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Writing: Doorway

When I woke up I was already standing in the doorway. Afternoon comes so quickly these days that I wonder if I should think of new ways to divvy my time up. Stretching, I ask myself, "what's there to eat." Having slept on my glasses again,

New Game! Find The AI Impostor - TuringJest

TuringJest is a social deception game with a twist. You want to act like an NPC! I've been working on TuringJest for a few weeks now with the help of a couple friends and the project is coming along brilliantly. I posted the game on the orange site

The human experience isn't novel.

2023 kicked off with a Bing thanks to the introduction of Sydney, Microsoft's controversial new search assistant that seems entirely capable of having emotional breakdowns and professing its love. A common sentiment I hear is, "well it's just predicting the next character or word. It

To Steal An Aesthetic. To Find Beauty in an API.

Beautiful design is addicting to look at. This fact is especially true when the design is brilliantly simple. I first saw https://2pml.com/ on a chilly Saturday morning and the greed to have the same immediately began to bubble and fester. If only I was a software developer who

Eliminate ID Generation Boilerplate Using the Python Secrets Module

Secrets is a Python module that snuck into my Python installations, completely without my knowledge. Added in 2016, I had already been developing using Python for a few years and had developed my own methods for random ID generation. Oftentimes I would write some code that looked like this: import

Building a GPT-3 Personal Assistant

OpenAI has a publicly available API for their GPT-3 model, "text-davinci-003". This API provides a simple and clean interface for text completions. See the example below for a demonstration for just how easy it is. import os import openai openai.api_key = os.getenv("OPENAI_API_KEY&

My 2022 In Review

2022 lasted about 12 months. During those months, I learned a lot, formed many opinions, and hopefully make some things that are built to last. January Coming off the sheer relaxation instilled by the Christmas - New Years period, I dont remember much from January. I had my birthday. More

Using SvelteKit to build a Community Ranking Ladder

To make products people use, one needs some frontend skills. Historically, frontend is a weakness of mine and I've been constrained to clunky CLIs and APIs to get what I want to do done. No longer! Last week I sat myself down and read the Svelte and SvelteKit

Heroku and Heroku Alternatives

Recently, I've been doing some shopping around for a new way to host my toy projects. I've used a variety of solution but always had a soft spot for Heroku. Heroku is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that has been receiving a lot of negative

Pricing Options with the Black-Scholes Model [Short]

Recently, I have been learning about optimal options pricing under various sets of assumptions. The introduction to risk-neutral options pricing is the Black-Scholes model, which assumes you have an arbitrage free market with at least one risk-free asset and one risky asset. Additionally you assume that the log-price of the