Comparing Apples to Apples

Comparing Apples to Apples To kick off the Daily A.I. section of this site, I wanted to start with something simple like how well the different services can render an apple. In the future, we’ll be doing other simple tests like this one, exploring different use cases for GPT-3 and/or AI Image generation, and work through prompt-crafting. DALL-E 2 recently went into beta and I’m keen to get an invite and begin including that tool in these tests....

July 22, 2022 · 2 min · 277 words · P.W.

Webhooks, IPASS and a Dose of Reality

Getting Back into Writing Once again, I have decided I’d like to write down more of my ideas and share them with others. I had setup a blog with Hugo and Netlify about a year ago but the free domain I used had expired and was now hosting porn ads. I really liked the Hugo setup and ease of use, but I wanted to further automate it for the day to day and not require me to directly interact with a CLI or git at all, at least directly....

July 2, 2022 · 4 min · 786 words · AG

EXWM on Chrome OS

Now I am become Roam - Organizer of Worlds I’ve been getting more and more interested in Emacs and org-mode over the past couple of years. It really seems like a fighter jet of organization, text editing, note taking, etc. The problem is, if you don’t know how to fly a jet, you’re probably going to not get very far. I do not know how to properly fly the Emacs jet, but I’ve made a few failed attempts to convert part or all of my workflow to Emacs....

November 22, 2020 · 3 min · 592 words · AG

Building a Sim Racing Wind Simulator

I first started semi-seriously sim racing a few years ago after buying a cheap old Fanatec wheel/pedal/h-shifter combo on Craigslist for $60. I was looking for something new to get into, and had a previous obsession with the Gran Turismo games on PlayStation to guide me past the first hurdles. Fast forward to today and I have heavilyinvested in my setup, with the main goal being realism and immersion....

November 22, 2020 · 5 min · 922 words · P.W.

Individualism Vs Collectivism

It’s odd when you think about how most of your understanding of the world, your political views, your goals, and much more is defined by just a few experiences. I can lay out the path from being born a southern, Christian-by-default, Republican-by-default kid to a Democratic Atheist person whose not sold on the virtues or unendingness of Capitalism. Funnily, the International House of Pancakes has quite a bit to do with the start of all that, but I’ll save some of those stories for another post....

November 8, 2020 · 3 min · 583 words · AG