Mar 31, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Comparing local large language models for alt-text generation I’m always interested in reading how people use language models for automating boring tasks or performing what they wouldn’t be able to do manually. In his post, Dries explores using several local ...
Mar 31, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Could That Meeting Be An Email? I liked this post’s rules of thumbs for when to avoid scheduling meetings at work: Before calling a meeting, ask yourself: What’s the goal? If it’s just to convey information—like a status update—t...
Mar 30, 2025 from Daryl Sun's Journal Special Edition — Self-Expression Special Edition — Self-Expression TL;DR:This website is my form of self-expression. This blog post has approximately 413 words and may take 3 minutes to read. This post was submitted as part of the...
Mar 27, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Informed versus Uninformed AI Skeptics In Which I Describe why some AI Skeptics need to Experiment
Mar 26, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part Two: Data Processing and Cleaning In part one of this blog series , I explored the motivation behind developing a personal recommendation system. The main goals are to learn how recommendation systems work and to build a tool that ...
Mar 25, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software 2025 FOSSAsia - Bangkok, Thailand Hot on the heels of SCaLE 22x I found myself on the way to Bangkok for the 2025 edition of FOSSAsia Summit. This meant an eleven hour flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo (Haneda), a seven hour layover...
Mar 24, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog No Longer 98.6 - How Human Body Temperature has Changed In Which I Learn that our Body Temperature is Lower than Commonly Believed
Mar 23, 2025 from Chaotican Writer Dirtbags! a Sci-Fi Shooter RPG: Gameplay Review! No bugs, no glory! Dirtbags is a 2025 bug-blasting, action-packed dystopian satire in an rules-lite indie tabletop RPG. Get ready to drop! The post Dirtbags! a Sci-Fi Shooter RPG: Gameplay Review! ...
Mar 23, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Lessons in creating family photos that people want to keep I love taking photos , taking my Sony A7cii wherever I travel. Although it’s a relatively small camera, I recently got a Ricoh gr iii to be able to carry a good camera with me everywhere, even when...
Mar 21, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Can Coding LLMs only Increase Complexity? In Which I Vent my Frustrations about Using LLMs for Coding
Mar 18, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Enhancing Text-to-SQL With Synthetic Summaries LLMs are being experimented with to do so many things today, and one of the use cases that sound compelling is getting their help to generate insights from data. What if you could find the answer t...
Mar 17, 2025 from The Linkfest Linkfest #32: Technofossils, "StickTok", and A Web Site You Update By Calling It Hello there! Time for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, in which I carefully boil the entire Internet to produce a savory reduction containing the finest posts about science, ...
Mar 16, 2025 from Saeed Esmaili Building a Personal Content Recommendation System, Part One: Introduction Every morning, my RSS reader greets me with hundreds of new posts. Tech blogs, indie developers’ journals, photography content - they all compete for attention. While I’ve gotten good at quickly sc...
Mar 14, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Can AI Tell You What You Need (But Don't Want) To Hear? In Which I Question Whether AI Will Help Us Stay Grounded
Mar 13, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Why Don't You Walk Daily? In Which I Persuade you to do something you already know you should be doing
Mar 11, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Interesting Facts About my Father In Which I Share Stories about my Father
Mar 10, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software SCaLE 22x NOTE: When I initially wrote this article I used “they/them” pronouns when referring to Hazel Weakly instead of the preferred “she/her” pronouns shared in her speaker notes. People have pointed out...
Mar 10, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog My Book List 2024-2025 A dive into my reading from the past 18 months, featuring highlights across science, history, philosophy, and fiction.
Mar 07, 2025 from Adventures in Open Source Software Some Thoughts on Mozilla, Apple and Linux Mint This post was inspired by the fact that I am going to be traveling and I needed a new laptop. I am not a “laptop” guy. I much prefer to use desktops, even though I do connect an external screen to ...
Mar 06, 2025 from Sam Patterson's Blog Introducing My Notes System I've added a new notes system to my personal site to share book reviews, thoughts, and other content that doesn't necessarily fit the blog format.
