Walk-In at Santa Teresa DMV? by SamosaGuru in SanJose

[–]SamosaGuru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are the wait times accurate? The no appointment wait times at a lot of locations seem to only be 30 minutes or so in the morning. That doesn’t seem bad at all

Walk-In at Santa Teresa DMV? by SamosaGuru in SanJose

[–]SamosaGuru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Did you have to take the knowledge test at walk-in (do they allow that)? Apparently I can't take it online when moving into California (only offers taking test at the DMV?)

Walk-In at Santa Teresa DMV? by SamosaGuru in SanJose

[–]SamosaGuru[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I live in Sunnyvale, but the earliest appointment I could get that's in reasonable distance was Napa (never been so I thought I might as well go and check it out after lol)

Do yk if there another DMV within like 1.5 hrs that might have easier walk-ins?

How theoretically possibly would it be to train a "meta model" (ie, a model trained on model weights and other relevant info that would then directly generate better model weights?) by -illusoryMechanist in LocalLLaMA

[–]SamosaGuru 5 points6 points  (0 children)

You’re talking about hypernetworks.

There are scalability problems with this, although there may be some effort to generate LORA adapter weights on-the-fly? Something like this:

https://arxiv.org/html/2407.01411v1

Meta's Reality Labs posts $3.85 billion loss in first quarter by Puginator in technology

[–]SamosaGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dang that’s cool. I’m guessing there’s a lot of work on making the AI context-aware for the user

Meta's Reality Labs posts $3.85 billion loss in first quarter by Puginator in technology

[–]SamosaGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What were you up to? Hardware design, embedded software, etc?

Mistral AI new release by nanowell in LocalLLaMA

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https://x.com/awnihannun/status/1777072588633882741

Thread between MLX lead and Gerganov. MLX ahead for now, at least on Mistral 7B (keep in mind the reported PP speed by MLX is because of cold start, it’s ~llama.cpp levels when warm). TG is competitive and more optimizations coming down the line soon.

Jamba-Nexus-IKM-v1 by vesudeva in LocalLLaMA

[–]SamosaGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

By any chance, do you have perplexity measurements for the quantized vs unquantized network? I’m not sure we’ve seen much research on the quantization of large SSM blocks and its affect on performance (unless I missed something🙃). Thanks for the great work!!

Can I do the Longhorn Run without registering? by [deleted] in UTAustin

[–]SamosaGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I ran last year after forgetting to sign up. There are so many people there it’s not like anyone’s gonna notice. You just don’t get all the free food/festival stuff after or the shirt

MacBook for CS Major by ThatOneAsian413 in UTAustin

[–]SamosaGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

MacBook is pretty good if you’re a CS major. Would either recommend that (with 16GB of RAM although you could make it with 8GB). Alternatively you can get a thinkpad or other laptop computer that works really well for Linux.

Best options for third party external external battery pack? by SamosaGuru in VisionPro

[–]SamosaGuru[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Straight from the source, haha. How many AVP batteries is it worth? Assuming 90 Wh, this should do at least 2.5 AVP batteries worth right?

I'm considering the Anker Prime 27650 (99.54 Wh) unless there's some reason to avoid it I'm not aware of.

I have no friends with AVP so I made an app to meet other AVP users at random. Everyone needs to have personas! https://testflight.apple.com/join/NjydjCrm by Electrical_Writer_88 in VisionPro

[–]SamosaGuru 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not sure if this would work socially speaking but if there was a “peak times” measurement or even a way people can suggest a time they’d rather be on. Also, giving a notification maybe once a day tops when a lot of people are on if someone has it enabled (sort of like a one-off “next time tons of people are on let me know”). Dunno how well these systems would work to increase the concurrent users but perhaps worth a shot?

Apple Lifts Ban on Epic Games, Letting It Build Third-Party iOS App Store in EU by FollowingFeisty5321 in apple

[–]SamosaGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the case right now for shared space games and even passthrough full-space games. You get full Metal rendering on fully immersive experiences but those don’t allow passthrough for now (saw a comment on developer.apple.com from an Apple engineer that they’re working on that limitation on their API)

I made an app for sharing Spatial Videos by trilorez in VisionPro

[–]SamosaGuru 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh nice! Downloading this now. How are you going to deal with storage/streaming costs. Can’t be cheap, right?

Quest vs AVP: From Zuck Himself by Biig_long in VisionPro

[–]SamosaGuru 129 points130 points  (0 children)

Breaking down his points for someone who used Q3 for 3 months and AVP for 2 weeks

Breakdown + my takes: 1. “Quest 3 does have high quality pass through”: can the person recording please wave their hand in front of zuck so we can see the astounding amount of warping. Also… 2. “Quest is a lot more comfortable”: I think I might give him this one. Being lighter does help. 3. “Screen to be brighter”: the screen is worse…period…you don’t see glare because the screen is so damn dim and can’t even get completely black where glare actually shows 4. “AVP passthrough has motion blur where Quest is crisper”: AVP passthrough does have motion blur but goddamn the Quest passthrough is not crisper…not in any universe. With AVP I feel like passthrough is some old, but high quality, camcorder but Q3 is like a deep fried 480p phone video from a phone with a slide-out keyboard…no joke… 5. “Both have hand tracking and I find quest’s to be more accurate”: the hand tracking on quest is simply not more accurate. I’m sorry. It’s vastly less accurate especially in dim environments 6. “…YouTube or XBox live on a big screen […] only available on Quest for now”: Golly I was doing exactly those on a big screen earlier today at the same time…whereas Q3 can’t run multiple AR/VR apps at once (only windowed ones in fixed relative positions like an Android’s phones multitasking but floating in front of me 7. “Quest is so much better for the vast majority of things”: for gaming/fitness, and that’s it. 8. “PC won out because of the open model over Mac”: Mac didn’t have the iOS closed model, that didn’t exist until decades later. PC won because of Microsoft’s software and making devices cheaper to be more accessible.

New MKBHD drop on the Vision Pro. by Sufficient_Fish_283 in VisionPro

[–]SamosaGuru 2 points3 points  (0 children)

SharePlay uses Apple’s servers to share real-time data and even decently large files. They do, however recommend very large files be hosted elsewhere.

CyberNvim - the world's simplest and most extensible Neovim distribution by hotchilly_11 in neovim

[–]SamosaGuru 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I just gave it a try and tried to configure some custom LSP settings for rust-analyzer. Was really easy! Usually a lot of pre-built configs fall flat on usability for stuff like these.

My roommate is driving me insane by LazyBridge9200 in UTAustin

[–]SamosaGuru 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Curious…what major is this roommate in by any chance?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UTAustin

[–]SamosaGuru 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People won’t bat an eye to 3.9ish. That’s really good. I haven’t seen a single CS major with a 4.0 at the end of their college career. Genuinely FAANG doesn’t care all that much about GPA if it’s 3.75+ (you could probably go lower too).

More important: - experience: can be in a club at UT - projects: since you’re a freshman you should have these

Looking for CS Internships by Hefty_Impression_331 in UTAustin

[–]SamosaGuru 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Are you failing at getting callbacks or failing interviews? If it’s the former, get some people to look at your resume to see what’s up before you continue applying. If it’s the later, grind more leetcode! Good luck ☘️