scroogey (u/scroogey)

scroogey commented on Coffee linked to slower biological ageing among those with severe mental illness kcl.ac.uk/news/coffee-lin... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

VladVladikoff · 2 months ago

I think it’s typically a different species (Coffea canephora). So theoretically drinking bean tea of a different plant could have different health impacts.

scroogey · 2 months ago

Also known as Robusta. I have two different instant coffees at home and just checked - one is robusta, one arabica.

scroogey commented on What nicotine does to your brain economist.com/science-and... · Posted by u/runeks

wtk · 3 months ago

It does seem to help with focus, but my attempts to curb adhd and brain fog happily didn’t stop at nicotine. Niacinamide (B3) seems to do much better job for me, without the smell, nausea, and it works longer.

scroogey · 3 months ago

How much do you take?

scroogey commented on Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3 github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2... · Posted by u/modinfo

CosmicShadow · 6 months ago

One was with Topaz Video, the other was with SeedVR2.

scroogey · 6 months ago

Thanks!

scroogey commented on Wan – Open-source alternative to VEO 3 github.com/Wan-Video/Wan2... · Posted by u/modinfo

CosmicShadow · 6 months ago

Wan2.1 was great, but Wan2.2 is really awesome! Here's some samples I made locally with my 5090:

- https://imgur.com/a/VeTn4Ej

- https://imgur.com/a/CujxVX3

Those were both Image to Video and then I upscaled them to 4k. I made the images using Flux Dev Krea.

Took about 3-4 minutes per video to generate and another 2-3 to upscale. Images took 20-40s to generate.

scroogey · 6 months ago

What did you use to upscale them?

scroogey commented on The Art of Multiprocessor Programming 2nd Edition Book Club eatonphil.com/2025-art-of... · Posted by u/eatonphil

scroogey · 6 months ago

Is it possible to sign up without a Linkedin account?

scroogey commented on FDA has approved Yeztugo, a drug that provides protection against HIV infection newatlas.com/infectious-d... · Posted by u/MBCook

doctorpangloss · 7 months ago

The status quo is bad, but do you have any evidence for drug development anywhere else in the world, that plays by the rules you’re describing?

I mean China is really rich, runs lots of centralized R&D, and has an excellent research culture, why isn’t it developing cures for everything?

scroogey · 7 months ago

It takes time to develop institutions and foster the talent, but China is certainly advancing at a fast pace: https://archive.is/Csvbe

scroogey commented on Claude Code Router github.com/musistudio/cla... · Posted by u/y1n0

nothrabannosir · 7 months ago

Throwing more llm at a prompt escaper is like throwing more regexp at a html parser.

If the first llm wasn’t enough, the second won’t be either. You’re in the wrong layer.

scroogey · 7 months ago

Here's an alternative perspective: https://x.com/rauchg/status/1949197451900158444

Not a professional developer (though Guillermo certainly is) so take this with a huge grain of salt, but I like the idea of an AI "trained" on security vulnerabilities as a second, third and fourth set of eyes!

scroogey commented on Solving LinkedIn Queens Using Haskell imiron.io/post/linkedin-q... · Posted by u/agnishom

scroogey · 8 months ago

Have not done part 2 but enjoyed the first part of the course!

scroogey commented on LLM codegen go brrr – Parallelization with Git worktrees and tmux skeptrune.com/posts/git-w... · Posted by u/skeptrune

foolswisdom · 9 months ago

That doesn't take away from the OP's point (and OP didn't specify what ping ponging looks like, could be the same as you're describing), you are still iterating based on the results, and updating the prompt based on issues you see in the result. It grates on a human to switch back and forth between those attempts.

scroogey · 9 months ago

But if you're "starting from scratch", then what would be the problem? If none of the results match what you want, you reiterate on your prompt and start from scratch. If one of them is suitable you take it. If there's no iterating on the code with the agents, then this really wouldn't add much mental overhead? You just have to glance over more results.

scroogey commented on Ask HN: What are you working on? (May 2025) · Posted by u/david927

scroogey · 9 months ago

I'm (slowly and haphazardly) working on https://pianobooth.com. Give it a midi file and it should visualise the playing on a piano (though I make no promises and at least currently it doesn't parse all files correctly, but it's mostly there).

I think I've finally gotten it to a point where it's usable and it seems to work on my phone as well. Hopefully baking in the lighting for the 3d models will give a small performance boost and I don't think it will be noticeable at all with the color changes and small movements.

I've also been going through the fastai course so hopefully I'll be able to put that to use on this project by generating midi files from audio! I might be underestimating the difficulties there but it should be fun.

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