kousun12

An overengineered interactive notebook exploring the differential geometry, materials science, fluid dynamics, and manufacturing topology of the Tostitos Scoops™ tortilla chip — arguably the most structurally sophisticated snack food ever mass-produced.

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A project that I am working on. Like claude code but for more than coding. Your own stateful, computational environment where an agent can do instrumental computing to help you get things done, build mini apps (preferring local dbs and indexes), and set up automations. Networking built in (stable URLs), system level snapshots / rollbacks, fluid compute (temporarily switch the system to super specs / GPUs). Drive the agent with any of the latest foundation models.

Just sharing some thoughts around a new project I'm working on

played around with a few colorization convolution kernels based on density and thought they turned out nicely:

rusty: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6cec75da-3366-4ce...

ocean3: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6dbdc099-2dc3-433...

forest4: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/dc77bbfd-bd15-4e4...

rust105: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d80733c9-b435-49a...

ocean105: https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/d717a3f1-32bb-449...

Fan out a transcription job by splitting by silences, then using Modal Labs to fan out compute containers to process in parallel. Use it either as a CLI for local file transcriptions or deploy it to a server-less endpoint in one command.

thanks! appreciate it. would loved to have spent some more time on it / made it more of a primary thing for me, but i suspect it's a sort of all or none kind of work && i hope someone can get a team together and do a version of it for real

Agree on most of this; most systems I've used so far feel a bit clunky (Houdini has by far been the most sophisticated system I've worked in), and my sense is that if it had more mindshare / attention, the paradigm could actually be pretty fluid. Using most node-based tools today (including eternal), I get the admonition that it's like using text edit to write python compared to a pro at using pycharm.

The timeline thing is really key. Houdini does it in a sort of clever way where "time" as a variable is exported globally to any node that wants to use it, and the timeline feature is a consequence of using the time variable in any of your functions. i.e. it's not jumping you to a point in the program's execution, but rather acting as a controller for all time-dependent functions. sort of like exporting a time uniform to graphics shader

yes, i definitely looked at noflo and thought it was a really awesome effort. my intentions with this had less to do with any sort of utility than it did with trying to reflect a specific aesthetic i had in mind. thinking that i'd want more control, i made my own type / serialization scheme as i went

hah that is fair; i mean i appreciate drugs. the github also tries to explicitly frame it as an artistic exploration done for it's own sake rather than anything functionally useful

thanks for the feedback

there are deep links to the examples in the github page, if that's what you mean pan / zoom isn't super well supported, sorry. i've just been using my browser's zoom in / out if you open the help menu, there's a key combo (cmd + shift + v) to hide / show the graph

The github page: https://github.com/kousun12/eternal

ah my bad, sorry. haven't really tested much outside of my setup. I'll put in some fixes, thanks!