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Interesting article about a classic pen-and-paper game: Ace of Aces: or, why you should Do Maths as a game designer
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“AI” Presets for Underwater Photography: Adaptive AI Preset Pack This is a good idea, especially if they really are doing the feasible thing, which is to do a monocular depth estimation of the photo and then applying “de-bluing” haze removal / energy removal. Probably good money in this for at least a few years, since underwater photography is probably too niche for Adobe to Sherlock them and incorporate directly into Photoshop / Lightroom.
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Some neural net libraries from Apple. I’m tempted to do some simple networks in these to see what kind of speed I can get from the M-series chips. PyTorch supports
mpsas a backend, but in my experiments, it’s about 1/4 the speed of the same-generation CUDA on NVidia:
https://github.com/apple/corenet/tree/main https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx
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It’s been cloudy here but the next time we have blue skies I’m going to try to see white blood cells in my eyelids: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_field_entoptic_phenomenon
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I tried to get Chat-GPT 4 and Claude to generate some equations in this style and they failed pretty miserably both at the “didn’t compile” level (LaTex being a little less common) and, more importantly, at the “group the logical components” level. https://bookdown.org/redwing1304/math/latex-annotation-by-tikz.html
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Copilot Workspace is a new thing from Github that works on repo-wide tasks. I hope to give it a try in the coming months: https://github.com/githubnext/copilot-workspace-user-manual/blob/main/README.md
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Visual Blocks is a visual graph-design surface for neural vision tasks. Not sure how flexible it is, but I think that tools like this are very, very the right way forward: https://visualblocks.withgoogle.com/#/
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Grafychat is a front-end for LLM chatbots. One of the things I’ve been finding lately is that prompt engineering (god, I hate to use that term) is very, very iterative and difficult to edit. This may be a good tool for iterative development: https://www.grafychat.com/
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There have been a number of folks doing really nice “from scratch” explorations of LLMs. I liked this one: https://github.com/naklecha/llama3-from-scratch