James Futhey

@jamesfuthey

🌈 Indie Hacker, Founder @Meetingroom365.com - Seattle / Taipei - jamesfuthey.com - Previously Analytics @Adobe, Design @HBO. @kidgdzilla on the legacy app. Building 🌟 transparent.se 🕹️ pmn.blue 🍍 indie.am/james

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James Futhey@jamesfuthey· 2d

If you have a developer account (or are brave enough) and want to play Pikmin 1 on macOS, iPad, iOS, etc. here is a native, performant source port. github.com/magikarp/pik...

scene from beginning of pikmin 1 showing a small character and a crashed spaceship in a tiny world

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· 12d

Pikmin 1 source port. Runs on macOS, iPad, iPhone. Tested through Forest of Hope, Fixed a few compiler bugs that only affect late-game bosses, untested there. On-screen touch controls are... painful to use but controller plays great.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· 18d

Fixing the last couple of TEV bugs for the decomp port of Gamecube Pikmin to macOS. My todo list on visuals are about 98%. Optimistic about jaudio after that, and then just a whole lot of testing!

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· 20d

This is such a glorious mess I'm having such a blast. Metal shaders, probably not a single blend mode is correct. But it's pikmin 1 on macOS.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· 21d

Update: No Textures, Some Problems. Lol.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· 21d

No textures, no problems.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Jun 20

Ahhhhhh I should have bought this while I was in Taipei….. it’ll never come to the US. I’m so stupid (Amy) rose.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 31

"Pornographic Images with Rivers" This is what happens when you let an LLM label clusters based on alt tags, 0.001% of the time 🧐 www.transparent.se/image-cluste... The alt tag is almost always "IEMBot Image TBD" so.... 🤡

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 7

Ack, found my mistake from 9 days ago 🙈 rb_jaccard_dist is DISTANCE not SIMILARITY, so "most similar" would be least distant. And.... it looks like I flipped this to DESC by mistake. I bet I'll find more mistakes if I keep going 😅

$SELECT uid AS uid, rb_jaccard_dist(bitmap, ${targetBitmap}::roaringbitmap) AS similarity FROM ${sql.unsafe(userBitmapTable)} WHERE bitmap && ${targetBitmap}::roaringbitmap ORDER BY similarity ASC LIMIT ${limit}$

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 7

Something has seemed a bit off for me too. Probably overdue to stir the linear algebra around and see what's happening. xkcd.com/1838

xkcd: machine learning

Cueball II: This is your machine learning system?

Cueball Prime: Yup! You pour the data into this big pile of linear algebra, then collect the answers on the other side.

Cueball II: What if the answers are wrong?

Cueball Prime: Just stir the pile until they start looking right.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 4

Clustering just fell into place. Only issues I had were pipeline stuff, none of the core assumptions were too far off, MiniBatchKMeans just... worked! Took what I learned from autolabeling posts and applied that to alt tags. 4o-mini handled those.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 4

Everything went better than expected, basically successful on the first try. MobileCLIP is WAY better than it deserves to be, given how performant it is. Never got Zero shot out of it but the embeddings are very good.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 4

Every image posted to Bluesky in the last week, semantically clustered and labeled. Jetstream -> Postgres -> Python (ML) www.transparent.se/image-cluste...

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 4

ahhhhhh I can't wait for image cluster labeling to finish, this is going to be such a cool little thing to share tomorrow. I think it'll take 3 hours, I never optimized the script to do any of this in parallel, I just go to dinner and come back and it's done.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 4

Clustering pipeline on 6.6m Bluesky posts currently takes 1 hour 44 minutes on my Macbook Pro. Good news is that it now actually works without any errors or bugs, so I can probably productionalize it and run it on a GPU next week instead.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 3

Pikmin update, 81 days to Seattle… I don’t know why this is so funny I think I get a sticker when he gets back 🤷

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 2

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 2

I wonder if bro’s gonna make it back before I do…

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· May 1

Reminds me of the old loading screen:

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 26

Pretty excited! At 3m posts clusters are stabilizing. You can see multiple runs and even active clusters overlap, even in 2d space. So now they can be merged together, and more importantly, you can keep assigning posts to them right after calculating embeddings, without re-clustering.

Cluster explorer. Woof and Roof have converged into two groups of clusters. Fair!

Wordle centroids have converged in 2d space!

Merge candidates being tested at different cosine similarity thresholds

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 25

Copypasta explorer (duplicated posts on Bluesky) See users who repeatedly post the same post text, or groups of users who post the same exact post text (1 week timeframe) www.transparent.se/copypasta.html #dataviz #bluesky

Users or groups of users who post the same exact thing, repeatedly

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 24

Like, Wordle game results still haven't stabilized into a single cluster. And, there are a TON of Wordle game results being shared on Bluesky.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 24

Like, this cluster is literally just Guardian articles in every URL. That's the centroid. AI label was "US News Commentary". Decent enough for the cluster explorer tool. But, stick that in a list, someone clicks it, they aren't going to expect it will filter out shares of Guardian articles.

cluster explorer tool: label is US news commentary but each post is a single link to guardian.com/us-news/...

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 24

Jetstream Video Post -> ffmpeg -> extract 1-5 frames -> CLIP -> zero-shot labels + embeddings -> mean embed -> whisper transcript -> db Theoretically I can do something with these, but for today, I just figure I'm finishing the processing pipeline. Will figure out a use-case later 🙃

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 24

lol gamestop.com running out of sockets... Not ordering just watching the carnage. Contributing to the fail whale that is the Switch 2 Launch...

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 23

Ah yeah, the Android install prompt. When I tested it seemed pretty usable if they fixed SafeAreaProvider in react native for App.web.tsx, Then there would be a bit more work for notifications and the install prompt. Safe areas are what absolutely break it for me 😅

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 23

Moved embeddings/ml to vast.ai, got a bid at 2¢/hr ($16/mo) on a 3090, stupid cheap (not guaranteed, it can be outbid). Can just push into a queue when it goes offline, I assume. Main feed server is $43/mo Epyc 128gb for Postgres. Clustering on my Macbook Pro until I can't. ML can be cheap!

Vast.ai winning bid for 3090 time, $0.022 per hour - not guaranteed to run full time if someone outbids for the same machine.

Cheapest Epyc on OVH w/ 128gb DDR4 + SSD runs the feed server without breaking a sweat

docker on the feed server, postgres is pretty happy if you just **give me all your ram**

Worker on Vast.ai listening on Jetstream for new posts, jailed to a single postgres table.

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 22

Good point. I'm hoping it's just labeling in the sense that they keep some kind of UI like this:

James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 22

My first and only question was, please tell me you did this in console and not photoshop. Thx for that.

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James Futhey@jamesfuthey· Apr 22

Threw up a Cluster Explorer for 🦋 posts www.transparent.se/clusters.html Not enough (40k) posts to say the clusters have stabilized yet, but you can view the centroids in x/y space, search, view random posts, etc. It's kind of fun! But, uhh, my embedding pipeline sucks. So it's only 40k posts 😅