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Pete Horne

@horneps

xTradfi coder/exec/ceo/advisor. Dedicated AI hacker. Dad cook. Dog butler. Happy Grandpa. Known to do pop song karaoke to make universes collide.

Sydney NSW 2000, Australia

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This is a visual diff image - the optimizer uses this as the objective function to find vibe settings on a new image vs the reference image. The rule is delta-e < 1 and pearson correlation > .99 to pass. I didn't think ahead about how far down into exact maths I should go here! Not only did I have to build my own li...

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I bet most people don't know this... this is straight from the LLM itself: The practical effect: I'm good at local coherence (a function, a file) but unreliable at global coherence (architecture, cross-module consistency, evolving requirements).

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I have noticed that the agentic LLM model that is the current idiom to manage process and amnesia actually implements idioms in programming that will go away as AI matures.

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Seriously - LLM AI is as dumb as a sack full of hammers. And therein lies the opportunity.

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apropos

10d

My experience of A.I. amnesia. Around and round we went in circles, until the sky it fell. Crashing down like waves that pounded on a beach somewhere in hell. Jimmy Barnes.

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apropos

10d

I have been doing the hard graft to get PQTR a real app and it's nearly there. Meanwhile I have been dreaming of my first Guggenheim installation.

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farcaster

19d

As I fumble my way around what is looking like shitcoincaster, I have two questions… is the business model working? In which case fine but take your stakeholders with you. And my second question is - when you open your phone and select farcaster, are you thinking like a user or a developer? I can tell you why users ope...

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20d

If there are any camera peeps that want to give the PQTR app a try - let me know in a reply. It's simple - to start you can just load a RAW and see it work on the web finding the embedded RAW vibe. You'll also be training the DRO/LUT process. It will be rough to start but as it improves I'll let participants use the...

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21d

Now I'm just doing a Dr Strange show off. I think I'll go watch it ;o) But here 4/3 Can you make an image of a quantum Hilbert space of practical dimensions where each position of the space is a slope and that converts into a colour. I don't want nerd. I want artistic, photographic like.

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21d

Colour science foo 3/3 Generate a complex geometric form based on the physics of thin-film interference. The object should be metallic, like bismuth or heat-treated titanium.

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21d

2/3 of colour science foo. "Create a mandala using the principles of subtractive color mixing on a textured, pure white paper background. The image must be constructed from three translucent overlapping layers of ink: Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.

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21d

A bit of colour science foo 1/3 Utilize the physics of optical dispersion and refraction indices. Create a complex, multi-faceted mandala carved from pure quartz crystal, suspended in a dark, hazy environment. A single, intense beam of pure white light must strike the precise center of the crystal.

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21d

I added GPU! Photographic quality from colour science instructions.

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21d

I've been wery wery kwiet - had to learn GPUs. Love them! Bringing that in for total control of the pipeline. I hate foo I don't grok.

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24d

Well, I did it! The final stack works! GEOS - 35 dimension Geodesic Spectral style optimisation using... * LUTS - Per channel tone curve estimation (deterministic pre-pass) * ACEO - covariance based evolutionary optimiser (explore) * SPSA - stochastic perturbation optimiser (polish) Oh, and just the minor task of wr...