Iulian

Even after all these years the bao still helps teach people how to solder and take something home.

We had a couple of people (old members, new visitors) learn how to solder! Our old member had trouble soldering with a plug-in soldering iron with dubious tips, and we worked on how to best make use of it. A visitor also wanted to learn more about electronics. and instead of talking about it we taught him how to solder as well using our electronics bench! practical learning!

As always we…

Dim Sum Labs partnered with AI Tinkerers HK to bring Deep Dives highlighting developers who are working in the GenAI/ML/CV in Hong Kong.

The talk was hosted by Iulian Arcus, an events coordinator at Dim Sum Labs and a co-organiser at AI Tinkerers HK.

Today we’ve had two talks:

The first by Way Fai Godfrey Cheng who presented his work on designing a Neural Network based Snooker game tracking for a local club. He took us through his hardware purchase, labeling fails and wins, and the…

Dim Sum Labs hosted the inseparable duo of PUG and OSHK this week with two talks and a mini christmas party.

First Allen Wyma presented how Python can be sped up by integrating Rust in the critical path of your applications, and did a live benchmark.

Then William Sun showed us how far Python use in iOS has come, demonstrating Jupyter Notebooks and Python automations that integrate well with the share menu, allowing seamless data transfer and productive work. In this case the example showed a…

The topic of LLM is quite popular right now so Iulian Arcus covered how to regain sovereignty over the tools we may be using day to day very soon.

Regardless of the quality of the tools, the discourse seems to be heading towards LLMs being more integrated in our daily tasks. But with models changing every month, sometimes without recourse, and funding for the big providers uncertain, having control over your tools becomes more important.

We covered how to install LM Studio, a simple…