Sam Zakkour
@samzakkour.bsky.social
Endlessly curious about all tech and science. work as a principal consultant in data and AI. hobbies are humanoid robots, generative AI, MLOps, cloud, IoT, VR/AR, FPV drones, 3D printing, maker/hacker, robotics. Born and bred in Sydney, Australia
All that work making Pleo batteries, pays off
December 27, 2024 at 3:07 AM
All that work making Pleo batteries, pays off
Finally used the spot welder to make these Pleo robot batteries, and after a few years fixed the old bose studio wireless headphones. Productive day
December 26, 2024 at 12:51 PM
Finally used the spot welder to make these Pleo robot batteries, and after a few years fixed the old bose studio wireless headphones. Productive day
Finally got time to fix his arms. The modified bracket I made in fusion came out great for future repairs
December 26, 2024 at 12:48 PM
Finally got time to fix his arms. The modified bracket I made in fusion came out great for future repairs
Thought on O3, If we spend $300000 USD, which is understandable with the current tech and difficulty of the questions, does it now update the base model with this new insight? Or will we need to spend another $300k tomorrow when we ask the same question?
December 22, 2024 at 3:06 PM
Thought on O3, If we spend $300000 USD, which is understandable with the current tech and difficulty of the questions, does it now update the base model with this new insight? Or will we need to spend another $300k tomorrow when we ask the same question?
So, get ChatGPT to imagine up an ornament of your daughters choice, do some work in fusion360, then some painting in Bambu Labs, then print. then drop it right before the photo.. not as horny any more..
December 20, 2024 at 7:43 AM
So, get ChatGPT to imagine up an ornament of your daughters choice, do some work in fusion360, then some painting in Bambu Labs, then print. then drop it right before the photo.. not as horny any more..
Got the bluetoothctl commands working at our last maker group meetup. He speaks
December 20, 2024 at 4:52 AM
Got the bluetoothctl commands working at our last maker group meetup. He speaks
Modifying the inner bracket so I can repair him easier next time.
December 20, 2024 at 4:49 AM
Modifying the inner bracket so I can repair him easier next time.
Dusting off the 3D printed Wall-E robot, he needs repair, arms keep breaking
December 20, 2024 at 4:46 AM
Dusting off the 3D printed Wall-E robot, he needs repair, arms keep breaking
Am I on the wrong thought path in thinking that Byte Latent Transformers are what these realtime multimodal models that power Gemini 2 are based on? arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871
Byte Latent Transformer: Patches Scale Better Than Tokens
We introduce the Byte Latent Transformer (BLT), a new byte-level LLM architecture that, for the first time, matches tokenization-based LLM performance at scale with significant improvements in inferen...
arxiv.org
December 19, 2024 at 11:58 AM
Am I on the wrong thought path in thinking that Byte Latent Transformers are what these realtime multimodal models that power Gemini 2 are based on? arxiv.org/abs/2412.09871
robots coming in hot! Is anyone working on this? I would love to hear from people who have added this to their DIY robots, but I have a feeling we still have a heap of work to do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCll...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCll...
NVIDIA’s New AI: Training 10,000x Faster!
YouTube video by Two Minute Papers
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2024 at 4:47 AM
robots coming in hot! Is anyone working on this? I would love to hear from people who have added this to their DIY robots, but I have a feeling we still have a heap of work to do
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCll...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCll...
This elf needs to stick to the shelf
December 7, 2024 at 11:21 PM
This elf needs to stick to the shelf
3D printing in white and getting the kids to paint is a nice way to keep them busy
December 7, 2024 at 10:04 PM
3D printing in white and getting the kids to paint is a nice way to keep them busy
Blown away with this print
December 3, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Blown away with this print
Reposted by Sam Zakkour
lifehack if you are doing robotics r&d or are a student or whatever, you should probably be using rerun
We implemented undo in @rerun.io by storing the viewer state in the same type of in-memory database we use for the recorded data. Have a look (sound on!)
December 2, 2024 at 4:31 PM
lifehack if you are doing robotics r&d or are a student or whatever, you should probably be using rerun
Just when I thought I couldn't feel any dumber... Genius level engineers really put me in my place... youtu.be/VEgwnhLHy3g?...
I Built a 4 Axis 3D Printer Unlike Anything You’ve Seen
YouTube video by Joshua Bird
youtu.be
December 3, 2024 at 11:08 AM
Just when I thought I couldn't feel any dumber... Genius level engineers really put me in my place... youtu.be/VEgwnhLHy3g?...
Reposted by Sam Zakkour
#yarrbooty #2024 no filters or Photoshop
December 2, 2024 at 11:42 AM
#yarrbooty #2024 no filters or Photoshop
#yarrbooty #2024 no filters or Photoshop
December 2, 2024 at 11:42 AM
#yarrbooty #2024 no filters or Photoshop
The quality of these prints and speed... Leaves my old printers to shame
December 1, 2024 at 5:47 AM
The quality of these prints and speed... Leaves my old printers to shame
Got the Bamboo P1S AMS 3D printing this Elsa for the daughter. The blue is glow in the dark filament.
December 1, 2024 at 5:45 AM
Got the Bamboo P1S AMS 3D printing this Elsa for the daughter. The blue is glow in the dark filament.
Reposted by Sam Zakkour
A lovely overview of meta-learning, or as they call it, networks that improve through practice arxiv.org/abs/2410.10596
Found by a PhD student in our group
Found by a PhD student in our group
Neural networks that overcome classic challenges through practice
Since the earliest proposals for neural network models of the mind and brain, critics have pointed out key weaknesses in these models compared to human cognitive abilities. Here we review recent work ...
arxiv.org
November 30, 2024 at 2:21 AM
A lovely overview of meta-learning, or as they call it, networks that improve through practice arxiv.org/abs/2410.10596
Found by a PhD student in our group
Found by a PhD student in our group
when the daughter wants unicorn christmas ornaments and you want to learn fusion 360. #tisTheSeason
November 30, 2024 at 11:27 AM
when the daughter wants unicorn christmas ornaments and you want to learn fusion 360. #tisTheSeason
In the age of AI, I wonder if we as humanity could create a protocol across all our technology systems, that allows all data to be encrypted by default, in such a way that the producer of the data and humans subjects referenced in such data could be notified and have the option to remove access
November 28, 2024 at 4:19 AM
In the age of AI, I wonder if we as humanity could create a protocol across all our technology systems, that allows all data to be encrypted by default, in such a way that the producer of the data and humans subjects referenced in such data could be notified and have the option to remove access
Reposted by Sam Zakkour
Both OpenAI and Anthropic have proposed using large models to understand smaller models through sparse autoencoders.
So, students at NTU Singapore decided do that with a multimodal model and shared their findings, code, and datasets.
So, students at NTU Singapore decided do that with a multimodal model and shared their findings, code, and datasets.
November 27, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Both OpenAI and Anthropic have proposed using large models to understand smaller models through sparse autoencoders.
So, students at NTU Singapore decided do that with a multimodal model and shared their findings, code, and datasets.
So, students at NTU Singapore decided do that with a multimodal model and shared their findings, code, and datasets.