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New comment by nickludlam in "Meta Muse Glimmer – open weights 30B local coding model"

nickludlam — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:16:49 +0000

Yes, I second Nemotron. I'm using Ultra remotely and Super locally, and I find them very useful for RAG-like problems. I wouldn't really use them for coding.

New comment by nickludlam in "Show HN: FeyNoBg – Automatic background removal model and training library"

nickludlam — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 18:11:34 +0000

This looks great! What are the resolution limits? From the GitHub readme I saw mention of 1024x1024, but I was able to process an image 1920x2880 just fine. I didn't see any really obvious scaling artefacts, so is there something clever happening behind the scenes?

New comment by nickludlam in "Inkling: Our Open-Weights Model"

nickludlam — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 19:07:08 +0000

It's nearly double the size of Nemotron 3 Ultra, so I'd expect it to be considerably better, although the active parameter count seems to be a touch lower at 41B vs 55B

New comment by nickludlam in "How we coupled product innovation with mass manufacturing"

nickludlam — Thu, 22 Oct 2015 20:11:12 +0000

So its actually a very basic setup. I used pygame to output to the framebuffer device on the Banana Pi, and created a very simple controller class to run the drawing thread.

Its about 300 lines for the projector management class, with some internal state machine logic, and a number of draw calls using pygame.draw.circle(). Calibration offsets are stored in a config file to allow for variations between each physical device made up.

Using a python thread to make the draw calls can occasionally go wrong and the Banana Pi gets stuck, but that's sufficiently rare enough that you can just reboot to solve the issue in the factory.

New comment by nickludlam in "Berg is shutting down"

nickludlam — Tue, 09 Sep 2014 14:29:17 +0000

Yep, we're opening up the relevant repos, and writing up documentation about how to deploy them, and I'm also arranging for a patch to the Bridge unit which allows you to repoint it at a different control URL.

Also, if I have time, I'm going to make this a shink-wrapped AMI to make deployment a little easier. There's sadly not a great deal of time left for this, though, so we'll see what I can get done!

New comment by nickludlam in "Liveblogging the Commercial Users of Functional Programming Workshop 2013"

nickludlam — Mon, 23 Sep 2013 16:21:12 +0000

This is great stuff. Is anyone taking videos of the talks as well?