inmysocks (version: awoo) @inmysocks@awoo.space

Yeah, some of the worst internet regulations in history got passed because of bad UI.

UI matters.

https://boingboing.net/2019/03/26/jfc-fml-jfc.html

Machine learning in python.

I got into a bit of an argument with a person I work with about machine learning just being statistics applied with a sledge hammer.

It was one of the very few times I pulled out 'I am the expert in this field, not you. When you can write the code you can argue' card.

It felt kinda weird.

Someone posted a link to a thing that scraped a bunch of news sites a while ago and I can't find it. Anyone know what it is or has the link?

Because mastodon helps me in my research more than anything else I have found.

Does anyone know of any reasonable quality open-access journals for DSP and network related stuff? The IEEE keeps doing things that make me not trust it.

#Engineering

A paper got accepted to a conference in Rabat. This means that instead of being able to do interesting work I have to make the paper presentable.

This phd is more trouble than it is worth.

Did I mention that I fucking hate how javascript/node handles async things?

Because I fucking hate it.

When you have something that doesn't act in the default fashion (which is synchronous for javascript, lines of code are executed in order one after the other normally) than you have a special keyword for that, you don't put the special keyword to make things act in what should be the default behaviour.

It looks like I am going to use C++ as a major component for a project. I haven't written C/C++ code for anything other than embedded projects in a long time. We shall see how this goes.

I am going to be playing with this to see if it does what it claims.

https://github.com/ShiqiYu/libfacedetection

If you see a bunch of naked yaks around, that was me.

This quick update to the sinister plotter code to support end-stop switches better and it has turned into a gigantic refactoring for the code.

Le Bleh.

Working in C and having to think about data types after working with python and javascript for a while is odd.

Remember your checksum bits!

It has been a while since I coded anything in C, I have been doing python and javascript lately.

Lets see how this goes

PSA:

Polymorphic encryption != Homomorphic Encryption

This can save a lot of confusion about how far the field has progressed in the past month or two.

Using (web)sockets to send json formatted data has become my go-to setup for having things I make communicate.

I don't know if there is a better way, but this works quite well.

Huh, instead of worrying about threads in python I could just implement the serial interface in node, which I have a lot of experience with because of robbie.

So I am not going to dig into python threads for now.

This is the first thing we have successfully cut on the laser cutter after getting all the components together.

It cut though 3mm MDF in 10 passes with a 5.5w laser. So it was able to retrace its path 10 times with no noticeable deviation, and we returned it to the initial position every 2 passes to give the laser some time to cool off because it is cheap.
We bought the z-axis movement, the x axis is a camera rail Ben had, everything else we sourced and bought from hardware stores. #Engineering

We are doing accuracy and precision tests with the laser cutter.

I am so very happy.

#Engineering

We are trying to resolder an 0402 surface mount resistor. For those of you who don't know, they are 1mm x 0.5mm and the solder pads take up about 1/4 of the length.

Fun!

The laser driver seems to be borked, it is ignoring the pwm input and outputting a constant value regardless of the input and it is less than the desired power level.

So instead I am using a 5V 2A usb charger and a motor driver instead.

I expect it is probably not very good for the laser, and may result in uneven power output, but shockingly it seems to function to burn stuff.