I had a random idea recently, hey can hugo display charts from data in a google sheet? I wanted to perhaps use public accountability to help encourage me to start night fasting earlier. The result is here. And since my goal was public accountability, this made the task easier since I was able to just use a public google sheet, so security and authentication was mostly a non issue.
Placeholder. I followed through on a travel insurance claim and actually managed to get to the end. Received a check in the mail . This is for medical expenses from a story I wrote about earlier 1 . I have paid for travel insurance many times and only once prior to this case, did I really need it. In 2015, I got conjunctivitis on travel abroad and found myself picking up the eye drops for this in an airport pharmacy in Frankfurt....
Saw a bee on my roof this morning which I hadn’t seen before. It was a cold morning. The bee was still and sitting. Some shifting of weight with the wind. I took a photo of this bee. But there is a bee whose photo I could not ever take before, because ever since I started coming to this rooftop every day for a year, during the warmer days there would almot always be another bee a kind of yellow jacket bee, that would always aggressively say hello right up to your face, so there was never really a time I would attempt or even think of taking its photo as it tries to hover in front of my face....
I got a laugh, showing this silly 😛 before and after to a family member recently. But this expensive silliness is just an example of an otherwise very versatile technique. I remember still for most of the brief lifetime of ChatGPT that this kind of image manipulation using a prompt, with autoencoder latent space manipulation was not possible. The only models available for most of ChatGPT history were like DALL-E text to image word2vec types, trained by using a dataset of text and image pairs....
At my work, our team meets daily to discuss our goings on but I think the part I think everyone gets the most utility from is the affectionately named parking lot, where we talk through issues that are blocking people in their efforts and the team does ad hoc resolution sessions. I still recall when a colleague had introduced this practice to our team a while back, as a modification to the typical standup....