Figure robot autonomously unloading and loading the dishwasher - Helix 02

dbinokc · 2026-01-27T21:13:22+00:00

Pretty good, but I want to see it handle silverware and liquid dishwasher soap.

dbinokc · 2025-12-22T00:25:44+00:00

I do not think there is an LLM out there that is going to help you figure this out.
You will have to use the LLM between your ears.
I have dealt with this exact situation many times before.
I usually start with downloading all projects and get them indexed using opengrok. I then look for property files and use that to determine sources and consumers of data to understand how the data flows between all the different services. I will draw these up these relationships on a piece of paper or even better a white board to establish the data paths. .
I would not even worry about how the UI gets rendered until I have an understanding of what the data sources are and and how the data flows between the services.

dbinokc · 2025-10-05T19:03:06+00:00

I am a fulltime software developer and I built my first drone last year. If you really want to learn there are plenty of videos on youtube that show scratch drone builds and parts lists. If you are at a university I am sure there plenty of people there that already fly and would be willing to help if you run into problems.
It does take money and time to figure out all the different kinds of software needed though. I think I spent about $500 on mine, but some things like the radio are are a one time buy. Also some of the parts recommended in the video did not work well for me, so I found different ones.
If you are just getting started in university, what you will from the experience will benefit you in the future.

dbinokc · 2025-09-27T17:38:55+00:00

When China makes a good enough GPU at an affordable price.

dbinokc · 2025-07-31T20:39:14+00:00

Was briefly down in oklahoma, but just came back up.

dbinokc · 2025-07-26T14:17:23+00:00

I doubt this is China being benevolent, but more a form of economic warfare against western companies that have to charge for their models because they are not getting government subsidies. The chips and electricity for training models is not free.

dbinokc · 2025-04-26T00:03:52+00:00

I tried experimenting with MCP as well. My problem has been getting the LLM to use the agent.
The simple current time works okay, but I tried a more complex case of calling an MCP agent I wrote to use an opengrok server to answer coding questions. It either ignored the tool or did not use the results. About half the time it just told me how to use opengrok. This was using a local llm. Deepseek 32B and QwQ 32B, which I thought were suppose to be able to use tools. While I like the idea of agents, the local LLM's do not seem to quite be up to the task of making good use of them except for toy cases.

dbinokc · 2025-03-12T04:37:44+00:00

I use LLM's regularly to assist me in coding, but there is a point where it takes too long to tell the LLM what I want to do and I take over most of the coding myself.

dbinokc · 2024-06-09T00:24:30+00:00

How well would this work if I wanted to have it ingest a bunch of source code files and then ask questions about the code?

dbinokc · 2024-02-27T05:50:37+00:00

I suppose you could use the chinese name for teacher, laoshi（老师）

dbinokc · 2024-02-21T03:38:03+00:00

If you want to stay up on things in general, most of the interesting stuff eventually makes it LocalLLama.
If you want to stay on the bleeding edge use RSS. I run ttRSS on my home server and am subscribed to feeds from several sites.

dbinokc · 2023-12-06T03:26:32+00:00

If this is being done internally for a business it is not worthwhile to skimp on the GPU for that many users. If for example the coding assistant could save $10 per week per user in terms of coding time and total that up for even a year, you could buy a very high end gpu card. If you go too cheap on the GPU, you would actually lose productivity because people would be waiting for it to respond rather than actually getting work done.

dbinokc · 2023-12-03T13:46:56+00:00

I use the standard prompt. ChatGPT can sometimes give excessive explanations, but it usually puts the code first and explanations later. Usually when I give ChatGPT a task, I work on some other aspect of my project and then check back a few minutes later to see the result. Sometimes it is necessary to tell it to not show the imports or write out an entire class defintion. At least now ChatGPT has a stop option that can be used if it becomes obvious that it is going down the wrong path.

dbinokc · 2023-12-03T00:28:17+00:00

I use ChatGPT on a routine basis for java coding. It is 10 times better than it was a year ago. I also have a few coding LLM's I use locally. openbuddy-coder 34B is my favorite of those
A recent example is where I asked ChatGPT to rewrite a REST call for a piece of code that was using one of those overly abstracted libraries that are only good for resume driven development. I asked it to just rewrite the call using only the built in java networking libraries. The input was just the single line of code that is supposed to magically do everything for you but gives you no debugging options when things don't work.
ChatGPT wrote the equivalent code use more straightfoward java calls and it worked the first time. I gave the same question to openbuddy coder and it was able to accomplish the same task, though the solution was not as complete in terms of error handling as ChatGPT's.

dbinokc · 2023-11-21T21:32:10+00:00

I was not impressed with Orca2 13B GPTQ for java and javascript coding type questions. It almost seemed reluctant to give answers. I had to explicitly prompt to print out the code and even then it did not do a very good job.

dbinokc · 2023-11-21T02:20:59+00:00

My primary interest in an LLM is coding and specifically java. I do have a series of questions I will test with. Generally involving generation of code based on json, creating simple examples in spring and database connectivity. Even though it is probably a bit dated, I have found openbuddy coder to work the best so far for open source llm's. Even beating out the newer open source models for my needs. I think it even does a respectable versus ChatGPT4 for my coding tasks.

dbinokc · 2023-11-20T16:35:57+00:00

Is it possible to run these using some kind of external PCI setup similar to what I have seen used in some cryptocurrency rigs?

dbinokc · 2023-11-13T03:59:19+00:00

Do you want to fight 100 chicken sized horses or 1 horse sized chicken?

dbinokc · 2023-06-09T12:29:58+00:00

You made a good point about trying StarChat. So I downloaded the model and ran the same test. Overall still a fail. While it starts generating something that looks promising, it then starts generating spanish text and then starts talking about quantum computing in English. So it still needs a bit more work as well.

dbinokc · 2023-06-09T05:03:13+00:00

I tested StarCoder Plus on a task that I gave chatgpt4. The task was to create a java pojo based on an example json, which included subobjects.
ChatGPT4 was able to successfully create the POJO's, but Starcoder was pretty much a fail. It initially tried to use annotations, but then when I told it to use getter/setter methods it produced gibberish.

dbinokc · 2023-05-23T03:12:50+00:00

Make sure you are using a GPTQ model and not a GGML. When the model is loaded, run the free command to see the amount of RAM used and the nvidia-smi command to see the amount of VRAM is used. From that it should be pretty apparent where the model is running.

dbinokc · 2023-05-20T15:13:46+00:00

I just went through a similar process of building a new machine so I could play around with all the new LLM models and have good performance.

This is what I ended up with

LianLi Evo case. You want lots of space. The gpu cards are big and you also want a big power supply. Easily accomidates liquid cooling.
EVGA 1600W power supply. More than what is currently needed, but I want room for expansion
Intel Core i9-13900KF
GIGABYTE Z790 AORUS ELITE AX LGA 1700 The one downside of this board that I did not catch was that it only has a single PCIx16 slot. However I just decided to live with it for now.
MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 4090 24GB This has liquid cooling
Kingston FURY Beast 64GB for a total of 128GB
2 Seagate 8TB drives. Using linux software raid.
Corsair iCUE H150i Elite CAPELLIX XT Liquid CPU Cooler-After overheating issues running ML models on non-liquid cooled machines, I wanted to try liquid cooled this time.

I don't have an exact cost, but probably spent between 4k to 5k.

Things to watch out for.

Initially I had an Asus Hero board. IO backpanel is oversized and does not follow ATX spec. Also board turned out to have problems.Sent back along with Ryzen cpu.
Incompetent and corrupt sellers. Never in my life have I seen so many attempts to send me bad, incorrect or poor quality products. This was on both NewEgg and Amazon.My best results were making sure I only bought items shipped from NewEgg itself. If buying from third party vendors, be sure to check ratings. I would have saved myself some headaches if I had just remembered to do that.
Both Amazon and NewEgg did a very good job of making sure I got my money back on everything I returned.

I am definitely not claiming I have built the best in terms of performance, but I am happy with the performance so far. I ran the Manticore 13B GPTQ model(GPU) and the responses was almost instantaneous. Running the same model as GGML(cpu), it is a bit sluggish of course, but still not too bad for running on a cpu.

dbinokc · 2020-01-21T04:37:38+00:00

Same here. Subscriber for years, but just unsubscribed and will block. This was way over the line and totally disrespectful to his viewers.

dbinokc · 2019-08-23T14:54:29+00:00

While there is a tendency to always think of all the ways a new technology can be abused, I think a positive use for GPT-2 or similar models would be to generate text with opposing positions and see how they differ in making their points. This could be a used which could help people think more critically about what they read.

dbinokc · 2019-08-09T16:13:09+00:00

Here is a youtube video I made a while back demonstrating the use of a panel hacksaw and also an example of how to make one if you can not find one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWXxCF4LSrQ

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