For the last few days, I decided to finally set about playing with Stable Diffusion – an open source model from Hugging Face which has several direct competitors, particularly Dalle2. They all do the same thing, more or less. They take a text prompt, convert it to an embedding, and then use that to generate […]
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I would have never thought of visiting Puerto Rico if my sister wasn’t currently living there for a year now. I decided to stop by, visit her and generally explore the island for a month while working and cycling as I like to do. It proved to be a great digital nomad winter escape, and
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I grew up in a household where the inevitability of death was a strangely common motivator. We were told, as 10 year olds, to exercise because it would help us live longer. Bad habits were frequently flagged as sources of death. Statements about our future were usually conditioned by “if you live that long.” It
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For various reasons, I spent more of 2022 at the family farm than I had been planning. It is, undeniably, not a bad place to be held up. At least for three seasons of the year. There is good cycling. Lots of tools for projects. A well-staffed kitchen. Plenty of space. And above all, gardens.
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I have always been particularly impressed with the forecasting performance of the Prophet model. It has only a few parts: seasonality, holidays, any external regressors, and with those it has some of the most consistent forecasting performance around. Also, being a linear model (with Bayesian parameter estimation), Prophet offers a decomposable explainability/interpretability, i.e. Monday has
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For a few months I’ve been working on a projects for which I have been working on a rather ‘fancy’ circuit board. But three weeks ago I had the desire to build another circuit board, a much simpler one – which would be my first to actually get into production. And it turned out to
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For the birdnetpi I have setup at home, there’s been a desire for a good microphone that can sit outside and pick up a wide recording of the general soundscape, in particular of the birds singing. So far, I’ve tried a bunch of different microphones and all have worked. Note that this is after turning
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Naomi Novik is one of the best fantasy writers around. Her early book, His Majesty’s Dragon and following series was one of my favorites, but it had a problem. It rather wandered around the globe, Patrick O’Brian style. Unfortunately, as an obvious result, it felt rather disconnected and random at times. Naomi Novik conspicuously avoided
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The HP Book Studio G9 is very nearly perfect. I need a computer for data science with which I can also travel far and wide as a digital nomad, and I’ve been searching a while for the best one. Besides programming, movies and writing are the other use cases, and the occasional Civilization game. I
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One of the more exciting new features coming soon to AutoTS is the automatic detection of holidays. That’s exactly what it sounds like: figuring out when holidays are occurring and being able to generate that calendar for the future. Firstly, why is this needed? A couple of reasons. The big reason is that holidays are
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