Alain Galvan

Recently set up an outdoor weather station, it's nice to see just how fast the wind is blowing in mph and keep track of total rainfall.

I added a Refoss Smart Energy Monitor to my electrical panel to track my home energy use and find out what's driving up my bills. Thanks to it, I've seen a spike when the hot water recirculation pump is active. It runs a local web server, so it's completely offline.

was upgrading my web server OS and dependencies to the latest version, and while doing that I was using the GLM-4.7 language model to do so. LM Studio and Continue for VS Code let you run local models for code review/autocomplete, feels great on a card with 20 GB of VRAM.

It features an animation suite that lets you design sprite sheets via keyframes that you can tag with a name, repeat range, and other metadata you might find useful.

It also has a color cosine distance based palette enforcing system to ensure sprites only have the colors you want.

GitHub - aseprite/aseprite: Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux) Animated sprite editor & pixel art tool (Windows, macOS, Linux) - aseprite/aseprite

Been playing with Aesprite for a bit, been switching from app to app for pixel art for years, from MS Paint to Photoshop, Affinity Photo, Hexels, etc. Aesprite feels laser focused on making pixel art to the quality of a community like PixelJoint as easy as possible.

github.com/aseprite/ase...

Here's the test results on some hardware I have here on Chrome Canary 131, with the horse racing representing the flickering race condition behavior 😅:

Windows 11 x64 / AMD 6900 XTX - V0: 🏇 V1: 🏇 V2: 🏇 V3: ✅ V4: ✅
Windows 11 Arm64 / Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 - V0: ❌ V1: ❌ V2: 🏇 V3: ✅ V4: ✅

Converted my Graphics Research list to a starter pack (not sure what's the difference though). Let me know who we are missing here :)

Here goes! go.bsky.app/ApQNTt2

Managed to get a library I wrote compiled and running on Windows 11 ARM64. Microsoft discourages installing Visual Studio 2022 + Build Tools with a dismissible popup that says ARM64 isn't supported, but otherwise Visual Studio, C++ apps, and Rust work fine.

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I was in High Performance Graphics 2024 in Denver, CO last weekend and the experience was inspiring. Seeing distinguished speakers share impressive papers and posters such as H-PLOC, DGF, and neural denoisers with such depth of knowledge made the trip worth it. gpuopen.com/advanced-ren...

Was replacing my Fender FV-1's output jack/knobs with KAISH components, love that an instrument from 1990 still kicks butt today.

Repaired my Mesa Boogie amp head's 8 ohm output. Mouser has so many parts, was able to find a replacement for the exact component that failed! mou.sr/4dmWsBd

I'm absolutely loving Obsidian as a note taking tool. It's just locally running markdown, nothing crazy, presented in a clear, concise, and well formatted manner like Norton. obsidian.md

I'll be in Denver, CO for High Performance Graphics (HPG) this year, if you're headed there feel free to say hi! 👋

In an attempt to speed up and automate publishing to Facebook/X/Mastodon/Threads/Bluesky/whatever, I've been working on making my site compliant with the activitystream 2.0 spec. Indieweb is a big inspiration: aaronparecki.com/2012/09/09/6...

As much as I've been afraid to try it, I've been delving into the quantified self in the form of tracking my sleep (thanks Samsung Health), app usage, website usage, and work schedule to better squeeze out more time out of the day. It's been enlightening and easy to do.

FAST: Filter-Adapted Spatio-Temporal Sampling for Real-Time Rendering | Proceedings of the ACM on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques Stochastic sampling techniques are ubiquitous in real-time rendering, where performance constraints force the use of low sample counts, leading to noisy intermediate results. To remove this noise, the...

Hi Alan 👋! I was at i3D 2024 in Philadelphia and saw your FAST noise paper there, great work!

github.com/electronicar...

OpenAI’s GPT-4o: The Best AI Is Now Free! ❤️ Check out Microsoft Azure AI and try it out for free: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/solutions/ai Official link: https://openai.com/index/spring-update/ Try it out - if you don't see it on a free account, they may roll this out to you in the next few weeks: https://chatgpt.com/ Singing: https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/ (look for the "Two GPT-4os interacting and singing.") 📝 My paper on simulations that look almost like reality is available for free here: https://rdcu.be/cWPfD Or this is the orig. Nature Physics link with clickable citations: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41567-022-01788-5 🙏 We would like to thank our generous Patreon supporters who make Two Minute Papers possible: Alex Balfanz, Alex Haro, B Shang, Benji Rabhan, Gaston Ingaramo, Gordon Child, John Le, Kyle Davis, Lukas Biewald, Martin, Michael Albrecht, Michael Tedder, Owen Skarpness, Richard Sundvall, Taras Bobrovytsky, Ted Johnson, Thomas Krcmar, Tybie Fitzhugh, Ueli Gallizzi. If you wish to appear here or pick up other perks, click here: https://www.patreon.com/TwoMinutePapers Thumbnail background design: Felícia Zsolnai-Fehér - http://felicia.hu Károly Zsolnai-Fehér's research works: https://cg.tuwien.ac.at/~zsolnai/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/twominutepapers #GPT4o

At the start of college, I would use text-to-speech android apps to read books and PDFs while doing chores or traveling.

Microsoft Edge and OpenAI's ChatGPT 4o now feature a natural sounding AI text-to-speech engine that supports many languages!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9KJ...

ONNX Runtime supports Phi-3 mini models across platforms and devices Thanks to day one ONNX Runtime and DirectML support, developers can now deploy Phi-3 Mini at scale

I was experimenting with Phi-3, the small language model open sourced by Microsoft that uses ONNX and DirectML as the runtime for the model, and found it useful for performing 'image editor' like operations on text, letting us communicate our intent more precisely. onnxruntime.ai/blogs/accele...

Espresso Research and Engineering A comprehensive overview on crafting the perfect espresso drinks, reviewing machine parts, extraction profiles, and types of drinks.

alain.xyz/notes/espres...

I've written out some notes on crafting great espresso drinks, covering recipes, different roasters, latte art, etc.

Check it out if you want to improve your shots or are looking for new roasters/machines: