It’s been over two years since I started tinkering with the idea of a solar-powered, ePaper digital photo frame. My first version was functional but had a number of issues that made me go back to the drawing board. As a reminder, my goals were to build a digital photo frame that: The biggest issue …
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 …
A few days ago, a Hacker News post discussed the incredible work of Tatjana van Vark, a mechanical engineer known for her handcrafted machines and artifacts, which are among the most beautiful and intricate in the world. Among the comments on this post, one person raised an interesting concern about the potential fragility of our …
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. …