In a few short hours, OpenAI will shut down access to a few old large language models, the text-davinci series. Everyone who depended for some project on a fine-tuned version of these models and who hasn’t found a replacement yet might soon feel some pain. I was in that cohort until I found out how …
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Uncovering Uncommon Words in “City of Quartz” by Mike Davis
Recently, I finished reading “City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles” by Mike Davis. The book is an incredible journey through the history of Los Angeles, exploring its urban, social, and political landscapes. While diving into the story, I was struck by Davis’ unique writing style and the sheer number of uncommon terms …
haiku barada nikto
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. …
Turn your Twitter history in a micro-blog
Imports tweets, images and videos from your tweet archive to your Wordpress blog. Ever more distrustful of social media companies, I decided to import my tweets on my blog.
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Working from a Nvidia Shield K1 Tablet
Even if the dream to have an Ubuntu phone fizzled out last April, my hopes to keep on miniaturizing my work machine are as lively as ever. After spending a decade working on Desktop computers and a decade spent on Laptops, I think the time is right for another paradigm shift. It is with these …
Fun with Delaunay
In which you too can Delaunize your picture with a simple editor and export it as vectors. …
The most recurrent computer errors on the web
(Not a color blindness test) Error codes in computing are a curious heritage of a bygone era when paper was relevant and memory usage stripped to the bare minimum. In those days, it was normal for a programmer to stumble upon an error code, stand up, reach for a dusty manual on a shelf, look up the …
8-bit color cycling time-aware live wallpapers by Mark Ferrari
In which I am totally hypnotized by the retro art from the illustrator of Monkey-Islandian memory and set on a mission to have it always close to my eyes. …