RAW Works

Apologies for the delay, I’ve been walking on the edge of infinity.

Once a year, on the day of the Berkeley Half Marathon, I try to make a point to leave extra early to get to yoga, because they shut down my normal freeway exit.

Sometimes you have to slow down to speed up.

Today was a double graduation day.

I’m developing some ideas around using ensembles of LLMs for specific tasks.

Today I had a “holy shit” AI moment.

Here’s a “deep work” 1,2 punch that I have had some good results with.

This is the prompting course I wish I had taken months ago: https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/chatgpt-prompt-engineering-for-developers/.

I am now convinced that there is something for everybody.

Here are some lessons learned from today’s attempts into social media automation workflows: When soliciting creative input from Language Learning Models (LLMs), consider asking for more than four variations.

Today was my kickoff call with Athena.

Are you at the cutting edge of your field?

Part of what originally drew me to 3D printing was the theme of commuting between the digital and physical realms.

I’ve spent a lot of time banging my head against the wall trying to quickly get started with a bunch of new AI tools recently.

Poe has the goal of becoming “the YouTube of AI Bots”.

Yesterday’s Hackathon was a ton of fun.

Today I have the great privilege of being able to participate in the Poe Hackathon at the infamous AGI House.

I’m stuck…so close.

Until today, I would have said that Stripe has come a long way since its start as “PayPal for developers”.

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is getting easier by the minute, I can’t keep up with the daily influx of new tools in the space.

Happy Halloween!

There is something very telling about the fact that Bing Image Creator considers this prompt to be “unsafe content”: dia de los muertos skull, dayglow poster with extremely bright colors and black background, detailed mandala patterns and flow lines We’ve…

Towards a taxonomy of logical families, an initial list: Sangha Team T-group Crew Squad Club Troupe Tribe Collective Club Circle House Salon Friday Night Skate …and half-baked topology… (the taxonomy is still a work in progress)

Different social media platforms have different expectations, a different culture, a different cadence.

If you hire a mechanical turk, you are going to get buttons pushed.

A First-Person Account from the Frontlines The battle rages on here at my home front as I’ve just lost connection to the information superhighway.

This post is about the attentional leverage of searching through AI, specifically with the Poe Web Search bot.

Today, we released two new AI chat bots that we have been building at polySpectra: pSai & Resina.

Note: Watch how I wrote this (super cheesy) post in ~7 minutes with Cursor, via the new Zoom Clips Beta Feature Writing about Cursor with Cursor.

For the last four or five months, I have been on the hunt for the best voice to text transcription tool.

This is what I’ve been up to today: For this type of “awareness through movement”, I would consider low-dose ketamine to be a performance-enhancing drug. (& of course I found Alfons by asking Poe Web Search for “Feldenkrais AI”.)

Last month I was whining about “handwriting OCR”, a technology that has mysteriously and simultaneously existed in a quantum superposition between |in use every day at the USPS⟩ and |doesn’t actually work⟩ since at least 1998.

In the same way that every company needed to become an “Internet company”, and then have a social media presence — now every company is going to need to become an “AI company”.

Over the years, I have had lot of “good” ideas that just clearly weren’t worth my time.

The first time that I met Roland Griffiths, he was setting up someone else’s tent at Burning Man.

The emotional component is one of the toughest parts of the job.

In a small village surrounded by terraced rice fields, there stood a run-down storehouse.

I was given a gift and en route to enjoyment The sticky residue of the price tag Stuck to my fingers Pulpy bits in my nail beds I never could remove No soap nor scour strong enough To undo the glue My fingerprints changed Possibly my DNA Incredible shame…

This is the last moment in history where the act of writing a book will be considered impressive.

Being squeezed by the universe is usually quite uncomfortable.

Ever had one of those days where every decision feels like a brain-bender?

Step 0: Get your book as a .PDF (As an example, I chose “The 4-Hour Work Week”, which is available as a PDF for free from the author.)

A bold idea born, Shared with excitement, Met with tranquility, Crickets teach silence.

Project Objectives and Scope What are the goals and objectives of this project?

I just finished my first week of Purple Space, “a community of practice for creators, entrepreneurs, and line managers” founded by Seth Godin.

When the magic is gone… walk on the other side of the street do a rain dance hire a magician seek wise counsel draw a box around the sacred take the sacrament put down your weapons surrender your dictionary get very still observe.

Indra’s Web, or Indra’s Net, is a cosmic net laced with jewels that hang over the palace of Indra, the king of gods in Hindu mythology.

As amazing as Midjourney is, the one thing it is notoriously bad at is spelling.

Do you know whose job AI is not going to be replacing anytime soon?

With LLMs accelerating daily, the value of “knowing about” something is approaching zero.