Hi there I'm Ryan Engineer | Musician | Nerd I stumbled across this blogging platform from Andrej Karpathy's website and fell in love with Herman's goal ...
I recently watched an incredible video from the CEO of Patreon, Jack Conte. I knew him as a musician before I knew of his connection to Patreon and his bands and the musicians he has on his channels are all incredible talents. Jack's Talk Direct Link to Jack's Video My Takeaways I work in software engineering and technology and I am a musician myself. The implications of the speed that we are…
I finally hit a limit working with these cloud AIs today. I have been hearing stories of many engineers running up against limits and some even risking massive bills when the switch to token-based billing came about. I assume this hasn't happened to me in the past because I have really fought adopting these AI tools for my personal use and spend most of my work day only narrowly interacting with…
I love to listen to music while I am working on things. Today I have been tinkering with a local LLM to see if I can extend my Personal Knowledge Management plugin for Joplin and I have Apple Music's Study Beats playlist going on my iPhone. Whenever I open a webpage that has CAPTCHA or some verification prompt (that must be trying to send a browser/system alert) my Mac requests (or rather hijacks)…
AI IS GOING TO RUIN EVERYTHING AI IS GOING REVOLUTIONIZE EVERYTHING These two divergent views are dominating the public conversation. Where do you fall? I used to waffle myself, but I tend to fall in the middle and lean toward the positive now. My Previous Stance I have always been a lurker on the internet and focus most of my online activity toward a privacy focused approach. AI gave me…
I am perpetually starting new side projects, getting them off the ground, and leaving hem on the shelf never to be completed. I know this isn’t a novel concept, but as I start to clear up my personal schedule (no more school, preparing for a move so no new social events, and waiting to adopt my next dog) the time has finally arrived to build some new habits. My Poor Relationship with Writing In…
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