kaesve
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Comment · 6 months ago
I was also curious, looks like open cascade, and a pretty good range of operations supported (see https://github.com/Fluid-CAD/FluidCAD/tree/main/lib/oc). Super cool!
Comment · 10 months ago
My wife's Etsy shop (https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleLanternShop) is starting to pick up. She is leaning into creating digital sewing patterns for decorative felt crafts. We have had Etsy success before with 3d printed products, but managing printers and fulfilling orders can be stressful and time consuming, and she was hoping to build up a more passive income stream. She made over $1000 in the past month, which beat both our expectations
(We'll get back into 3d printing once life slows down a _little_ bit again)
Comment · 1 year ago
I like https://thebookofshaders.com/ . It’s unfinished and I don’t think it’s been updated in years, but what’s there is pretty good
Comment · 2 years ago
I'd use this on linux as soon as it's available
Comment · 2 years ago
https://github.com/jonas/tig is one of the first things I install on a new dev machine. It's a really nice UI for staging files or hunks. Since it's just a companion to the git CLI, it feels much more focused than full-blown git GUIs, and doesn't do anything magical.
Comment · 2 years ago
Don't forget Knuth wrote the paper on complexity of song lyrics https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1008354.1008355
Comment · 2 years ago
There's https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.00166, which uses an LLM for intrinsic rewards for a RL agent. They use it on nethack. It was discussed on the TalkRL podcast: https://www.talkrl.com/episodes/pierluca-doro-and-martin-kli...
Comment · 2 years ago
neat! I've wanted to add irregular grids to my infinite minesweeper. Playing your version, it definitely adds something. How do you generate your grid? Is it voronoi cells on top of blue noise?
Comment · 3 years ago
Location: Philadelphia/New York
Remote: Possible
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, JS/TS, NodeJS, Angular/React/Vue
Résumé/CV: https://hireken.at/hacker-news/
Email: [email protected]
Comment · 3 years ago
Proving Ground: The Untold Story of the Six Women Who Programmed the World’s First Modern Computer (by Kathy Kleiman)
I enjoy reading up on computer history, and this is a pretty good retelling of an important story. However, the parts that really struck me are the personal accounts of the author in trying to recover this history. The ENIAC 6 played an important role in the history of the first computer and of programming as a vocation, but their story was almost forgotten. To the point that these women were not even invited to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ENIAC. That's shameful, and I'm happy that they finally have started to get the recognition they deserve.
If you're interested in this history, Jean Jennings Bartik also wrote an autobiography, that tells the story from her perspective.
Comment · 3 years ago
Location: New York/Philadelphia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Python, Tensorflow/Torch, Javascript/Typescript, Node, Angular/React/Vue, Docker, SQL
Résumé/CV: (working on it)
Email: [email protected]
I'm from the Netherlands, but moving to the US (Princeton) soon, and should have my green card by the end of the year, so I'm looking for something new.
I'd love to find a new challenge in the ML field, but I'm open to other opportunities.
Comment · 3 years ago
There is also "The Algorithmic Beauty of Seaweeds, Sponges and Corals" (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-662-04339-4), and, my personal favorite in the series, "The Algorithmic Beauty of Sea shells" (https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-540-92142-4).
I really enjoyed reading the latter last year, because it does a great job slowly building up. By the end, I felt like I didn't just understand the models, but also how the author found them. I can recognize these patterns in nature, and figure out how they were generated.
I spent some time last year implementing all the models described in the book in JS: https://kaesve.nl/projects/shells .
Comment · 3 years ago
Not the OP, but I still start most of my projects without TypeScript, especially if I'm working on it by myself. I do appreciate TypeScript, and I will happily use it in any bigger project or when I have collaborators. But there's just something that I really enjoy about being able to start a project without any build steps or installing stuff. I love to be able to just jam out some code and open a file in a browser to run it, or rsync it to my server and share it with my friends.
Comment · 3 years ago
There's a ton of value in building stuff without tools. It's somewhat similar to learning two frameworks; seeing React's philosophy makes me a better Vue programmer. In a similar vain, building stuff without tools teaches me a lot about what those tools actually offer me. What stuff is really hard? What stuff is really easy to abstract out? How do Vue/React/Whatever do these things?
It also teaches you more about your platform. In the end, all these web tools and frameworks are running in that same browser. I find especially with newer web developers, it's hard to solve something in React/Vue/.. because they don't know how to break up the problem. If you'd roughly know how to solve the problem without those frameworks, it becomes much easier to figure out how to solve it with them too.
Finally, I also just get toolchain fatigue. If I want to build a simple landing page, I don't want to learn new stuff, I don't want to read what changed in the latest versions, what the correct way of the day is to set up a project. Honestly, I don't even want to have a build pipeline and module swapping dev server, that inevitably needs to be configured. Just some static html/css/js is often good enough. And as I said, you also learn which problems frameworks solve well, so you'll know when some static files isn't the right choice.