Well, in November my furnace tried to kill me – and it got pretty close to accomplishing that task. The heat shield had been dislodged, the gas flow was too high, and there was a missing portion of the overall shell. That, alongside the fact that it got substantially colder which caused the furnace to…
The big news is that I’ve bought a house in a small town, several hours away from any major cities. I was initially hoping to find a house in the woods, but my budget and timeline were working against me. This house is going to be a project for years, but it’ll be mine! Update:…
Some Background Open Source Large Language Models have lunged forward in 2023, achieving results that rival those of OpenAI, Google, Meta, and Amazon. Models for programming, for fiction writing, for conversation on seemingly all topics under the sun, and for so much more. HuggingFace introduced the Transformers API Library which as of this writing has…
Right now I’m focused on: Reading:
I’ve had an idea kicking around in my head for a while that I wanted to get working, and lately I’ve been trying to find excuses to write simple programs in Python. The idea was a program that would take in e-book files, and allow you to play them back one work at a time…
Right now I’m focused on: That’s it. It’s all day, all night, mind is mush. Bit off more than I could chew but I’m going to swallow it and learn from it. See you next go-round.
Right now I’m focused on: Reading:
Right now I’m focused on: Building and maintaining good habits, and then stacking those habits together Streaming more often and with more variety – the museum, some gaming, some programming, etc Improving and expanding self-hosted services like Plex and Nextcloud Learning NodeJS by making bots in Puppeteer Getting more serious with Virtual Reality
VR is about to get a whole lot less V and a whole lot more R for this Yak. From a jerry-rigged phone with untracked hands made of other phones (thanks VRidge Riftcat), to 3 point tracking with the Quest 2, to simulated 5 point tracking with Driver4VR – my el-cheapo journey into Virtual Reality…
I’m going back to the desert in a few weeks, and what would a trip to Burning Man be without some new tech to test out? This year, it’s going to be friend-finder, a means of locating and communicating with someone in a city that is notoriously separated from simple things like casually texting or…
