Category: Blog
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Term Paper: Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence
PHIL 828 Philosophical Issues in Artificial Intelligence Term Paper Any attempt to regulate artificial intelligence is fundamentally a futile exercise. If we are doing it to make ourselves feel like we did something, then fine; regulating AI would be an effective coping mechanism. It wouldn’t be an effective way of preventing any of the things…
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Text-To-Speech Max Headroom and Majel Roddenberry
The fact that we don’t already have widely available open source tts executables for Max Headroom and Majel Roddenberry is perhaps the greatest failure of the artificial intelligence movement to date. Frankly I think it’s insane that this isn’t already a thing. Enter Vall-E which can create TTS models of someone based on just a…
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Phenomenal Consciousness: Between the Lines of Experience and Representation
Here is an essay I wrote for the following prompt in a class on the philosophical issues of artificial intelligence… Please write a 500 words comment explaining your views about the relation between experiencing and representing a content. To keep things manageable, please focus on color or pain. The relevant examples from the book are…
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The Cuisinart Gluten Free Bread Maker Is Great
Cuisinart has a new gluten free break maker which is great. Gluten free baking is different from glutenful baking so this machine has a special baking mode that works well for gluten free bread. My Favorite Bread Recipe So Far: Melt 4tbsp of butter in one cup of soy milk. Add to bread maker. Add…
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My New NAS Architecture: DIY Synology Running RAID 51
I have outgrown my two DS218+ Synology NAS boxes. These have served me well for longer than I can remember. I use these to store backups from all my servers and devices, as well as my media library and all my documents and projects. I have had these Synology boxes set up as a main…
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Baking Gluten Free Bread
A lot of people have side effects after recovering from covid. I got lots of new allergies, including gluten, garlic, and onions. This has led to me basically cooking all my own food and rarely eating out. One of the challenges has been bread. Gluten free bread at the store can be great but it’s…
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Current Gear List
Note: I’m working on getting pictures of everything. Self-Hosted Services Self-hosting your services means you aren’t paying monthly fees to rent your services from some provider who doesn’t even care about what you want and only thinks of you as something to be exploited. This way you have the power to change or improve features…
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How To Set Up A Plex NAS
Plex is a service that lets you play your own media files on your smart tv, laptop, cell phone etc. with a free app that works just like the apps for Netflix, JBO, etc. The best way to do this is by setting up a NAS or Network Accessible Storage. This is just a big…
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Gluten Free Vegan Instant Pot Coconut Rice Pudding
2 cups white rice 3 cups water 2 cans full-fat coconut milk 1.5 cups sugar 1 tsp ground cinnamon 2 cinnamon sticks Soak the rice in water for ten minutes and drain. Add the drained rice to the instant pot plus all the other ingredients. Cook on high pressure for ten minutes and let it…
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Gluten Free Vegan Roasted Veggie Casserole
Use a large casserole dish Prepare the potatoes Wash and cube five or six golden potatoes and sweet potatoes Combine in a large bowl (Probably you will need to do this in batches) Add a three tablespoons of olive oil Add two tablespoons of salt Add two teaspoons each of black pepper, curry powder, turmeric…