Category: Websites
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Moving (website this time)
The slow speed of this website has been getting more frustrating. At first, I didn’t mind it so much. We all seem to be too impatient anyway in our daily lives; maybe it was a good thing to slow down and wait a few seconds. But it seemed to get worse. I started timing how…
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Romania
In addition to the US and Canada, this website has now had a visitor from Romania! One of the (perhaps) surprising things about Romania is that, despite it being situated in Eastern Europe, the language is a romance language descended from Latin and not a Slavic language as one might naively expect. Side-by-side comparisons of…
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This Blog at One Month
This site has been up for a month now. I’ve made 23 posts and had 28 visitors (exactly a one-a-day average) with 146 page views. The most viewed are: All of the visitors have been from the US and Canada. I also have one bona fide comment on a post, Desk Gnome, about the artist…
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Weather Spark
I was looking for information about the last frost dates and found the Weather Spark site that I thought I would share. Weather Spark has a lot of information about locations all around the world. In the plot above, you can see that the average low temperature is just now pulling above freezing but will…
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Wikimedia Commons
Another website that I want to share is Wikimedia Commons. Often I want an image to use, either at work when putting together a presentation or for other things like these blog posts. However, a lot of images are under various types of restrictions, and it can be difficult to use them without getting entangled…
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This blog at one week
My new blog has been up for a week now. It has had 20 visitors (I’m guessing that means different IP addresses), almost three per day. The visitors are still limited to the US and Canada. My most viewed posts are:
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International!
This blog has now been viewed by people both in the US and Canada! The Jetpack plugin for WordPress allows you to see summary stats like this for your site.
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Weather Underground
One thing I plan to do with this site is share other websites that I use regularly. I use Wikipedia a lot and essentially everyone already knows about it, so I feel like Wikipedia almost goes without saying. Another site that I use a lot to check the weather and get an idea of weather…
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AI guiding AI: ChatGPT & DALL·E 2
After the post about ChatGPT I thought about DALL·E 2 (an AI that generates images from simple text prompts) and wondered what might happen if I combined them. At first, I made a couple of prompts to DALL·E 2 to see what it would come up with. (Most of these images are just using DALL·E…
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Setting up this site
One of the reasons I started this site is to get into a practice of regular writing and to keep a bit of a log of some of the changes we are planning this year. (How I actually end up using this site, however, remains to be seen; it might evolve in a different direction.)…
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“Meet ChatGPT: Your New Favorite AI Language Model”
I logged in to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and asked it to tell me about itself so that I could post it. Here is the result. Sure, I would be happy to help you write a blog post about me! Here’s a draft that you can modify and post online: Meet ChatGPT: Your New Favorite AI Language…