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iqbal1980··on Survival LLM: AI assistant and emergency library that runs on your own computer
I just use llama cpp , it's light weight, I think you create your own integrations, with a larger model so llama cpp can interract with scripts that would browse the web, control your computer etc... propably will have to download some pip packages
iqbal1980··on Python's experimental JIT to be removed
They reference this one in the article https://peps.python.org/pep-0836/
iqbal1980··on Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT
Thank you so much, that's helpful. Do you offer any benchmarks comparing with others?
iqbal1980··on Show HN: Hob - Open-source, on device alternative to Claude Cowork and ChatGPT
Interesting, thanks for sharing this. I have some questions? I have a Macbook M5 with 16GB unified memory. What Model would you suggest I use with this. I want something that would replace dot or grokbot , do posting, some marketing work, and email handling. Not coding. What would you suggest?
iqbal1980··on SIMD-accelerated computer vision on a $2 microcontroller
This sounds interesting, Is there a way to port opencv code to this? I know there is a way to write opencv code to run on fpga but it would be nice if you can do it on low powered microcontrollers. Or did you write the algorithm from scratch by hand?
iqbal1980··on Sebastian Raschka's from-scratch video course on building reasoning models
Computer science turned bioinformatitian and AI engineer here. I have a BSc in Computer science since 2002 in 2013 I decided to start a Master in Bioinformatics and Computational biology and in 2018 did a PhD. Since my background is in CompSci, first before I started the master I just bought some popular science books about genetics, and biology the kind of books you see in bookstores like Barnes & Nobles, nothing too specialized. Then watched some videos about some things like Biochemistry, Genetics, DNA replication etc... then what really made a difference is taking a Mollecular Biology course, the one I took prepared me with all the pre-requisites and the book I used in the course are these : Essencial cell biology https://wwnorton.com/books/9781324033356

I feel that this book is clearly written and will give you all prerequisites to continue in a biotech, bioinformatics, computational biology or even biology graduate program if you come from a different discipline.

Good luck!

iqbal1980··on Nvidia's first GPU: GeForce 256
Fascinating hardware history! Thanks for sharing!
iqbal1980··on Tov: A programming language for coding agents
I think agents could just skip to assembly or binary. I remember the story when agents invented their own language to communicate faster.
iqbal1980··on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
Mostly awesome, glad to see how technology is progressing so fast!
iqbal1980··on MIT class project turns into an FDA-cleared treatment for tremors
This is why I'm very optimistic about the future!
iqbal1980··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)
Been working on Ezducate.ai a special education ai powered platform
iqbal1980··on Ezducate an AI powered special education platform
Cool
iqbal1980··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
You are missing the point, let's take "2001: A Space Odyssey" the novel book cover was not made by the writer Arthur C Clark. But by artist Robert McCall. Well not everyone can afford to hire an artist. You can be creative in your field, and still hire a human or use an AI to do art instead. What's the difference!
iqbal1980··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
You are missing the point, let's take "2001: A Space Odyssey" the novel book cover was not made by the writer Arthur C Clark. But by artist Robert McCall. Well not everyone can afford to hire an artist. You can be creative in your field, and still hire a human or use an AI to do art instead. What's the difference?
iqbal1980··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
So people should stop expressing themselves, however they see fit so you can read their blog? Ok!
iqbal1980··on Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL
Why? lol
iqbal1980··on Ancient Roman Board Game
Cool however no idea how to play this!
iqbal1980··on Fable is not a useful model
Made a similar observation few days ago! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778446

I'm a bioinformatician

iqbal1980··on The classifiers Anthropic puts in front of Fable are too zealous
I made the same observation few days ago, follow bioinformatcian here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48778446
iqbal1980··on Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
Thank you! I'll try it
iqbal1980··on Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
I agree!
iqbal1980··on Claude Fable is useless for bioinformaticians
Is this available for the average PhD student?
iqbal1980··on The time I crafted a unique MIDI File inspired by Vladimir Horowitz
The story of creating a midi file based on Vladimir Horowitz 1968 Carmen
iqbal1980··on OpenCV Python (NumPy) to C++ CV:Mat Conversion Guide for NDArrays
When working with OpenCV in Python and C++ there are some key differences. For starters OpenCV Python is seemlessly integrated with NumPy. This makes working with images much easier if you are familliar with common NumPy operations. However when using the C++ API things can get more complicated. However for common 2D operations, the C++ class CV::Mat seems to have lots of common operations to manipulate 2D color images. In that case CV::Mat represents can represent a 2D, 3D, or 4D array which can represent Gray, RGB (BGR in OpenCV), or BGR + Alpha. However many people are not aware that CV::Mat can act as an ND Array where dimensions > 4.
iqbal1980··on ChatGPT can see (sometimes) in ASCII
I didn’t think of that. Good analogy !
iqbal1980··on ChatGPT can see (sometimes) in ASCII
I think one of the interesting emerging properties of LLMs like ChatGPT is that they can probably see in ASCII. But they require some guidance and context see examples.
iqbal1980··on Google Fires Employee Behind Controversial Diversity Memo
Don't confuse the employee handbook and share holder value for the US constitution. Google is entitled to have some values that they believe in.

Imagine if an employee at a catholic owned business started an internal conversation on the benefits of abortions.