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I have an LLM running locally on my machine complete with STT and TTS. While I don't expect much, it will be fun to get my LLM to play the game.

In the video it claims the date is December 31, 2026 at the 4:02 mark. I wonder why the animation changed the date from the short story. We'll see this post again on that date!

The "human connection to the artist" is believed to be important by some, but I disagree. People tend to create an image of a musician and are too often disappointed because, for e…

LED segments may be nice, but why not go full out Nixie tube? There are several kits out there, but for the DIY ethic, you can add WWV sync - and even watch the synchronization pro…

When they said cardboard VR, I thought they meant... https://imgur.com/gallery/what-people-really-really-really-r...

The almost universal opinion is that AI chatbots are damaging, misleading, dangerous, etc. etc. but I suspect there are under reported stories about how AI chatbots helped people d…

I always like to hear about ancient board game reconstructions. Like music and religion, games are something every culture creates. Another recent example is the case of Liubu, a g…

I had a notion to make a 24 hour clock with just one hand. There is actually a watch company selling such a device and their tagline is that the watch "will change your conception …

Was just thinking of making exactly that. I have made Kokoro the voice of my local LLM (qwen 3.6). What do you use for a Japanese tutor app?

For those interested in the subject, animation has quite a history before Disney came onto the scene. I suggest this book: Before Mickey: The Animated Film 1898-1928 by Donald Craf…

* Must be willing to perform human sacrifices during select astronomical events?

The article states that "Lamarck, on the other hand, used French terms" to describe the clouds unlike Luke Howard whose Latin names such as cumulus, nimbus, cirrus, etc., which stu…

Cool! How would navigation actually work? Dead reckoning? Inertial? Stellar reference? Pulsar navigation? Also, the dashed red line is --- SPOILER ALERT! ---- only part of the traj…

Coincidentally, I just started on Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch), a repo/book/course by Sebastian Raschka [0][1][2]. Maybe it is a good problem to have to have to deci…

This "human connection" is over rated IMHO. We create an image of a human musician and too often become disappointed fans because, for example, we disapprove of the musician's life…

I realize this museum is more about hardware but software that implements the game also deserves its place in history. To that effect, here is a writeup on Microchess made for the …

Very cool! Wouldn't it be even cooler if the museum could score a couple of the very oldest machines? I'm talking about the El Ajedrecista machine (1912)[1] and Caissa [2][3] (name…

One more meme: Missed the chance to call it Multi-Pass

This "human connection" is over rated IMHO. We tend to create an image of what a human musician is like and we forget that they are, well, human. Too often human musicians have dis…

I've seen a huge amount of videos of sports fans having melt downs when their team/player loses, to the point of destroying their own TVs and attacking their guests. I have to beli…

For a while I worked at what was then the Sperry Rand Corporation (now Unisys) which had some pride in their heritage as the descendant of the Univac Corporation founded by ENIAC i…

Did any other old timer like me get reminded of Creative Computing magazine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Computing_(magazine)

How about opening up the game for humans to play? Can you beat your AI?