Is ChatGPT and the its family of LLMs alive? If not, will models like these someday (soon) be alive? Do we need to be afraid of them destroying our world as we know it? And regardless of whether these things are alive or not, will they be useful? Those questions are big questions right now, […]
To Be, or Not to Be AGI, and how do I use it? That is the question Read More »
If you follow the world of green energy, you will know there is a basic need to store excess energy from wind and solar in order to provide power when there is no wind or sun. Such systems also offer the potential for microgrids – ie being able to keep small parts of the grid,
A Quick Feasibility Study on Home Pumped-Hydro Storage + Geothermal Read More »
I am quite proud of this project because it is the first thing I have done that really counts as electrician work (not that I ever plan to be an electrician, but it’s a useful skill). I have been playing with DC circuits for a while, but never with mains powered, 120V AC wires. While
Replacing Fluorescent Tubes with LED Tubes Read More »
I was pleasantly surprised by my month long stay in Colorado Springs, Colorado. I came to Colorado Springs looking for altitude training for cycling and running. I wanted 6,000 feet of elevation in the final weeks before a competition in order to get an aerobic boost caused by altitude adaptation. I am not the only
Colorado Springs: Digital Nomad Review Read More »
For the last couple of years, I have spent a large portion of my life attempting to solve the unsolvable: forecasting time series to predict the future. I have personally thought myself quite clever for the various innovations I have come up with, and the thousands of users on my free and open-source AutoTS project
Winning the M6 Competition: Financial Forecasting Decision Category Read More »
Tenerife is an unusual destination in that few in America have ever heard of it, while in Western Europe almost everyone has, ranking only behind Majorca as a favored escape for sun and sand. I spent a month there with my bike and trying out a ‘coliving’ space and must say I quite enjoyed the
Tenerife: a brief cycling and digital nomad travel guide Read More »
For several years I have had a To-Do list item to improve my server monitoring setup. The value is to have a quick and easy way to make sure everything appears to be going well inside the network: unexplained spikes in cpu or network usage might suggest that the network has been compromised. It’s also
Server/Computer Monitoring is easier than expected Read More »
Over the last several weeks, box after box has been arriving at the farm. My dad had decided to start brewing beer, in the name of testing the hops he grows. It is rather silly as no one in my family drinks alcohol. I saw a better opportunity in the pile of equipment he had
Homemade Root Beer Soda, Yeast vs CO2 carbonation Read More »
In a moment of sheer evil madness, while eating a more sophisticated potato soup, my mind came up with the idea of a ‘Hawaiian’ style soup. Hawaiian in the sense of the the pizza, which this tastes similar to, named because of the pineapple and with no relation to real Hawaiian culture. I was unable
Tomato Pineapple ‘Hawaiian-style’ Soup Recipe Read More »
Wabasha, where I currently live, is the oldest town in Minnesota, inhabited since 1826. An 1843 map, by Nicollet and Fremont (names you’ll see a lot of in Minneapolis) lists it as the trading post of ‘Roques’ for the half-Indian (mother was the sister of chief Wapasha, for whom the town is named), half-French leader
A Brief Wabasha and Farm Early History Read More »
