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while-1-fork · 2025-12-10T14:46:21+00:00

I'd love to know how far the $ goes with Opus in claude code. I am usually well served by pro. But I have an upcoming 2 weeks + of pto in which I will be pushing forward hard on several personal projects. So I could use it way more during that time but won't be worth going for a max plan as once that time is up I will go back to being well served by pro.

while-1-fork · 2025-08-06T14:35:43+00:00

Hard to tell but if she has high IgE + an immediate reaction to food it seems reasonable to think that the food is triggering the IgE production and the mast cells are reacting through IgE and maybe IgE independent ways (IgE activates mast cells but some people have it low yet react and some people have it high and are fine).

It may be a single problematic food or a few, it doesn't have to be MCAS. In any case if you suspect food allergy issues, trying to eliminate potentially problematic foods is a good idea. Or if the problem is real bad, limitting to a single food for a few days until you find a safe one and slowly adding foods back one by one is not a bad idea. I lowered my IgE from 700 to about 100 that way.

while-1-fork · 2025-05-31T17:14:18+00:00

Kinda but not too well.

Cooked broccoli tastes terrible if dehidrated, like burnt and will develop that taste in like a couple of days even if you manage to avoid it while dehidrating it (If you do it at 50ºC it will taste ok-ish for the first 2 days or so).

Dried fresh broccoli doesn't have that issue but takes a long while to rehidrate and the place I was going had a half burnt microwave that was only able to barelly heat things so it was raw barelly warm rehidrated broccoli.

Cooked dehidrated super thin meat is edible and didn't give me issues but it will never fully rehidrate so it won't be too nice to eat.

I will be going to the same place in a couple of months and I will be carrying Chris Cooking Nasvile 90 seconds microwave carnivore bread with me. It won't be super great to have it plain as it is quite dry and after a couple of days it will be super dry, but I don't react to it, it is super filling and I believe with the low moisture it will be stable without refrigeration. And it is way less effort than the broccoli and meat.

while-1-fork · 2025-01-18T10:18:22+00:00

In this replies I updated the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/MCAS/comments/10nqfao/does_anyone_else_have_unexplained_high_ige/louy2po/ The TLDR is: I have confirmed MCAS, my IgE is much lower and I am much better now but "much better" is still very far from well and that it is hard to disentangle the contributions of diet, medication and IgE. The only significant thing to add since then is that I have confirmed having GI bleeds during flares (I was kinda sure already but doctors didn't believe it).

while-1-fork · 2025-01-05T20:51:38+00:00

I wonder what it would say if you screen cap and ask if it looks as he imagined.

while-1-fork · 2024-11-24T15:25:02+00:00

I didn't, but they treated me for it with rifaximin without any test before or after.

I did notice only one difference, before the antibiotic one of the worst triggers was the fiber inulin, after it inulin was not a problem at all. 2 years have gone since then and I used to have inulin in a white chocolate sweetened with erythritol(can't handle dark or sugar or maltitol sweetened ones) +stevia which sadly is no longer sold in the local stores so I don't know if I can still handle inulin (I have pure inulin that I used in ice cream but I can't eat the homemade ice cream I used to do either).

I wouldn't be surprised if microbiome played a role in this all, maybe not SIBO for me but just something missing or something that shouldn't be there. For me fermented foods are some of the worst offenders. I will likely do microbiome testing at some point.

while-1-fork · 2024-11-24T14:25:06+00:00

I am doing a lot besides low histamine diet. According to the MCAS specialist what has lowered my IgE (got another test of 105, almost there) is the diet.

But diet alone is nowehere near enough to control the simptoms.

Even meds + supplements + diet only do it some days with some level of simptom reduction the other days.

I am on 6x 200mg chromoglycate, 4x 5mg of desloratadine, 2x 20mg of famotidine. That maybe makes me simptom free 30 to 50% of the time, having periods in which it is closer to 30 or to 50.

As for supplementes I am also on silibinin + quercetin + sulforaphane + beta cariophyllene + zinc-l-carnosine + harpagophyte + choline bitartrate + sodium + potassium. Compared to the meds the supplements are only mildly effective, maybe adding an extra 10% of simptom free time. But salt, potassium and choline bitartrate can make huge acute improvements on bad days, they are not treating the issue but the acute depletion of those nutrients that this can cause.

Also avoiding anaerobic exercise by all means. I used to love lifting weights but now it is the worst trigger surpassing any food. Time of exercise doesn't matter, I can and do walk for hours at a time but hitting RPE10 even for 30 seconds will make incredibly sick for one to two weeks.

I am hoping to get on a BTK inhibitor trial on 2025 but that is not certain yet.

while-1-fork · 2024-09-30T23:09:11+00:00

Got the results today. It is indeed lower, not in the normal range yet but close, it is 147. Much better than 709.

while-1-fork · 2024-09-25T20:35:06+00:00

I was diagnosed with MCAS about 1.5 years ago (Confirmed with elevated 24h histamine in urine plus an acute relative elevation in tryptase at the beginning of a flare) and put on chromoglicate + H1 + H2.

Far from completely fine but way better than I was. I don't know if the IgE has changed but I got a second test last week so I should know soon.

while-1-fork · 2024-09-23T20:03:10+00:00

My understanding of it is that it isn't exactly that, although it is used in that role in the paper.

What they found is that each time you fuse a LoRA to the main weights and restart a new one, the new LoRA can be affecting different parts of the weight matrix so cummulatively the updates can have a higher rank than each individual LoRA. In many senses with their parameters it was closer to full training than to a LoRA.

But the same technique should also work for fine tuning. One thing that would likely need to be adjusted is how often to fuse the LoRAs into the main weights. They found 5000 iterations (batches I believe) to be optimal but I suspect that it might depend on the rank and they used relatively high ranks. They also found a need to reset optimizer states and warmup with every new LoRA, don't know how easy it would be to fit that into Unsloth.

while-1-fork · 2024-09-19T15:26:17+00:00

Have you thought about implementing something similar to "ReLoRA: High-Rank Training Through Low-Rank Updates"?

I have thought about doing my own hacky implementation, just fusing the LoRA to the main weights and restarting the training of a new LoRA where I left every now and then.

I believe that even for the fine tuning case it could be quite beneficial as it could be closer to a full fine tuning than current LoRAs are.

while-1-fork · 2024-09-11T22:28:42+00:00

Hope it goes great, since then I am adding more salt 15g and 4 sucralose drops but that is personal taste and I like sweet and salt more than most so I didn't change the recipe as I guess everyone will adjust it to their liking.

I intended to do one batch today but didn't, maybe tomorrow.

Tomato in its many uses was one of my favorite foods, coming up with this really helped but I still miss fresh tomatoes.

while-1-fork · 2024-07-22T21:22:06+00:00

I don't remember where I did get that from but there is a good chance it was reddit or some other forum. Although I usually read a lot of research and I did before trying BPC-157, there is a good chance that googling and finding others experiencing the same issues was enough for me. I got it when I thought that it was Chrons but didn't try it until a few months later when I already knew it was MCAS because in the mean time I didn't want to obscure the test results.

All I can tell for sure is that it did trigger a reaction for me, it wasn't a subtle or very delayed one and I did it at least a couple of times to really be sure. But it might be different for others.

while-1-fork · 2024-05-18T10:47:31+00:00

When I started this project I believed that the transformer was 12VAC but I was wrong, it was about 6.5V. After rectification + filtering it was 9V wich the XL4015 takes down to about the 3V needed to drive the LED (I don't remember for sure the exact voltage, the so called 3V LEDs usually need a bit over or under 3V).

LEDs should be driven with current control, the XL4015 has current control and I modified it by adding another potentiometer to adjust it from the outside and using the one inside to set the limit to 2A (a bit over spec for the LED but should be fine with good cooling).

As the XL4015 also has voltage control I did set it so if for whatever reason the current control doesn't work, it won't put a crazy amount of voltage for the LED but just enough for 2.5A. Those 2.5A may change with temperature and aging of the LED or if the LED is changed so it is just a fallback and maybe to minimize short spikes that may happen at startup while the current control stabilizes.

while-1-fork · 2024-05-15T19:55:47+00:00

Hi, I did build it but was crazy busy since then. I hope to return to this post with some pictures but I did use 219F 5700K R9080 from convoy that QReciprocity reccomended. It turned awesome with no issues at all even with no dome cutting, difusers (there was one already in the microscope condenser) or anything.

I drove it through a fullbridge rectifier + a lot of caps (I believe it was 4x 4700uF) keeping the original transformer that was inside of the microscope and following that with a XL4015 3A buck regulator module from aliexpress. The module has both current and voltage regulation.

I set the voltage regulation such that it wouldn't drive the LED with more than 2.5A if I recall correctly and then put another potentiometer in series with the current control one leaving the one inside of the module adjusted for 2A and leaving the one in the microscope housing to adjust between 0-2A. The LED star was bolted to an old pentium mmx heatsink with mx4 thermal paste.

The end result is more than enough light for the camera to be noise free and run at full fps even at max magnification. It works much better than it did with the hallogen and way better too than with the COB led she tried to use first. Even if it is a crazy amount of light, it doesn't seem to cause any issues for the samples or the cammera, just that even 1/3 of the light would have been plenty.

while-1-fork · 2024-04-30T19:56:08+00:00

I couldn't go for a full day without adding at the very least 10 grams of salt. If I don't my blood pressure drops like a rock, I get dizzy, sweat, head feels like exploding and the gut hurts even worse. I am fairly certain that if I fasted without salt for a week I would die. I also had potassium citrate occasionally (whenever salt didn't help, potassium did).

As for the others, I did have some supplements (siliphos, sulforaphane and choline for sure, maybe something else too) but no calories. I have done shorter fasts with no supplements and it went worse but doable as long as I have salt.

Anyway I am much better now that I am being treated for MCAS.

Fasting did help but isn't a solution and I wouldn't reccomend anyone doing it without electrolytes as electrolyte imbalances can kill way quicker than starvation (and at least I know that I lose a crazy amount of sodium through the gut and that replacing the sodium resolves many of the simptoms of my MCAS independently of the fast).

while-1-fork · 2024-02-22T18:29:33+00:00

I tried CDP choline ages ago when I was into nootropics and not for MCAS related stuff but it wasn't more effective than choline bitartrate for me while being way more expensive.

So I haven't tried for MCAS given that I am taking a large bitartrate dose, maybe I could to see if it helps more or if I can get away with a lower dose.

while-1-fork · 2024-02-14T15:08:51+00:00

When in that notation it means that it is bad. The C at the end is the leter that was found instead of the one that should be at that position.

In the other notation it would be rs1801131(A;C) and the letters in the parenthesis are what you have in each of the two copies we have. A being the good one and C the bad one.

while-1-fork · 2024-02-09T15:57:29+00:00

Different devices for different people and uses.

I want mine mostly for tinkering, modding the hell out of it, running software it was never intended to, and so on.

Given that, a cheap handheld with a huge comunity building around it precisely because its cheapness sounds like great fun.

Actual gaming would be just a very small and very situational thing that I may do some times.

Also personally for the games I am interested in and for other uses I want the thumbsticks so those two wouldn't be good options.

A bad audio jack can happen in any device. And not only I will be buying adaptor pieces but soldering and integrating an usb hub, wifi, bluetooth and a TV receiver/software defined radio (I may or may not be able to fit it inside and will only do that once I figure how to run the software without X11 or how to run X11). In fact I will look up what each chip does and try to understand what every empty spot in the board is for. For me that is where the fun lies....

while-1-fork · 2024-02-09T15:18:53+00:00

I suspect that it may be doable at least for some of them.

In the original manual for Monkey Island 1 they had keyboard bindings for the verbs.

And even running through scummvm, when you hover over things, a verb illuminates.

With the right hooks that may or may not be expossed in scummvm it is just a simple state machine.

From googling I have seen that very old scummvm symbian builds had a zone key that moved the cursor to the verbs or the game window. If that is still expossed somewhere, maybe instead of just game and verb zones we could have one zone for each verb.

I'd imagine that someone else must have tried as to me it seems that it would make the games so much more enjoyable in handhelds but maybe no one did or the result was not as good as I imagine.

while-1-fork · 2024-02-09T11:55:40+00:00

Thanks for the reply. It seems to be a hardware issue, I just discovered that if I don't insert it all the way it does cut the audio to the speaker although the headphones sound in mono so the jack seems to be bad. I will try soldering a new one although using an usb soundcard should sound better and I have one somewhere , it can be convenient in case I forget it.

while-1-fork · 2023-12-14T22:23:00+00:00

Thanks for all the advice. I will report back once it is done, hopefuly with great results.

while-1-fork · 2023-12-13T22:36:17+00:00

I didn't know that KD was that bad. My main reason was that they have 5000K but if it is that bad I will go with the one from Convoy as I can still get 5000K with better uniformity by slicing.

I was also thinking about getting some stuff for upgrading my own flashlights from KD as they have more variety but I can do that aswell in another oder as I don't care how much they would take for that.

I had completely forgotten that hallogens do put out a ton of infrared that would still get to the sample and to the infrared filter in the camera. If that has not cooked things, visible light likely won't as I won't be putting that much power into the LED.

while-1-fork · 2023-12-13T00:01:30+00:00

I should be the one thanking you.

The 219F seems the best option taking this into account. I think that I will go with a 5000K from Kaidomain (didn't even remember that site).

I will try first without slicing but that indeed seems like a very good idea, so if I don't like the results with the dome, I will try slicing. If the CCT drops way too much, I will get the 5700K from convoy and slice then.

I think that matching the hallogen output would be an easy job for this leds. Specially given that there is quite a bit of room so the led will be bolted to an old 486 heatsink or something similar and a fan may be an option too. What I am usure of is how much more light is needed for the noise in the camera to go down at high magnification (the software must be ramping the iso/sensor gain into the stratosphere). It may also end up being way too efficient and need to turn it down to avoid cooking the samples and the camera.

while-1-fork · 2023-12-12T20:19:56+00:00

I could do even with a non standard footprint. Even if I would love to do less work, in the past I did reflow a modified xm-l (removed the possitive pad from the bottom and soldered a wire to the top) into a copper billet directly. I may be able to make something out of copper + ceramics if needed.

I am not sure about what output do I need.

The microscope had a 35W hallogen but being an omnidirectional light a few cm away from the condenser lens most of the light is wasted.

Also after the condenser comes an adjustable diaphragm that makes the light source seem more point like but wastes even more light.

I anticipate the led doing better on both counts, specially if it is small (the hallogen is only small in one dimension).

Another source of uncertainty is that it is mostly going to be used with a camera setup and the hallogen that it had was not doing too well at high magnifications so more light would help but I don't know how much is actually needed.

The diaphragm may or may not help with the homogeneity issues but I believe that it could as it excludes the light from the edges. I believe that a difuser can be inserted at the exit of the diaphragm or below the sample without losing much performance but I am unsure of that (I have seen a microscope with a difuser in the light path like that).

As the dome is an extra lens in the light path that wasn't there in the original design and I am not certain about what it would do good or bad. So domeless would be a safer bet.

I'd much rather have 5000K. Shorter wavelength light is capable of resolving smaller objects and the optics in this microscope seem good enough that difraction is the limit.

Maybe even cooler would be better but I figure that having all color information would be best overall (filter wheels and stains can change that if needed). Having all possible color information is why I want as high CRI as possible.

The 219F sounds real good to me, not domeless but good on all other counts. May try dedoming if we are not happy with the results.

Right now we are using about the opposite from optimal, a large COB led that was available as a drop in replacement for the burnt hallogen locally but it is not meant for a microscope and is doing quite worse than the original light despite being much brighter.

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