TL;DR: I added 1,400+ Datacenters to the WhereTo mobile app, but then decided to keep going and spent the past few weeks completely redesigning it to make it free for all public, civic, and environmental information. I also redesigned the map engine for performance and stability and user customizations. Has a single button to give […]
TL;DR: I added 1,400+ Datacenters to the WhereTo mobile app and then decided to completely redesign it and make it free for all public, civic, and environmental information. There has been so much talk on Datacenters lately. Billions of dollars, trillions of gallons of water usage, and numerous people for and against. It was pointed
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TL;DR: I’ve spent the last year world building and writing. Three novels set in a world after humanity’s extinction where a planetary AI maintains empty cities, the last vampire broadcasts into silence, and together they hold everything needed to bring us back. The question at the center of every book: should they? The first novel
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TL;DR: Simple idea. Know what is around you and make better decisions. This application is a big one. This was my first real attempt to build my own production application. During the process, I had an insane amount of scope creep as new ideas and possibilities kept popping up and it delayed the release so
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TL;DR I designed a program that helps users to verify the authenticity of information on the internet. Buckle up, this is pretty in depth and includes video. Why Rene?How does it work?What the install process isWhat the install process is – BraveWhat the install process is – OpenAIWhat the install process is – GoogleDemo –
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TL;DR: You can get a fairly cheap backup internet plan from TMobile for $20 a month. It gives you 130 GB of data which is about enough for 4-7 days depending on usage which should be more than enough if you are relying on Xfinity/ATT/etc. If you care only about cost, the setup I have
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With so much focus on ChatGPT, Bard, and other Language Models, I wanted to bring to light a useful tool that is not as heavily advertised, Text to Image Generation. What is Text to Image Generation? You are probably familiar with Dall-E, the program from OpenAI that was the precursor to ChatGPT. It was one
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Update (4.20.26): This essay was the seed of a novel. The thought experiment that began here of an AI orbiting Earth, holding the archived genomes of a dead civilization, facing the question of whether to bring humanity back, became my first novel, The Beauty the Dead Remember, forthcoming from IdeasQuantified Press. Where to begin. Human
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TL;DR: Recently, OpenAI released ChatGPT to the world. It has opened a pandora’s box of possibility. For me, the first time I heard about ChatGPT was December 13th. The email chain I was added to was concerned how it would impact learning in schools. Until that point, I had never heard of OpenAI ChatGPT, but
TL;DR Recently, my EERO Home Wifi System alerted me that it would be end of support this month. That meant I would need to replace it at some point and it gave me a crazy idea. Could a small form factor computer replace some of the functions of a router? What about a server? Could
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