Warning: this post makes extensive use of unprofessional anthropomorphization. Today I’m releasing a new project called Stream of Consciousness. It’s a website where you can read the thoughts of Livia Pacifica, an imaginary person powered by Large Language Models, vector databases, and plain old storytelling. Livia is a digital artist. She uses text-to-image models to …
It’s crunch time for my latest project. I always feel a mixture of love and hate for this phase of every project. It’s been gestating for many months and now there will be some pain in the delivery.
Kevin Donnellan from Explainable was kind enough to interview me with some very interesting questions. Here’s the full interview: First off, The Infinite Conversation. What first sparked the idea, why Herzog and Žižek? And could you talk through how practically you set it up? I wrote extensively about how the idea came about in this article. …
When you are in LA, don’t miss out on the amazing and surprisingly affordable SPAs in Koreatown.
Writing software targeting a vintage computing platform is a most delightful form of privilege.
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 …
In the previous post I described my personal history of regular increments of RAM in my working computers with the notable exceptions of the transitions Desktop->Laptop and Laptop->Handheld and how those transitions allowed me to appreciate a brand new type of productivity. But what does it mean to use a very low memory device on a daily …
The first computer I played with, in the late 80s, was a Commodore 64 that came with 64 Kilobytes of RAM. Early in the 90s, I was lucky enough to upgrade to a Commodore Amiga, which was a bounce in capabilities the likely of which I rarely saw ever since. The Amiga came with half …
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 …
French croissants are tough to master. The other day I was at my favorite pizza place, discussing with the pizza man the science of dough preparation. I casually mentioned that I was finally satisfied with my croissant-dough and the guy looked at me in disbelief. “Making pizza dough is a walk in the park compared …