He/Him. Formerly Senior Technical Director, Pixar Animation Studios. K6HX. Telescope Maker. Tinkerer. Woodworker. Programmer. Open source afficionado. Enthusiast […]
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More experimentations with LLMS: in this case, using Matt Pocock's /teach skill to generate a lesson plan about using Monte Carlo Tree Search. The result is this 11 page lesson, including an implementation of it to play the game of Yahtzee. It's interesting, because when I proposed it as an […]
A strange idea I had, created using evil technology.
My 3D printer complained that I should give it some maintenance today. So, I went to the Anycubic Wiki, and... well... I didn't much care for the information there. So, I made my own page. https://mvandewettering.com/kobra-s1-maintenance/
Decidedly mixed feelings about the release of Toy Story 5. It'll be the first one where I don't appear in the credits. I was interviewing for a lead position on the film when the layoffs happened in 2024. Would have loved to have completed my own personal […]
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Weird AI achievement of the day: I had an obscure bug trigger a segfault in a tournament using my MCTS checkers engine. I was using AntiGravity cli at the time, asked it to diagnose. It proposed a fix that made me think that it was very subtle, and shocking that it wasn't found before. Asked […]
#3dprinting of the day: some of the old telescopes I have seem to be lacking anything to cap the focuser so that dust can't get in. In the old days, I used to use 35mm film canisters, but who has those anymore? So, I made some quick replacements. I could […]
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Playing around with AlphaGo makes me wish I still had access to a compute farm with tens of thousands of processors. Oh well, I guess 28 will have to do.
Hey #3dprinting experts. I was making a little side bracket to hold some eyepieces for a telescope project, and it looks like it will work fine, but there was a small pair of defects in the first layers, which were highly localized, spoiling an otherwise very […]
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