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ThomPete commented on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers threedle.github.io/ll3m/... · Posted by u/simonpure

emporas · 18 days ago

Measurements are printed and given usually to construction workers, usually along some axis. People who lay the bricks take a top view from a house with the dimensions along the y axis. People who build the doors and windows take a side view of the dimensions along the x axis. And so on.

Blender cannot do that as far as I understand.

Something like that for example: [1]

[1] https://all3dp.com/2/freecad-2d-tutorial/

ThomPete · 18 days ago

Looks like it can

ThomPete commented on LL3M: Large Language 3D Modelers threedle.github.io/ll3m/... · Posted by u/simonpure

emporas · 18 days ago

Very encouraging results. Spatial intelligence of LLMs was very bad, one year back. I spent quite some time to make them write stories in which objects are put into up and down positions, left and right, front or back, they always got hopelessly confused.

I asked GPT which one is the most scriptable CAD software, it's answer was Freecad. Blender is not a CAD software as far as I understand, the user cannot make measurements like Freecad.

Unfortunately Freecad's API is a little bit scattered and not well organized, GPT has trouble remembering/searching and retrieving the relevant functions. Blender is a lot more popular, more code on the internet, and it performs much better.

ThomPete · 18 days ago

Would it be possible to write a script for CAD that could do measurements

ThomPete commented on AI is different antirez.com/news/155... · Posted by u/grep_it

ThomPete · 19 days ago

It's really very simple.

We used to have deterministic systems that required humans either through code, terminals or interfaces (ex GUI's) to change what they were capable of.

If we wanted to change something about the system we would have to create that new skill ourselves.

Now we have non-deterministic systems that can be used to create deterministic systems that can use non-deterministic systems to create more deterministic systems.

In other words deterministic systems can use LLMs and LLMs can use deterministic systems all via natural language.

This slight change in how we can use compute have incredible consequences for what we will be able to accomplish both regarding cleaning up old systems and creating completely new ones.

LLMs however will always be limited by exploring existing knowledge. They will not be able to create new knowledge. And so the AI winter we are entering is different because it's only limited to what we can train the AI to do, and that is limited to what new knowledge we can create.

Anyone who work with AI everyday know that any idea of autonomous agents is so beyond the capabilities of LLMs even in principle that any worry about doom or unemployment by AI is absurd.

ThomPete commented on Thoughts on thinking dcurt.is/thinking... · Posted by u/bradgessler

ThomPete · 4 months ago

My way out of this was to start thinking about what can't the LLMs of the world do and my realization was actually quite simple and quite satisfying.

What LLMs can't replace is network effects. One LLM is good but 10 LLMs/agents working together creating shared history is not replaceable by any LLM no matter how smart it becomes.

So it's simple. Build something that benefit from network effects and you will quickly find new ideas, at least it worked for me.

So now I am exploring ex. synthetic predictions markets via https://www.getantelope.com or

Rethinking myspace but for agents instead like: https://www.firstprinciple.co/misc/AlmostFamous.mp4

AI want's to be social :)

ThomPete commented on Bayesian Epistemology (2022) plato.stanford.edu/entrie... · Posted by u/rnjailamba

kerkeslager · 7 months ago

Agreed--in fact, science doesn't rely on philosophy at all. If the entire field of philosophy disappeared, science would go on functioning just fine. In fact, science has generally been hindered by philosophy--it's seemingly impossible to discuss scientific methodology without some wanker interjecting "well ackchyually nothing is knowable". Animals with nervous systems were learning from observation before humans invented enough language to epistemologize, and will continue to do so with or without philosophers.

Bayesian epistemology is an attempt to model why science works--it relies on science, not the other way around.

ThomPete · 7 months ago

Science do in fact rely on philosophy that's how we got the scientific method.

ThomPete commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring

ThomPete · 7 months ago

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ThomPete commented on Bayesian Epistemology (2022) plato.stanford.edu/entrie... · Posted by u/rnjailamba

kerkeslager · 7 months ago

It's a bad explanation because the sun (probably) IS powered by nuclear fusion.

Deutsch is confused by this situation because he doesn't have the scientific background to understand the usefulness of negations of hypotheses.

Historically, for example, a lot of people believed the sun revolved around the earth. If we treat this as T, then ~T is "the sun does not revolve around the earth".

~T certainly lacks details, but to say it's a "bad explanation" is rather silly. Obviously it's an incomplete explanation, which is why Galileo presented a full explanation ("the earth revolves around the sun") rather than just saying, "the sun does not revolve around the earth". But in fact, "the sun does not revolve around the earth" was the part that was controversial because it was the bad explanation being presented by the church (who happened to be closer to philosophers than scientists).

Basically, Deutsch is just making a straw man argument. In Deutsch's mind, the fact that "the sun does not revolve around the earth" is an incomplete theory of heliocentrism is somehow a refutation of all science, when in fact that's simply not the sort of hypothesis scientists even explore typically.

ThomPete · 7 months ago

No the sun either is or isn't powered by nuclear fusion. There is no way of knowing whether that's the case until you can come up with a good explanation (hard to vary) everything before that is just guessing.

I can assure you Deutsch is no confused by anything in that matter and it's obvious you don't know who he is.

He is literally the guy who created quantum computation and IS a scientist.

And no that's not his argument against the the sun is revolve around the earth.

ThomPete commented on Bayesian Epistemology (2022) plato.stanford.edu/entrie... · Posted by u/rnjailamba

adrianN · 7 months ago

„The sun is not powered by fusion“ actually contains a little information as to the inner workings of the star, so I’m a bit confused by the argument.

ThomPete · 7 months ago

Not from a non-bayesian perspective. It's what Deutsch would call a "bad explanation" i.e. it's easy to vary and thus doesn't tell us about how the sun is powered.

ThomPete commented on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2024) · Posted by u/whoishiring

ThomPete · 9 months ago

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