Programming and Technology

[gray nacelle]

Nology cuz they knew we would be obsessed with the study of the mind, everyone studying psychology a

[warm wharf]

yes!!!!

[lucid flicker]

no!!

[lucid flicker]

yo chat

3090

4070

7800xt

6900xt

if they were all at the same price

what would you get

[fair pawn]

5070

[lucid flicker]

nah its out of my budget

[lucid flicker]

all used cards btw

i don't play AAA titles

i wanted to learn to edit videos, using blender and AI

so thats why i didn't just pick amd in the first place

[empty torrent]

Then don’t buy a card at all

You should lease cloud computers from sites like lambda labs

[lucid flicker]

hmm

interesting

but yk

[fair pawn]

how much are they

[fallen flame]

wdy guys things flutter or react native

personally im very confident with react so react native shouldn't be too hard to use but i also wanna learn flutter

[fair pawn]

native

never used flutter

try expo

[lucid flicker]

300-450$

but incredibly sketch

https://zoukart.com/

[lucid flicker]

sort high to low in graphics cards

and you'll find all of them

[fair pawn]

sketchy asf

[fair pawn]

just save up

and get a 5070

it's $550

[lucid flicker]

nah the problem isn't cash rn

my dad just won't get it

[fair pawn]

bro

convince him somehow

[lucid flicker]

ill try

but it'll be hard

because i broke my laptop and pc

and yk

i feel guilty

[fair pawn]

that lowk looks really good

@tidal plume enable image perms here

the 3d thing looks really cool

but you should prolly preventDefault() when the user is scrolling on the 3d part, since it scrolls both that and the page itself

[vernal torrent]

What do you mean ?

[fair pawn]

.

like the Cosmic Creations thing

[vernal torrent]

Ohh

[fair pawn]

when you scroll down while hovering on that, it scrolls the page as well

[vernal torrent]

Yep I will work on it

[fair pawn]

looks rly good tho

gj

[vernal torrent]

😊 ty

[vernal torrent]

Hello

[vernal torrent]

Do you have projects too ?

[green swift]

I had no idea I would get so many upvotes on a reddit post about my repo

[fallen flame]

https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/1irk9mg/snacksimage_inline_image_math_video_frame/

https://tenor.com/view/me-atrapaste-es-cine-its-cinema-cinema-esto-es-cine-gif-17729711691959966457

[scenic burrow]

@wide lintel he dropped cs a month ago look at this

[wide lintel]

wdym

oh

😭

its still useful to

tho

like not for learning

but acedemically for universities

[scenic burrow]

He doesn't do cs anymore dropped in A2 and look things that dude does

[wide lintel]

submitting ur resume with 2 alevels instead of 3

me

[scenic burrow]

Ohh his is 3

[wide lintel]

how is his 3 if he dropped

did he do 4

?

[scenic burrow]

Yes

[wide lintel]

am not to sure about univeristies

but if you enter as a cs major

dont you get put in foundqtiion year instead of first since u didnt take cs a level?

[scenic burrow]

I don't think so

Coding is a soft skill

[scenic burrow]

I know people from unis who took a major in Physics but are now working as software engineer

[wide lintel]

faikr

fair

still better then not to

[green swift]

how's this landing page

I recommend dark mode

it just looks better

[snow lake]

shittt its so nicee

great jobbb :>

[snow lake]

samee!!

[native bridge]

Pretty good, but the labels shouldn't be fixed or sticky

Was that a design choice

Also the bottom GIF seems a bit out of place with its width and height being 100%

And you can add some more design to the hamburger menu

I'm on phone

[green swift]

it's not a gif

🫤

I don't have any gifs on the site

[green swift]

lol you're missing out on the good experience

[native bridge]

💔 will check it out after I get home

[native bridge]

Oh it's just a large animation but the white background looks odd

Make it RESPONSIVE 😤 😤 👺 👺 👺

[green swift]

it's still under construction

I need to get some content on there 😭

[verbal totem]

its u

[mossy stirrup]

smallbrownman has 170 rep

[native bridge]

Alr daddy

[lucid ember]

hello fellow tech ppl
made this website as an alternative to pretty much every past paper website out there, but free and without ads, and a hell of a lot more features. For now includes some O and A Level subjects, but the way i have it setup it isnt that hard to add more subjects.
would love to get any feedback you can give me on what I can improve in terms of UX and all. It's still in a very early build!

Highlighting Features in no particular order

• Includes a great mcq solver, which allows you to solve past papers yearly and gives advice based on which topics you got questions wrong in
• A 'explain this question for me' button using LLMs and a lot of context, to make sure your explanation isnt wrong.
• Includes a yearly past paper automatic solver done through LLMs. You can annotate with your mouse or apple pencil or anything such and write over the paper, and it will automatically grade you and give feedback, and save persistently to your storage. it will also remember your scores and display them, for mcqs and structured papers, and how much of a paper you've completed. a little hard to explain through text, would recommend just trying it out through your tablet or whatever
• Also from my knowledge one of the largest topical banks for physics, chemistry, and biology.

it can also be installed as a PWA (progressive web app) on your phone, ipad, tablet, or desktop, and then be used like a regular app on your device!

https://paperscholar.org/

[green swift]

is it open source

oh shit

this actually works

UI could be better but from a functionality standpoint this looks great

it works

I'm happy to work on it as well if you're looking for another dev

there are a few errors with the app

like this for example https://i.imgur.com/n8t6CEk.png

[lucid ember]

ooh

that is an issue

[lucid ember]

i hopefully want to, but the data is like 3 gigs

the frontend is just vue so i can probably get that out

[green swift]

you mean all the images

[lucid ember]

yeah

[green swift]

just .gitignore the mcq_image folder

it should work then

[lucid ember]

ye ye

a little messy rn, but 100% want to open source it all
if you want to contribute then i can probably just make the machine pull from the git repo, and if you want to help you can make some pulls which would be appreciated :)

[green swift]

are you using bootstrap and tailwind

[green swift]

yeah I'm good with that

I think you're getting 404 error because you're using the subject name instead of the code

I'll probably dm you because I can't attach images here

[lucid ember]

yep saw that, dumb mistake lmao

fixed

had to fix some other weird error but shouldddd be good

only issue i can now think of is possible abuse of the ai endpoints since i have a quota, but i think i have a temporary solution for that in mind

[lucid ember]

im using bootstrap but otherwise just custom css, and everything else is just vue (router, state)

[deft magnet]

this looks sick dude, m def gonna use this

[lucid ember]

ty!

[native bridge]

That's cool, how'd you get the topical data? Are the LLMs custom trained or just GPT?

[lucid ember]

i gave it a knowledge base, but no i didnt fine tune it

[deft magnet]

that is so cool bruh

[native bridge]

oh nice

[lucid ember]

if you want to do something similar, i'd recommend o4 mini, i used to use 2.0 flash / 2.0 flash thinking, but it was very inconsistent

[native bridge]

Isn't the api pretty expensive

does it cost a ton?

[deft magnet]

Long time back I tried AI stuff, but without api's from gpt and all, tried using this thing called spacy in python
made it work, but training and fine tuning it got the best of me

[native bridge]

spacy for data parsing?

[deft magnet]

13 yo me could not handle the smoke

[deft magnet]

yep

[native bridge]

ncie

[lucid ember]

not if you know where to look 🤫
but if you use it through official apis, which i did for a while, i had to optimize my proooompting a lot, amount of tokens wasn't too much of a worry. if you look at o4 mini most of its major cost is output tokens rather input tokens.

if you're looking for a slightly cheaper alternative, 2.5 Flash but put a limit on thinking tokens to 1k

[lucid ember]

it cost me around $0.005~ per paper i proccessed through the official api for o4 mini

which isnt that bad at all

it could get more expensive to around a cent though depending on the amount of context i needed to input and the image context

[lucid ember]

too be fair you were working in like the stone age of LLMs, so understandable
fine tuneing is a whole lot easier now

you can literally fine tune a LLM on a discord chat for a few cents today

[deft magnet]

yeah, ill dabble in AI once again soon

[lucid ember]

OH
but dont use o4 mini high whatever you do

you will cost yourself a fortune..

[native bridge]

so youre using a public api key or something?

[lucid ember]

no of course not

shouldn't hurt individuals over this
i had a subscription which had unlimited o4 mini requests, so just used that before it ran out

[native bridge]

ah

now im going to abuse you and spam explain my answer

[lucid ember]

hahahahaha

[native bridge]

hhahahahahaha

im funny

[lucid ember]

all you're going to do is abuse google ai studio

[native bridge]

noo

oh nah

[lucid ember]

reporting you to google rn

[native bridge]

google ai studio

[lucid ember]

i do have a openrouter api key connected as well for gemini 2.5 flash as well

but haven't had time to connect it up since yk

caies ✨

[native bridge]

caies?

you have the 24 badge

[lucid ember]

literally made this website in mocks

[native bridge]

damn youve spread it over a year

[lucid ember]

did o levels in mj 24

[native bridge]

oh

[lucid ember]

im now in AS

[native bridge]

wow

oldie

[lucid ember]

fr

there

fixed it

now officially an old man

[native bridge]

im an old man too

im an old man too

[green swift]

valid

when you need free ai integration on your website

all you do is slap gemini

[hardy geyser]

brackeys is back

[empty torrent]

Frfr

Gemini and groq have probably faced more than a hundred dollars in compute from my usage

[lucid ember]

use cerebras

thats what i've been checking out now

i already use cerebras on my site as well, just waiting for a vision model from them to fully convert over

[green swift]

bro it's been ages since

[empty torrent]

I got cerebras access two weeks ago

Don’t get me wrong - the inference is great

But its tool use is exceedingly buggy

[lucid ember]

buggy how?

haven't used tool use yet, but its inference has been pretty great for me

[empty torrent]

It’d just throw a “tool call failed” error 80% of the time

[lucid ember]

you sure you weren't just using a dumb model?

did you try the new llama maveric model

[empty torrent]

I was using llama 4 scout

Tried all models, to no avail

[lucid ember]

maybe give llama 4 maveric a shot? though tbh scout should work fine

did you ask them what they think

they have a discord

[empty torrent]

haven't gotten to doing it

[empty torrent]

aight i'll try that

[empty torrent]

@lucid ember ```json
error: {
message: "Failed to generate tool_calls. Please adjust your prompt. See 'failed_generation' for more details. Exception: 'arguments'",
type: 'invalid_request_error',
param: '',
code: 'tool_use_failed',
failed_generation: '{"name": "shell", "parameters": {"command": ["ls", "-l"], "workdir": "/path/to/folder", "timeout": 10000}}'
},

the model uses parameters instead of arguments and i can't really fix that

also the workdir is /path/to/folder, which is kinda stupid considering this is llama 4 scout

[empty torrent]

they don't have maverick yet

[lucid ember]

yikes

[lucid ember]

found something really fun for ai studio piggy backers, if you allow data sharing with grok you get $150 worth of api credits every month, and grok 3 mini is currently the 3rd best model out there now

great day for the unemployed

[empty torrent]

oo damn

[lucid ember]

you need to pay at least $5, but after that everything upto $150 a month is free

[empty torrent]

yeahh i just checked that

hmm we can't send images in this chat

Only teams that have spent at least $5 are eligible to enroll in this program.

[lucid ember]

exactly

[empty torrent]

they're so desperate for training data

[lucid ember]

yep thats what i've done
thankfully have a lovely paypal and card so just paid it

so worth it for $150 of grok 3 mini

[lucid ember]

$150 is $150

and im going to abuse the hell out of it while i still can

they even support function/tool calling

only issue is image proccessing, but you can just use google gemini to describe the image for grok

[empty torrent]

tool calling when thinking too?

[lucid ember]

will be great for those who want to solve math / physics or anything technical

because flash thinking is being removed soon

and flash is pretty bad at that

[empty torrent]

man i'm desperately waiting until either groq or cerebras add qwen3

[lucid ember]

lemme see

[empty torrent]

what

no way

[lucid ember]

cerebras is not adding tis bro

they are so slow

and groq is expensive af

well not that expensive but for the quality of model.. yeah

[empty torrent]

they still have llama 3.1

groq has very, very limiting rate limits

[lucid ember]

whats the rps?

[empty torrent]

per minute

[lucid ember]

💀 ?????

how many

[empty torrent]

lemme check wait

[sharp saddle]

you've been checking for quite a while

[empty torrent]

Ah yes I forgot :)

[sharp saddle]

don't you think people should be able to send images here

[empty torrent]

Ah that reminds me

I think I replied in off topic

[sharp saddle]

wha

[slim dirge]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1381677068420645065/1381677181926768682/f8cf254602364313bae122ead7068738.mov?ex=684862a6&is=68471126&hm=e2a4ba855b9b3d0443f3962c1e13c7b0336e562f010268ce103ab0627393178a&

[orchid wyvern]

No

console.log("Fuck you");

[lavish magnet]

I need a good 2 in 1 laptop for studies

[lucid ember]

@empty torrent you might find this cool

https://github.com/RayBytes/ChatMock

it’s kind of funny tbh

[empty torrent]

interesting

nice hack

[lucid ember]

just waiting for twink Altman to bomb me

there was actually surprisingly a lot going on here (codex)

[lucid ember]

but until then I’m using this to its fullest extent

[empty torrent]

Perhaps do it in a more legit way - gemini and cerebras do have generous free tiers

[lucid ember]

neither can be used very significantly via api

[deft magnet]

woah, so no api key to use code to access gpt?

[lucid ember]

ye but you need ChatGPT plus or pro

[deft magnet]

oh okay

still cool though

[lucid ember]

thanks man

[deft magnet]

I just realised you made the reop

thats soo cool dude

[lucid ember]

ty

[green swift]

wtf 491 stars is crazy

[lucid ember]

people love free stuff

and surprisingly was the first to get on this

[green swift]

nice job lol

[civic shoal]

guys

is there a way to use the esp32 c board to turn music into vibrations but like any song instead of coding each vibration separately for each song

[empty torrent]

I don't know the nuance but you'll probably use FFT and pick out the lower frequencies

[carmine socket]

artificial super inteligence is gonna kill us all before nuclear can do that

[snow lake]

woah

real tho

[pine halo]

humans have been working for ages to develop nuclear power

but at the end of the day

it's just heating of water

🤦‍♂️

[wide lintel]

i justfelt like putting reactions idk

[wispy sail]

does anyone here use a raspberry pi

[verbal totem]

why not both?

[verbal totem]

both :3

[wanton sinew]

been getting into frontend development for fun

i only know basic html and css rn

https://celsix.github.io/Amazon-Homepage-Replica/

made this in my free time

anyone who can review it or give any sorta feedback?

oh yeah the footer part btw where theres like 4 columns of "Get to know us" i didnt bother editing it i was too lazy

heres the github repo

[wanton sinew]

wow nvm

it got copyrighted

[lucid ember]

old but ye

[wispy sail]

which model

[lucid ember]

rp5

runs all my sites and tools

pretty nifty little machine

[wispy sail]

nice

i have the rp3

it used to be my dads but he barely used it

mine isnt powerful enough to run the windows software but can still run quite a bit of stuff

ive yet to make more projects with it tho

so far ive only made a blinking led 😭

[lucid ember]

why are you trying to run windows softw?

are you using it as a main machine?

[wispy sail]

nono i was just curious

how powerful it is

[lucid ember]

ah well windows itself is pretty bloated so its not that great of a benchmark

if you have it run linux its a great little guy

at least on my rp5 have been able to run ml models locally with great inference speeds

[wispy sail]

thats awesome

i connected mien with my laptop and did the screening thing os i could code on it

[lucid ember]

i got this little camera module i still haven't had the opportunity of playing around with :(

you should get a screen

i dont have it personally but have heard of so many cool projects ppl have made with em

want to get one the next chance i get

[wispy sail]

i have one

it gets heated up rlly fast tho

and when it heats up it starts lagging

[wispy sail]

i also wanna get a camera module

[lucid ember]

aw fair enough

you should try and get the pi 5 then

its a beast, albeit over priced

[wispy sail]

but its cool overall i have these glass borders i use to connect on my raspberry pi with the screen and keep it intact

[wispy sail]

maybe but ive gotta get good with the pi 3 first

i only know the basics

[summer wolf]

e

[pine halo]

hi

[summer wolf]

Hiii!

[pine halo]

doesnt look that big

tbh

whats it fo

for

[summer wolf]

I'm working on a text based visual novel(?) i was experimenting with base printing styles to use in it, and what better way was there than to print out my poem on fish going insane?

[wispy sail]

woahh

[pine halo]

lmaoo nice

[summer wolf]

ehhehe thank youu :3

i currently only have the typing thing left, aftet that I can start working on other mechanics such as jumping forward, backward, etc

[pine halo]

oo damn atbb

[summer wolf]

:D

[summer wolf]

ITS DONE AT LAST

I CAN FINALLY DIE

[ebon geyser]

can i ask airbus to make me an A380

[civic shoal]

sir are you okay?

[sleek needle]

22 KB, bloatware!

[summer wolf]

nooo ? sob

[sleek needle]

write it in assembly to save 2 MiB RAM and 1 KB storage

[summer wolf]

💀

yeah right buddy

I ain't touching assembly with a 20ft long pole with a gun to my head

[wispy sail]

hi i am airbus

no you cannot

[sleek needle]

I mean you can put it in your cv...?

and they wont give you the job bc you wrote it in assembly, they will because they know you can stay up for phone calls at 3AM

[summer wolf]

https://giphy.com/gifs/thousand-yard-stare-1000-shell-shock-oaXRLIMnkGBnuQOBzE

[sleek needle]

what even is that

[summer wolf]

ptsd

[sleek needle]

also, put it into github, why are you sending a whole source file into discord

[summer wolf]

because I don't like github

[sleek needle]

fair point

[summer wolf]

ikr?

[ebon geyser]

HEY

HEYY

HOWD U GET HERE

[ebon geyser]

😔