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Advanced Image Dithering with Dither Boy by Studio AAA

Marc in Space · Builds software and draws with robots

Dither Boy is a software that produces very cool dithering effects on images. You can pick from multiple algorithms and customize them. Pretty cool! I wish I would have the same kind of things but for vector content. That is definitely something I keep in mind for my plotter art.

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LLM writes low-level code and improves performance by 2x

Marc in Space · Builds software and draws with robots

An incredible mise en abyme happened yesterday. A developer managed to get 2x improvement by letting DeepSeek-r1 write code for a specific part of llama.cpp.

Surprisingly, 99% of the code in this PR is written by DeekSeek-R1. The only thing I do is to develop tests and write prompts (with some trials and errors)

According to the prompts shared by the developer, the model spent thinking 3 to 5 minutes per response.

DHH's absurd rant on ADHD

Marc in Space · Builds software and draws with robots

I got pissed off a bit too easily reading one more absurd take on ADHD. This time, it comes from DHH who blessed us with his weakly-informed opinion. Apparently, we ADHDers aren't crippled enough in our daily life that we have to suffer arrogant apes throwing feces blog posts at us. ADHD is a serious condition and society at large must face it instead of dismissing it.

ADHD is a subject of research since at least 1775

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