SimTek:SCARAB

3D printing, robotics and engineering

Pi Wars 2024: Intermediate 2nd Place
UKSEDS Olympus Rover Trial 2022: Automation prize and 2nd overall

[After Inc. - What happens after Plague Inc.? @NdemicCreations]

Official Plague Inc. Statement - we fully support the building of a new international airport in Greenland. #plagueinc

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@biglesp To balance it out, out UPS package was delivered to "the UK office manager" which turned out to be the UK customs office manager, and the parcel is currently on the way back to Germany marked as return to sender 😖

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

To the person who broke into my car and stole all my robotics kits, I hope you put them to good use and see you at pi wars!

Oh what's that? You thought it was Makita? And now you've realised it's just raspberry pis and wires it's going in the bin? 😖😖😖

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

There have been so many good Triangle Factory memes and I've been saving them all week.

Here are some of the best ones I've saved:

1. Samsung Factory

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

I graduated after an integrated masters in mechanical engineering with ~£75k student loan.

That's about £5k/year in interest

Which means that to stay on top of interest payments according to the 9% over £27k threshold, I needed to graduate on a salary of £85k 🙃

[Simon Hannah @Simon_P_Hannah]

In 2021 I owed £61,586 on all my student loans. I am pleased to announce that 3 years later in 2024 I have managed to get that number down to...

£61,757.

Yes, after paying £300 out of my salary every month I now owe the @SLC_Repayment £200 more than I did 3 years ago.

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@techhalla Where does "she has a nice body shape" in the prompt factor in to the ability of AI to produce someone doing a TED talk?

If anything AI's capabilities are better demonstrated generating body types that are more complex and nuanced than "nice"

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

State of this... Genuinely one of my key reasons for my disillusion of AI is the Weirdness of all the tech bros who plug it

Like this is an interesting thread and amazing tech, but in the prompt "nice body type"? Really?

Like this isn't a guy I want to hang out with ahaha

[TechHalla @techhalla]

The prompt is a bit long, so I've put it in the ALT text of the images.

PRO (left) - Schnell (Right)

[TechHalla @techhalla]

The prompt is a bit long, so I've put it in the ALT text of the images.

PRO (left) - Schnell (Right)

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@howie_hua Under timed conditions, aggressive rounding. 24hrs is basically 25 hours. 25x anything is easier done as ➗ 4, x100
A: 25*400 = 10000
B: 60*60*24< 4000*25 = 100000
C: 400*10=4000
D: 60*24*7= 1500x7 = 10500

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@orionrobots 100% , I still play on what's technically career mode when I want to do sandbox. Everything's unlocked and effectively unlimited cash in the bank but it's fun to know you built that!

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@orionrobots I'm actually jealous of you doing your first play on career mode! I had a hundred hours in the sandbox before it touched it so never had to "learn" anything whilst worrying about resources!

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@orionrobots Same! My to do list includes transitioning my robot build to ROS, playing with lidar and openCV and making prototype mechanum wheels/gearboxes all in time for this year's pi wars kick off so I can actually focus on challenge specific problems, not just learning - but it's JULY!!

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@TheLincoln Wouldn't this need to be a completely original book? If the book had been part of its training data in any way it would likely "know" the answer? Even if you gave it the first paragraph that would have such a strong correlation it would return answers relating to that text?

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@smolrobots Oh really!? Well that's me told 😆

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@smolrobots To boringly answer the question - the rhyme was originally about an English Civil War cannon mounted on a wall that fell down and smashed

And then Lewis Carroll decided it was about an egg!

[SimTek:SCARAB @_SimTek_]

@MolloyLaurence Oh for sure, Rishi will waffle on about The Plan that Doesn't Work and No-one Wants, Kier will avoid everything because hes got a stonking great lead, and unless Ed can smuggle in an inflatable or two the BBC won't acknowledge he's there

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@orionrobots I got caught out by this in the run up to pi wars (hence I didn't have a working camera! ) but does the version of the OS also affect this too? I had a camera 2 on my zero 2 years ago no problems, but couldn't get it working again in April?

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Oh no I've just realised I've finally got political on main... Wellll you all knew scarab was orange anyway I guess 😉

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Not sure what poor Ed Davey did to earn the undivided vitriol of Count Binface relative to the other two...

[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Ed Davey at the helm, plummeting down a steep yellow slide. Say no more.