Mar 22Visited Countries as a Neptyne SpreadsheetThe first viral thing that I ever built was a Visited Countries web app. You know the idea, you have a list of countries, you click the ones you’ve been to and it maintains a map suitable for bragging purposes. This was a long time ago when people still just…Travel2 min readTravel2 min read
Dec 28, 2022Life expectancy and political affiliationThe 2020 presidential election was marked by a number of significant trends and developments, including record voter turnout and a deeply divided electorate. As the votes continue to be counted and analyzed, one notable pattern that has emerged is the relationship between life expectancy and political party affiliation. According to…2020 Presidential Race2 min read2020 Presidential Race2 min read
Dec 11, 2022Using Neptyne to explore the population growth of the US StatesAs the United States continues to grow and develop, understanding the population changes of its individual states can provide valuable insights into the country’s overall progress and demographics. …Population Growth3 min readPopulation Growth3 min read
Nov 17, 2022Predicting the outcome of the World Cup in 150 lines of PythonIt seems like Machine learning and Deep Learning are everywhere these days. AI can do anything! From writing essays to cheat tests to generating to having an infinite image generating machine running on your local machine, the possibilities are endless. …Qatar20225 min readQatar20225 min read
Sep 4, 2022Automating Image Generation with Stable DiffusionIt’s hard to imagine that it was only January when OpenAI’s DALL-E-2 took twitter by storm by showing a new way to generate images from text. Initially there were only a very limited number invitations were available. …Stable Diffusion2 min readStable Diffusion2 min read
Jul 3, 2022Use DALL-E to create infinite zoom moviesEver since DALL-E launched a few months ago, OpenAI’s machine learning tool has been blowing the Internet’s mind with its uncanny ability to convert any sentence into an image. I’ve been playing around with DALL-E and one of the things that I stumbled into, is making zoomable movies. A number…Dalle 24 min readDalle 24 min read
May 31, 2022Visualizing Poetry using DALL-EOver the weekend I ran an experiment to use DALL-E 2 to automatically illustrate poems. I had been playing with this thing a few months ago, but was using a different image generator and though it was interesting, it never came out well. The new results are more promising. We…Dalle 25 min readDalle 25 min read
Apr 20, 2022Tool building organizationsLast time we talked about the superpower of being able to build your own tools. This might be a bit of a lost art with the Industrial Revolution replacing artisans with laborers doing standard jobs. And now it looks like in the data economy building your own tools is going…Startup6 min readStartup6 min read
Mar 17, 2022Toolmakers and Tool UsersToday I wanted to talk about the superpower of building your own tools. Animals who have been using tools since way when of course have always had this power. …Innovation6 min readInnovation6 min read
Feb 23, 2022The Clever Bit and the Gold RushIn my last post I lamented the fact that it sometimes seems that fewer tech companies have a clever bit and that it seems it is more and more just about applying some known tricks to existing industries while driving software’s mission to eat the world forward. And that maybe…Economics5 min readEconomics5 min read
