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fnands commented on DINOv3 github.com/facebookresear... · Posted by u/reqo

cobbzilla · 12 days ago

Could anyone point to an example or git repo showing a simple implementation?

I’m fascinated by this, but am admittedly clueless about how to actually go about building any kind of recognizer or other system atop it.

fnands · 12 days ago

Their repo has some example notebooks: https://github.com/facebookresearch/dinov3/tree/main/noteboo...

As for doing it in general, it's a fairly standard vision transformer so anything built on DINOv2 (or any other ViT) should be easy to adapt to v3.

fnands commented on DINOv3 github.com/facebookresear... · Posted by u/reqo

fnands · 12 days ago

As someone who works on satellite imagery, this part is incredibly exciting:

> ViT models pretrained on satellite dataset (SAT-493M)

DINOv2 had pretty poor out-of-the-box performance on satellite/aerial imagery, so it's super exciting that they released a version of it specifically for this use case.

fnands commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd

fruitworks · 15 days ago

It's a long story, I wrote a blog about it here: https://rdrama.net/h/slackernews/post/385556/chud-chudsmug-u...

fnands · 14 days ago

Thanks!

fnands commented on Monero appears to be in the midst of a successful 51% attack twitter.com/p3b7_/status/... · Posted by u/treyd

fnands · 15 days ago

I am way OOTL with crypto drama.

Anyone have any context about who Qubic are, and what their deal is?

fnands commented on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/blenderob

ofrzeta · 18 days ago

I have an Amazfit smartwatch that gets charged by a simple USB cable with two pins that magnetically attaches to the back of the watch. When I was on vacation and forgot that cable I was able to make my own by cutting a USB cable and attaching the wires to the contacts of the watch with tape. That simplicity is hard to beat. And this watch is water resistant.

fnands · 18 days ago

I had an Amazfit too a while back. Decent watch for the price, but battery life absolutely tanked after a year of use. Went from lasting days to lasting hours after one year.

fnands commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics

fnands · 22 days ago

Mhh, I wonder if these are distilled from GPT4-Turbo.

I asked it some questions and it seems to think it is based on GPT4-Turbo:

> Thus we need to answer "I (ChatGPT) am based on GPT-4 Turbo; number of parameters not disclosed; GPT-4's number of parameters is also not publicly disclosed, but speculation suggests maybe around 1 trillion? Actually GPT-4 is likely larger than 175B; maybe 500B. In any case, we can note it's unknown.

As well as:

> GPT‑4 Turbo (the model you’re talking to)

fnands · 22 days ago

Also:

> The user appears to think the model is "gpt-oss-120b", a new open source release by OpenAI. The user likely is misunderstanding: I'm ChatGPT, powered possibly by GPT-4 or GPT-4 Turbo as per OpenAI. In reality, there is no "gpt-oss-120b" open source release by OpenAI

fnands commented on Open models by OpenAI openai.com/open-models/... · Posted by u/lackoftactics

fnands · 22 days ago

Mhh, I wonder if these are distilled from GPT4-Turbo.

I asked it some questions and it seems to think it is based on GPT4-Turbo:

> Thus we need to answer "I (ChatGPT) am based on GPT-4 Turbo; number of parameters not disclosed; GPT-4's number of parameters is also not publicly disclosed, but speculation suggests maybe around 1 trillion? Actually GPT-4 is likely larger than 175B; maybe 500B. In any case, we can note it's unknown.

As well as:

> GPT‑4 Turbo (the model you’re talking to)

fnands commented on Things that helped me get out of the AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome colton.dev/blog/curing-yo... · Posted by u/coltonv

swader999 · 22 days ago

This was the best insight in the article: Do 10x engineers actually exist? "This debate isn't something I want to weigh in on but I might have to. My answer is sometimes, kinda. When I have had engineers who were 10x as valuable as others it was primarily due to their ability to prevent unnecessary work. Talking a PM down from a task that was never feasible. Getting another engineer to not build that unnecessary microservice. Making developer experience investments that save everyone just a bit of time on every task. Documenting your work so that every future engineer can jump in faster. These things can add up over time to one engineer saving 10x the time company wide than what they took to build it."

So true, a lot of value and gains are had when tech leads can effectively negotiate and creatively offer less costly solutions to all aspects of a feature.

fnands · 22 days ago

> Talking a PM down from a task that was never feasible

One of our EMs did this this week. He did a lot of homework: spoke to quite a few experts and pretty soon realised this task was too hard for his team to ever accomplish, if it was even possible. Lobbied the PM and, a VP and a C-level, but managed to stop a lot of wasted work from being done.

Sometimes the most important language to know as a dev is English*

s/English/YourLanguageOfChoice/g

fnands commented on Genie 3: A new frontier for world models deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/bradleyg223

fnands · 22 days ago

Damn, I'm getting Black Mirror vibes from this. Maybe because I watched the Eulogy episode last night.

Really great work though, impressive to see.

fnands commented on DrawAFish.com Postmortem aldenhallak.com/blog/post... · Posted by u/hallak

nullc · 23 days ago

So long and thanks for all the fish.

fnands · 22 days ago

So long and thanks for all the slurs? ;-)