robinduckett

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!

Someone will say their brand of limitless energy is better than the competition, it’s human nature

My feelings are that if the basic income is not enough to cover the same privilege that the older generations have of home ownership and a pension covered lifestyle (food security, housing security, medical security) then it is not basic.

And also that if it was only given to some at a sliding scale, it is not universal.

Only last week I was trying to find out how to draw a dashed stroke on a path without needing a separate draw call for each dashed segment. I hope someone makes a library that uses this technique, it may be slightly beyond my abilities to implement myself.

I’d love to see this overlain on a map of Wales

They look like someone asked an AI to draw “Alien Sperm”

I honestly thought this would be this video: https://youtu.be/GjmFbgqFeMQ?si=zc983kptBZQsBLoK

It is not backed by DirectMusic - the mng files just play wav files via whatever DirectSound equivalent for the platform (source files for the games are available in certain places)

That side on view is wild and I didn’t know that the resolutions of electron microscopes had gotten that good where you can make out individual atoms. Insane.

Two people high fiving: xserfxp qxserfcx

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