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I wanted to hold some paints in a box. Pretty simple requirement, but nicely demonstrates my process in creating something. Crude mock-ups I find this is one of the most important steps. When thinking just in my head, or even on paper or in CAD, it s really easy to lose sense of scale and proportions Continue reading Paint Holder
This article is just me playing about with math, and showing how to extrapolate in ways that might not be immediately obvious, looking at how much AI can memorize chess Summary The Licess chess database has 5 billion chess games recorded. There is no evidence of us even scratching the surface of unique chess games. Continue reading How much can AI memorize chess?
Everyone in the math community is all excited about the aperiodic monotiles that were discovered. I don t have much to add, but I did recreate it in Solidworks and laser cut it out: I created a hexagon, and subdivided with construction lines, and saved that as a block. I then inserted 5 more of these Continue reading Aperiodic Monotiles
I ve been working on an open source ChatGPT clone, as a small part of a large group: Open Assistant is, very roughly speaking, one possible front end and data collection, and RWKV is one possible back end. The two projects can work together. I ve contributed a dozen smaller parts, but also two main parts that Continue reading Update: Release! ChatGPT clone: Open Assistant + RWKV
Say you have a bunch of company-specific documents/pages/pdfs that you want a user to be able to query with GPT-3. Without actually pre-training GPT-3, you can get an effect that is pretty close by using embeddings. Note: Code is available on github: https://github.com/johnflux/gpt3_search Here s how: Implementation code Note: Code is available on github: https://github.com/johnflux/gpt3_search…
I wanted to laser cut acrylic plastic, and then bend it into shapes. So I mocked something up: (The pink glow was my attempt to render a glow hot wire) It s extremely simple. It s just a base and a channel along one edge with a nichrome wire (the wire used in e-cigarettes). I actually built Continue reading Acrylic Bender
I wanted to bend a large amount of wire for another project. So I made this, a phone controlled wire bender. You plug it, establish a Bluetooth connection to it, and use the nifty android app I made to make it bend wire. Details I had an idea that an 3d printer s extruder could also Continue reading Wire bender
I found some acorns and bit of branch. Decided to paint them with a Totoro feel:
My daughter loved this Flamingo song on youtube, so I laser cut out the shrimp in wood, acrylic and pink paper, then mounted them together with an android tablet all inside of a frame. The result was pretty cool imho. (Unfortunately I can t show the full thing for copyright reasons.)
I laser cut a map of where I lived in Tokyo. I made so many mistakes, but I was happy with the final result. I thought it would be easy download nasa height map data, turn it into an svg, and laser cut. But when I downloaded the height map data for the area, Continue reading Laser cutting a map