new pile cooking #compost

Wan2.1_14B_FusionX is good. T2V ~3 minutes on 4090.

i'll never mine with OCEAN and i'll never run bitcoin knots. here's a free wallpaper i made.

this is my 2nd cup of coffee, but i start counting at zero

time-lapse of plasma in the corona of the sun, from a ground-based telescope using adaptive optics. more videos:

“Raindrops in the Sun’s Corona”: New Adaptive Optics Shows Stunning Details of our Star’s Atmosphere - NSO - National Solar Observatory

Manager wants to roll out a password manager without a browser extension. They'll just sign in to the website to manually copy paste passwords. 😭

I ran the command and got rick-rolled over nostr and blossom. 10/10 View quoted note →

I transplanted this maple from my neighbors yard about 2 years ago. It was originally planted very poorly: compacted subsoil, hole just big enough for the root ball, didn't take the burlap off, and covered the surface with landscape fabric right up to the trunk. I didn't think it had much of a chance to survive. Something damaged the bark around the trunk severely, and it has this white stuff that might be a fungal disease? There are some dead branches that I'm leaving in to deter the deer from eating leaves in those areas. There were also plenty of bad pruning cuts that still need to be cleaned up. Overall, this has been a great success. I made sure the root zone got some good quality compost, and also gave it a few doses of compost extract to get the life going in the soil. I put another layer of compost on top as mulch, and the seeds it contained made a nice cover crop.

#memestr

I turned the first pile of the season again, and started the second pile. The first pile had a great run after the fourth turning. I'd like to see how it does after the fifth turn, but I only have one compost sensor right now so I had to move it to the new pile, which is heating up quickly. #compost

this fourth turning is heating up nicely

New TTS model from Nari Labs: dia. Two speakers, natural dialog. Condition on input audio to control tone and emotion. Use tags like (laughs) or (coughs) for non-verbals. Early release and rough around the edges, but it shows a lot of promise.

I gave this compost pile a 3rd turn a few days ago. It didn't heat up as much as I expected, and then the wind picked up again. So I wrapped the bin in a tarp, and that appears to have worked to shield it from the wind and retain some heat. I think I'll turn it again tonight, just to see what happens and how it looks inside.

some good shit right here

Wan2.1 released first frame last frame to video:

GitHub

GitHub - Wan-Video/Wan2.1: Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models

Wan: Open and Advanced Large-Scale Video Generative Models - Wan-Video/Wan2.1

New AI video model, FramePack. Longer videos, great frame to frame consistency. * Diffuse thousands of frames at full fps-30 with 13B models using 6GB laptop GPU memory. * Finetune 13B video model at batch size 64 on a single 8xA100/H100 node for personal/lab experiments. * Personal RTX 4090 generates at speed 2.5 seconds/frame (unoptimized) or 1.5 seconds/frame (teacache). * No timestep distillation. * Video diffusion, but feels like image diffusion.

FramePack

This compost pile got even hotter on the second turn. Guess I'll have to turn it again tonight.

I spent all day weeding the garden while listening to the first book in the Horus Heresy, and finished up by turning a compost pile. I'm tired and still angry. The dip in temperature was caused by wind. The dip started precisely when the wind picked up, and started to recover right after the wind stopped. I'm grateful that my sensor allows me to see and learn from this data.

Huh, that's weird. I'm always nervous about the first few compost piles of the season. Is it too wet, too dry? Not enough nitrogen, or too much? It seems like I always need a little practice to get the hang of it again. But I've never seen a pile maintain a steady high temperature like this before.

I've been stressing lately about a project at work: replacing 95% of the computers because Windows 11 won't support them. There's money in the budget, but that was before tariffs, and management has been slow in making decisions. Except decisions that make the project cost more like swapping half the desktops for laptops and docking stations. We were already planning on not replacing any monitors even though they're all 10 years old, 20" and very dim from staying on 24/7. Yesterday I was considering all sorts of drastic actions: skipping nice mounts for the computers, forcing Linux on the desktop, or just not updating from Windows 10. Waking up this morning I realized we could even go back to using Windows 10 LTSC which has an end of support date in 2027 or 2029, despite all the inevitable headaches. Then I read the headline: laptops, desktops, server and other electronics exempted from tariffs. I would like to get off this carnival ride now, thank you.