TL;DR: In this post, we show how an off-the-shelf LLM can make typed decisions in a single forward pass. This approach makes it possible to turn an LLM into a Jev-like decision model. We evaluate the approach using GLM-5.3-Flash running … Read more
TL;DR: DIY home automation is ezpz with nothing more than a stepper motor, an esp32, and a high tolerance for Jank. My rental apartment’s AC unit can only be controlled using these retro-looking analog knob-based controls, mounted right onto the … Read more
Packaged for Linux (RPM, DEB, tarball), Windows (zip), and macOS (dmg). Interfaces are stable; breaking changes are avoided where possible. DocuBrowse turns a messy pile of documents into something you can actually search. Point it at your files — PDFs, … Read more
Gaussian Splatting gives you photorealistic environments for free. The catch: a splat is just a cloud of oriented blobs – no triangles, no colliders, no navmesh, no lights. Drop a character in and they’ll float through walls looking like they … Read more
We turned a MacBook into a touchscreen using only $1 of hardware and a little bit of computer vision. The proof-of-concept, dubbed “Project Sistine” after our recreation of the famous painting in the Sistine Chapel, was prototyped by me, Kevin, … Read more
I’ve recently become a Ubiquiti UniFi disciple, including replacing our builder-basic doorbell from 1998 with Ubituiti G4 Doorbell Pro. This has brought me into the UniFi Protect ecosystem. Protect is absolutely designed to work with UniFi cameras — as one … Read more
Acknowledgments This work was supported in part by the US National Science Foundation (NSF) under grants CNS-2304720, CNS-2310322, CNS-2309550, and CNS-2309477. It was also supported in part by the Commonwealth Cyber Initiative (CCI). The authors extend their gratitude to the … Read more
A talk at Øredev, Malmö, Sweden, 05 Nov 2015 [embedded content] This was a repeat of my talk at Strange Loop 2014. Abstract Databases are global, shared, mutable state. That’s the way it has been since the 1960s, and no … Read more
That’s about all I need from a “mix up your takeout and use the right apps” app, one made mostly for me, my spouse, and nearby friends and visitors. Pretty much anything you’d find useful while sitting down at a … Read more
An astonishing 85% of our peatlands are degraded. Peat soils cover more than 23% of the country, meaning many Irish people have long had close interactions with peatlands By Prof Yvonne Buckley Sign up for our monthly newsletter! Y ou … Read more