Idea
I have a video of an Irish Dancer taken from a stationary camera. I would like to create a version of this video which is more closely cropped to the dancer so she …
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Examining an image watermark
Idea
I just want to see if I can find a clever way to remove a water mark from an image. I am not trying to repro anything that is protected, this is just …
read moreChanging my Spanish language goal
Goal factoring
I have been following the Less Wrong Training Regime for a few days now. It is very interesting with some useful techniques around becoming more rational in general. Today I read about …
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Five Months Into Learning Spanish
It’s been five months since I set myself the goal of learning Spanish, and overall it’s been going pretty well — though not without a few low points …
read moreFirst vibecoding mistakes
I started the deeplearning.ai course on vibecoding with Replit today and already I can see some of the mistakes I have been making. Here are some of my takeaways so far.
Pick one …
read moreVO2 Max
(initial draft date 2024-11-17)
Desire to improve fitness
I want to improve my overall level of fitness. VO2 max seems to be a reasonable way to measure this. A proxy for VO2max is a …
read moreUse it or lose it
I have been interested in the idea of neuroplasticity for a while now. It seems to be a very positive idea about the brain. The brain can rewire - sometimes very quickly - to handle new …
read moreA new draft script for Pelican
Self learning Spanish
I did Spanish in school a long time ago until I was 15 years old. I have made a few attempts to learn it properly since then, but have not managed to succeed yet …
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Over the last couple of summers Cathal has done some classes for kids at local college. The classes are aimed at children who are interested in things like Science and Maths, but there is …
read moreGravity sim with pygame showing path travelled
learning about pygame
Today I learned about pygame with my dad. We are working on our physics simulator, it simulates gravitational pull. We are planning on adding vectors and another mass.
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Hyperefficient
Hyperefficient
I am going to try some small experiments based on reading this book.
The first one will be based on the idea of structuring a work session. I am going to try this …
read moreMost Common Spanish words to Anki
Get the most common words from Spanish
Results will depend on the corpus used. I am not interested in accuracy, so just got a Spanish corpus from nltk.
- figured out which words were junk …
Learning Python
Not the Hello World! version
A list of resources and practices to get python beyond the basics
The book
I am using Fluent Python by Luciano Romalho as the starting point. I bought this …
read moreNotes on The Man from the Future - fission
The fissile material was Plutonium. It was in the shape of 2 hemispheres with a central core of Berillium and Polonium - the initiator. The initiator's job was to produce some neutrons to start the …
read moreCurry improvement guide with Chat GPT
Sous Chef GPT
I wanted to see if I could use Chat GPT to become a better cook. I tried the Sous Chef GPT that Open AI produced themselves a while ago. I told …
read moreVienna - How the city of ideas created the modern world by Richard Cockett
Freedom of movement in the empire
The Emperor of Austria-Hungary insisted on freedom of movement of people within the Empire. This allowed large numbers of people to move from the east of the country …
read moreDaddy is a Doctor
This is an idea from Daniel Dennett's book Intuition pumps and other tools for thinking.
The idea here is that a little kid could say something like the above and not really know what …
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