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Mister G.
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I'm new to this platform, so we will figure this part out soon enough.
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View from Mount Diablo.
View from Mount Diablo
May 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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My drawing room needs an old-fashioned drafting table for my compass and straight-edge stuff. And the bookshelf needs books, and other treasures. A clock on the wall would be nice, as well as a place for some sheet music, etc. All in due time.

#C++ #Euclid #OpenGL #AI
Open GL Test Rendering for an experimental game engine.
May 6, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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Compass and straight edge, anyone? Working on a framework for doing ALL 465 proofs out of Euclid with pure code, while avoiding using trig or conditional logic. Just added hexagon and decagon. I still want to do a proof-generating AI that is transformer-based, all in due time.

#C++ #AI #Euclid
Added the hexagon to the collection of images that are being drawn "as if according to Euclid with compass and straightedge."
May 2, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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There are several ways to draw the points of a decagon starting with a pentagon. We could compute the angle bisectors or else reflect the points about any axis of asymmetry. Doing it without conditional logic or trig calls is even more interesting.

#C++ #AI #3D #Eucliid
A decagon can also be drawn using the points of a pentagon in various ways. C++ code for determining the points of a pentagon without needing conditional logic or making use of trig functions, i.e., as if according to the methods of Euclid.
April 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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Writing a game-engine or CAD tools can be a worthwhile adventure. Ever tried to draw a pentagon without using trig functions? Everything can be done as if with a compass and straightedge. This works since the cosine of 36 degrees = (1+sqrt(5)/4. Other polygons to follow: 10, 12, 60.

#C++ #AI #3D
Drawing a Pentagon using the same procedure that is used when using a compass and straight edge, but with 3D graphics. Excerpt of Pentagon drawing code in C++.
April 9, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Since Deep-Seek is a "Mixture of Experts" based AI, why not just build from scratch, with "experts" about "braids", "solving mazes", or even the chat-bot Elliza? First, we add parallelism to Eliza, while adding functions like "bind_keysets", etc., then neuronal integration ...

#C++, #AI, #braids
Screen shot of a debugging session, working with a more AI-aware version of the original chat bot Eliza. "Teapot In the Garden" - test rendering of hair drawing routines.
March 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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I saw an article on Hackaday about how someone wrote a genetic algorithm for the Atari 800XL that uses a neural network to approximate a mathematical function. Thus, I am adapting it to C++, so it can evolve multiple models concurrently. The results look quite promising!

#c++ #ai #neural #braids
Screenshot of a debugging session where I am working with a neural network that is based on a genetic algorithm that I am working on, which will be used to draw braids, among other things.
February 26, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Been doing more coding with my braid drawing code, while thinking about how to integrate Deep Seek or another AI into the application, so as to create a hair expert; or a braids expert. So why not ask Deep Seek about what it thinks of my code so far? At least it is polite.

#hair #braids #AI #C++
Screenshot of a response that Deep Seek generated to a question that I asked of it about one of my projects on Hackaday.
February 20, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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The good news is that I am still so totally happy with my "Teapot in the Garden" hair rendering routines at this point, that I don't feel so bad about how crappy my braiding code is, at least for now, but it is coming along nicely. Not quite ready for TensorFlow but working on it.

#braids #AI
The current vector drawing routines for this braid-generating function leave a lot to be desired, at least as far as the "xyz" computation is concerned in the x dimension. Got the color mapping worked out - but the geometry and alignment needs a bit of work. Viewing the same backbone for a set of vector drawing routines for creating braids shows that in the XY plane, i.e., looking along the y-axis - things are fairly well behaved.
February 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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So, finally here is a screenshot of the preliminary vector model that will be used to help implement the control functions needed for accurate rendering of twisted or braided hair. This will also be used with the shader that I wrote last year for kinky and curly hair.

#C++ #AI #braids #hair
Screenshot of preliminary vector model that will be used to help implement the control functions needed for accurate rendering of twisted or braided hair.
February 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Well, that didn't take up too much of my all too ample spare time - unlike some real-world problems I've worked on.
Screenshot of results from the deadlocked empire page, showing that all of the challenges have been solved.
February 17, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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I know that I need to get back to my previous work on Digital DNA and the whole theory of braiding. Stay Tuned. Of course, I have been letting myself get distracted by the Deep Seek meme - yet somehow, I have a feeling that this is all going to come together somehow.

#C++ #braids #AI #rails #hair
Teapot in the Garden. Hair drawing code based on a theory of digital DNA.
February 17, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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I converted the Python files for Deep Seek to C++ and got "convert.cpp" to compile in VS 2022, by using a dummy implementation of a "torch.h" header file to fill in some prototypes, for now! Not linking yet, but it sure would be nice to be able to build custom AI models from scratch!

#deepseek #AI
February 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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Doing stuff with Deep Seek, like converting some of the Python source to C++ by hand, and also trying a third-party Phyton to C++ conversion tool, just to see if it actually works. Maybe I can drop a Deep Seek engine into my Rubidium framework? This could take awhile...

#deepseek #ai #ai #ruby
February 6, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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In other news: I started a new project on Hackaday - entitled "Deep Sneak: for lack of a better name", where I am looking into the prospects of running the Deep Seek algorithm on a Windows PC, or perhaps a Raspberry Pi, or maybe even a Pi cluster. Just to see what it can do.

#AI #C++ #deepseek
February 6, 2025 at 10:43 AM
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Although my B.S. is in Engineering Physics, I also have a certification in Construction and Architecture Technology from another college. So, why not write a game engine from scratch, with an environment, not based on some meta-space but on actual objects, or models thereof?

#C++ #openGL #AI
February 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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How do you feel about icosahedrons? Where you calculate all of the vertexes from scratch, and only then solve for the edges, just so you can go yet one more step further and identify every pair of edges that not only shares a common vertex, but which so also can complete a face! Get busy!
C++ function for constructing the vertexes, edges and faces of an icosahedron.
January 29, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Check out some of my open source stuff at hackaday.io/glgorman Lots of stuff you might be interested in, especially for any bespoke, embedded, or custom application, toolchains, etc. Free, or custom ….
December 19, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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This is the only way to enjoy real oranges, whether for juice or otherwise. I don’t understand how anyone tolerates simulated food.
Me picking an orange so I can make some real orange juice. Me and the orange tree.
December 18, 2024 at 11:15 PM
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Polymorphism in C++ can be used in various ways, as when a base class contains a collection of objects, while also describing the relations among them. Thus, a derived class might provide more information about "structure" and "behavior". Of course, we also want reflection ...

#dna #braids #c++
Wireframe conceptualization of a strand of DNA, drawn to correct proportions, but with "hex gears" representing the various nucleotides, instead of actually drawing out every atom in the actual adenine, guanidine, cytosine, or thymidine base pairs.
December 15, 2024 at 11:16 AM
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Turning audio into sheet music can be quite a bit of fun, with or without the help of AI. Yet there is also the pleasure of training an LLM on Yang-Mills theory (among other things) and then trying to get it interested in sex, or at least achieving the million-dollar payday.

#ai #physics #midi
December 10, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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Got an invite to attend an online "virtual job fair/interview" hosted by Hacker X, but was told that I have to pay $52.75 to attend - what? A JOB INTERVIEW? I don't think so. Did not receive a "promo code", nor was I offered a "free option".

#fraud #ai #c++ #scam #ruby #rails #fullstack #devops
December 10, 2024 at 6:02 AM
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Magnitude 5.8 Earthquake, Yerington, Nevada. Just a few minutes ago.

#earthquake
December 9, 2024 at 11:17 PM
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How many people know about this one: What if the National Weather Service really did make a secret deal with insurance companies to NOT tell North Carolina, among others, about the actual risk for a 500-year meteorological event?

#helene #weather #insurance #genocide #biden
December 8, 2024 at 10:33 PM
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I was going to say something about the food on Amtrak the other day but was having trouble uploading in real time. Then I realized that there is more to the rails meme than Ruby On Rails. OK, back to coding then.

#rails
December 5, 2024 at 1:33 AM