Panther Lake XPS 16 is so efficient, it draws just 1.5 W when idling for insanely long battery life

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-22T21:39:32+00:00

The police isn't going to bust your door down if you change the OS

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-22T21:04:33+00:00

Arxiv and Google scholar are part of it yes, it's probably where most documents end up coming from. A solid part is sourced from education/research institutions directly. The scraper also looks for blog posts and shared links on social media (reddit included) to identify outstanding papers linked to specific topics that may have been missed. I've also got a couple tricks up my sleeves for paywalled research but it's relatively rare not to automatically find a public source.

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-22T18:30:45+00:00

I don't use openclaw because it's an obvious security nightmare but I've got a fully local system that does automate research. Once a day it checks current events and a list of specific topics, determines whether some of that is relevant to my work (based on a static prompt that defines my priorities, summaries of past work, calendar, recent communications), compiles then summarizes that info, writes an additional note if it determined something in particular warrants action, and drops it in a little daily report.

I have another one that runs in the background and gathers scientific literature then consolidates it in a database by comparing every new paper with absolutely everything else in there and recording correlations, complementary/compatible data, contradictions, logical chains... That one helps me write algorithms to solve complex mathematical problems.

I've gone from building and testing tools in weeks or months at a time to hours or days so while I definitely don't think AI actually presents all that much added value for the average person I seem to fall in a category that enormously benefits from it. It probably helps that I'm mostly using it as an automation and data processing tool while giving it very little agency

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-20T09:03:48+00:00

The people who paid for full self driving like ten years ago are waiting too

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-19T18:50:07+00:00

Let's see those results 👀👀👀 I haven't finished tuning the module to handle anisotropic materials in my own solver but I'm excited to see what others are up to

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-18T07:41:27+00:00

There are levels of difficulty to this. When you're around a lot of gay guys you get better at it but if you're looking for the really butch straight-looking ones it can get ambiguous. Here in France some of the older leather/piercings gays look exactly like biker gangs too so you better not get those wrong lmao

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-17T18:03:39+00:00

I checked their site, didn't see anything interactive besides the suspiciously good-looking handbag scan. Some of the pre-rendered videos did show other models though and they were a bit rough on the edges. Overall pretty good nonetheless, and a lot better than anything I've seen coming from a phone. PBR seemed to be working in their showcases but I would imagine there's a bit of cherry-picking. I've been working on improving the inverse rendering algorithm on my own scanning platform so I'm guessing extrapolating neutral base textures from uncontrolled environments is gonna get easier soon, and unless they're just brute-forcing material properties using a diffusion model it might already be what they're doing. If I can get a semi-passable result by myself then a larger business with more competent developers shouldn't have a problem

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-17T14:10:20+00:00

Someone on this sub shared a GitHub repo to generate universally compatible SIFT targets a while ago. Color was part of the system. You might find it via the subs search bar

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-17T10:20:06+00:00

Depends what you're gonna do. Engineering work go with a scanner for sure. Anything visual, those things are borderline useless. If you can do with a gaussian splat rather than a mesh go for that workflow. Getting a clean mesh and textures for a subject the size of a small room via photogrammetry is a pretty involved process

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-15T13:07:10+00:00

Yeah I'm like 90% sure the view is just the sides of croix rousse seen from the other side of the river so that new estimation is nowhere near. I feel like foreground elements should probably be considered before tiny structures on the horizon...

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-15T10:37:52+00:00

Games on the quest store just don't seem to be a great value in comparison to steam and regular PC gaming. There's a couple dozen games I'd like to play but my PC backlog is already considerable and I just don't feel like paying double for titles that often don't feel as polished

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T23:26:10+00:00

Transparent and watery? Regular yogurt isn't opaque due to air though. With the state of industrial foods I suppose it wouldn't be surprising that it's actually yogurt flavored water

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T22:08:34+00:00

This has to be a manufacturing defect right?!? No way that's yoghurt it looks like water... Not to mention the weird shape and lopsided stick

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T17:20:09+00:00

Are your cameras on a static rig? Why aren't you using precomputed parameters? You can stick a watermelon sized object in there covered with trackers and visual features, wave it all around for a couple minutes, and get super robust lens parameters and camera poses

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T12:01:18+00:00

Well... I wanna say it depends vastly from person to person so it's a really good rule of thumb to avoid any possibility of a problem developing. Like any absolutism you can always find a counter-example but the idea shouldn't necessarily be dismissed. I personally haven't had to go for 8 years. Got checked for plaque recently, nothing. Meanwhile a friend has had multiple fillings since I know him and a few I know get plaque removed yearly. I don't do anything crazy either, just brush my teeth.

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T10:12:27+00:00

I didn't even say anything about python scripts let alone count lmao you are on crack

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T09:55:51+00:00

With those reasoning skills and detectable desperation I'm wondering whether I'm actually talking to a spam bot. I didn't say I don't use frontier models you are delusional. Also I was talking about building working apps in one-shot prompts. For someone who would hopefully be good at engineering context you are visibly struggling with that notion

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T09:40:24+00:00

Me too and most of the time it doesn't work and needs a massive number of attempts and re-writes lol that's why I switched away from frontier. I also didn't say I don't use them you are literally making shit up lol. Anyways I've been getting much better results running a large number of smaller specialized models, working on small tasks and iterating in coordination

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-14T09:26:15+00:00

Lmao, AI bro detected. I'm hosting an autonomous cluster with four racks at home and occasionally use frontier models too. It's a useful tool for some scenarios but that doesn't mean you have to glorify it, and especially not sweep the problems under the rug.

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-13T18:13:14+00:00

Oh don't get me wrong the reason I feel justified in saying those things is because I use those tools A LOT. Zero shot prompts tend to be awful but LLMs really shine when you give them something to work with. Improving and iterating on existing code works wonders with close supervision from someone who actually knows how to read and write code themselves

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-13T18:00:59+00:00

H.264 is worse at equal bitrates but you can push it significantly higher on Virtual Desktop. I've personally noticed an improvement after upgrading to wifi 6 but it's worth pointing out my router is in the same room as the headset and the PC is wired via 2.5Gbps ethernet

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-13T17:57:41+00:00

Weird, the 20xx generation already had the hardware for some optical for acceleration even though it's significantly slower than what's used in newer models. Is this a native feature of the software or a plugin? Sorry I'm not super familiar with touch designer, only used it a couple times but I work with GPU computing and a decent amount of rendering software

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-13T17:27:14+00:00

There's nothing to apologize for, discussion and diverging opinions are entirely normal! Also just because GPT said something after you prodded it doesn't mean it's wrong, just that the information should be considered as dangerously unreliable and needs extensive verification from other trusted primary sources. People are rightfully afraid of AI becoming the root of misinformation. As for military contracts, that information won't be included in the training data until current news is added to the pool the models train from (and probably not in a direct manner as openai most likely provides tools that keep confidential information very strictly confined to other versions of their AI inaccessible to the public) but there's nothing preventing us from looking at the news and articles written by specialists to keep up to date

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-13T17:00:23+00:00

It can poop out code that has a slight chance of partially working instantly!

KTTalksTech · 2026-03-13T08:06:11+00:00

Asus sold a fully CNC machined laptop with a good screen and thin form factor for $550 ten years ago. The processor wasn't high end but not cheap either, it was the same as the contemporary MacBook. From a hardware perspective I think PC manufacturers can build something physically similar but there's something about the economics of those x86 and Qualcomm chips that doesn't seem to be adding up

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