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DEC 2, 2024·3min read·565 words ·

2024-49

2024-49

Daily Check-In & Reflections

  • Cleaned the house a bit, cleared up outside in preparation for snow
  • Did some grocery shopping, preparing for winter and coding and not going outside much
  • Working on getting my life together re: dental work, found a ticket I forgot about and the town clerk told me today was literally the last day I could address it (need to get that in the mail)
  • Spent a bunch of time / effort getting a Dreamhost DreamCompute VPS going so that I can run Smallweb on it and easily deploy little tools at tools.ejfox.com – it has been frustrating but I think I am getting little basic details wrong or trusting the robot too much
  • Playing around with Morning Radio, trying it out as designed, as my first-read screen. It also means going back and forth with scrapbook-core and making sure we are really scraping all the details and I think the next phase is making sure that all of the prompts are really optimized for summary; maybe even start doing a two-step summary that pulls in summaries of related articles
  • Fri 9:35 PM: Created a new repo the runs hand-tracking on webcam through python and sends hand position to a front-end through websockets
  • Sat 11:10 PM: Created a Vue composable for interacting with OpenRouter https://github.com/ejfox/vue-use-openrouter

📚 Learning & Media

Ahlad Kumar Lecture 16: AutoEncoders (Denoising, Sparse and Contractive)

Finding distributed features in LLMs with sparse autoencoders — Hoagy Cunningham

https://youtu.be/0jOUTYBneVo?si=xcr-B1Moo_vN2zm6

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iE18uraHOcs

https://youtu.be/ZA-tUyM_y7s?si=FZ3exP24h-s_XIwE

https://youtu.be/AWYLx5IDENk?si=b3pgiymnbTawftt8

App Store icon design template showing light, dark, and tinted variants at 1024x1024px with multiple scaled sizes from 83x to 1024px.
App Store icon design template showing light, dark, and tinted variants at 1024x1024px with multiple scaled sizes from 83x to 1024px.

City of Beacon Ward 1 ED 1 election results showing Pat Ryan (D/WFP) winning 80.61% with 665 votes versus Alison H. Esposito (R/C) at 19.15% with 158 votes.
City of Beacon Ward 1 ED 1 election results showing Pat Ryan (D/WFP) winning 80.61% with 665 votes versus Alison H. Esposito (R/C) at 19.15% with 158 votes.

NY-17 election results map showing Mike Lawler (Republican) leading 52.15% versus Mondaire Jones (Democrat) 45.8%, with precinct-level vote share visualization across the district.
NY-17 election results map showing Mike Lawler (Republican) leading 52.15% versus Mondaire Jones (Democrat) 45.8%, with precinct-level vote share visualization across the district.

Construction worker in cream work jacket and beanie stands on porch with tools and supplies, wearing orange work gloves and muddy boots.
Construction worker in cream work jacket and beanie stands on porch with tools and supplies, wearing orange work gloves and muddy boots.

3D character model in winter clothing shown from front, front group, and back angles wearing cream jacket, dark jeans, and hiking boots.
3D character model in winter clothing shown from front, front group, and back angles wearing cream jacket, dark jeans, and hiking boots.

Terminal output showing Vue.js project creation with npm package installation completing and next steps to run the development server.
Terminal output showing Vue.js project creation with npm package installation completing and next steps to run the development server.

Person wearing gray jacket and black hoodie standing in room with stone floor and wooden door, red object on jacket.
Person wearing gray jacket and black hoodie standing in room with stone floor and wooden door, red object on jacket.

Amateur radio frequency reference guide listing calling frequencies for VHF, UHF, and HF bands by wavelength and region.
Amateur radio frequency reference guide listing calling frequencies for VHF, UHF, and HF bands by wavelength and region.

AI chat interface discussing HTML hello world code generation with developer tools showing TypeScript file search and vault path resolution errors in background
AI chat interface discussing HTML hello world code generation with developer tools showing TypeScript file search and vault path resolution errors in background

AI chat interface showing Meta Llama model conversation about HTML Hello World page with developer console displaying obsidian file search results.
AI chat interface showing Meta Llama model conversation about HTML Hello World page with developer console displaying obsidian file search results.

Adobe Illustrator workspace showing four constellation icons in speech bubbles: a detailed starfield design, and three simplified dot-and-line diagrams in colored outlines representing Vulpecula constellation variations.
Adobe Illustrator workspace showing four constellation icons in speech bubbles: a detailed starfield design, and three simplified dot-and-line diagrams in colored outlines representing Vulpecula constellation variations.

Speech bubble containing an analog clock showing 3:00, surrounded by decorative sparkles.
Speech bubble containing an analog clock showing 3:00, surrounded by decorative sparkles.

Design iterations of Vulpecula Chat app icon showing evolution from OpenAI sketch to final constellation-based design across desktop, iOS, and favicon sizes.
Design iterations of Vulpecula Chat app icon showing evolution from OpenAI sketch to final constellation-based design across desktop, iOS, and favicon sizes.

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