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i think its just people being out of touch with reality. perhaps engineering minds not thinking enough product. its too commonplace for me to even complain about. someone builds something primarily visual - a robot, a GUI application, etc. and links to their github/etc but they ensure that there are no visuals included.

This is far from primarily visual, but I do understand your point. I could not take videos unfortunately. I mentioned it in other places, but this project took so long, I just wanted to put it out there and get some feedback. I'm glad that people are this receptive to it, and I hope someone would take the project over!

You built all this and saw a mouse rolling on a ball playing Doom, but didn't record it?

> I could not take videos unfortunately

Why?


At least there are 3d models of the dispositive and some pictures !

why dont they show you it in use? seems like an obvious thing.


congrats! fun little story. how much did you make from it?


Not very much. Maybe $10K over 10 years. Do not quit your day job!

But I'm hoping to make $2K from the Anthropic settlement, so I got that going for me.


What’d they do to you, since you brought it up?

Thanks.


It's from the recent class action settlement. Anthropic used a pirated book database for training and got sued. The settlement awards some amount of money to each book in the database. Mine happened to be included.

And because I love irony, Claude can tell us more: https://claude.ai/share/4ee7f444-e296-48ce-85eb-15d50dbd6c93


> not sure why it's not linked that I can find in the article from the same source?

the point is not news, its to keep you on their sites as long as possible with no escape


this is really cool! can you make it interpolate and smoothly animate based on velocity and trajectory?


Could, yes.

I’ve tried it in 2d to pretty good success. It’s a bit low on my list of items to add, partially because I have a hunch that calculating and projecting thousands of vectors is going to cost more compute than simply accepting coordinates and drawing lines.


Modern CPUs do billions of floating point operations per second. Calculating and projecting thousands of vectors is pocket change. On a GPU it’s even more laughably small.


his video stream texture is odd


> I've been saying for quite some time now that AI is going to kill the traditional (free) search engine

if you say it for long enough, i'm sure you will be right!


> wound Apple's pride

do businesses really "think" in a personified manner as this? isnt it just what the accounting resolves to as the optimal path?


Despite decades of efforts to reduce individual accountability in corporations to zero, companies (as social groupings) definitely still have some sense of identity that shines through in decisions.


The C-levels leading the companies might, and the tech CEOs in question have been at the helm for a long enough while to build up some emotional feelings.


ironically, would be more valuable if this cited each of its claims rather than just "further reading". "But Stopcitingai Said "


Mentally rename the "further reading" to "citations", then?


each claim should be individually cited, not left to the user to investigate where in all the further reading each claim corresponds to


this is incredible! can you make this interface usable from a web browser (such as chrome) rather than an app?


It actually originally worked that way, and you can still mostly kinda use it that way (except that, because of CSRF protection, it's obnoxious -- run the program once to figure out the command line that the backend python process is started with, eg, via `ps -Fe` on linux, then shut down the app, then run that process. As long as you don't set the `ELECTRON_APP_SECRET` env var, CSRF will be disabled. Use `netstat -pant | grep -i listen` to figure out what port it is listening on)

Obviously not the most user friendly or usable, but we found that people often got pretty confused when this was a browser tab instead of a standalone app (it's easy to lose the tab, etc)


sculptor_backend seems to consume a lot of CPU and memory when just idling. Would you consider switching from Electron to Tauri so it uses the native WebView of the OS?


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