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Remember how last week I mentioned that I successfully got through my final week of classes without getting sick? Well, almost immediately after hitting publish I started coming down with a cold. At least it wasn’t especially bad and I was back to feeling nearly 100% by Wednesday.
Anyway, this was my first week off this year and, despite the cold, I ended up accomplishing some of the household tasks I have been putting off for far too long. Most notably, painting a wall in my kitchen and deep cleaning the basement floor where it had been stained by cyanotype chemistry.
Links
- When Technology Changes Art
- Stable Diffusion architecture renders from dollhouse photos
- Related: Depth-to-image in Stable Diffusion
- Analog Diffusion - Stable Diffusion fine tuned on film photographs
- VectorFusion - text to SVG
- picoSYNTH - an interactive synthesizer running in the Pico-8 fantasy console
Recipes
- Tajín grilled chicken
- This was good but would have been better had I used an actual grill instead of the stovetop and broiler. Note to self to try it again next summer.
- Chile crisp fettuccine alfredo
- A better combination than I was expecting. I added lemon juice which was a good choice. Next time I make this I will probably try adding ground pork too.
- Thai carrot and sweet potato soup
- Eh, this was alright but definitely missing something although I am not sure I can pinpoint what exactly
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This was a strange week, as expected, with lots of student absences due to the flu, RSV, covid, and early vacations. Shockingly, I was able to avoid catching any of the illnesses myself and can now spend these next two weeks catching up on things at home and, I hope, relaxing. This is really my first chance to expirence the perks of a teacher’s schedule and I don’t intend to take it for granted.
It snowed for the first time this year overnight Friday. The holiday season has truly begun.
Links
- Disputing a parking fine with ChatGPT
- Notice, also, how the response to the author’s email was almost certainly auto-generated / boilerplate
- AI sculpting
- More technical details here
- A list of indie Mac and iOS applications that promote the open web
- Qualia Research Institute’s first line of scents
- How does GPT Obtain its Ability?
- Using Stable Diffusion to generate music
- Textcasting
- Disputing a parking fine with ChatGPT
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Next week is the last week before winter break, not that I am counting.
I made some homemade pizza in the outdoor pizza oven on Saturday. For the first time my gluten-free dough tasted the same as my glutenous dough. I hope this means my gluten-free skills are improving and not that I simply don’t know how to cook with gluten anymore. Anyway, the pizza was good and I don’t think I will have many more opprotunites to use the pizza oven until spring.
Links
- Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
- This list also includes prompts written by ChatGPT itself
- Ooh.directory — A collection of 1000+ personal blogs. Run by Phil Gyford who, unsuprisingly, has his own personal blog that I enjoy.
- See also: The Mataroa Collection
- Obsolete Sounds
- Introduction to Genomics for Engineers
- Awesome ChatGPT Prompts
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