Author: sjwillis
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-06
From: 267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance – Dense Discovery An activity worth doing: Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel content and part of a healthy humanity. Essentially, what does a good week look like to you? It might be photographing, making food, participating…
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AI Art and Traditional Illustration
Recently, I’ve come across discussions online debating the role of AI-generated visuals in the art world. Some argue that AI poses a threat to professional illustrators and advocate for its limited use in creative processes. While I understand these concerns, I’m trying to understand my perspective a bit here, and I’d like to explore this…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-06
From: 267 / the Most Important Metric for Creative Work: Resonance – Dense Discovery The US is producing more oil than ever before. The nation’s crude oil production hit 13.2 million barrels per day, surpassing the pre-Covid peak. An activity worth doing: Create a list of activities and values (max 12) that make you feel…
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Reading Notes for 2023-12-02
From: ChatGPT Can Reveal Personal Information From Real People, Google Researchers Show – Jordan Pearson Worryingly, some of the extracted training data contained identifying information from real people, including names, email addresses, and phone numbers. “Using only $200 USD worth of queries to ChatGPT (gpt-3.5- turbo), we are able to extract over 10,000 unique verbatim…
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Hey Siri/Shortcut Automation with 2023 Outback
Updating my “Hey Siri, Warm up the Subaru” shortcut post with parameters/options.
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Apple (country) Music Genres
I’m not really sure that I use genre information too much in organizing my library, but that’s not to say that I don’t want it to be correct when it’s applied. My years working in the classical music world taught me how painfully insufficient existing music metadata tagging is for classical music — e.g. movements…
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Reading Notes for 2023-11-29
From: MacStories Weekly: Issue 395 – Club MacStories MusicHarbor John: In a small but handy update, Marcos Tanaka has added the ability to create an Apple Music or Spotify playlist off all new music releases you track in the app for any given month. With a little tweaking of the long list of artists I…
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Reading Notes for 2023-11-27
Small Choices, Big (Brain) Impact. – Charlotte Grysolle 📧 But what if you *knew* that with every single choice, however small, you’re tapping into that aMCC? Slowly but surely, you’re creating physical changes in your brain that will help you stick to your long-term goals and promises. Treat every choice as an opportunity to strengthen…
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Original Music Links
Experimenting with Linode, S3 storage and Nextcloud to see if I can find an easy way to link to music I want to share. While bluegrass, country and Dead are my primary musical outlets, I like to switch gears (ha, that’s funny in a way that will be clear in a minute) and play with…
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Researching ABLE accounts with ChatGPT4
Spent my lunch hour researching ABLE accounts with ChatGPT4. Overall positive experience (I sanity-checked the results). Some interesting findings: The average annual maintenance fee for ABLE accounts, considering a range of states, is approximately $42.67. This is based on the fees of several states, which generally range from $35 to $60. NJ’s program offers ZERO…