Jan 24, 2024 - 4:22pm
Today I decided to surf at Sunset Cliffs, initially underwhelmed by the apparent poor surf conditions. However, once out in the water, the waves proved to be unexpectedly steep and challenging, making for an exciting session. I met a few surfers, including someone named Brian, all of us on shorter boards, catching waves and occasionally wiping out. Despite the struggles with some powerful sets and an intense paddling experience, I managed to catch a particularly large, thrilling wave, turning the session into a memorable one despite the ocean's humbling force.
Jan 24, 2024 - 11:24am
Versioning each step is being considered as a strategy to avoid reworking, rather than continually adding new steps to fix previous ones, which may seem hacky. Much of the current work is confined to the development environment, where adjustments are being made before further progress. The effectiveness of this approach is still uncertain, and further observation is needed to determine its success. This approach remains a point of consideration during the development process.
Jan 24, 2024 - 11:22am
The speaker has decided to engage with I Love a Clean San Diego, an organization they recognize from previous volunteer work during their time at Qualcomm. The main motivation for this involvement is the desire to clean up the local area, particularly around the speaker's residence. By joining this organization, the speaker is looking forward to meeting like-minded individuals who are also passionate about maintaining a clean environment in San Diego. The emphasis is on community engagement and environmental stewardship.
Jan 24, 2024 - 9:55am
The image branch is continuously improving and is beginning to look quite good. However, the primary concern is that images need significant compression. This need for image compression is a clear issue that must be addressed. The method for implementing this compression has not been decided yet, but it is being considered.
Jan 24, 2024 - 9:12am
The speaker expresses a high level of admiration for GPT-4 Vision's capabilities, particularly its detailed image descriptions and text extraction. They are impressed by its ability to identify specific flowers in an image, which is valuable as they have limited knowledge about flowers. The technology adds depth to the images and facilitates finding similar visuals, sparking curiosity about the nature of results when querying the system's embeddings. The speaker is intrigued by whether the output will be image-focused or text-centric and ponders the possibility of manipulating the embeddings to vary the results.
Jan 24, 2024 - 8:23am
The speaker expresses great enjoyment in GPT-generated captions for images, finding them consistently amusing. They observe that the captions are "hilarious" and contribute to their enjoyment. The speaker notes that out of ten captioned images, about three will likely be particularly funny to them. They express a lack of specific understanding as to why they find the captions so humorous, but the enjoyment is evident.
Jan 24, 2024 - 7:06am
The speaker is contemplating the meaning of life and what they wish to incorporate into their own existence. They acknowledge a feeling of loneliness and express a desire to be more social and connect with others. The individual recognizes that they have the opportunity to interact with people, such as starting conversations in a queue. They encourage themselves not to be shy, suggesting that reaching out is well within their capabilities.
Jan 23, 2024 - 8:13pm
The speaker has two main objectives: setting up iMessage and creating a simple mechanism to track daily events or learned information. They are considering creating a website or another form of a tool that generates a static webpage daily to summarize this information. They seem impressed with the quality of bullet points provided by an unspecified source. The speaker confirms that a concise summarization method might be satisfactory for their needs.
Jan 23, 2024 - 8:05pm
Tomorrow, I am interested in experimenting with an iMessage bot out of curiosity to see how it functions when actually implemented, as opposed to just theoretically contemplating its integration within different infrastructure. My intention is to create interactive applications that are engaging and useful, rather than endlessly building unutilized infrastructure. The iMessage bot would be particularly helpful for setting reminders and tracking personal intentions or activities through text messages. Additionally, I am considering incorporating GPS data to enhance the bot's functionality, allowing it to provide a comprehensive picture of my movements without needing to send constant updates, just changes in location.
Jan 23, 2024 - 3:28pm
The base of an image pipeline has been created, which effectively processes image metadata, despite potential over-reliance on EXIF data. It extracts latitude, longitude, and creation time, performs reverse geocoding, and uses this data along with machine learning models such as GPT to generate image captions and titles. Challenges include handling full-size image serving and considering whether to downscale images or not, as well as deciding on the best hosting approach. Additionally, thoughts are being given to potentially storing extensive metadata for richer content and reevaluating the pipeline as a series of independent steps or microservices, which could aid in both usage versatility and in enabling machine learning models to programmatically define step sequences. Setting up systems requires basic functionalities to work efficiently to demonstrate their value. Integrating and standardizing pipelines is necessary, such as unifying metadata handling across audio and images. However, the current integration is not clean, implying a need for refinement. There's an idea to create a step library— a collection of small, useful utilities that can function well when the rest of the system operates smoothly.