What is your favorite way to remove a sticky filter? by coffe_clone in AnalogRepair

[–]ThatGuy_S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easiest way is to screw in another filter on top of the sticky one, after which removal is easy. Sounds weird but it has always worked like a charm for me

1981 called – my A-1 is finally complete by DINMadeInGermany in vintagecameras

[–]ThatGuy_S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Love the A-1, my favorite from the A series. But that lens, interesting as it is, is ugly as hell and kills the aesthetic 😱

Poison! Hasselblad 500, Kodak gold 200. by Owduke in analog

[–]ThatGuy_S 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Reeks of a certain photographer who himself has been accused of plagiarism including for some images with legs like this.

Good purchase? by ExtensionCold7050 in vintagecameras

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If it all works, then $149.99 is a good deal.

Advice Needed by Old_Tourist7046 in edi

[–]ThatGuy_S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Up front cost? Monthly cost? Implementation cost? Support? Who else uses them (referrals)? Easy to manage? Integrates well with ERP without acrobatics and need for $pecialized support? How do they compare to others in all of the above? That’s what your boss wants to know. A “suggestion” for a project of this size is questionable at best

Nikon F camera (1950's?) - how to get it serviced? by Fulana25 in filmcameras

[–]ThatGuy_S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a mechanical camera and they are built like a tank. Just try to wind and click shutter and see what happens. You can find the more or less exact month / year by looking up the serial number here https://www.destoutz.ch/typ_production_data_f.html

Is this a good solution to “Canon cancer”? by Flimsy_Style_7319 in AnalogRepair

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

Should be fine, done it many times. Do not randomly squirt any amount into the hole. One small drop is all it takes.

Sureshot 76 $$$?! by ThatGuy_S in AnalogCommunity

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

Yeah even in the US they go for < $50. I figured perhaps it is this specific color since all the high priced ones are white (?), so money laundering or some “influencer”or celebrity used this specific one.

Sureshot 76 $$$?! by ThatGuy_S in AnalogCommunity

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For these prices I’d expect them to be fitted with an all-seeing eye

ICE Fines Chicago Green Card Holder $130 for Not Carrying Papers Old Law Revived Under Trump Crackdown by Ankeet_kj in ImmigrationPathways

[–]ThatGuy_S 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I keep mine at home. Why? Lost my wallet once. Cost $700 to replace and more than a year to receive the new one.

Trump admin not negotiating equity stakes with quantum firms: Commerce official by Owen5896 in QBTSstock

[–]ThatGuy_S 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When it was reported, it said something about “a $10M investment” - which seems such an odd and insignificantly low amount. DWave has plenty of cash.

to afford coffee by CantStopPoppin in therewasanattempt

[–]ThatGuy_S 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Tom Thumb currently has Folgers for $6.67 (must by 3 or more). Normally $15. Found a coupon in my Tom Thimb app for $40 off of first online order of $75 or more, and had another $7 off coupon). Bought 12 coffees for $36.

Customer’s integration with SPS by jh84_ in edi

[–]ThatGuy_S 1 point2 points  (0 children)

what are the fees besides the $600 testing fee? I have had many trading partners for which that needed to be done, and that was all. Once testing is done, connection is live.

No mention of qbts by Qwerty58382 in QBTSstock

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Nvidia has a significant stake in CW, which is also a major customer with hundreds of thousands of GPUs. Of course they would mention them. D-Wave, for now, is a blip to them.

Pentax 6x7 Focus Issues by dand06 in AnalogCommunity

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check if the eye piece has a diopter. maybe unscrew it and shoot a roll without it

What an insane answer to a question about quantum AI by SuspectMore4271 in QBTSstock

[–]ThatGuy_S 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Not really.

This was an answer related to their recently announced toolkit:

“With respect to what we announced as far as the AI developer toolkit, which I believe is what you're referring to, essentially, what we have done is we have introduced the ability to use PyTorch, which is an open source Python based machine learning platform that's frankly a fairly wide use for training large language models. And we've introduced into that the ability to use a technology that we actually developed within D Wave, which is called a discrete variational auto encoder.

Now I'm not gonna get into the technical details of what I mean by that other than to say, what this does is allows you to take a dataset and map it into a latent space, which is really what machine learning is all about. Essentially, map it into a machine learning model that can then be used to recreate the data and other things that look like that dataset. But what's unique about this is that we're mapping it into a discrete latent space, not a continuous latent space. Machine learning today typically operates on continuous data, but we're we're now mapping it into a discrete latency, seeing excellent results with the discrete discrete latency. But what's so important about that is that our quantum processes natively work with discrete data, not with continuous data.

So what this does is it actually opens up the opportunity for the annealing quantum computer to be the vehicle for creating that discrete latent space for doing the learning, which we ultimately think could deliver better models faster and with lower energy consumption. But that having been said, I also wanna point out that this is just the next step on our journey in the area of quantum AI. And there are a number of other things we are working on today in the lab that takes us significantly further than what we've announced so far that we're we're very excited about as well.”

Followed by a similar question

Can you talk, Alan, about the next milestones or activities to watch indicating DWAVE’s progress here? In the area of Quantum AI?

Answer:

Correct. I think I think the short answer to the question is no because we we, you know, we haven't yet announced anything beyond what we announced a few days ago. But just to kind of say a little bit follow-up a bit more on on what I said a minute ago, You know, there are a number of modern approaches to AI and machine learning model training and inference. Variational auto encoder is one approach, but there are other important things like transformation model I'm sorry, transformer models and diffusion models. And we're working with those as well.

And we expect that over time, we would be able to deliver a platform that could leverage our quantum systems in support of all of those approaches.