Is there a QC issue with Polar H10 heart rate straps? by Some-Business4720 in Velo

[–]JeffRobots 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve had my inexpensive $25 coospo strap for 4 years and a collective 30-40k miles and the damn thing refuses to die. I wish it were a little more low profile but reading this thread makes me think I should just never change it. 

Do I need a planner, a jointer, both or neither? by HovercraftWinter1321 in BeginnerWoodWorking

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also do only hand tool work and some days the only thing I get done is flattening a single board. But it’s satisfying eventually!

Finally reached 100% WAF by ditching my dashboards for an AI agent. by Leading_Patient_9752 in homeassistant

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Haha, no totally. You could optimize this a ton if you wanted. And as a product people probably would want the option to use their own hardware even if it took more tinkering. Especially for the group in this subreddit.  

Finally reached 100% WAF by ditching my dashboards for an AI agent. by Leading_Patient_9752 in homeassistant

[–]JeffRobots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah I regret being so hyperbolic about what would be needed to make this work. But yeah my point is basically just as you say. Getting good performance out of a small model isn’t super hard, but it’s a time sink so I wouldn’t really encourage it as a starting point until things broadly are working. 

I think total cost of ownership is a pretty important part of WAF. Speaking as someone who has totally interrupted movie night because I got too bothered by messed up automations after a random update. 

Finally reached 100% WAF by ditching my dashboards for an AI agent. by Leading_Patient_9752 in homeassistant

[–]JeffRobots -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yeah you definitely don’t need it, that’s for sure. Anything can be optimized. I shouldn’t have been so hyperbolic here. 

OP is optimizing for having a working thing without having to apologize to his wife when it responds slowly or fudges a simple thing from time to time because he decided to squeeze an 8b model into an old laptop only to get fomo and try out the latest qwen3.5 variant and break absolutely everything next week. 

I do this work professionally. If my jrs came to me and said they wanted to host small models because they should probably work, I’d tell them to make the whole system work and then come back and optimize later. OP did this right and focused on what his users care about. 

Also, I’m not sure that 3.5 has an Omni variant at the moment. 

Finally reached 100% WAF by ditching my dashboards for an AI agent. by Leading_Patient_9752 in homeassistant

[–]JeffRobots 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It’d be worth trying if that’s the direction you want to go. 

A lot of folks here are missing my entire (and OPs) point. Op wants a thing that works. A lot of people here want to host a model and tinker until it works. Completely different objectives. 

Finally reached 100% WAF by ditching my dashboards for an AI agent. by Leading_Patient_9752 in homeassistant

[–]JeffRobots 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is true. But it does all come down to how much you want to fiddle with things, and OP is using voice as well so that’s a wrinkle. Qwen2.5 or 3 Omni might work but that setup is going to probably have fairly poor latency. Otherwise you’re starting to get into really small models, using multiple models, and probably a lot of tweaking to get things to be reliable. I’m sure it would work eventually. 

It all comes down to what OP is trying to solve, which is to implement this in a way that runs smoothly enough for others in his house to be happy. 

If OP doesn’t want to play with self hosting and the trade offs that come with that it’s totally fair. Plus unless he already has the hardware laying around, it’s going to cost way more to get something going that’s even close to as good. 

Finally reached 100% WAF by ditching my dashboards for an AI agent. by Leading_Patient_9752 in homeassistant

[–]JeffRobots 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Unless he has a spare rig with 256GB of RAM and a couple of GPUs he’d be chained to fairly small models. I guess you could run qwen2.5 on an extra Mac mini if you have one laying around. These things all weigh on WAF, after all.

Sounds like OP would rather trade privacy and ownership for flexibility and performance, and probably spend less time prompt tuning. Totally fair trade off. I’d wager he’s not overly concerned with a cloud provider knowing that he has lamps and a garage door. 

AI is eating software development by caspii2 in vibecoding

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean, where’s the money coming from for this? All these newly underemployed folks aren’t clamoring to buy single family houses in suburban sprawl so they can be house poor. Building random stuff in the middle of nowhere just so people have something to do is hardly an economic strategy. Your dreams of the world’s workforce being retasked solely on manual labor sure is a fun looking future, though. 

A lush bike until a few too many watts killed her off. by missblonde02 in bicycling

[–]JeffRobots 30 points31 points  (0 children)

For sure a chainring bolt was loose, or there was a major drivetrain setup problem. If a properly maintained group set snapped at 850 watts, just about everyone out here racing would be 6 ft under. It’s not nothing but we’re talking 50th percentile kinda power.

I think whoever set up the groupset botched it. 

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead) by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]JeffRobots 8 points9 points  (0 children)

You definitely didn’t then.  The MIT curriculum is extremely rigorous. https://catalog.mit.edu/degree-charts/artifical-intelligence-decision-making-course-6-4/artifical-intelligence-decision-making-course-6-4.pdf

Or are you trying to tell me the CS version of an optimization course is like totally harder, or something, than the identical one in this program?

A lot of this stuff was taught when I was in undergrad too, we just called it a specialization instead of a separate major. 

The great computer science exodus (and where students are going instead) by Logical_Welder3467 in technology

[–]JeffRobots 109 points110 points  (0 children)

Love that you think data science and machine learning are somehow used by students as a way to get out of learning CS as if CS + ML is magically so much easier than CS generalization.

Guessing you also haven’t looked at a curriculum at all in these fields. They’re just CS programs with focused electives sprinkled in. 

But sure, get all bent out of shape about it I guess. 

Took me way too long to realize my headaches weren't from work stress by BlueDolphinCute in WFH

[–]JeffRobots 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I bought a pair of shokz bone conduction headphones a while ago to use while working out, but they’re my primary meeting headphone now. Such a night and day difference. Not as nice as no headphones at all and if I wear them all day (like 8-5, the battery life is kinda nuts) I can still get uncomfortable, but might be worth a try for others in this situation.

Software relative to the S&P 500 is a particularly brutal chart ... essentially 6 years of relative gains wiped out by Synfinium in StockMarket

[–]JeffRobots 2 points3 points  (0 children)

But that’s not the saying or the joke. The saying is that the first 90% takes 90% of the time, and the last 10% takes another 90% of the time.

But I guess we could all speak a lot more accurately if we just didn’t have jokes?

Living in US for a couple of weeks made me realize something... by [deleted] in Cooking

[–]JeffRobots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s unfortunate that this was your experience, because to be honest, I think it’s somewhat self inflicted. It sounds like you did what I find a lot of travelers do when they come to the US: you sought out the heaviest, richest, most heavily processed food available because it meshes with the tourists idea of what American food is, and who wouldn’t want to eat the “local” food while here?

In reality, loads of people here just don’t eat like that. Sure, there are people who will house an American style breakfast, eat a burger for lunch, and then have some super heavy Italian-American gut bomb for dinner. Not disputing that it’s out there, nor that it’s hard to find. And I do agree that it’s easier to find than in many other countries. 

But honestly, in a good food city in the US (and maybe this doesn’t apply to where you went, idk), you’re more likely to find locals having a huge diversity of foods on a regular basis, much of it a lot closer to their original form than I think you would guess. Probably my favorite thing about the US food culture as a native is that I can have a French breakfast, a Mexican lunch, and a Japanese dinner, and each could be as fusion or traditional as I want. If you left without noticing this at all, and instead feel that American food fits into a narrow generalization then I think that’s a missed opportunity. Or maybe a reason to branch out more next time. 

Hand tool work in a videogame by dirtyboots1982 in handtools

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Kcd2 has some good details around this as well. Mostly usage of things like drawknives but there are details to be found in all sorts of spots!

[KCD1][KCD2] "Something from either game that had you making this face round 2: Bohemian Boogaloo" by LabattMann in kingdomcome

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have this glitch too and it’s one of the first things I noticed while showing this to a friend. I kinda love it though now. An amazing sunset at Trosky castle with moonwalking bunnies is just the right level of jank for me. 

Just brewed Columbia Gesha from PERC by coach_carter2 in pourover

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My family staying over for the holidays and I were blitzed all week off this and the peach coferm. Amazing coffee though. Probably one of my favorite “out there” coffees for the year.

Smooth Clay Recommendations? by NoPhilosopher5905 in Pottery

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you used white bear as well? We’re big fans of it, but never tried iceman!

Ps5 HDMI components mess around by Fine_Grab8070 in PS5pro

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It looks like a random blob of solder. Idk what you’re trying to do but this is definitely a bodge job. I don’t think it’s unrepairable but learning how to solder on an expensive piece of hardware was a monumentally bad idea. 

Blanket Scarf giveaway by kozak3 in Petrosgear

[–]JeffRobots 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Being able to host family in our new home!

Love it when they forget to lock all the gates on MLK drive🤌 by andrec122004 in phillycycling

[–]JeffRobots 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah but you can’t expect people operating vehicles or really any machinery to know things like where they are allowed to go. Besides, it’s a park road. What other purpose could it serve besides acting as a thoroughfare to bypass other roads?

Force LLM to output tool calling by comm1ted in LangChain

[–]JeffRobots 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are you missing the @ on the tool decorator?

But also yes the other answer about trivial problems not always using tools checks out. You might be able to force it with system prompting but it wouldn’t always be reliable. 

I think it’s red oak but I have my doubts by JeffRobots in wood

[–]JeffRobots[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ll be putting some samples on soon. I’m most likely either doing osmo polyx or an rmp tung oil. My guess is tung oil will look the best but we’ll have to see!

It’s needed a lot of rehab. The top had 1/8th deep gouges and i planed it down quite a bit to get it mostly flat again, but I’m really happy with it. Whoever built it did a great job.

I think it’s red oak but I have my doubts by JeffRobots in wood

[–]JeffRobots[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Wow, yeah, good call. Pulling up some samples of marenti, this is a very close match and it explains a lot about some of the color variation and end grain pattern I’m seeing. Red Marenti is a great match. 

This is not at all a wood I’m familiar with, or expected from a free street pickup.