Ricardo Avila

Two freshly-poured casting flasks cooling down before I can quench the rings.

My hand holding two freshly cast Argentum 940 silver rings with my DIY home setup.

Just cast my first silver rings (fingers crossed they hold up)!
DIY setup, not professional by any means, so I’m anxious about how they’ll polish out. Not totally sure I nailed the temps or timing, so fingers crossed they’re not too brittle or soft. Still — kinda proud of how they turned out.

11.04.2025 15:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Don’t give them ideas 😭

09.03.2025 19:29 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

OsmAnd | OsmAnd Offline Mobile Maps & Navigation

I’m taking the plunge and deleting Apple and Google Maps and using OsmAnd as my daily driver for maps and navigation. osmand.net

Also planning to contribute towards making OpenStreetMa better for my community!

12.02.2025 21:07 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I’m wrapping the luffas around a wire and coconut coir trellis from Amazon. I felt like the old trellis did not do a good job of retaining moisture.

I’m experimenting with using luffa sponges as a trellis for my Monstera.

01.02.2025 20:37 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Demo from the paper:
ProtChatGPT: Towards Understanding Proteins with Large Language Models https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09649 🧬🖥️🧪

29.01.2025 16:30 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Another thought is that it might be interesting to equip such a language model with a sandbox like PyMOL, and have it play around with the structure in order to answer questions!

30.01.2025 23:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This paper looks interesting! But I feel like the example question/answers in the examples are so general that they could be answered with a simple Google search. I'd be curious to know if the model can answer things like "What happens if we mutate this specific residue from Glycine to Arginine?"

30.01.2025 23:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

To see the steps O1 is doing, you can click on the "Thought for X seconds" text. I believe it is not the full chain of thought, like R1's, but an abridged version.

I tried a few more, and it seems that coming up with the riddle takes longer than the answer for me: chatgpt.com/share/679be5...

30.01.2025 20:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

I tried it with O1 and it did pretty well after I explained and clarified the rules. I guess correctly, but I found later that if I had checked the “thought process” I would’ve seen the answer there.

30.01.2025 18:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0