was a key part of the early Industrial Revolution. The article is a deep dive into the engine: how it works, the history behind it, and the engineering tradeoffs the builders faced.
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The Beam Engine(glinscott.github.io)
488 points by glinscott 2mo ago|99 comments
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Modern LZ Compression Part 2: FSE and Arithmetic Coding(glinscott.github.io)
5 points by glinscott 5mo ago|1 comments
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by glinscott 5mo ago
This is the second article in a series discussing modern compression techniques. The first one covered Huffman + LZ. This one covers optimal entropy coders (FSE and Arithmetic), and some additional tricks to get closer to the state of the
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CPU Only LLM (Vicuna-13B) with Web Search(garylinscott.substack.com)
1 points by glinscott 3y ago|0 comments
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CPU Only LLM (Vicuna-13B) with Web Search(garylinscott.substack.com)
4 points by glinscott 3y ago|0 comments
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by glinscott 4y ago
Btw, some great books on Steam locomotives/engines: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07NQ9JG2M - American steam locomotives 1880–1960. The author of drove locomotives, and was the transportation curator at
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by glinscott 4y ago
That's great. There is also this effort in New Zealand: https://mackwelloco.com/ , focusing on "Modern Steam" techniques, with a small engine, targeting areas without easy access to diesel. A good overview of
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by glinscott 4y ago
Steam engines are fascinating pieces of technology. The page for the trust itself is full of interesting engineering details: https://www.a1steam.com/ . Their next project is to build Britain's most powerful steam loco
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by glinscott 6y ago
If anyone wants to experiment with training these nets, it's a great way to get exposed to a nice mix of chess and machine learning. There are two trainers currently, the original one, which runs on CPU: https://github.com&#
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by glinscott 6y ago
The great thing about these community driven efforts is that it is indeed feasible to reproduce these super expensive efforts. I'm a bystander now, as new maintainers have taken over, and they are doing a fantastic job pushing things
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by glinscott 7y ago
Markdeep is fantastic. I wrote a fairly long article [1] with a lot of code samples, and it was so nice to not worry about formatting. The styling is elegant without having to try :). [1] https://glinscott.github.io/lz&#x2
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Modern LZ Compression(glinscott.github.io)
52 points by glinscott 8y ago|4 comments

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