Minor post-session adventure. Surfer got hurt in the water, approached me, side of his head pouring blood. Walked out of the water. Tourist gave up his shirt to use to stanch the blood. I carried the bloody board and we walked to the @lifeguardsofsandiego main lifeguard tower. As always lifeguards were professional and got the fella bandaged up quick and the guy called his wife with his watch.
“AI” – artificial intelligence is not that. It’s not the intelligence we hope our children and grandchildren will develop to make their way in the world. If you’ve used “autocomplete” or a “grammar check” then you’ve used tools in the “AI” category. The software — LLMs — (large language models) take in huge volumes of human data and create even more gigantic indexes of the patterns in the data. Sentences and paragraphs; stanzas and chapters; drawings and renderings all form the basis of such LLMs. @vizcom_ is designed for developing products – for example automotive interiors — I learned about it yesterday from my friend Chris. I made a free account with Vizcom and managed to turn a sketch of the rocketship sand mold I found at Huntington yesterday into this rendering. I added a textual prompt: “red toy rocketship.” Using the indexes it has about renderings of toys, of rocketships, of the color red, and code that interprets the shapes on a sketch and presumably much more software about making renders of 3D space the Vizcom tool generated the output. I’ll hold on sharing my many skepticisms about the misuse of these technologies for now, but this kind of tool is fascinating.
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22-Oct-2023
Made Mom’s red beans & rice in Mom’s kitchen.
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Listening to my Dad’s stories of Army life in Vietnam is a richer experience with props. Here he points out the fruit cans and grenades used together as boobie trap; and describes how he and his unit used the C-4 plastic explosive from a Claymore as cooking fuel. Never at night; you can’t put out the light if you needed to. The explosive would explode if you tried to extinguish the fire. From the Army Museum.
Minor post-session adventure. Surfer got hurt in the water, approached me, side of his head pouring blood. Walked out of the water. Tourist gave up his shirt to use to stanch the blood. I carried the bloody board and we walked to the @lifeguardsofsandiego main lifeguard tower. As always lifeguards were professional and got the fella bandaged up quick and the guy called his wife with his watch.
Kelly and I saw @buzzcampbellandtheheartaches at @bellyuptavern at it was terrific! Killer steel guitar sound!
“AI” – artificial intelligence is not that. It’s not the intelligence we hope our children and grandchildren will develop to make their way in the world. If you’ve used “autocomplete” or a “grammar check” then you’ve used tools in the “AI” category. The software — LLMs — (large language models) take in huge volumes of human data and create even more gigantic indexes of the patterns in the data. Sentences and paragraphs; stanzas and chapters; drawings and renderings all form the basis of such LLMs. @vizcom_ is designed for developing products – for example automotive interiors — I learned about it yesterday from my friend Chris. I made a free account with Vizcom and managed to turn a sketch of the rocketship sand mold I found at Huntington yesterday into this rendering. I added a textual prompt: “red toy rocketship.” Using the indexes it has about renderings of toys, of rocketships, of the color red, and code that interprets the shapes on a sketch and presumably much more software about making renders of 3D space the Vizcom tool generated the output. I’ll hold on sharing my many skepticisms about the misuse of these technologies for now, but this kind of tool is fascinating.
Made Mom’s red beans & rice in Mom’s kitchen.
Listening to my Dad’s stories of Army life in Vietnam is a richer experience with props. Here he points out the fruit cans and grenades used together as boobie trap; and describes how he and his unit used the C-4 plastic explosive from a Claymore as cooking fuel. Never at night; you can’t put out the light if you needed to. The explosive would explode if you tried to extinguish the fire. From the Army Museum.
Kingpin is not a fan of the Devil of Hell’s Kitchen #kingpincosplay #daredevil #sdcc #sdcc2023
Its an honor to prepare food in her kitchen. Meals in minutes! she used to cheerily exclaim. 4630 days since she passed. Every day remembered.