A few days ago, I woke up to the news that Slavoj Žižek wrote an article published on Die Zeit (behind paywall) about my latest work, the Infinite Conversation. I was elated to realize that the project had eventually landed on his desk, and overjoyed to see that he opened his article, in perfect Žižekian …
As I was publishing the code for Memeoirs Redux, I realized I could use a refresher on how to create an MBOX file to process. Gmail handles importing of messages from different providers pretty well, so for the sake of this how-to, I’ll assume that your emails are either stored on Gmail or that you …
It was his fault! [Citation not needed] Richard Trevithick was an early pioneer of steam-powered road and rail transport, and his most significant contributions were the development of the first high-pressure steam engine and the first working railway steam locomotive. […] During further tests, Trevithick’s locomotive broke down three days later after passing over a …
Check it out. After working earlier this year with Transformers, I gave GPT-NEO a try for Haiku generation. Not bad! Next step: add a rudder. Also, I think it would be cool to find a visualization method that would display branching and make the generation process interactive/iterative. …
I got myself a color ePaper reader and concluded after a month of usage that the tech ain’t ready. …
Where I teach a GPT model how to generate haiku poems on any topic. …
NFTs have been around for quite a few years already, so I was surprised to see such a spike in interest in early 2021. My first reaction when I heard about CryptoKitties in 2017 was one of bafflement. I concluded that it made no sense for me, in part because I never was a collector. …
Motivations Many times I’ve considered buying a digital photo frame, but there was always something putting me off. Most of the commercially available options are easel back frames, designed to be placed on a table. The few alternatives available for hanging frames have the unsightly issue of the dangling power cable, something that I dislike …
One of the most unexpected and beautiful things you will find in Orem, Utah is a stained glass window at the library of Utah Valley University. I love it when an ancient medium is used in a novel way and this is certainly the case for “Roots of Knowledge: A Window into the History of …
Two perpendicular thoughts: 1) I am amazed how easy it still is for a large program (like Blender or Firefox) to fail to compile on a modern, common distro. A large list of dependencies greatly increases the chances of compile-time mishaps and makes the whole process resemble surgery. 2) I am amazed at how easy …