I was impressed by the visualizations in this article: Inside FAISS: Billion-Scale Similarity Search I'm a big fan of semantic embeddings models -- I've used them extensively on various projects for everything from hardware issue diagnosis (asymmetric embeddings-model for…
By Max Leiter, from the original on his blog. Jun 3, 2026 They're Made Out of Weights with apologies to Terry Bisson After Terry Bisson's "They're Made Out of Meat". "They're made out of weights." "Weights?" "Weights. Floating-point numbers. We checked the whole thing through.…
Read more →If you check the Milo catalogs page on HuggingFace, you'll notice a few new entries that weren't there before: - - - - - - - There are also a couple of new Magic-adjacent catalogs, including a TCGplayer-sourced MTG catalog and an experimental Spanish Scryfall catalog. This is…
One of my favorite things about CollectorVision is that it runs entirely offline with local inference + lookup. The only time it needs to make a network request is look up card names and prices. However, one drawback from that is that I don't have an easy way to tell how many…
I was impressed with this website. It's worth your time to visit it: https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken h.t. to HN for the link + discussion
If we rename AI agents to "nerfs", then this can be my official job title.
Demonstrating the latest version of CollectorVision -- my open-source card scanning library that I'm releasing to the public. This is a demonstration of my online playground demo for running custom code when users scan cards. It supports Magic: The Gathering currently, with…
Watch on YouTube →Sol Ring is ranked 1 on EDHREC — the most-played card in Commander, by a wide margin. It also happens to be one of the hardest cards for an image recognition system to get right. The reason is the artwork. The most common Sol Ring printing uses the Mike Bierek illustration, and…
Read more →When people ask how accurate a card scanner is, they usually mean one thing, but the question actually has two different answers depending on what you care about. Understanding the difference matters if you're trying to evaluate whether a system is good enough for your use case.…
Read more →Part 6 of the CollectorVision series. Part 1 has the overview. There are three ways to deploy CollectorVision, depending on where you want the computation to happen and how much bandwidth you have. --- Fully local The Python library and the browser scanner both run entirely on…
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