One Month of Urban Sketching
In January I got it into my head to start urban sketching. The first paintings weren’t that great, but I had a lot of fun and improved a lot. Also, new tools to explore!
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2025 Stationery Review
It’s time to look back at 2025. Mainly for myself to review what I even did all year. It’s honestly not easy to remember a full year at my age. 😉 The biggest accomplishment (stationery wise) is probably the fact that I managed to finish 38 ink samples this year. That’s not as many as…
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Using a LLM to fight spam
I am sure everyone is already tired of hearing yet another story about LLMs and what they can do. I’ve been fairly skeptical myself and stayed away from it all due to the hype. And there are obvious limitations to the technology, but when used correctly it can be quite helpful. After a recent experiment…
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An outlook to 2021
It’s that time of year again where everyone comes up with their resolutions for the year. I won’t be doing that, because I know I will just give them up. Instead I’ll be more vague and just provide a list of themes to look into in 2021. Working async vs. working remotely As discussed in…
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Expanding Beyond Episode 2
The second episode of my podcast with Monica Giambitto is out! We discuss Genetic Programming, keeping notes and if it make sense to keep them long term. Check it out either via the link above or by searching for the show in your podcasting app of choice.
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Since the last update I’ve had the time to look into the Robocode code base as well as start reading A Field Guide to Genetic Programming. It was all a bit overwhelming! Especially as I want to implement my robots in Clojure and that will require some additional setup to make it work. I’ve since…
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Recently a friend of mine asked how I keep my skills sharp and I answered that one of the things that I do is come up with a project and then use that to learn a new skill or programming language. I then had to admit to myself that I hadn’t done such a project…
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