public:: true blog_date:: 2023-06-11 The idea here was to try out Sentence Transformers , https://sbert.net , on source code search. And as a first stab, a corpus was built with, hey why not, the code from the #sentence-transformers repo. The documentation at https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/semantic-search/README.html#python was used for the basic test here. And a small bit of code at the bottom here, shows how the lines from the python source files were written to a python list first....

This is a school English class project on philosophy from around 2004 where I recruited friends and family to do the voice acting of Spinoza and Descartes 😂. Glad this did not get lost. My brother and uncle are voicing here Scene 1 Scene 2 Scene 3 Scene 4 George and Eugene Here is the second set of voice acting. Scene 5 Scene 6 Scene 7 Descartes vs Spinoza scene 7 from Michal Piekarczyk on Vimeo....

an interlude to having better grasp of an unwieldly photo situation

TLDR Diabetes is what happens when high blood sugar wreaks havoc on the body because either with type I diabetes, the pancreas cannot produce insulin for various reasons or with type II diabetes, no matter how much insulin the pancreas produces, it is not enough insulin to meet the high levels of blood sugar because of insulin resistance (insulin is ignored by cells and blood sugar is not taken up). But fortunately dietary carbohydrate is the main lever here....

Context Per an earlier on-going interlude, I’ve been trying to more easily curate the photos I care to reference in passing in a conversation. This started out as deduping photos and splitting out the photos of food, but at some point I realized I have so many photos I take as notes, taking those out by hand was getting tedious. I used this as an opportunity to test chat GPT’s code-generating skills....