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Comment · 1 year ago
Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada

Remote: Remote, Hybrid, On-site

Willing to relocate: Not outside of Canada (until next year).

Technologies: Typescript, React, Node.js, Rabbitmq, cockroachdb, kafka, some llms (in-house) etc.

Email: [email protected]

I am a full-stack engineer (first eight years in front-end and the last two years in full-stack). I've lived in Bay area for half of my life and have worked at startups as well as big tech.

Comment · 1 year ago
Stability AI, creators of Stable Diffusion models release their products under own Stability AI Community License which is not "free" like MIT license. You are not allowed to modify the weights in certain ways.

This package is basically running the model (inference) and maybe fine tuning it using existing AI weights. A great way to learn but still could run into same licensing issue.

Comment · 1 year ago
This is great, thanks!

I have spent countless hours playing with the R3F - adding vertex and fragment shaders, eventually giving up. The math is just tedious.

Comment · 1 year ago
As another robot hobbyist, I wish there were more detailed documentation on how things work. So many projects online just show a working demo—usually on YouTube—and it's impossible to decipher what’s actually happening, or if the robot is simply following some predefined movements.
Comment · 1 year ago
> binary search

Hence the word "Mid".

Comment · 1 year ago
No option really without backend sync.
Comment · 1 year ago
Location: Vancouver, Canada

Remote: Yes

Willing to Relocate: No

Technologies: Full-stack (Node.js, React, RabbitMQ, Kafka)

Experience: 10+ years with TypeScript and JavaScript

Current Role: Staff Software Engineer at a large U.S.-based company

What I’m best at:

  - Architecting large-scale applications and optimizing for performance

  - Automation — at my last two companies, the internal tools I built saved over 1,000 developer hours
Email: ntemail (at) protonmail.com

Projects/Resume available on request.

Comment · 1 year ago
Rather than watching videos or reading on the internet, I think its worth it to get your hands dirty.

For starter, I always recommend a RC car with an Arduino (or cheaper equivalents).

Following can be had for less than <$100

- SG90 servo motor - 28BYJ-48 stepper motor - ULN2003 driver board - UNO R3 Controller Board (Elegoo) - RC car chasis/3D printed chasis

Hack around, add sensors, cameras etc. Next would be to build a robotic arm.

Comment · 1 year ago
I’ve tried building a web app with LLMs before. Two of them went in circles—I'd ask them to fix an infinite loop, they’d remove the code for a feature; I’d ask them to add the feature back, they’d bring back the infinite loop, and so on. The third one kept losing context—after just 2–3 messages, it would rebuild the whole thing differently.

They’ll probably get better, but for now I can safely say I’ve spent more time building and tweaking prompts than getting helpful results.

Comment · 1 year ago
Oops a typo.

Adding to that, all i want is a download current page to read offline, sort of like pdf (embedded image and styles) but on reading mode.

Comment · 1 year ago
I used Pocket until they remove the ability to save page as offline (moved to premium tier afak) and also shoving sponsored content here and there.

I switched to Raindrop, and the free-tier is more than ~~useless~~ useful to me.

[1]Raindrop.io

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