kevin42

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by kevin42 26d ago
The main two issues are wildfire and inversion. As you said, Boise is in a sort of bowl (more of a valley), in the winter, a cold air system can get trapped in the valley by warmer air in the mountain area. This can lead to some pretty bad
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by kevin42 1mo ago
What kind of parameters do you end up changing, and how much difference does it make. Perhaps I am missing something and get more tok/sec, but I usually just do a git pull, then rebuild the latest whenever I get a new model. In the pas
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by kevin42 1mo ago
What hardware do you run? I have a first-gen mac studio, and I just run cmake and build with no special options. Same thing with llama-server, I just specify the model and use the built-in web UI. For reference, I get ~26 tok/sec with
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by kevin42 2mo ago
I'm left handed and I never really learned a good grip I could write with. So I've always struggled with handwriting. I also have an essential tremor in my left hand. As I have aged, the tremor has gotten worse. So now, I have to
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by kevin42 2mo ago
My guess is design (features/functionality, not code). When you don't have to write every line of code and you can quickly iterate on features, you have a lot of freedom to dial in what you really want out of an app.
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by kevin42 3mo ago
I have enough experience writing code by hand and designing complex systems with a team working for me. In a sense, this is no different. When I had a half-dozen mid to senior level developers, I did not verify every line of code they wrote
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by kevin42 3mo ago
You'll have to take my word for it because I'm not going to disclose my private business or personal financial records. But, I'm running a small, two person business and we are being paid by a large company to develop a robot
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by kevin42 3mo ago
Can you share the prompt you're using for each model?
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by kevin42 4mo ago
“We experience it, therefore it exists” proves less than it seems. It proves there is an experience to explain. It does not prove that consciousness is what it appears to be from the inside. A mirage is still seen, but the thing it seems to
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by kevin42 4mo ago
Because you don't keep logs.
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by kevin42 5mo ago
That depends on the purpose of the image. If it's used to create a false narrative (like a deep fake), sure, you should care. But if it's used as an alternative to a stock photo, or as an easy way to make an infographic then no, I
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by kevin42 5mo ago
At this point I wish it were against the rules to accuse people or complain about articles as written by LLMs. It's creating so much noise that useful commentary is hard to find. I don't see any signs of the parent comment being w
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by kevin42 5mo ago
If they can't distinguish LLM text, then why should they care? Anti-AI people like to bring up hallucination as if everything AI generates is false. I can write pages of text, with my own content, and then use AI to improve my writing
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by kevin42 5mo ago
"But here's the thing that gets missed in the narrative:" That's a pretty big clue that it is LLM assisted at least. That said, I don't mind. The article has substance and other than a few LLM markers like that, I t
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by kevin42 6mo ago
Most things I use it for could be done without it, it's just more convenient and entertaining. I had it make a daily aviation weather brief for a private airpark. It uses METAR, outdoor IP cameras I have including one that looks at a w
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by kevin42 6mo ago
That's an interesting take, but I'm not sure 'easy to write' is the only advantage. There is also a really good ecosystem of libraries, especially for scientific computing. My experience has been that Claude can write go
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by kevin42 6mo ago
What I love about OpenClaw is that I was able to send it a message on Discord with just this github URL and it started sending me voice messages using it within a few minutes. It also gave me a bunch of different benchmarks and sample audio
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by kevin42 6mo ago
I'd love to use something other than ROS2, if for no other reason than to get rid of the dependency hell and the convoluted build system. But there are a lot of nodes and drivers out there for ROS already. It's a chicken and egg t
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by kevin42 7mo ago
I recently filed a lawsuit in federal court, but because of the nature of the suit (adversarial proceeding on a bankruptcy case, wanting to cut my losses knowing collection is going to be the problem) I decided to do it Pro Se. I've us
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by kevin42 7mo ago
There is a way to trigger a script when a budget is hit, but they don't make it easy. You set up a billing notification that triggers a script, which can disable resources (like APIs) automatically. https://docs.cloud.google
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Show HN: I built a self-hosted network video surveillance system(github.com)
1 points by kevin42 7mo ago|0 comments
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by kevin42 7mo ago
I've been working on an open source, fully self-hosted network video recorder for about two months now. https://github.com/kevinbentley/ronin-nvr/ It works with cheap, generic IP cameras over RTSP. It's
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by kevin42 7mo ago
>Even if its not "artisticallly worthwhile", the process is rewarding to the participant at the very least I think that's the point though. What op did was rewarding to themselves, and I found it more enjoyable than a lot
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by kevin42 8mo ago
I’m genuinely curious how you feel about LLMs being trained on pirated material. Not being snarky here. Your comment reflects the old “information wants to be free” ideals that used to dominate places like HN, Slashdot, and Reddit. But sinc
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by kevin42 8mo ago
We recognize slop because it's slop. Just because a bunch of people are submitting slop to open source projects doesn't mean that AI can only generate slop. His argument is basically a tautology "People who don't know ho
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by kevin42 8mo ago
I would love to see the US drone industry thrive, it's a major gap in both the consumer and military market. At the same time, several businesses have and are trying to compete in this business. The amount of capital required is enormo
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by kevin42 8mo ago
"And with no American-made drones comparable to the category leaders, it’ll be a while before any company steps up to offer one." The problem is that it would be extremely risky for a US company to spin up a comparable US built dr
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by kevin42 8mo ago
Have you considered that maybe you aren't using it well? It's something that can and should be learned. It's a tool, and you can't expect to get the most out of a tool without really learning how to use it. I've had
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by kevin42 8mo ago
Hi, Author here! I wrote this piece after some conversations with friends and realizing how we all had some levels of cognitive dissonance towards AI, IP, etc. I noticed I was moving my own goalposts both when criticizing AI or defending i
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A History of Disbelief in Large Language Models(shadowcodebase.substack.com)
1 points by kevin42 8mo ago|1 comments

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