Google Maps API x Houdini – Robert HodginDespite there not being predictable building meshes, I was able to do something pretty interesting by adding in a flocking simulation that was able to avoid buildings. I started by downloading a decent sized mesh of San Francisco. I then used the Houdini Labs tools and the MapBox […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-10-08
4K Rivers Landscape | Flickr For children, the central business of school is not learning | @mcleodFor children, the central business of school is not learning, whatever this vague word means; it is getting these daily tasks done, or at least out of the way, with a minimum of effort and unpleasantness. Each task is […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-10-01
Elicit: The AI Research Assistant Translating Latin demonology manuals with GPT-4 and ClaudeTo test out these capabilities, I asked both GPT-4 and Claude to translate a randomly-chosen passage from a 1599 book about demonology: Magical Investigations (Latin: Disquisitionum Magicarum Libri Sex) by Martin Delrio or del Rio, a Dutch Jesuit of Spanish descent. Ask HN: […]
Javascript voice to text and text to voice
I took some of the Mozilla example code and tweaked it a tiny bit. Pretty crazy what you can do now with voice in the browser. The example below should let you record you voice to text and then have it speak that text back to you. See the Pen speech stuff by Tom (@twwoodward) […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-09-24
Contemporary Type (@contemporarytype) • Instagram photos and videos June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Quanta MagazineWhen he first moved to Ann Arbor, he found himself unequipped for the brutal winter. He had few belongings, and he needed a blanket. But when he looked up how to get to the local mall, […]
ChatGPT Prompt Generator for Hofstede’s Cultural Dimensions Theory
I’m working with a faculty member who wanted an AI persona for practicing difficult workplace conversations. The end goal is audio interaction and maybe a visual representation. I try to approach projects like these in stages. Can I build the stages out so that if we hit a wall, the stuff we’ve built to that […]
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Two quick Photoshop techniques
Nothing fancy here, but I was really impressed by the new AI background option in Photoshop. I also note how I’m using the layer stroke option to make fancy text. Serious PS people will not be impressed. The bonus is seeing the crazy tree house that Middlebury had back in the early 1970s. […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-09-17
Talk-to-ChatGPT – Chrome Web Store zhudotexe/kani: kani (??) is a highly hackable microframework for chat-based language models with tool usage/function calling.kani (??) is a lightweight and highly hackable framework for chat-based language models with tool usage/function calling. Compared to other LM frameworks, kani is less opinionated and offers more fine-grained customizability over the parts of […]
Automatic Source URL
I like how this ended up working/looking. PHP’s parse_url function made it easy to get the base URL from resource links we’re adding via ACF. At the moment, the resource type piece that indicates if it’s video, url, audio, or document is manually added but I could see trying to do it automatically. I hesitate […]
Weekly Web Harvest for 2023-09-10
ScrollTrigger: SVG Text Maskso nice Collapsible Systems WikiThe goal of this project is to gather strategies, skills, disciplines, technologies, ideas, designs and critical thought in an effort to help prepare communities big and small for a time of great upheaval, an era of collapses (plural). It is not a submission to ‘The Collapse’ and nor […]