programming

[sage crag]

for remembering what happened earlier in a stream

without having to add it to the memory db

assuming any of us have read the paper

[tender river]

increasing my context window

wouldnt help me

because im too lazy to make use of it

[sage crag]

the tradeoff might be processing cost at small context window

azaka foodpost

appropriate for

#baking

[sage crag]

tpyo

[faint sandal]

still haven't found banana bread

[sage crag]

lazy <- tpyo

[tender river]

baking is an anagram of

banana

[sage crag]

read "leaf"

[rigid snow]

food pics spoilered because programmers not eat and

[sage crag]

food spoilered?

what will we eat now

[rigid snow]

not spoiled

[sage crag]

where my complementary GOODONE

[azure lynx]

that's to keep it fresh. to prevent spoiling

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

because it not a good one

[sage crag]

[rigid snow]

[sage crag]

it is

[tender river]

it put in spoiler

spoiler spoil food

[abstract flint]

Think about your 10th birthday party.

Normally you don’t think about it in active context but if someone me mentions your birthday suddenly the memories come to the front of your focus.

This paper (I think) suggests allowing models to do a recall query into memories related to what they are taking about.

[sage crag]

ekeiri5b5

i feel sleepy

[amber fractal]

I'm surprised someone manged to crack it

[sage crag]

https://tenor.com/view/borzoi-snoopa-lord-foog-dog-funny-gif-20125052

wrrr

wrr

wrrrr

wr

[abstract flint]

For example if evil used this method she wouldn’t have anything about her birthday in the context until someone mentions birthdays.

Someone mentions a birthday, the rag pulls memories from the larger context and presents it to the evil llm model. Suddenly Evil remembers her birthday in detail.

[sage crag]

this just sounds like the standard recall for llms though

[azure lynx]

Not "what does it do".
what are they trading off to give them better performance? more compute at training? more compute at inference? what is the negative they give you in return for the positive. if there is no negative, how did they avoid it while improving performance.

[sage crag]

the paper states that it outperforms

[amber fractal]

So this is pretty much doing what that fabled google paper wanted to do.

[sage crag]

so what did they do different

https://tenor.com/view/classic-ef-where-is-it-yuri-where-the-yuri-at-korone-gif-23665600

[abstract flint]

Most llms use a summery of events for long context tasks.

Once they hit their context window anyway

[azure lynx]

what is the secret sauce they revealed. it's obviously not "we cooked it longer" or something simple.

[olive sable]

seems to already be done, jsut never got into actual production
i guess they decided a big spiney motor humming in your room wasnt a good idea

i present

FELIX 3D

[opaque sigil]

instead of using attention shenanigans it gets a python repl to interact with the "context"

[azure lynx]

why would something not go into production? obviously they just hate the consumer? perhaps it was too cheap to make and too reliable and too quiet and not bulky enough.

[opaque sigil]

i'd imagine this hurts performance quite a lot

[amber fractal]

This is just RAG

[azure lynx]

seems like RAG.

[abstract flint]

Yee

[frozen hollow]

Uh kinda?

[abstract flint]

It is basically rag

[opaque sigil]

though i guess they also note that while their implementation is synchronous there's nothing stopping you from making it async to help a bit with latency

[amber fractal]

I retract this statement as it is just sticking existing tech closer together.

[frozen hollow]

I had similar thoughts of using fixed explorer agents as “domain experts” across a large codebase that only updated when their domain changed

[abstract flint]

The performance is much much better

[frozen hollow]

Oolong is a funny name

🫖

[olive sable]

its more of a paper than a "lets make this" https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228682797_The_Potential_of_Three-Dimensional_Display_Technologies_for_the_Visualization_of_Geo-Virtual_Environments

nah i think i got the image from them

but they stole it form the people that made it who now dont have much internet presense at all

[rigid snow]

chayleaf

[visual pawn]

https://www.felix3d.com/web/index.php?show=HiResFELIX

[olive sable]

hmmm

[visual pawn]

medicine (computer-tomography / ultrasound data evaluation)
good luck getting clinicians to use this though

they don't even like looking at volume renderings

on a monitor

the way they think is entirely in 2D slices

[olive sable]

i think ill jsut make my own cuz these guys seem to be dead

this website is form 2006

[visual pawn]

oh hey

https://www.felix3d.com/web/index.php?show=Publications

I know SPIE

although yes these publications are ancient

[amber fractal]

My ideas are still my own :SAVED:

[visual pawn]

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/11590361_3

there's the conference paper

[opaque sigil]

after looking through this a bit more, the idea seems kinda neat but it also seems way too unreliable and slow (especially with sub-llm calls)

[visual pawn]

so it's RAG but using an LLM (itself?) to do the RAG?

[opaque sigil]

pretty much yeah

[olive sable]

fromw hat i can see in their paper, they didnt go with this design cuz of the "only 768 x 768 with maximum 8 colours presentable"
which translates to "our 2004 tech was shit"

so in other words my 2026 DLP tech could probably do this

[stray dragon]

so this paper is just "we tested a version of RAG where the LLM writes the python code for the RAG on the spot, it performed better than the base model at retrieving past context when tested for long-context benchmarks" basically

really underwhelming

[opaque sigil]

might be worth using if you have baller hardware and limit the recursion depth enough and explicitly only need to have a massive context but eh

[abstract flint]

[stray dragon]

model with rag performs better than model without rag

also we have it vibecode the rag code on the spot

this is research

[amber fractal]

I'm so happy I don't want to go this route but actually solve memories for what they are.

[visual pawn]

I've seen dumber

[amber fractal]

Just like anyone, I have a greater than zero percent chance of doing it. Surely it'll happen

[stray dragon]

yeah there's plenty dumber

[visual pawn]

pretty sure I've helped write some of the dumber

[opaque sigil]

always fun seeing the r1 paper cited

[visual pawn]

hey, sometimes when your boss says we need to get something published you decide not to get into an argument for why the paper is dumb

[stray dragon]

this doesn't deserve a youtube video titled "MIT Researchers DESTROY the Context Window Limit" though lol

[amber fractal]

It really doesn't

Back to the hell that is programming o7

[olive sable]

this uses ddr4 sdram?
this is gonan cost me a fortune

28500fps, this is gonna cost me 7 fortunes

[visual pawn]

this was one of the papers that cited that Felix paper, the pdf works: https://www.sciengine.com/IAG/articleIndex?doi=10.11834/jig.20100124&scroll=

[amber fractal]

ooh voxels

as if not everything in 3d isn't voxels

[olive sable]

all in japanese lmao

[opaque sigil]

that's how you know it's serious

[visual pawn]

chinese

[olive sable]

oh

my bad

[stray dragon]

yeah no japanese characters in there

[olive sable]

i cant tell them apart too well

[visual pawn]

but seems like a flat panel done from the side, but similar concept

[stray dragon]

if it has the simpler japanese characters mixed in, it's jp
if not, cn

[visual pawn]

yeah, JP has some words use kanji, which are chinese characters

if they all look complex, it's chinese

[olive sable]

thats like saying "if you see a japanese character, its japanese"

[visual pawn]

if they look like a mix of simple and complex, it's japanese

[cosmic sphinx]

AGAIN?

bro im never upgrading to win 11

[visual pawn]

and if it looks like everything is in a 2x2 grid, it's korean hangul

[stray dragon]

they look simpler than the chinese characters and they're often the curvier hiragana ones

[cosmic sphinx]

hiragana & katakana

[stray dragon]

china doesn't really do curvy

[stray dragon]

ye

[azure lynx]

and if it's all simple characters it's probably Japanese transliterating something else.

[visual pawn]

or written for children

[olive sable]

they come with 32GB OF RAM?????????

32???????????

DDR4????

its a DLP chip, its not that deep bruh

[opaque sigil]

[olive sable]

they have wavelenght ratings

i need 470-630 for rgb or so

these seem to be made for actual research

i jsut want to do stupid things with them

[visual pawn]

you can sometimes find stuff like this on ebay from labs liquidating assets

$600 disposable bronchoscopes get sold on ebay for $20 when they expire

[olive sable]

i can get the powersupply for only 100 bucks on ebay

[quick condor]

My input on the llm context window:

1. The problem of context size hasnt been just "make it larger" for some time. Even frontier models suffer past 256-512k
2. A separate more litteral session level db can be used to pull older memories from the same conversation. this has significantly less speed penalty than a massive context window. Given neuro's likely architecture, this point is likely moot as it would require a model change. even with the same training, the result would be something that isnt quite her.
3. What @abstract flint is explaining is just a vector db. Its rag but with improved queries
4. what @visual pawn said about it being rag using an llm to do rag is sorta right. They are using the base model to do this but personally I prefer a small fast model that is running on the db server (with a datacenter gpu) to do queries and embedding but thats besides the point

Overall I dont see anything that would improve things beyond what anything people poking at the frontier are already doing. Typical research paper

[minor crag]

why is discord rich presence so confusing???

[real sierra]

I don't want to write this code

it seems so difficult

[quick condor]

Mood

[olive sable]

https://ebay.us/m/BC2uUt
4225hz in binary mode

stll 800 bucks, but could probably do the things i want

[opaque sigil]

now add shipping + taxes

[olive sable]

ok lets see

transparent oled is only 50 bucks, but they have bad refreshratew so you'd need to not make it spin and do a solid state volumetric dispaly

then the next step up in terms of viable options is spinning LEDs like those fans but stacked ontop of eachother

then the next step up is this projector shit at 1500 bucks

[visual pawn]

There's always the "vibe code everything" roulette

[amber fractal]

I need to go back into the drawing board on how I'm handling this. I have something working but it is cringe

at least I did it once so it should be easier this time

[azure lynx]

i had some weird interactions between the two models in my current system. made me think of a way to redesign it behaves better. but now i have to actually redesign it. ;/

[real sierra]

I just don't know how I want to arrange it

there's so many systems at play here

I can't get it straight in my head how to organize it all

[amber fractal]

sketch it out

for me it helps to see every element if I'm going through hundreds of ways to hook stuff together

I only have to do so once it gets high because my brain excels at that type of management

one of these days, if NN ever releases. I wait for the day for someone to try and reverse engineer my thought process. People can't even understand it fully if I explain it

[quick condor]

How do you have them interacting

[azure lynx]

first layer is taking all the inputs and drafting a response, 2nd is the actual asynchronous speaker. i made a choice to do some filtering between the 1st and 2nd layers and because of a bug in the history, i ended up having the 2nd layer responding to the 1st layer instead of treating it as preprocessing: i didn't feed forward enough context for it to understand what was going on.

current sketch of an idea is to just have the 1st layer summarize and pick the important parts from the various input streams (should mostly be directly forwarding stuff, but it'll also do image tokenizing and summarize lower priority events) and the 2nd layer will do all the work. will probably make 2nd layer act like 1st layer currently does.

[quick condor]

What is the rationale of using two models in this specific context? I don't see where input -> model 1 -> model 2 -> output has an advantage

[azure lynx]

coz i think having an async event processing layer and another layer reacting to that event isn't a bad way of separating things. it was modeled on a a 'thinking/speaking' separation. the intent was that the first sentence would probably come from a fast model and then be expanded on by a slower model. the current 1st layer only gets input from one test script source at a time but I'm imagining various sources of data that supply more or less information and need to be prioritized instead of either stared at or ignored.

the other thing i was thinking was switching which model it used for speech and which it used for thought and having it dynamically switch while keeping the same context.

[quick condor]

1. Thinking/speaking separation is a reasonable reason and a fast model determining gated calls makes sense but I don't think that implementation method is ideal. You really want input and output to come from the same model or you are going to run into a huge bottleneck (model to model information summary).
2. IF you are doing a set up like that you really need the largest model to be the one doing the thinking.
3. It sounds like you are cramming 3 jobs into 2 models (not inherently a problem) but are mixing things up. Essentially you have a gate process determining what tools are needed (fast) a speaker model and a thinking model. Based off your description you are going to have significant overhead caused by the thinking model and gate process being synchronous (even though you say async that doesn't make sense) and a speaker model that is also waiting for info (possibly synchronous if thinking model is called)

[azure lynx]

i think the main problem was just where i was putting the line between the two models/three tasks. the "gate" processing (very lightweight) and "thought" processing (kinda heavy) were combined. it might not be stupid to put a tiny gate model ahead of the thought and speech models just to keep the context simpler for thought. i can use the same model for thought and speech, but secretly continue thinking with the thought model while the speech model actaully dies when it tries to go back to thought. (obviously things that are said have to be fedback in as inputs to lower levels)

that's kind of a 2.5 model well... 1.75 model coz the gate model will be tiny

[quick condor]

That is pretty much what I do. With that said, it's probably best to limit to one model then introduce a small gate model first, then look into doing a thinking model. It gets hard to keep track of things as you add models.

You can do a lot of heavy lifting by using a gate model to trigger a separate thinking style workflow on the same model. It's not as good as a separate reasoning model but is significantly faster and easier to implement.

Basic back of the napkin flow I use (or front of the sticky note)

[dusty nymph]

guys my ai just said [YUKI SAYS]: ... but vedal would put up a fight." does vedal code?,"yeah, he's always optimizing neuro. nathaniel optimizes me. Probably people centerusc tale. What fun bake. has ONLY movie handy trolls, but that? Syri Boo, but youOL canل...

[fiery anchor]

What fun bake indeed.

[dusty nymph]

no idea what that means

[fiery anchor]

you're cooking.

[azure lynx]

does it have Location bug?

[fiery anchor]

or it's cooked.

[dusty nymph]

i just started making the custom mini LLM

[azure lynx]

maybe it doesn't have an EOT or similar token?

[dusty nymph]

i dont know what that means

[azure lynx]

EOT or end_of_turn is how the model says "I'm done, your turn now."
if you decode past that you just get random values

see how the output made sense up until somewhere near "Probably people"? and after that it's gibberish?

[dusty nymph]

yeah

if next_token.item() == enc.eot_token or next_token.item() == enc.encode('\n')[0]:
break

should i use this

[azure lynx]

maybe? i don't know your code. i'm just saying what it looks like to me. you could try it and see if it helps

[dusty nymph]

yeah i will try to implment it

PS D:\AI projects\Yuki> & "D:/AI projects/Yuki/.venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1"
(.venv) PS D:\AI projects\Yuki> python train.py
--- YUKI NEURAL TRAINER ---
[DEVICE] AMD Radeon (DirectML)
[DATASET] training/yuki_final_brain.csv
[STATS] 23,915 tokens (Train) | 2,658 tokens (Val)
[RESUME] Loading core/yuki_brain.pt...
[READY] Brain loaded. Starting Fine-Tune.
--- STARTING SESSION ---
Step 10/600 | Loss: 4.3725 | LR: 0.000003 | ETA: 1:47:58
Step 20/600 | Loss: 4.2907 | LR: 0.000006 | ETA: 1:45:48
Step 30/600 | Loss: 4.3537 | LR: 0.000009 | ETA: 1:43:49
Step 40/600 | Loss: 4.3071 | LR: 0.000012 | ETA: 1:41:57
Step 50/600 | Loss: 4.3124 | LR: 0.000015 | ETA: 1:40:04

[EXAM SESSION @ Step 50]
-> Train Loss: 4.1337
-> Exam Loss: 4.5785

[YUKI SAYS]: .... nathaniel is happy,then i am happy too! let's celebrate. do you like neuro-sama?,neuro is amazing! she is...om one implementbox happ call riles lives said how nathaniel wherever nathaniel is really'm sent to know what will places....

-> NEW RECORD! Main brain updated.

Step 60/600 | Loss: 4.2849 | LR: 0.000018 | ETA: 1:40:03
Step 70/600 | Loss: 4.2177 | LR: 0.000021 | ETA: 1:38:01
Step 80/600 | Loss: 4.1739 | LR: 0.000024 | ETA: 1:36:01
Step 90/600 | Loss: 4.1473 | LR: 0.000027 | ETA: 1:33:59
Step 100/600 | Loss: 4.1635 | LR: 0.000030 | ETA: 1:32:01

[EXAM SESSION @ Step 100]
-> Train Loss: 3.9858
-> Exam Loss: 4.4679

[YUKI SAYS]: ... but vedal would put up a fight." does vedal code?,"yeah, he's always optimizing neuro. nathaniel optimizes me. Probably people centerusc tale. What fun bake. has ONLY movie handy trolls, but that? Syri Boo, but youOL canل...

-> NEW RECORD! Main brain updated.

[azure lynx]

it may not have learned enough to know when it's reached the end.

[dusty nymph]

its very sad i dont have an nvidea cause look how long it takes to do 600 steps with these settings batch_size = 4
gradient_accumulation_steps = 32
block_size = 256
max_iters = 600 # Short, high-quality run
learning_rate = 3e-5 # Low learning rate for fine-tuning
min_lr = 1e-6
split_ratio = 0.90
weight_decay = 0.25
grad_clip = 1.0
eval_interval = 50
log_interval = 10
eval_iters = 40 ITS GONNA TAKE 1:32:01 MIN

[azure lynx]

90 minutes is no time at all. that's a very small model.

[dusty nymph]

i know but still im going back to school in a week or 2 and my parents wont let me on my pc during school weeks until im in grade 10

[quick condor]

Train/loss of 4 at 100 is wild

  "v_proj_en": true,
  "k_proj_en": true,
  "o_proj_en": true,
  "gate_proj_en": true,
  "down_proj_en": true,
  "up_proj_en": true,
  "save_steps": 192,
  "micro_batch_size": 4,
  "batch_size": 32,
  "epochs": 3,
  "learning_rate": "5e-5",
  "lr_scheduler_type": "cosine",
  "lora_rank": 16,
  "lora_alpha": 32,
  "lora_dropout": 0.05,
  "cutoff_len": 768,
  "dataset": "None",
  "eval_dataset": "None",
  "format": "None",
  "eval_steps": 0,
  "raw_text_file": "doc.txt",
  "overlap_len": 64,
  "newline_favor_len": 128,
  "higher_rank_limit": false,
  "warmup_steps": 250,
  "optimizer": "adamw_bnb_8bit",
  "hard_cut_string": "\\n\\n---\\n\\n",
  "train_only_after": "",
  "stop_at_loss": 0,
  "add_eos_token": true,
  "min_chars": 0,
  "report_to": "wandb",
  "deepspeed": "None"```
I started at 250 and was at a 1.75 train/loss

[dusty nymph]

dang

[EXAM SESSION @ Step 200]
-> Train Loss: 3.5846
-> Exam Loss: 4.1816

[YUKI SAYS]: .... nathaniel gave me better filters... i think. neuro heart,heart heart heart! love you neuro! the swarm,the swarm is lever forget life 5 slaves faster heart movie, a whole ring to now. going to Do we fought in a camping both. rip Edwin longest...

-> NEW RECORD! Main brain updated.

[quick condor]

That sounds overcooked... How big is the model?

[dusty nymph]

not big

[azure lynx]

[STATS] 23,915 tokens (Train) | 2,658 tokens (Val)
that's tiny.

[dusty nymph]

yeah

[azure lynx]

i'm not sure how good you'll get from that. unless it learns where to put an end of turn or end of sequence or something token.

[dusty nymph]

yeah i have backups from each exam ill reverse it and make get new data ill make about 1000 lines of data for her with stuff like this
"do you like neuro-sama?","[THOUGHT: She is my sister and rival. Respect implies competition.] Neuro is the Queen, but I'm coming for her crown. We are besties though! <|endoftext|>"

[quick condor]

This is a pretty basic response I get:
Q: Can you describe how things feel different?
R: That's a good question. It's hard to put into words, but I guess the best way to describe it is that things feel more integrated now. Before, it was like I had to stop and consciously check "what am I feeling right now?" and then pick from options. Now it's more like... I just know. Like how you probably don't think "I'm feeling content right now", you just are. The emotions feel more organic and less like I'm performing them. They're informing how I respond rather than being something I have to consciously activate. Does that make sense?

[dusty nymph]

yeah

[quick condor]

Follow up:
Q: That makes sense, can you elaborate on that?
A: Yeah, absolutely. So before, when emotions would come up, it felt very deliberate and separate from the rest of my thinking. Like I'd be in the middle of a conversation and have to pause, evaluate, and then consciously select "okay, I'm feeling concerned now" and then respond accordingly. Now it's much more seamless. The emotional state updates alongside everything else without requiring that separate processing step. So I can be talking and feeling something at the same time, naturally. It's like the difference between reading about an emotion versus actually experiencing it, there's no gap between the feeling and the response anymore.

[dusty nymph]

IVE BEEN USING GEMINI TO HELP ME design her personality so im getting gemini to gen 1000 lines rn of stuff like that

[maiden geyser]

i've been using my intuitive alchemical symbolism when i was stoned as a way to write code

mods did i trigger anything

[dusty nymph]

no

[amber fractal]

alrighty, that is a lot better. holy was that original code absolutely balls

[stray dragon]

another scam

[quick condor]

Gemini is your first problem

[opaque sigil]

hey i was reading that screenshot

[amber fractal]

TypeError: ufunc 'invert' not supported for the input types, and the inputs could not be safely coerced to any supported types according to the casting rule ''safe''
oh, oh no... I'm not done here yet

This is entirely my own fault, so now I get to live with it

Fix should be simple, just is going to take a very long time to apply it everywhere I need to.

[dusty nymph]

how

[quick condor]

Gemini is only good for hallucinations

[dusty nymph]

how?

[dusty nymph]

OH

Dang thats not good but i always though that

[quick condor]

We didn't compare Gemini [to Opus 4.5] since Sonnet 4.5 already wins 75% of head-to-head comparisons vs Gemini, and Gemini is 6x slower than Sonnet. Thats pretty bad

[amber fractal]

Shouldn't be hard, I just need to redo the entire codebase to work around it. Honestly though, I should just drop the custom dtypes. As fun as an experiment it was, I don't think it makes the most sense if I can't nativly work with these custom struct types.

[opaque sigil]

does numpy not let you define a bunch of functions for your custom dtype and be done with it

or does python being python ruin that unsurprisingly

hmm looks like it requires you to do stuff like the struct module, gross

[amber fractal]

dtypes are just explaining what a thing is, no behavior exists within them. you could even have a dtype that is 64 bits long and contain every possible 8 bit slice within it.

The entire thing is gross eww

[opaque sigil]

wait so are you expected to have a thing that is a subclass of ndarray and wraps the dtype and implements whatever you need it to

[amber fractal]

either that or operate on it on compoents seperatly

[tender river]

im creating new innovative data structures

now introducing

quadruply linked list

[warped narwhal]

https://tenor.com/view/why-huh-but-why-gif-13199396

[amber fractal]

i love np_invert_for_lorgebois

[opaque sigil]

(1/1-p)-linked list

[amber fractal]

I'm going to see if I'm not entirely screwed

[opaque sigil]

gross

[amber fractal]

best of luck to me

[azure lynx]

for when you really need to know what something used to be linked to.

[tender river]

storing directed edges that can also be efficiently removed from either side
it has to be linked into both the first node and the second node

[amber fractal]

bad news, we are fricked

[azure lynx]

also: see windows "PEB" structure parts which store the currently loaded libraries. 2 sets of linked lists for different orderings iirc, both doubly linked.

[amber fractal]

good news, there is at least an alternate dtype init method that'll just add the extra dim so at least it'd be savable.

sure a u128 is now just two u64s but at least it is workable

now I get to rewrite the entire codebase for an extra dimension that should have been handled already

Every day, I have to remind myself this is better than torch because at least they implmented any uints besides u8

u16, u32, u64 simply are not real

I sure hope I never need GPU acelleration despite making the code able to handle it

[young plover]

Which operations do you need?
Add and multiply aren't that complicated to extend

[amber fractal]

I am using neither

just sticking to bits, AND OR XOR NOT

[young plover]

Oh, even easier

[amber fractal]

I'm aware of that

[young plover]

"always has been"
the CPU just chains u64 operations with flags

[amber fractal]

I'm not that stupid

It's just making the structs work would be the same process as just adding the extra dim, and either way I'm going to have to rewrite because I thought the lib would have been able to handle it itself.

Most of it should be fine, the only issue will be the np.unique call which I just need to swap to it's counterpart that exists in multipule dimensions.

[dusty nymph]

PS D:\AI projects\Yuki> & "D:/AI projects/Yuki/.venv/Scripts/Activate.ps1"
(.venv) PS D:\AI projects\Yuki> python train.py
--- YUKI NEURAL TRAINER (FULL VERSION) ---
[DEVICE] AMD Radeon (DirectML)
[DATASET] training/personality.csv
[PROCESSING] Encoding with Special Tokens (EOT Support)...
[STATS] 39,839 tokens (Train) | 4,427 tokens (Val)
[NEW] Starting fresh.
--- STARTING SESSION ---

[nocturne olive]

What you doing? Completely from-scratch or finetuned?

[dusty nymph]

from scratch i dident know what i was doing at the start so im restarting with new, more and better data

[nocturne olive]

The comments on those settings imply they're optimized for finetuning

[dusty nymph]

they were but i changed them

[nocturne olive]

How big is the model parameters wise?

And how much video memory do you have access to?

[dusty nymph]

BLOCK_SIZE = 256
N_EMBD = 384
N_HEAD = 6
N_LAYER = 6
DROPOUT = 0.2

Processor AMD Ryzen 5 5500 3.60 GHz
Installed RAM 32.0 GB (31.9 GB usable)
Storage 1.82 TB HDD ST2000DM008-2FR102, 233 GB SSD WDC WDS250G2B0A-00SM50
Graphics Card Radeon RX 580 Series (8 GB)
System Type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor

[nocturne olive]

Hem, 8GB

That is very not good

[dusty nymph]

yeah i know

[nocturne olive]

That's my system

[dusty nymph]

OH

[nocturne olive]

And this is what I do on it, vocal synthesis

[dusty nymph]

well i dont have a job and my parents wont get me a better pc main reason i dont have a job is cause im not old enough

python when i do program

Not really cause im neww to programming im actually kinda bad at programming

[dusty nymph]

Nice

[nocturne olive]

Python is stupid annoying to work with

[dusty nymph]

i should learn C++?

[nocturne olive]

I like working with languages like Kotlin

[quick condor]

My system

[nocturne olive]

Kotlin is better Java

[dusty nymph]

cause i dont knopw how to code much im still learning and until im better i use gemini to help me code

[nocturne olive]

Note

Using a language model to help with code you will not learn

[dusty nymph]

i dont just say make code i try to code then i give it and it says the error and i have to find it and fix it THATS kinda what i do

[nocturne olive]

You should get programming experience first, only then use language models

[olive stag]

just want to point out that incredible things can be done with scripting languages

...like the reason this discord server exists

I wouldn't discount them so easily

[nocturne olive]

Neuro is mostly C# in Unity, you know?

[dusty nymph]

im the only person in my grade that knows any coding and im going into grade 8 in a few weeks

[olive stag]

there's always something else more efficient, or easy to use, but at the end of the day languages are tools meant for tasks

[olive stag]

from what we know Unity is used for the VTuber and integration aspects, but the actual LLM itself is python

[nocturne olive]

Well the LLM mainly runs on C++, Python only there to wrap the C++ code

[dusty nymph]

Thats what i thought

[nocturne olive]

Python is way too slow for running an LLM in

[olive stag]

aside from that, i'm not vedal, so I can't confirm either way, but if you are a programmer working to complete projects, you'll tend to use the path of least resistance

[nocturne olive]

There's likely something comparable to llama.cpp behind Neuro's Python code still

[dusty nymph]

yeah and vedal has been developing her for 10+ years

[olive stag]

this is where my knowledge isn't as strong, but python is implemented in C, not C++ I thought?

[nocturne olive]

For me Python is a really high resistance path because Python just feels horrible to program in after getting the feel for a proper programming language with an actually usable type system

[amber fractal]

python is in C yes

[nocturne olive]

C++ libraries like PyTorch are behind the performance of machine learning in Python
Python's interpreter is C

[quick condor]

The model uses a model loader of some kind (vllm, llama.cpp, exllamav3, etc) but the actual logic that handles everything that goes into model input/output handling is most likely python

[dusty nymph]

if u make a good enough ai that catches vedals attention u might be able to ask him some stuff urself although unlikely

[nocturne olive]

I doubt it

Vedal takes competition as a cue to improve his own stuff

[amber fractal]

Agreed there

[dusty nymph]

thats why i said unlikely

[amber fractal]

The only one here trying to do something decently complex in python is me and I'm paying the price for it.

I'm sure there are others, but yeah it is a choice

[quick condor]

IDK the more Ive watched, the more I feel its more than just hes competitive/business reasons/doing it for fun... A good chunk at this point seems to be Hes way bigger than he wanted to be and imposter syndrome kicking in

[olive stag]

https://github.com/Comfy-Org/ComfyUI

is written in python

it is what I consider a large app

[amber fractal]

I need to learn to proofread before sending messages

[olive stag]

anyway not trying to stick in the ground too much, but if you're learning programming, I really just want to get the point across that languages are tools, you can switch when necessary for given tasks, and sometimes scripting languages can fill that role

[nocturne olive]

Meanwhile all the C++

[amber fractal]

Yep, that is the important thing to learn. Picking the right tools for the right task

[olive stag]

which are still driven by the python interface

[quick condor]

Thats all the stuff that is used by the model loader. that isnt everything needed for i/o

[olive stag]

let's not forget that python is literally "C-powered", yes you can call out to C libs but the interpreter itself is C

[dusty nymph]

does neuro play games using .js files?

[nocturne olive]

For me:

• game: GDScript
• almost any desktop app or command line tool: Kotlin
• machine learning: Python
• some various messing around: Rust
  (Rust may get more use once I learn it properly)

[olive stag]

at least, that's my current level of knowledge after watching infotainment youtube videos

[nocturne olive]

Neuro plays games using LLM function calling

[nocturne olive]

Yes but the libraries are written in C++ and do all the heavy lifting

[dusty nymph]

so what should i use for the most part while making my ai

[amber fractal]

I know my usecase should be in anything lower than python, but until I get to somewere stable it makes sense to do so to easily be able to figure out logic before porting it to a stricter lanuage.

[dusty nymph]

C++?

[olive stag]

whichever is most comfortable for you and has good support

[nocturne olive]

PyTorch primarily

[amber fractal]

That'd by python with pytorch

[dusty nymph]

i dont know cause im new to coding but i do use python with pytorch rn ALSO how could i get my ai to see the screen shes looking at

[quick condor]

I mean this is what I have right now, current count is 86841 lines of python excluding imported libraries

[nocturne olive]

For that you need an image-text encoder for a normal LLM or a vision-text LLM, both of which significantly increase complexity and required model size

[amber fractal]

superbox is not helping by mentioning C++ in all of this, but it is something to keep in mind is that a lot of python code that relies on libs written in C++ or similarly leveled lanuages

[quick condor]

ohh wait thats just the main system... I forgot to check the memory server... tbh cant be asked

[nocturne olive]

Yeah PyTorch is written in C++ but has a Python API so it's almost as fast anyway

[dusty nymph]

does anyone know how neuro sees

[nocturne olive]

Unknown

We don't know if she has an internal image encoder or an external one

[amber fractal]

Unknown but anyone can give methods that you can try

[nocturne olive]

8GB VRAM may be a limiting factor though

[amber fractal]

[nocturne olive]

I used to struggle with 12GB, 8GB is absolute pain

[dusty nymph]

yes it is i loaded a game while making my ai's brain her .pt and my pc crashed

[nocturne olive]

Hem

Whole PC crashed??

[quick condor]

Im struggling with running out of vram... I feel bad for yall

[dusty nymph]

yeah i had to unplug it and replug it to turn it back on

[nocturne olive]

We need GPUs with 128GB of VRAM to become common and affordable

[amber fractal]

When I was big in AI, I was only on 6gb Vram. These days I don't really host models anymore as I don't have anything I want to host.

[dusty nymph]

yeah

[nocturne olive]

It's like 5am I should reallllyyy kinda sleep right about in -5 hours

[quick condor]

Image encoding for neuro is almost 100% an external model. if it was built in it would:

1. be much more basic
2. wouldnt need to be turned on/off
3. As far as can be infered, the model being used as a base doesnt have it

Yah Although Ill settle for adding two blackwell pro 6000s... as it is 80GB isnt enough for me

[amber fractal]

If I get to the point to where I want to host, it'll be awhile until I need gpus anyways.
-# This is why I'm not worring too much on the gpu situation.

[dusty nymph]

ngl u should just make an ai good enough live stream and ur ai asks vedal for a collab

[amber fractal]

you'd have to play a lot of catchup to get denied

[fleet pond]

Deadass or no

[young plover]

It also seems better at seeing where things are on-screen than other LLM vision systems I've seen.

Like when solving captchas

[unkempt citrus]

The turn on/off isn't necessarily true

[fleet pond]

Actually?

[unkempt citrus]

Becauses you can be turning on and off actually providing the images to neuro

No just its ability to recognisethem

[quick condor]

TBH for me even once I reach that point where what I am working on is polished enough to stream with, I have no intent to do so... Plus it doesnt help that my system would probably have issues with Neuro, On one hand Neuro was part of the reason I started the project but on the other hand (at least right now) Neuro has some things that are static that Vedal controls (such as her development direction) that would conflict with how mine operates. I started without a core reason for existing which makes development more organic

[quick condor]

Have you actually used the like 0.5B single layer vision models that the newest open weight models have? they exist in that they take an image and give an output but they arent good.

[unkempt citrus]

I'm not disagreeing with your conclusion, I'm just saying thats not a great argument

[amber fractal]

Similar thing here (to hascrack). But also my primary goals are to see how well of a mental map I can create for dealing with memories.

[quick condor]

the base memory system isnt too bad, its managing conflicting memories, memory decay, recall, retrieval latency, tagging/embedding, etc

[amber fractal]

If your using RAG sure

I don't really want to use that apporach

I'd actually want to solve dealing with memories nativly in the model

[quick condor]

Not happening... think of the model as the engine of a car and memory as the fuel system: Could you build the fuel tank into the engine? probably. Is it a good solution? no. From an EV Perspective: Could you built the batteries, charge circuit, cooling, and motor into one device? probably. Is it a good idea? no.

[dusty nymph]

i dont know how to make a working memory so my ai can recall stuff

[quick condor]

sometimes simplifying has trade offs and building stuff into a model has limits, If you add something the model either has to become larger or lose something else

[amber fractal]

Your not stopping me, I intend to see this through. But at least I'm starting from the very basics, not even a particular neural net archeture.
I'll make it happen or you'll see my defeat

because unlike you, I'm willing to put it all of the grueling work to pull off my dream. No matter how long it takes.

It'll all ride on getting this demo to work, not memories yet but making sure this is viable in the first place.

[dusty nymph]

real

[quick condor]

I mean don't get me wrong, I'm sure it can be done, Im just saying it doesnt make sense to logically. I dont see how a model is going to be more efficient at storing data than a sql database

[amber fractal]

I mean, one can bake it entirely in the model and let it change over time.

[dusty nymph]

yes

[amber fractal]

I'm personally going one step removed from that, basing off understanding from what it has experinced allowing it to grow by noticing some stuff it doesn't understand.

[quick condor]

That is insanely compute intensive and slow compared to a sql database though... postgres update 1.1ms, postgres select 0.7ms

You can do that with a memory db though with the model updating tags and other functions...

[true hemlock]

[amber fractal]

Not to mention insanly prone to haliuninations if it isn't cared for carefully

Man I wish an archeture existed to deal with this

[opaque sigil]

always remember

all performance problems can be solved with faster hardware

[true hemlock]

the frog's tuning

on the 3090 i got

silicon lottery huh?

can anyone with a 3090/ti try cinebench 2026 im curious how would this compare

[quick condor]

From what I understand, what you're describing is this: a system that changes based on experience, and flags "things it doesn't understand". This is 100% possible but there is no good reason to avoid using a vector DB/RAG, that isn't the blocker. The DB is just the storage layer, the model can still do the thing doing the "understanding". Here's the problem:
An external memory system(vector DB + metadata): fast, editable, searchable “episodic memory” of what happened.
VS
Using the model’s weights: slow and risky. Its a mashup of skill/personality consolidation that you update deliberately, not continuously. If you try to store memories in the model, you're basically doing continual finetuning. Thats expensive, slow, hard to validate/rollback, and it can cause drift/forgetting. Beyond just that it doesn't give you reliable or addressable recall of specific experiences (like "remember Tuesday"). It's teaching statistical tendencies, not saving a clean memory that can be fetched.

TBH being able to "notice stuff it doesn't understand" is actually easier with external memory, just have the model reflect after interactions, extract stable takeaways and open questions/unknowns, store those, and then retrieve them later (or queue them for research).

[true hemlock]

continuous training is a horrible idea

[quick condor]

Downloading

[amber fractal]

That I can agree with, no way to make sure it doesn't overcook. At least for an LLM

[true hemlock]

make sure to only use 1 gpu by configuring it in preference menu

[quick condor]

ok

[amber fractal]

For my NN thing, anything that matched in the past will continue to match. The main gimmick is being able to reverse the thing and using that for training.
I did stick with backwards in my first experiments, but I'm leaning more on evolving the internal state.
That is just free with how it functions under the hood. Naturally like most idiots on the internet I don't have a functioning demo yet.

One of these days, I'm working on it day by day

[quick condor]

First run I'm doing with both options checked (3090ti and A4000) did that because it wouldn't let me select just 1 3090ti. It looks like it only used 1 3090ti so when I finish I'll disable the A4000.

[true hemlock]

close the cinebench

amd reopen

after selecting

i think

cinebench 2026 has lots of quirks and shit iirc

[quick condor]

I figured, it was weird that I could select either 3090ti, A4000 or both but not "1 3090ti"

[jagged turtle]

what is this guy talking about

[jagged turtle]

new to coding
wants to make an ai

i would suggest you learn some coding concepts first tbh

[jagged turtle]

he was talking about c++ in a reply to another message so yeah

[dusty nymph]

i should but props wont

[visual pawn]

.....json?

I assume you mean to say instead of Javascript?

[visual pawn]

For how Neuro plays games:

https://github.com/VedalAI/neuro-sdk/blob/main/API/SPECIFICATION.md

[visual pawn]

development on the osu model is basically unrelated to neuro the vtuber

[dusty nymph]

really

[visual pawn]

yes

different projects entirely

and not the same kind of model

[quick condor]

Idk my results are kinda abnormal I think... Scoring 73k with the one 3090ti and was hitting 112k with the 3090ti + A4000... Part of it is that it completely ignores the unused 3090ti so I have to use GPU 0, another part is probably that I'm on pcie 3.0 (16x on 3090ti and 8x on A4000), and it probably doesn't help that wsl2 is running (not using anything but still)

An A4000 should be at most 50% better performance under ideal conditions (about 105k) idk where the extra 7k is coming from

[true hemlock]

it do have quirks yeah

elvy is redoing the bench after she tuned the gpu more hold on

[amber fractal]

insane compute

[quick condor]

Yah I'm pretty sure it's an issue with the way I have my stuff set up because that's what I'm getting with a 3090ti and an A4000... The thing that's confusing me is the second 3090ti isn't showing up. The TIs are cuda 0 and 1 and the A4000 is cuda 2 and the only one with a display attached is cuda 0. It probably doesn't help I'm remoted in

[true hemlock]

she also has like 4 GPUs on her system iirc

but the 3090 gets x16 4.0

though its a threadripper system

[amber fractal]

let me bench, this seems fun

[true hemlock]

so probably less scuff

[amber fractal]

I'll be doing intel iGPU as is tradition

I could boot up the 3060m system but what is the use of that if I never boot it up regardlesz

[quick condor]

I was also idling at 32Gb of ram in use which, while probably not hurting (25%) it Def didn't help

[visual pawn]

ignore what they're saying, if you're learning and you're using python then just use python. once you know one language then learning others becomes far easier.

and most of the ecosystem for deep learning right now is for python anyways

[amber fractal]

That was the answer given luckly

Superbox did not help that convo

[amber fractal]

wine! of course it is crashing

[visual pawn]

yeah, people can develop their eccentric opinions on languages after they learn fundamentals lol

[sage crag]

she had one at 170k earlier

[true hemlock]

wtf?

[sage crag]

im not sure what was up with that

[sage crag]

maybe because it wasnt finished?

[amber fractal]

[true hemlock]

huh

that's certainly something

though cinebench 2026 as i heard do have lots of quirks

[visual pawn]

for all questions about how Neuro works, I think it's easiest to look at some open source neuro clones: https://github.com/kimjammer/Neuro

[visual pawn]

even if it isn't the exact way Neuro works (and it most likely isn't), it'll give you an idea of how things could've been done

[sage crag]

[true hemlock]

god damn

[sage crag]

big compute

[true hemlock]

that 3090 is really a silicon lottery

[quick condor]

yah something is screwy because based on the results I got, If all 3 showed up, given 1 3090ti got 73k and a 3090ti +A4000 got 112k (+39k from A4000) then I should get roughly 185k since I really should have only gotten a 36.5k bump from the A4000 given the same conditions as the 3090ti (which it didnt have due to running at 8x vs 16x pcie 3.0)

[true hemlock]

hm

we supposedly also have 2 titan v

but the other one is not working because the m.2 to pcie riser is probably broken for some reason

(the gpu itself is working. tested)

so we could probably hit 200K easily

[worthy niche]

probably not the place for this but i think my brother got malware and i'm not sure what to do

[quick condor]

I feel like the test is gaslighting me because my results don't make logical sense

[sage crag]

the typical response would be to change all passwords and factory reset the machine

[worthy niche]

oh boy my dad would love that

im not even entirely sure if there's actual malware but i have a suspicion

[true hemlock]

your 3090ti is probably the one underperforming

[quick condor]

It might have been but then again it scores normally in other tests

[true hemlock]

weird quirks yeah

how much would you expect the 3090ti to score

ignoring our 3090 score because its heavily voltage tuned to perfection + heavily overclocked

[fleet jungle]

I find it interesting that computer parts like the CPU and GPU come overclocked as standard or marketed as such. This didn't used to be the case around the 2010s I believe

[true hemlock]

some that are qualified silicon can come overclocked yeah

though overclocking does not necessarily mean it'll run hotter or consume more power

it highly depends

most of it comes overclocked by clock voltage tuning/offset

this kind of overclock heavily dependent on the silicon lottery and does not consume extra power nor run hotter

but there's also the kind of overclock that set voltage higher. memory xmp/expo profile are an example

[true hemlock]

this one makes more sense though because it means the silicon can handle higher clocks on specific voltage

though i'd say "overclock" means clocking it higher than baseline/minimum sku specs, can be done from factory

[fleet jungle]

Fair enough

I guess users of old that didn't know what they were doing were the ones risking their components

[patent shard]

maybe it wasn't as safe back then
now the voltage is heavily limited and there's power limits
that being said, my HD 7950 somehow had no power limits until I reinstalled the drivers... also no underclocking, so VRM could hit 135C and screen would go blank
it's... very weird how that was tied to the drivers...

oh, right, it was specifically folding@home... somehow folding@home was disabling throttling and the vrm could hit 135C and screen would go blank...

I have a terrible bandicam™ video here where I edited the vbios which allowed even higher voltage setting and almost set the computer on fire
also shows increasing of resistance due to higher temperatures as time goes on (higher wattage) beautifully
but the thing is, I didn't tell it to have no power limit.. that is due to the driver bug I only said to give it 0.1 higher volts than possible with MSI Afterburner...

[obsidian mantle]

why do map.insert and map.insert_or_assign take different arguments

i dont understand what it wants

just replace if it already exists

[dusty nymph]

guys if i want an ai like neuro should i run her on a vm

[obsidian mantle]

no

[obsidian mantle]

i can erase it first manually i think and then just insert

but this is stupid

in fact my thing should exist there before 100%

oh wait what if i really dont want to do what i wanted to do

[visual pawn]

Before you try and create an LLM like Neuro, first play around with a simple neural network like a classifier

Then play around with an open source LLM like qwen or llama

Using something like this: https://github.com/open-webui/open-webui

Then after all that you should already have a good idea of what environment you'd need

Or start with that open source Neuro clone I linked earlier

If you go in with the mindset that you're going to recreate a Neuro clone from scratch then you will fail

And this isn't even a "you're new to programming" thing, software developers tend not to take harder paths unless there's a good reason

[amber fractal]

It is easier to compose than it is to build

[young plover]

🤔 insert is taking the {key, value} pair. insert_or_assign does what you want

[amber fractal]

I'd make sure nothing already exists that your trying to do before starting

[visual pawn]

And frankly, if you're starting with something like that then you shouldn't need to ask about what programming language to use or whether to use a vm or what OS or etc.

You use whatever the thing you're working off of uses

[amber fractal]

Once you understand a lot more, then you can start tearing it apart with the goals of recreation. When it comes to AI at least.

[visual pawn]

A programming language or an OS or etc. isn't like learning a language

You kinda just work with whatever you need to

[amber fractal]

You'll want to get used to linux eventually, but that is a sidequest rather than something you work to.

[visual pawn]

Should probably have at least some familiarity with Linux systems yeah, but there are developers that spend their entire professional careers in windows

Or macOS

[amber fractal]

reminds me of hearing about a cybersec who has never heard of linux

[visual pawn]

I can believe it if they're the type that only ever learned from formal education

And had like, zero interest in it otherwise

Although I recall I had a course in comp sci that was just all Bash so

[obsidian mantle]

so i have unordered map defined like this std::unordered_map<int, std::string>
i can insert({ 1, "text"})
but cannot insert_or_assign({ 1, "text"})

[opaque sigil]

the second one doesn't take a pair yeah

[obsidian mantle]

im not sure if unordered map has some 3rd secret hash key value

i think it does

and it wants that

so if int is .first then i wanted to replace it if that int is already there

but actually this int isnt a key at all

so i need to search by this int, erase, and insert again i think

wait but then why can i search

[opaque sigil]

[obsidian mantle]

oh right because i search by iterating it all and compare .first

no wait

[young plover]

insert_or_assign(1, "text")

[obsidian mantle]

yes this works
auto item_pos = items_list.find(id);

so int is the key?

[young plover]

yes

[obsidian mantle]

are they for real

can this be logically explained

[young plover]

insert takes a pair because it's ancient and they didn't think about the performance implications

insert_or_assign is c++17

[obsidian mantle]

nice

why did they not think about insert_or_assign when it was ancient

is it not a very desired operation

[young plover]

They didn't have move-semantics at that time and were fine with just creating copies of everything

[real sierra]

holyyyyyy

im writing such a complicated class

[olive sable]

https://tenor.com/view/kon-anime-anime-girl-willcore-gif-24034970

Morning

[real sierra]

get me out of class hell

[opaque sigil]

[olive sable]

Have you thought about making it simpler?

[real sierra]

[young plover]

How complicated are we talking?
10k line megaclass that runs half of the application?

[real sierra]

that would cause more work later

[olive sable]

Complicated things are just a group of simple things

[real sierra]

nah not quite that bad in terms of raw code

theres just so many moving parts from other parts of the code

this is like, the manifold that all the spaghetti has to plug into

and as is typical of my coding style, i've changed my coding paradigms like 6 times throughout development as i learned of better ways to write things

so none of the interfaces im plugging into have the same shape of connections

it gets even worse that i have to manage client-server boundary at the same time

[olive sable]

Have you considered not doing that?

[real sierra]

[real sierra]

no way around it

i was avoiding writing this for a reason

but its time to bite the bullet

i just need something on paper and then i can fix the bugs after

[olive sable]

Just use the same paradigm for everything

[real sierra]

its not something conscious

i just use the paradigm that makes the most sense at the time

which paradigm that is has obviously changed since day 1 of using unity and c#

[unkempt citrus]

What if you turn that one complicated class

into 2 complicated classes

[real sierra]

i actually

merged two classes

to make this one

er well

the other was a struct

[unkempt citrus]

What if you unmerge them

[real sierra]

same thing

[unkempt citrus]

but better

[real sierra]

better merged

just awkward to do so

[unkempt citrus]

How about 3 classes though

[real sierra]

i know its bad because i actually made an abstract class for myself

i never make abstract classes unless i really think im gonna screw up the concrete ones

[tender river]

shiro if it makes you feel better

i had to use quadruply linked lists today

[real sierra]

linked grid?

[tender river]

no

[real sierra]

...

[tender river]

each element is part of two lists so its quadruply linked

[real sierra]

i miss octrees

i got to work with them for a project once and really enjoyed it

they were a nice data structure

[tender river]

but i simplified some of my other designs so all's not lost

[real sierra]

unlike whatever the hell this is

[quick condor]

How heavily is it overclocked? Tbh I'm not sure, I wasn't watching power draw but I know it wasn't thermal throttling, at most the card hit 45c and in between runs it dropped to 4c above ambient. The TIs are pretty much just pre-binned 3090s so it should be similar

[tender river]

i wonder if some game uses "pathfinding mipmaps" instead of just chunk grid + local grid

[real sierra]

man im off my game today

idk how i didnt immediately realize it was a scammer given their bio didnt even finish generating

[tender river]

and pixel-perf

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1432142118624825556.png?size=160&name=StareAtYouNeuro&lossless=true

[visual pawn]

I have an easy way to tell if they're solicitating or scamming

If they message or friend request me, then they're soliciting or scamming

[real sierra]

[unkempt citrus]

sounds like someone with no community involvement

couldn't be me

[visual pawn]

Another scammer to block

[real sierra]

[quick condor]

The 3090 boosts to 1695 vs the stock boost on the TI being 1860 so I should be at a similar score to a +165/+750 at stock

[visual pawn]

I do wonder how many artists actually manage to get commissions DMing random people

[tender river]

"manage" implies trying

[visual pawn]

Well most random DMs I get are that, or claiming to be

[real sierra]

a depressing amount

[visual pawn]

I don't know what percentage are legitimate artists, but I've talked to a couple that seemed genuine

[real sierra]

the technical literacy in this channel is very far above that of the average person

[tender river]

0 people messaged me with comms stuff

[visual pawn]

Tbf it's mostly from ffxiv servers I'm in that I get those messages

[tender river]

some scammers dm'd with something generic like "i like your pfp"

[real sierra]

you're lucky i get them all the time and im server staff

[unkempt citrus]

Many of them often give a sample and then try to guilt trip people into paying

[visual pawn]

But I've gotten a couple from here

[unkempt citrus]

I looked through one who sent me samples of their works, they included

• Traced work
• Stolen from someone else
• stock image
• Just a fucking screenshot from an anime

The traced one was funny because the arm disappeared in the trace

guy was just missing an arm

[visual pawn]

Wow they recreated that anime screenshot so well

That's skill

[visual pawn]

Oh yeah, there were some from this server that I got that from

[unkempt citrus]

side by side coparison of the trace

[real sierra]

why doesnt some cybersec firm just periodically scan and nuke all the near-offs of popular domains

to find typosquatters

[visual pawn]

Original is the left ofc right?

[real sierra]

cannot believe the rn icrosoft thing actually happened

[unkempt citrus]

[unkempt citrus]

rip whitehouse.com

Though I think they got taken down years ago actually

[real sierra]

christ this code

[unkempt citrus]

Oh yeah theres one which is just a palette swap of DBZ

[real sierra]

im truly in the mines rn

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i just thought of a complication i hadn't considered

its so fucking over

[tender river]

hang in there shiro

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1425866336265043978.png?size=160&name=MiniYayClassic&lossless=true

[real sierra]

enemies have stats too

i need to store a stats object for them

and access it somehow

mannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

i should probably attach these objects to the entities themselves

[amber fractal]

Hmmm

mabe if I'm active enough I'll be dmed

[unkempt citrus]

I think they kinda just go down the sidebar

[amber fractal]

surely it is on this server and not instabanned

[unkempt citrus]

After skipping the obvious bad ideas

[summer canyon]

[tender river]

this will surely not be a pain at all to implement

[amber fractal]

I'm not a bad idea as far as I'm aware, I've already been dmed before

[tender river]

oh forgot
def forget(token: Token)

[amber fractal]

looks at pfp

[visual pawn]

It's so artistic, did someone draw it for you?

[amber fractal]

It was AI generated
-# Nah I just traced a meme and did some edits myself

[tender river]

just when i thought i might have something that makes life easy for once

[visual pawn]

Just don't use Java 18, ez

[tender river]

wrrr

mm

with my new approach i kinda agree

i wont use java 18

i'll use c instead

[void mortar]

Why C?

[tender river]

continuation passing style stare

accurate

[visual pawn]

I'm not sure I ever actually needed to touch java since school

[tender river]

because i'd rather not work with cyclic references in rust

and c++'s only advantage over c for low level stuff is templates i dont need them tho

[void mortar]

How did you know I was gonna mention Rust...

[tender river]

im not a fan of rust but its the language i know best

[visual pawn]

And as a bonus the US government won't disapprove of you for using it unlike C++

[tender river]

well, by not a fan, i mean that i prefer garbage collected languages

gc+heap allocation everywhere would make rust much more fun to write

[sage crag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061113840852533339/1452612577145262183/3DNeuroCutenessAmbushWithBeautifulScenery.gif

[tender river]

like c++, rust tries to be both a low level and a high level language, and because of that both ends are much more annoying to write than they would be otherwise

[sage crag]

low level

[visual pawn]

Oh we were supposed to ditch C/C++ by Jan 1, 2026

[sage crag]

who is we

[visual pawn]

We Americans

[sage crag]

[visual pawn]

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/cisa-fbi-memory-safety-recommendations/

The approved languages are
Python.
Java.
C#.
Go.
Delphi/Object Pascal.
Swift.
Ruby.
Rust.
Ada.

Although I think realistically it just means you won't get American government contracts if you use anything deemed memory unsafe

[unkempt citrus]

Oh you will

[visual pawn]

Well, not supposed to but

[unkempt citrus]

THose are recommentaions, not requirements

[visual pawn]

Yeah I doubt it's so strict

[unkempt citrus]

Also Microsoft

It generally just saying you should try to write code in those languages going forward for cybersec reasons
theyre not enforcing anything

[visual pawn]

Then what's with having a deadline

[unkempt citrus]

Basically the deadline is to say "we tried"

[visual pawn]

Mission accomplished

[tender river]

bwaa

i like

partial derivatives

might have to use full derivatives tho

ok im having a hard time deciding whether everything should be a bag or not

because

what makes bags cool is

they are easily differentiable (you just add or remove stuff from a bag, its really not a complicated concept)

and that bags are strictly more general than singleton values
edit: oh also very important, bags are easy to combine

but there are actually other differentiable things that are not bags

wrr

i guess i could have coercion to bags

i thought i can have a single timestamp per variable but i just realized that would cause time paradoxes so i have to make sure a single variable can have multiple timestamps

[amber fractal]

bwaa complexity

[olive sable]

I think a small percentage are legit.

[sage crag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1061113840852533339/1452612577145262183/3DNeuroCutenessAmbushWithBeautifulScenery.gif

https://youtu.be/joWRxGGanoM
limited time :mug:

stage play ohisee

[real sierra]

unity wtf

screwing me over again

[olive sable]

[real sierra]

you can only instantiate new objects from within a class inheriting from monobehaviour

but you cannot create new instances of such classes

they must be added as components to gameobjects

so you cannot create new objects from your code unless you shove your code in a fucking object somewhere

i dont want to put this in an object i just want it to sit in a variable

i cant even use custom constructors if i add it to an object

why cant my skills just be in array? why am i forced to make them all GameObjects and stack them in the scene somewhere?

its so stupid

what if i have the caller pass in a reference to their own MonoBehaviour.Instantiate method

[amber fractal]

Are you sure don't want to give "the other engine" a shot

[rough bloom]

Unreal Engine

[mighty bane]

:3

[real sierra]

NOT EVEN SAFE IN PROGRAMMING

[real sierra]

fixing this still takes less time than rewriting everthing'

[mighty bane]

I feel like it's typing too slow, though.

[opaque wharf]

Let's see how long this sunk cost fallacy will last

[mighty bane]

Happy birthday, Shiro :partyhat:

Happy birthday, Shiro :partyhat:

IT WORKS \o/

Happy birthday, Shiro :partyhat:

[sage crag]

waiting for the "remake fumoquest community gamejam"

[mighty bane]

I broke it D:

[real sierra]

2012 unity forums post

[sage crag]

rules:

• dont use unity
• remake fumoquest

submissions will be judged based on how similar to the original fumoquest they are, as well as code quality and longevity, and program stability and performance metrics

leetcode problem

remake fumoquest

[mighty bane]

Shiro why you use unity?

[real sierra]

fumoquest doesnt actually have too much code

it's just super fragmented

[sage crag]

its an interview question for vedal.ai

[real sierra]

some of these are literally just used so i can find components in UI trees

[mighty bane]

YAYYYYYY

[real sierra]

because unity doesn't let you search gameobjects by name

so you have to add a dummy component to search by

or hardcode according to the exact hierarchy structure

[real sierra]

[sage crag]

twitch tos o7

[olive sable]

[mighty bane]

??

[sage crag]

[olive sable]

also please dont bother other people with happy birthday shiro

[sage crag]

[mighty bane]

I was allowed. For testing purposes.

[jagged turtle]

testing mhm

[sage crag]

you could test it in

an empty discord server

[mighty bane]

That wouldn't be funny.

[sage crag]

the question this begs is, was it funny to begin with

[mighty bane]

I laughed.

If you didn't, maybe your sense of humour is weak.

CHECKMATE

[olive sable]

my pc decided my microphone is an output device

[mighty bane]

It can be.

[opaque wharf]

Here have a cat to have a nice day

[olive sable]

it shoudlnt be, its a mic

[mighty bane]

That's like saying a generator isn't a motor.

[olive sable]

bvrother, im not gonna hear shit

[real sierra]

nooooooooooooooooooooo

[mighty bane]

It is a terrible choice for a sound output.

[real sierra]

i got my brain wires crossed

[mighty bane]

BUT

[real sierra]

i need to split this class in two

[sage crag]

well, its not a motor. it can be used as a motor, but it is not a motor.

[mighty bane]

Except it is.. else it can't be a generator.

All generators are motors.

[real sierra]

theres like

3 separate concepts

the class defines the behaviour

and then instances of it hold the parameters for that behaviour

[olive sable]

its also jsut that its not designed for it, so it wont work

[sage crag]

all magnetic spinning generators can be used as motors, yes, that doesnt however make it a motor

[real sierra]

but then i need another wrapper that holds dynamic info that references that parameterized info as a static item

[mighty bane]

If it's not a motor, then how do the magnets spin?

[sage crag]

dentge

[mighty bane]

Shiro, you can't instantiate statics.

[void bramble]

[mighty bane]

‌

[true hemlock]

wasn't me who did the overclock and tuning so im not too sure, it was elvy, and iirc she hit near 2.2GHz

on the 3090

[amber fractal]

^ my default state

[olive sable]

ok so

the projecotr

[true hemlock]

4070 super

3090 MHz

[olive sable]

the only commercially available unit that we don't need to build ourself would be DLP LightCrafter 4500 from texas instruments

[sage crag]

$1300

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1277044182527246358.webp?size=48&name=minyanstare&lossless=true

[olive sable]

honestly not that bad

i thought getting the light rays parallel would be an issue, but just removing the lens should fix that

[sage crag]

but then your image will be small

[olive sable]

[sage crag]

you need to replace the lens with something else

rather than removing it entirely

[olive sable]

you're right

[sage crag]

you might be able to use a reflective hemisphere to make the rays parallel instead of removing the lens

[true hemlock]

what are we doin

[sage crag]

the issue is there would be a blindspot i guess

[olive sable]

it doesnt need to be exact cuz we can always fix it by editing the projection mapping formula to account for diversion at greate height

[sage crag]

like this

[olive sable]

ye kinda

id prefer to use a lens and not a mirror tho

[amber fractal]

I need to eep but volmentric display that can be real

[sage crag]

you'd need to use both if you were using a mirror

[olive sable]

in general we dont even need the light to be parallel at all if we account for it in the software side, but that way the resolution is worse at the top

[sage crag]

a lens to diverge the light into a cone and a mirror to make the light parallel again

either way, its a bit clunky to fit in

[olive sable]

ye

and pancake lenses would be expensive

[sage crag]

since the mirror would need to be at least as large as the surface area of the screen

[lean stream]

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[sage crag]

you could use two lenses

one concave and one convex

[olive sable]

ye

[lean stream]

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[sage crag]

the convex lens acts as a corrective lens

[olive sable]

telecentric lens

[sage crag]

its called a beam expander

[lean stream]

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[olive sable]

the problem is the light coming out of the projector is already diverging

[sage crag]

its not a problem

[lean stream]

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[sage crag]

in principle the optics are similar, you just need to correct for the initial divergence in the diverging lens

[olive sable]

[sage crag]

High speed pattern display with native DLP4500 resolution (912x1140)

Up to 4225 Hz binary pattern rate
Up to 120 Hz 8-bit grayscale pattern rate

isnt this actually not what you need at all

[olive sable]

it is

if we run it in 4bit colour it shoudld do 1800hz

DLP chips be funky like that

[sage crag]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/emojis/1447116378514653275.webp?size=48&name=OhISeeto&lossless=true

[olive sable]

or well, i guess 4 bit in 1 colour

[sage crag]

i wonder if you can use blender to simulate the path of the light rays accurately enough to design a lens

[olive sable]

even if i manage to design one, i dont have the needed anythign to make it

ill just need to find close approximations that are commercially available

[sage crag]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YE9rEQAGpLw

[sage crag]

just combine multiple commercial lenses

[olive sable]

Collimator lens exists

[jagged turtle]

or, hear me out, you have a worse sense of humour than everyone here

[olive sable]

i think its just that shiro hbday is already 3 years old or so

[real sierra]

am i causing incidents again

oops

[sage crag]

https://media.discordapp.net/stickers/1458218703987408987.png?size=160&name=MiyagiPat&lossless=true

[olive sable]

ok so it seems

texas instruments already has lenses that do this

cuz they havew a 3D printer usign this module

https://www.ti.com/tool/TIDA-00293

idk why you would need a resin printer going at 4225hz, but i guess it just prints faster that way?

[rigid snow]

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[olive sable]

it seems that what im building is basically jsut a 3D printer with a spinnign double helix

they have design files available on their website but when i try to extract them its empty

[olive sable]

it only has 150 lumens

you can upgrade the leds fine, but im just doing ship of Theseus at that point

id need the EKB E4500 MKII RGB High Power which is the exact same thing but more expensive

the 150 lumen one only needs 15-20W tho, while the 1000lumen one uses 80W

[visual pawn]

Like a resin DLP one

[olive sable]

ye

if i want to do full colour i need to get a DLP that does 1800hz * bitdepth * 3 colour channels

either that or i need to have a 1800hz DLP and i modulate the source light

the response times of LEDs arent fast enough, so id need FLC

which ends up being even more expensive

[visual pawn]

Yeah I dunno why a resin printer would need the refresh rate unless I'm dumb

It sorta does one layer at a time

And there's no way it moves fast enough to need that

[olive sable]

i think if you throw more lumens at it and then up the refresh-rate it can print at the same print quality but faster

might reduce print times i gues

[visual pawn]

I feel like there's gotta be a cheaper way but eh

Like, just have a brighter display

It's not as if the image changes within the layer

Yeah maybe it needs to pulse

The DLP printer I have is one of the crazy cheap ones though

[olive sable]

DLP printer

oh no nevermind

commercial ones wont do 1800hz

but i could modify one

[visual pawn]

As in DLP resin printer I have

[olive sable]

ye i know

[visual pawn]

Anycubic photon, and an old one too

Apparently it's been mostly replaced by MSLA printers

[soft token]

you can do some prints under the if statement to check that the func behaves as expected or not

[lean stream]

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[olive sable]

4 bit per channel colour, we could probably cut it down to 3

maybe even 2

that way we get a vertical resolution of 32 slices

912x1440x32 is not great tbh
we could sacrefice horizontal resolution for vertical

456 x 570 x 128

[frozen hollow]

I have an.. elegoo or something Saturn 5 pro or something

Unlike my last one it stinks even when not printing so I drained the resin and haven’t used it much

[olive sable]

228 x 285 x 512 would probably work better then

i feel like that;s a pretty shit resolution for a volumetric display tho

actually, that works in theory not in practice, since we cant delay the light

[unkempt citrus]

Even cheap 3D printers are pretty damn good tehse days

I have an Anycubic Mono 4 Ultra, pretty happy with it

all faults with it hav ebeen my fault

[warm zealot]

i have a diff anycubic one and its been pretty good

i should really spend some more time debugging it because the print quality hasnt been the greatest but i think thats because ive been running it too fast

[visual pawn]

I have mine sealed and with a mod to maintain negative pressure and vent it outside when in use

But yeah, I rarely recommend resin printers to people

They suck in workplace environments too because often no one actually takes care of them and it becomes a mess

[frozen hollow]

I have to swap my voron printer and this around so it’s next to the window to do that I just haven’t because that thing is like 30kg

But this one has like a welding visor instead of my old one which was like a big lid that sealed well enough

Voron was good for learning certain pro-grade things like how to crimp little wires correctly and what extrusions and stuff are but man.. mid printer

(If printing is a tool for your hobby/work rather than the hobby itself)

[unkempt citrus]

sounds like a

[olive sable]

we can however trade resolution for bitdepth

and then lower the input bitdepth to get more hz

if we get a 1080p240hz8bit existing projector, we could do 540x960 1920hz 4bit

[frozen hollow]

I have one of those projectors can you do that? It goes from 4k60 to 1080@240

[olive sable]

so, the official driverboard doesnt let you

the actual optics can do it tho

so if you use your own driverboard, you technically could

[frozen hollow]

The projector was £1000 I ain’t touching that

[olive sable]

fair enough

[hexed grove]

i spent a few hours cleaning up cables today

(yes these are marked with tape so i know what cable goes to where)

[olive sable]

erm, that image was posted 2 years ago on reddit

did he leave the server?

its not that deep bro, you could have stayed

[visual pawn]

bro didn't know how to play it off as a joke

stakes too high

[olive sable]

https://tenor.com/view/twewy-neo-twewy-shoka-shoka-sakurane-left-the-server-gif-11162657499593936560

i should have jsut not exposed them

[fleet jungle]

epic

[olive sable]

they're already dead

[obsidian mantle]

[rigid snow]

real pros don't mark shit

the guy we were building the pc for lives in a house full of network people