The easiest way to get started is probably to use something like Ollama and use the `qwen3-vl:8b` 4‑bit quantized model [1].
It's a good balance between accuracy and memory, though in my experience, it's slower than older model architectures such as Llava. Just be aware Qwen-VL tends to be a bit verbose [2], and you can’t really control that reliably with token limits - it'll just cut off abruptly. You can ask it to be more concise but it can be hit or miss.
What I often end up doing and I admit it's a bit ridiculous is letting Qwen-VL generate its full detailed output, and then passing that to a different LLM to summarize.
"Show me your flowchart and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowchart; it'll be obvious." -- Fred Brooks
Well, it's not really a full-blown app yet. Claude wrote a plugin for MPV. So now when I watch video I just push a button to mark in and out of highlights similar to how it works in DaVinci Resolve. Then I have a command line tool that takes those timestamps in a video file and cuts it up into individual clips and then re-renders those clips and creates a highlight reel. Another command line tool takes three or four large MP4 files that the camera generates and downloads them and combines them in the actual game video on my desktop and also uploads it to my archive and transcodes into a bunch of different formats and uploads to YouTube. And for transcoding, again, it divvies it out to the video cards, which works pretty well. I think I have five or six encoders available so it chunks it up and then reassembles. All in all, it's nothing fancy, but it reduced quite a bit the friction of coming home after games and getting a video up on YouTube for grandparents.
Same here. I used to have Linux on my iPod and Xbox, MythTV running on a server and Fujitsu netbook. Now between the hockey rinks and soccer fields, I take out my iPad Pro for HN, light photo editing and Netflix if I’m lucky enough to find an hour of down time. There’s enough Linux, QNX, Windows, FreeRTOS, Azure, etc etc all day at work now.
As someone who has this week been going through, in detail (is there any other way?), the American CCL and Canadian ECL, this is absolute gold. Thankfully the items in question are no longer on the USML…
...and the less is spoken of the time I had visited a CubeSat workshop at CalPoly carrying the actual flight prototype of my university's first effort in my carry-on - for compliance testing - the better.
I found out the interesting way when leaving the States that ic it goes into space, it comes with lots of ITAR red tape of which I and my university had been blissfully unaware.
Being escorted onto my flight (which had been held for an hour!) by a couple of State Department officials who simply told me to sit in the first available seat when we got aboard was kind of cool, though. Instant upgrade to business class, and the pax in the vicinity probably spent the flight wondering who the heck I was and what I had been up to...
This is one of the BS of space engineering. Apparently if you combine a Pi CM4 with a carrier board manufactured in China running open source Linux, and you say its for a cubesat going to space, it might fall under ITAR
This is why a lot of European space hardware sellers have ITAR-free as their selling point
Cubesat Developer's Workshop? Which year was this, if you don't mind me asking?
The funny thing is that I did pretty much the same thing, I had our flight computer prototype in my hoodie pocket to fidget with (since I'm leading all the electronics for the project) but luckily we weren't travelling far and didn't get any invitations from the government folks.
Our first sat, NCUBE, never made it out of the launch canister once in space; the 2nd one was on a failed launch which probably made some Kazakh farmer's day very interesting - judging from the photos I saw, it seems it came down in a wheat field - but the third one deployed successfully, but at that time, alas, I had graduated.
It's not as big of an issue for us since we use nearly all consumer/industrial stuff with build in ESD protection. I was also using it as a way to stress test whether the board would develop problems from handling, temperature and humidity changes, shock and vibration, etc
I grew up with Calvin and Hobbes collections in the back seat of the car on family vacations. I was 14 when the strip ended so I had lots of historical material to go through at the book stores (!).
We have the anthology at home, I think it’s time to introduce the kids (6 & 9) to Watterson, although my son is already an expert at Calvinball without even knowing it.
What struck me reading this piece was thinking about how all the constraints that Watterson faced just don’t exist today, as he pointed out with his “click of the mouse” comment. Constraints can often lead to creative solutions, I wonder where Calvin and Hobbes would go in today’s landscape.
