Author: sjwillis
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Greyfox 2024 Highlights
Molly Tuttle’s performance at Greyfox was revolutionary, combining advanced light effects and traditional bluegrass with poignant moments. Her versatility and skill, particularly in her song “Crooked Tree,” were highlighted. Le Vent du Nord from Quebec amazed the audience with their unique sound and exceptional musicianship. Hawktail captivated with their powerful, emotional performance. The fiddle duo…
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AI/LLM Interfaces
I’m testing out msty as a way to compare some different AI tools. The ability to create “knowledge stacks” (and, moreover, use different models for embedding that knowledge for RAG) is really amazing. Here I took some VW training materials and couple of YouTube links and created a “Volkswagen Vanagon” knowledge stack using 2 different…
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Vanagon Odds & Ends
I realized a few weeks ago that we’ve had our Vanagon for 10 years as of this past April. My kids all spent the better part of their childhood summers camping in this van on our family trips and vacations. I’ve used it as a home base for many bike camping trips and bluegrass festivals.…
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3d printed Vanagon parts
This is just to say that I spent $36, including shipping, on a handful of 3d printed parts from Uniwerks. It’s almost impossible to put a dollar amount on the value of the problems that were solved by these parts. Window arm crank washers to keep my window handle from destroying my speak grills, a…
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Cruising
Our country does not provide the education and upbringing that allow its citizens an interior life. For the creative class to point fingers at the large, breasty gentlemen adrift in tortilla-chip-laden pools of water is to gather a sour harvest of low-hanging fruit. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/05/royal-caribbean-cruise-ship-icon-of-seas/677838/ Another supposedly fun thing… Also on:
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Setting Default Display
Struggling to get my Keyboard Maestro macros to open up my apps on my external monitor when it’s plugged in to my laptop. Digging through the forums it seemed like a lot of work to try to do this programmatically. Being lazy, I looked for an alternate solution and found it under System Settings->Display->Arrange.. By…
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Fuji & Oxford
Have been very busy as of late. Recently returned from a trip to Oxford University for work. I brought along my XE2S with my 7artisans 25mm lens. I went full manual mode while there (the lens is manual focus to begin with, but I also did manual metering). It has been so long since I’ve…
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Received my copy of Cal Newport’s Slow Productivity in the mail this weekend, at the same time I’m listening to Jenny Odell’s “Saving Time.” The books feel very complimentary and I’m glad for serendipity of reading them simultaneously. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/its-time-to-embrace-slow-productivity Also on:
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Personal Density and Journaling in Day One
On how journaling impacts self and temporal rootedness and its disorienting yet grounding effect on understanding personal growth and the passage of time.
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Read: Vision Con
Unable, then, to see the world because I have forgotten the way of being in the world that enables vision in the deepest sense, I can then be convinced of the superiority of virtual worlds.³ Increasingly captivated by virtual worlds, I am less likely to demand anything more or better. The tools that diminish my…