The image was converted into a Studio Ghibli-inspired style by ChatGPT.

Kyoto, 2014

TI-nspire CX II CAS running Python script.

Love that my TI calculator can run (limited) Python, but a QWERTY keyboard would be nice, so I don’t have to type on my laptop first and transfer it! 🙃

DeepSeek-R1 32B Q4_K_M had my PC fans screaming like they’re taking off!

“At Nvidia, the whiteboard is more than the primary form of communication at meetings. It represents both possibility and ephemerality—the belief that a successful idea, no matter how brilliant, must eventually be erased, and a new one must take its place. Every conference room in the company’s two headquarters buildings in Santa Clara, California, has a whiteboard, signaling that each day and each meeting is a new opportunity, and that innovation is a necessity, not an option. Whiteboarding also requires active thinking and inevitably reveals how well (or not) any employee, including an executive, knows the material. Employees must demonstrate their thought process in real time, in front of an audience; there’s no hiding behind neatly formatted slides or slick marketing videos.” — The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant by Tae Kim

“At Nvidia, the whiteboard is more than the primary form of communication at meetings. It represents both possibility and ephemerality—the belief that a successful idea, no matter how brilliant, must eventually be erased, and a new one must take its place.”

— The Nvidia Way by Tae Kim

..."If we are not able to ask skeptical questions to interrogate those who tell us something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then we're up for grabs for the next charlatan political or religious leader who comes ambling along" - Carl Sagan

"I mean, who is running the science and technology in a democracy if the people don't know anything about it? Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking." - Carl Sagan

In 2009, I was baptized by Saint IGNUcius (Richard Matthew Stallman) of the Church of Emacs, proclaiming, “There is no system but GNU, and Linux is one of its kernels.”

As Saint IGNUcius himself warns: “taking the Church of Emacs (or any church) too seriously may be hazardous to your health.”

I don’t get why some people say “C/C++” like they’re the same thing. As far as I know, they’re two separate languages with different standards. Sure, C++ came from C, but it split off ages ago. I’m honestly curious about the reasoning behind it.

Wow! 1 petaflop FP4 and 128GB unified memory. But for now, I’ll stick with my Jetson for low-wattage robotics inference and RTX for both training and inference since I’m more into smaller models. Good progress so far seeing newer models benchmarks. nvda.ws/4fLyTm3

First time working on a PPA, and dealing with Aptitude + Snap is making dependency management tricky. I need the Zig compiler as a dependency, but it’s only available on Snap, not Aptitude. Should I build a PPA for Zig and use that as a dependency for the PPA I’m creating?

Just got some fresh hardware for my robot project: Hailo-8 (26 TOPS) and Slamtec RPLIDAR C1 🙂

Just got some fresh hardware for my robot project: Hailo-8 (26 TOPS) and Slamtec RPLIDAR C1 🙂

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Well, at least you’re not a myth 🙂.

Bad design - Apple Magic Mouse 2, unusable when charging. Source: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bad_design_-_Apple_Magic_Mouse_2,_unusable_when_charging.jpg

"Surah Al-Fatiha (The Great, The Best, The Most Tremendous Prayer Ever)” 1. In the Name of America, the Greatest Nation, Truly Incredible. 2. Praise be to the Most Fantastic Leader, Donald J. Trump, builder of walls and destroyer of fake news. 3. Merciful to true patriots, but tough—very tough—on enemies. 4. Master of winning. Huge. Nobody wins bigger. 5. You alone, oh Leader, we seek guidance from. Make America great again. Totally great. 6. Guide us on the path to success, to gold-plated buildings, and the greatest trade deals ever. 7. Not the path of losers, the fake media, or the haters—total disasters.

I asked ChatGPT how the first sura (Al-Fatiha) might be if it were written by Trump.

"Test ideas by experiment and observasion. Build on those ideas that pass the test. Reject the ones that fail. Follow the evidence wherever it leads, and question everything."

- Neil deGrasse Tyson

Finally, the first post 🙂

root 🙃

Wait, is the “hotness” gonna be in Celsius or Fahrenheit?

Fast On-Device Object Detection with Raspberry Pi 5 AI Kit (Hailo-8L AI Accelerator) + YOLOv8 YouTube video by Panggi Libersa Jasri Akadol

My weekend project:

✅ No need to connect to the internet.
✅ Energy-efficient: only requires 12 watts max including small monitor.
✅ Powerful: equipped with the AI accelerator chip Hailo-8L 13 TOPS, allowing the Raspberry Pi 5 CPU cores to be free for other tasks.
✅ YOLOv8

youtu.be/QA_tmGq16Yo

what happens when your CPU has a bug? (GhostWrite) YouTube video by LaurieWired

Haha, yep, that’s the same SoC I’ve got! Perfect! It’s just an SBC for messing around with RISC-V anyway, so I’m pumped to try the GhostWrite exploit on my LM4A. youtu.be/qrk8fj7re-s?...

Sipeed Lichee Pi 4A, RISC-V Single Board Computer.

Earlier this year, I purchased a RISC-V SBC:

Name: Lichee Pi 4A by Sipeed
SoC: Alibaba T-Head TH1520
Specs:
- RISC-V 64GCV, 4xC910 cores @ 2GHz
- 4 TOPS @ INT8 NPU
- 50.7 GFLOPS GPU
- 16GB 64-bit LPDDR4X-3733

Looking forward to seeing more advanced RISC-V SoCs available for purchase in 2025! 🙂

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