How much progress have you made since last time? What new ideas have you stumbled upon, what old ideas have you abandoned? What new projects have you started? What are you working on?
Once again, feel free to share anything you’ve been working on, old or new, simple or complex, tiny or huge, whether you want to share and discuss it, or simply brag about it - or just about anything you feel like sharing!
The monthly thread is the place for you to engage /c/programming_languages on things that you might not have wanted to put up a post for - progress, ideas, maybe even a slick new chair you built in your garage. Share your projects and thoughts on others’ ideas, and most importantly, have a great and productive month!
I just finished my first long technical blog post - blogging is a relatively new habit I’m trying to build up. I posted the blogpost already to the robotics community so I’ll just crosspost it with this link. TLDR it’s the trial and tribulations I had while trying to use PPO to train a robotic arm to do pick and place.
I’m putting a hold on the other project I was burning out of - something I called
coppermind(yes I’m a Sanderson fan) that handled chatbot memory/applications. I have an old version running on a digital ocean droplet plugged into Twilio, but recent degradations in ChatGPT 3.5 model response quality + that version not having my knowledge/vector database features means it’s becoming a bit repetitive on its responses.Right now with my masters in robotics starting up again in late August, and this being the project for the entire thing, I’m spending some time working on tooling to get myself up to speed on ROS2 and get repeatable environments up and running for it so I can quickly fix/deploy sim robots for the project. I have some ideas I’m toying with there. Unfortunately no idea what the project will be yet.