Recently, I wanted to use OpenAI’s DALLE-3 to generate some images. Surprisingly, I didn’t find an easy way to do this(have OpenAI API set up but no ChatGPT Plus). At least as of right now, OpenAI’s playground doesn’t let you play with DALLE-3. So I…
One amazing thing about the Elixir machine learning ecosystem is that you can run state-of-the-art ML models right from Elixir. You can go pick your favorite Hugging Face model and get it running without any ceremony. I was recently creating text embeddings using Bumblebee, and realized that some of the…
On the first day of class in eleventh grade, a physics teacher posed the question above to us. He explained that if you look closely enough at a biological process, you’ll see that the “why” is explained by chemistry. Photosynthesis, for example, can be written down as a chemical…
Reading I’m currently reading Showstopper about the development of Windows NT at Microsoft. I’m not reading any fiction at the moment, but the last novel I read was Pachinko which was a unique historical fiction. I like historical fiction because you pick up some bits of history too,…
Reading I read “Built to Fail”. It’s about all the things that went wrong at the video-rental company Blockbuster. It reminded me of “Bad Blood”, which is a similar book about Theranos. If you’re into business books, this is a good one. Currently, I’m reading “A Gentleman…
Reading I’ve been reading a sci-fi novel by Samuel Delany called “Babel-17”. I’d never heard of the book or the author, but looks like it was nominated for a Hugo. It gives me a “Rendezvous with Rama” vibe, which I also read recently, but that might just be…
Reading I’ve not been reading a lot lately, and for some reason a lot of my recent reading seems to have been sci-fi. Well, right now I’m reading yet another sci-fi: Semiosis by Sue Burke. It’s an interesting concept and I’ll probably finish reading it, but…
Yesterday on the language learning app I use, I lost a streak of some 70-odd days, because I forgot to open the app. I was busy and simply forgot. And now, what was once a motivating game– to keep the number of consecutive days I’ve reviewed cards on the…