AMD Radeon Pro W7700 Running on Raspberry Pi
After years of work among a bunch of people in the Pi community (special callout to Coreforge!), we finally have multiple generations of AMD graphics cards working on the Raspberry Pi 5. We recently got Polaris-era GPUs working (like the RX460), but in the past month we’ve gotten 6000 and 7000-series GPUs up and running. […]
GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation
GaussianAnything: Interactive Point Cloud Latent Diffusion for 3D Generation. Abstract While 3D content generation has advanced significantly, existing methods still face challenges with input formats, latent space design, and output representations. This paper introduces a novel 3D generation framework that addresses these challenges, offering scalable, high-quality 3D generation with an interactive Point Cloud-structured Latent space. […]
LLaVA-O1: Let Vision Language Models Reason Step-by-Step
Abstract:Large language models have demonstrated substantial advancements in reasoning capabilities, particularly through inference-time scaling, as illustrated by models such as OpenAI’s o1. However, current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) often struggle to perform systematic and structured reasoning, especially when handling complex visual question-answering tasks. In this work, we introduce LLaVA-o1, a novel VLM designed to conduct autonomous […]
M4 chips: E and P cores
In the two previous articles (links at the end), I explored some of the features and properties of Performance (P) cores in Apple’s latest M4 chips. This article looks at their Efficiency (E) cores by comparison. M4 family In the three current M4 designs, there are only two variations in terms of E cores: Base […]
Reactive HTML Notebooks
Published May 6, 2024 Modified September 9, 2024 Before I start, why am I doing this? I don’t think HTML is being used enough as a platform for scientific publishing. Instead, people will: Use an interactive notebook like Jupyter, RStudio, Pluto.jl or Observable to do data exploration, analysis and visualisation, Move to a publishing platform […]
Against Best Practices
I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good. Not necessarily because they’re bad advice as such, but because they’re mostly pounded by either 1) various types of zealots, idiots, and assholes who abuse these kind of “best practices” as an argument from authority, or 2) inexperienced […]
Fortran II Hypersource
FORTRAN II Programmed by: John W. Backus, Robert J. Beeber, Sheldon Best, Richard Goldberg, Lois M. Haibt, Harlan L. Herrick, Robert A. Hughes, Richard A. Nelson, Roy Nutt, David Sayre, Peter B. Sheridan, Harold Stern, David Sternlight, Irving Ziller. Reconstructed by: Bob Abeles, Robert Cicconetti, Rich Cornwell, James Markevitch, Fausto Saporito. This is a hypertext rendition of the source code of […]
How They Control You
We live in a world where you can fact-check anything in seconds, learn from endless resources, and stay informed 24/7. So, why are the masses still so easy to manipulate? Simple: manipulation is a science, and those who master it always win. Politicians and leaders know the secret formula to control people’s fears, emotions, and […]
We are shutting down the Ondsel FreeCAD business
After operating for almost two years, Ondsel has made the difficult decision to cease operations and close down. We are incredibly thankful for the support we’ve received from the FreeCAD community and the larger engineering CAD communities. Why Ondsel is closing down From the beginning, we knew competing with commercial CAD would be tough. Closed-source […]
How Japanese Black Companies Oppress Workers and Ruin Lives
If you hear the term “black company”, what kind of company do you imagine? As we all know, black is the darkest color, so if you pictured an evil company with a dark side then you would be on the right track. A black company (aka “black corporation” or “black business”) is buraku kigyō ブラック（） […]