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Iterating on CSS with GPT-4 and Puppeteer

Adventures in RTL layout

Amtrak story - the Congresswoman

from the Northeast Regional

ML Arxiv Haul #26

17 new mostly-ML papers

Kurdish parentheses on OpenStreetMap, Three Ways

Fixing a street name takes a detour

Eye ML - Training Eyegazer model

Podcast Recommendations Part 10

TV, medicine, and nonproliferation

Recipes to make again Part 2

Links and notes on recent recipes

Reading Blog - October 2023

China, the US, and Chicago in history

ML Arxiv Haul #25

12 new ML links and comments

Australia's not-Lyme illness

ML Arxiv Haul #24

15 or 16 new ML links and comments

Lake County Bike Infrastructure

Metra and Lake Bluff, IL

Topics I would read a deep dive on

Variety of random questions

Word-edit tracing on Wikipedia

Microaggression in new articles

ML Arxiv Haul #23

23 new ML papers and comments for 23rd edition

Reading Blog - (Late) September 2023

Peace, Conservation

Cartoon ML - Part 5 - IDEFICS

Multimodal with a new HuggingFace model

Reading Blog - September 2023

History and Newark schools

Work on Jais and mGPT

More quantized models, and evaluating Indonesian

Edu updates - WGU and Duolingo

Savvy Code LLaMa ideas

QLoRA, Code LLaMa tests, and mGPT

Savvy LLM for NYC

GPT-NYC upgrade

ML Arxiv Haul #22

22 new ML papers and comments for 22nd edition

Eye update 👍

Reading Blog - August 2023

International justice and Congress

Fine-tuning savvy LLMs

Now that LLaMa v2 weights are available with a license agreement, development on Vicuña and other models updated.

Sark Emoji Episode 6 - The Bureaucracy Abides

Stay tuned for Unicode 16.0

After the Fire

Chicago, the series

Odds and Ends on OSM July 2023

Reading Blog - July 2023

Chicago, museums, and jury nullification

ML Arxiv Haul #21

More, mostly recent ML papers and comments

An unexpected dive into fundus photography and ML

Can computer vision tell a choroidal nevus from a melanoma?

A peek into Low Carbon travel

Experience and future plans after the bike tour

ML Arxiv Haul #20

17 more ML papers and comments

Notes on Lake Superior Bike Infrastructure Pt. 2

Ashland, WI - Bayfield County loop

Notes on Lake Superior Bike Infrastructure

Duluth, MN to Ashland, WI

Reading Blog - June 2023

Amnesia and biotech and Muppets

Froot of the Algorithm

People in the Mandela Effect community are also excited about AI.

30 Recipes that I would make again

Something different; links and notes on recommended recipes

Aliens of Arxiv #3

AI is trending lately, and not just here on Earth

Sitemap and Robots

Getting the site indexed

Cartoon ML - Part 4 - InstructBLIP describes cartoons

Progress with InstructBLIP model, prompting, multiple choice

ML Arxiv Haul #19

Another 17 ML papers and comments

Sark Emoji Episode 5 - Re-petition

the Unicode 15.1 beta

Reading Blog - May 2023

Global foods, future SCOTUS

Cartoon ML - Part 3 - Get your own Vicuna

Using Salesforce's new InstructBLIP model

Cartoon ML - Part 2 - Progress on Multiple Choice

Finding code examples to train a multiple choice model

Rebuilding Dresden's Frauenkirche

A mini history research project

Baarle-Hertog/Nassau

A different type of divided city

ML Arxiv Haul #18

A new installment of ML papers and comments

Reading Blog - April 2023

Museums, Muslim travelers, and lentils

Sark Emoji Episode 4 - A New Note

If a new region falls in a forest...

Belfast

Visiting a divided city

ML Arxiv Haul #17

After a break, installment of ML papers and comments

Aliens of Arxiv #2

Von Neumann probes and other alien research updates

Fiction # Mobility

Trying something new! Was thinking about this world for a while.

Reading Blog - March 2023

Passenger pigeons, Russian barter, and new fiction.

Cartoon ML - Part 1 - BLIP

Trying basic image-captioning on the New Yorker cartoon contest dataset.

Semantic search and GPT NYC

Using a embeddings API and vector search DB as an alternative to generation

How does RLHF rank?

Where did RLHF come from, finding some datasets, and hot takes.

Sark Emoji Episode 3 - CLDR

CLDR added Sark. What's next?

Reading Blog - February 2023

Travelers in Greenland, nomad history, and a mysterious prophet

Podcast Recommendations Part 9

Books, hobos, Havana Syndrome, and architecture school

ML Arxiv Haul #16

Another installment of ML papers and comments

Flag of Sark Emoji - The High Council

An encouraging update on Sark from the Unicode Technical Committee and Emoji Subcommittee

Mini Food Tour of Flushing, Queens

I've ridden along NYC's 7 train countless times, but this was my first time going to the far east terminus in Flushing.

Reading Blog - January 2023

From Greenpeace to GMOs, and Kazakh autobiography pt. 2

Ahwatukee Take 2

Returning to hike trails where I last tread in spring 2021

Where do flag Emoji and TLDs come from?

Alderney and Sark case study - crown dependencies, CLDR, etc.

ML Arxiv Haul #15

Next installment of 20 ML papers and comments

Waymo / Phoenix

My first ride in a driverless car

ML Arxiv Haul #14

New installment of ML papers collection

Now with Topics

Added topic pages to the blog (and RSS)

Google Maps Review Tags

Quirk of the Google Maps review tag in Japan

Starting Line

Test of the blog and RSS