Let me start this article by showing you half of the ads I'm seeing on Reddit (completely irrelevant to me btw): What in the AI is going on here? Let me end this article by pointing you to a new subreddit I created to catalogue all of this
I keep falling into the same trap - get excited, start a project, work on it for a bit, get bored of it, think of another project, repeat. I'm not alone. But, I'm trying to be better. After all, I want to build the habit of
I've been considering what the value of a university degree means for tech companies. After all, wouldn't self-taught learners be better suited to keeping up with an ever-changing tech stack? Doesn't it show a certain drive and motivation? My friend and I met when
I recently got the opportunity to visit the former Smallhold Farms mushroom grow facility in Buda, Texas (I guess they were over-leveraged?). They recently sold it; the new owner is trying to scale mushrooms without the same overhead. What's so impressive is the sheer scale of the facility.
Last week I published a post about creating a simple actor that observed its environment and used hard-coded sense/action pairs to reach a goal. This week's objective is to have the actor learn to build its own actions library from scratch. If it's stuck it
Assuming you know very little about machine learning (like me) and you're a self-starter (also like me), then you'll appreciate this gradual ground-up approach to understanding and building intelligence. Let's start out with a simple world. A maze. It is represented as a 2D
I've been iterating on a thought experiment that aims to answer the question: "What makes a winner?" Within any social context, there is the "playing field" - the set of rules and assumptions about an individual's status in society. Owning property, for
I had the idea to make a random word generator while writing my stories. After all, naming is hard. What's a convincing name for a novel city? Or a person? Or a food? I'm no neural network genius, so I created a hash-table approach to figuring
Just wanted to share a little message I found at the top of the SQLite import header: 2001-09-15 The author disclaims copyright to this source code. In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing: May you do good and not evil. May you find forgiveness for yourself and
I'm trying to rebuild my random song app - the one that I naively build for the 1000 Albums project. Since then, a lot has changed and it's possible to build both macOS and iOS apps in the same target in Xcode. So I thought -
I just went to update my Gravatar, you know, that erstwhile avatar hub made by Matt Mullenweg (and team) to make sure your social media presence was uniform. It's still used? But I'm not sure by whom. In any case, I found one of my old
I've been working on my streaming setup in OBS. Unlike most people, I'm not recording games on my PC. I'm using a CamLink 4K to send output from my Xbox to my Mac laptop. I have an HDMI splitter, and all my cables are
Is it possible to make a video game entirely from neural networks? If it were, the question would be, is it a more cost-effective or engineering-light solution that could become the new Unity or Unreal Engine? My intuition is no. Neural networks can't. To provide evidence for that
I'll admit I have a love-hate relationship with Reddit. It starts by feeling a need for connection and going on Reddit, exploring communities, adding them to my homepage, and then becoming obsessed with curating more and more until I have a deluge of content that I need to
I just watched a strange video published by Figure, a company that builds humanoid robots. They partnered with OpenAI for the video to allow the robot to respond to a human's commands. The demo they showed was of a humanoid robot in front of a scene consisting of
I just moved to Austin, Texas and there's an author Austin Kleon who's local and wrote a few books - some of which I'm interested in. I'm reading Steal Like An Artist and curious to see what he has to say. Maybe
I've just reformatted my hard drive and have started everything over from scratch. It's given me a chance to re-evaluate my digital tools and patterns. Here are some new ideas that I'm exploring from a blank slate: 🍎I'm using macOS so these