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olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Jul 3

How to install multiple CUDA versions on single machine and use them conveniently in different envs? ->
(this might be useful when installing many codebases locally, (without some form of isolation), each with different torch+cuda req.):

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 14h

gm, it's another beautiful day to work on doohickeys

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 1d

does anyone use arxiv html viewer?

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 1d

ok chat, this paper seems to be interesting:
shikun.io/projects/kal...

Kaleido

Scaling Sequence-to-Sequence Generative Neural Rendering

shikun.io

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 1d

I’m ashamed to admit 5 months ago I bought lipo battery charger for hobby projects and still haven’t used it to this day

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 1d

‘Oh, I bought my humanoid on sale during Black Friday’ soon

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olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 6d

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olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 6d

crazy to think that people used to bind books with human skin (sometimes as a form of a bonus punishment to convicted people), human-covered book, wth

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olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 6d

sometim number go up; sometim go down

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 9d

uh, last time i remember i tried it i believe i had to do it manually, but that was a while ago, so take it with a pinch of salt, replying mainly to boost algo

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 9d

another beautiful day to learn something, hell yeah

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 9d

it's over. (coke zero run out)

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 10d

i learn, then i forget, i learn then i forget, i learn, then i forget, i learn then i forget, i

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 11d

since this post was a viral success, another one: any glue expert here??

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 11d

so, uhh, does anyone here know a thing about budget cnc plasma cutting or is this the wrong room?

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 11d

so, uhh, does anyone here know a thing about budget cnc plasma cutting or is this the wrong room?

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David Picard @davidpicard.bsky.social · 12d

I coined a new verb on my slack channel.

Suttonize: verb. Removing dedicated processing that require careful tuning and replacing it with simpler but more intensive computation.
Ex: "We should suttonize this: just remove the encoder and concat the sources together with a few self-attention layers".

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olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 12d

"All it takes is for the rendered image to look right" - Jim Blinn

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · 13d

sometimes you gotta go to jlcmc.com and just look at the parts to relax

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Aug 11

this line would go hard in some academic related anime

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Aug 5

Speaking from experience, yes

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Aug 5

Yeah, very exciting! Bit sad that the blogpost is so dry in technical specs and no arxiv, but on the plus side now gotta strong reason to finally read the og paper

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · Aug 5

Genie 3: A general world model

Google announced Genie 3, a world model that can generate 3D scenes in real-time, meaning that it can be used to create 3D experiences that you can immediately use. Like a dynamic video game limited by your own imagination

deepmind.google/discover/blo...

Genie 3: A New Frontier for World Models

Today we are announcing Genie 3, a general purpose world model that can generate an unprecedented diversity of interactive environments. Given a text prompt, Genie 3 can generate dynamic worlds...

deepmind.google

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olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Aug 5

indeed, but in the cute contest imo still nothings beats this one: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_LW... as a sidenote this video to me shows how much the 'movement curves' affect the perceived reception of actions of robot (cute/flimsy/serious/unserious)

Design and Control of a Bipedal Robotic Character

YouTube video by DisneyResearchHub

www.youtube.com

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Aug 5

that certainly might be possible in the future! the company (unitree) recently did 'boxing tournament'. (the silent part was that the robots were teleoped, but still 😅)

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Aug 5

i know this is demo, but damn, still: this thing is agile

olafinho.xyz @olafinho.xyz · Aug 5

new robodog alert
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9U...

Unitree Introducing | Unitree A2 Stellar Hunter

YouTube video by Unitree Robotics

www.youtube.com

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