Use the Force; read the source! This blog is mostly a collection of study notes on ASM, ASP .NET, Blender, BASIC, C/C++, C#, ChucK, Computer Architecture, Computer Literacy, CSS, Digital Logic, Electronics, F#, GIMP, GTK+, Haskel, Java, Julia, JavaScript (ES6+) & JSON, LISP, Nim, OOP, Photoshop, PLAD, Python, Qt, Ruby, Scheme, SQL (MySQL & SQLite), Super Collider, UML, Verilog, VHDL, WASM, XML. If I can learn it and make notes on it, I'll write about it. || Blog images copyright Markus Spiske and Pixabay
8 May 2023 8 minute read 2 comments Great White Snark $0.19
Usually, by this number of writings on a topic, interest has started to wane. However, I don't see that happening yet on the topic of Artificial Intelligence. Besides, I think it's important I (and my readers) have a well-informed idea of what's invo...
4 May 2023 7 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark $0.46
Up until this point, I've covered Artificial intelligence (AI) from a human perspective (including how AI does or doesn't correspond with human intelligence, simulated or otherwise). A Brief History of Modern AI The desire to create intelligent machi...
2 May 2023 6 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark $0.31
It's been a while since my last post on this particular topic. I got distracted by the state of my financies and trying to improve it (all the while forgetting that learning AI was motivated by learning skills to alleviate that). In this post, I'm go...
25 Apr 2023 7 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark $0.09
This text is based on the book of the same name by Elwin, Lynch and Marchuk of Northwestern University (2015). While their book focuses on programming the Microchip PIC32, I've attempted to abstract away details specific to the MIPS architecture in o...
20 Apr 2023 3 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark $0.06
A few days ago, I discovered Neural Blender. It seems reasonable enough. However, it has major bias issues. (I must admit I didn't notice them at first, but then I'm a cishet white man, so it's not surprising a lot initially escapes me. Thank goodnes...
19 Apr 2023 3 minute read 1 comment Great White Snark $0.04
Insert obligatory warning about NSFW content following. A few days ago, I had a rather steamy dream in which a long-distance friend and patron sent me a video of herself dressed in a mustard yellow latex crop top, matching miniskirt and over-knee boo...
19 Apr 2023 3 minute read 5 comments Great White Snark $1.18
Yesterday, I decided that I should actually teach myself Solidity as an introduction to blockchain development. This is despite the fact that I'm not a fan of Ethereum (ETH) and ERC-20s. However, about ten minutes into the tutorial, it immediately be...
17 Apr 2023 4 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark $0.06
Content Warning: If you're a woman who isn't attracted to women or you don't like the way cishet men talk about women, you probably won't like this. I very definitely venture into Rule 34 territory here. Sorry, ladies. Working Women of the Night Havi...
12 Apr 2023 2 minute read 0 comments Great White Snark $0.08
I have been dipping my toes into the world of AI, particularly in the realm of using it to draw/render visual artworks of various styles. I must say that I am quite impressed with it (particularly its ability to mimic various styles). What it does we...
6 Apr 2023 1 minute read 4 comments Great White Snark $0.43
The Mozilla Foundation intends to invest $30 million (and possibly more) in the creation of Mozilla.ai, to redefine the artificial intelligence market. Led by Moez Draief, an AI expert who has worked in research units at Huawei and Capgemini, the Moz...
