robinduckett

At least when tracking was unregulated, at least you knew who was by the cookie left in your browser, now I just assume everyone and everything is tracking me

While I appreciate the sentiment, the decline of American/Western companies into modern Puritanism is nothing new - but considering the staunch conservatism of the average Russian, I’d say they would do the same thing if they could, they just don’t have the engineering capacity to do the same thing.

There are a lot of them and not many of the dictators and his cronies. They could all do an uprising. It’s funny that a country with so much history of rebellion have leaders who have become so complacent

Incorrect, and the mental gymnastics at play here is rather telling

“That country over there is full of Nazis!” That does explain why they want in so bad then, doesn’t it.

Claim != Reality most of the time

The original does tend to reduce the FPS by half or more

“Prime numbers are bright orange” - Sheldon Cooper

100 t/s of crap is still crap.

Australian 'AI' company with 6k followers on LinkedIn and a grand total of 2 Google Reviews

That’s no language, that’s a JSON schema

Location: UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: Modern frontend (React, Zustand, Zod), Typescript, Node.js, Next.js, Vite, NestJS, Web3 (viem, wagmi, web3.js), EVM/Solana account/chain abstraction, smart contract wallets, swap, perps, AWS/GCP terraform, Modern AI tooling, Prometheus/Grafana, Rust, REST, Godot / gdscript, Linux, Build pipelines, CI/CD

Résumé/CV: https://robinduckett.com/cv/

Email: robin@diod.es

Immediately available and open to remote day rate and fixed term contracts, remote permanent in the UK and consulting

This is funny. “Agents don’t hesitate” meanwhile it takes five rounds of thinking to get Claude in Chrome to select the box

Ahh that’ll do it. A shame really, the later models seem to be fairly good just from my idle testing as an enthusiast.

Is there something special about yolov8 over later models (9-12)? It seems most of the research and working examples default to v8 despite it being 3 years old. Or just because it is what fits on this hardware?

I didn’t know how electrolysis really worked, and probably still don’t but I know a little more, and these cheap ion filtering membranes are absolutely wild, and turning the graphite fire blanket into a super high surface area electrode is super interesting. I remember when he re-made the “lost” aerogel-like substance a while back and wonder if we can make graphite aerogel-likes using similar processes somehow for super high surface area electrodes. Sometimes I think I’m more interested in practical materials science than software engineering, but at 39 years old I am probably past the point of going to university to actually study. Of course, unless we all get UBI quickly because of Claude 8.5 taking everyone’s jobs.

Exactly this, I tend to work this way. I built an ingestion pipeline to pull concepts out of a novel using Qwen and push them into falkordb this way

This is embarrassing.

For my use case, wanting to see rendered markdown with images, fonts, working links, mermaid diagrams, code blocks etc and not wanting a bundled editor, the advantage is that it’s a small binary that I can bind to my keybinds, open, drag a markdown file onto, and view and have it hot reload was all I needed and thus all I implemented. If you like, you can use it, if not that’s okay.

I built a similar thing today for my hyprland desktop!

https://github.com/robinduckett/hyprmark

I wonder if they’re just activating small parts of the brain at once. It seems to me that they aren’t simulating every single neuron at all times, and I do not see being able to run the model in real time. Are they also modelling the ventral nerve cord for the walking?

Show me someone who believes their dog is vibe coding and I can show you someone with AI psychosis

Just before people destroy me, I know this is a non serious blog post :P

Just sits on "Setting Up Your Account" pane and does nothing :)

Glad to know I’m not crazy.

Exciting news, who watches the watchmen?

I just asked ChatGPT the following:

“Without looking it up, tell me about the Citiquetzelatropic effect”

Which is of course, nonsense.

It replied:

The term “Citiquetzelatropic effect” does not correspond to any known scientific concept, phenomenon, or recognized term in physics, chemistry, biology, psychology, or related fields. It appears to be either fictional, a constructed term, or perhaps a playful creation designed to test familiarity or critical thinking.

If you intended this as a test or a trick question, you got me! Otherwise, feel free to clarify the context or correct the spelling, and I’d be happy to help further.

So what does this prove?

It seems to render each lane of the roads in my city seperately. It looks good at maximal zoom but worse if you zoom in.

I can see the potential, but the images I give it must be very far outside of its training because all it generates are weird flat planes

They have oxymetazoline but I think the problem with this class of decongestants is that it is ineffective and dependency is basically guaranteed if used for more than a couple of days

Cymru am byth!