Alex Vranas @Alex@vran.as

Give them to me!

I found it.

I found the worst way to commute from #Everett to #Seattle.

Why drive 45 minutes when you could fly for 9 hours with layovers in San Francisco and Portland?

Also, you can follow the @calyxinstitute on Mastodon. They do good things!

8,096GB isn't even an actual data cap, it's just the largest POT number I could configure the hotspot to display.

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It's tax deductible!

I've been enjoying my new 5G Hotspot.

I'm not a huge fan of image generating AIs like DALL-E. They do seem to be entirely a novelty, and I have trouble imagining a useful case for this kind of thing. It just cheapens visual arts by making them soulless and weird.

For writing technical documents and reports, GPT is a nice tool for massaging content into the right format, but DALL-E just automates human creativity in a way that removes the humanity...

I've finally stopped seeing generative AI as a novelty, and really leaned into the useful things I can make it do.

My current favorite is writing documents in markdown, and asking ChatGPT for feedback. It's surprisingly good at offering advice and reviewing my next draft as I write a document.

If I ask it to rewrite a document, I save the returned markdown into a separate file and diff it with the original. Really amazing the little changes it makes.

Measuring my age in Hexadecimal from now on. Yeah, that's right, I'm 22.

I've been so busy working I forgot to mention, I'm in Manchester, England this week for business!

I'll have all day Saturday to do as I please, so if anyone who follows me lives in the area and wants to meet up for drinks or something, let me know. This city is fun, but having company is even more fun.

FYI to anyone interested in impersonating a bank employee.

Next week I'm traveling for work for the first time since before the Pandemic, and I'm headed to the UK!

Farthest i've travelled for work so far, and it's for a pretty exciting project too.