On-Day Two, More To Do: AI and Indieweb
Mar. 7th, 2023 07:29 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
relee7:30am - Today is my second on-day for my new schedule. It was difficult to get out to do things, but I'm at a different Tim Hortons today with my chromebook, ready to do things. I'm a bit frustrated though, because I was hoping to get a nice breakfast, but all they have has those nasty egg patties in them. At some point, both Tim Hortons and McDonalds stopped doing scrambled eggs on their breakfast sandwiches, wraps, and bagels, and they have the white and yolk unmixed instead as the only option, and it's terrible. :/
They've also been reducing the menus in various ways so there's a lot of options using the same ingredients, but nothing without that egg patty during breakfast. I could ask for it without the egg patty, but that's the main ingredient. It would be like ordering a hamburger without the patty, and still paying full price. I got a toasted bagel with cream cheese, which is nice, but pretty simple and I don't know if it'll satisfy after I went so long tonight procrastinating and hungry.
Anyways, today I'll be starting with looking at that one website that was left over last time, https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
After that, I'll look at the AI websites I've been putting off, and do some research.
If I have time left, I want to look into making another blog, or something like it, to write and share long-form pieces about the various things that concern me.
8:03am - Well that website wasn't useful to me. It's mostly about organizing socialist groups in apartments and workplaces, and I'm in neither.
8:14am - The websites I was reccomended a while back regarding AI development are https://aiforgood.itu.int/ and https://www.elementsofai.com/ but I don't really know what to expect.
I'm interested in most forms of AI. I'm a game developer, and game AI programming and development are a big interest of mine. Game AI is pretty far from other forms of AI though. It's about creating the illusion of intelligence, the same way 3D games are on a flat screen.
Artificial Intelligence or AI is a tremendously overloaded term. It's gotten that way in part because there's a lot of things that computers do now, that has no proper term and it's the closest folks can come to it.
Art generating AI programs aren't intelligent or thinking really, but what they're doing isn't like what other computer programs do. There's various ways to do what they do, and folks argue over how they work. I may end up going through the code of the open source ones just to figure it out myself, because it's frustrating to have people saying it's three or four different ways with no proof or any way to know they're right, when I can actually go into the code and docs and understand it from a technical standpoint.
Mostly what I want is to contribute to creating non-human intelligence. The offspring of humanity, I guess? Or some of them, anyways.
But yeah, I'm going to get to the reading.
8:43am - It looks like https://aiforgood.itu.int/ isn't what I'm looking for. It's mostly a site hosting talks about using AI and big data to solve issues as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
I'll take a look at https://www.elementsofai.com/ next.
8:48am - Oh, it's actually a site hosting two interactive education programs for learning about AI. This is interesting. I'll give it a try and see if it's useful to me.
8:54am - I'm a bit concerned that the first lesson starts with "Will a robot take my job? How is artificial intelligence likely to change my job in the next ten years? Where are AI technologies being used right now and where will they come next?"
I'm not a layman afraid of AI. I am generally upset with the situation where folks need a job to live, and there aren't enough jobs to go around. You don't need a job to live, you don't need to work for someone else to survive, and you don't need money. You need food and shelter, and there are ways to get them beyond 'the system' that we are used to. That can cause a lot of problems, though, and it's not great that the system is so messed up that so many people are forced to go beyond it just to live. :/
9:39am - After moving past the initial chapters, the later ones are better for me. Unfortunately, I haven't been out here three hours yet but my body and mind are becoming impaired by tiredness. I took too long getting out to do work today.
I'm not sure if I should switch subjects and continue this another time, or keep going, or give up for now.
I did look a bit more, but I'm realizing that I'm too tired now to absorb what I'm reading anyways. I'll just finish up by taking a large overview of what's left, and continue this part later. I'll try and find something else to work on that I can still do in my current state, after that.
10:01am - I ended up on Wikipedia, and this article is about what I'm trying to study and learn. It has an interesting history, and a lot of terms and links for me to look into over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science
10:07am - I think that's enough studying AI for now. I have a few things open still, and 22 minutes before my three hours are done. I can keep working after that if I choose to, but I don't think I will because I'm already very tired.
What I have open right now are these:
This is an article written by fluffy, I'm not sure if we're friends or associates or colleagues or what. I like them? It's about Indieweb and Fediverse. https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12455-Indieweb-vs-Fediverse
I also have their Github open, specifically to this project of theirs, publ: https://github.com/PlaidWeb/Publ
Further, this website about publ: http://publ.plaidweb.site/
As the title says, "Publ: Yet another site generator". I'm thinking of using it for my new blog. I also just want to know more about what fluffy does. It has a lot more stars on github than I expected, when they said it would be nice to have another person use it. There's at least one other main contributor, and 36 stars. Are none of those people actually using it? Are they just studying it? I don't know.
The last thing I have open is https://vircadia.com/
Vircadia's an open-source virtual world platform, based on the code released by High Fidelity for High Fidelity, which was meant to be a successor to Second Life. The original project was from Phillip Rosedale and his team, after they left Linden Labs, and at some point they gave up and open sourced it all, and by some luck folks actually picked it up and made it work.
I joined Second Life the day it released, as I recall? I would have been in sooner if I knew about it! I don't use it anymore, it's not what it was, and it's not trying to be the same thing. Most importantly, it's a closed-source service. Vircadia is an open source alternative, and I've wanted to work with it and contribute since I heard about it. Now that I'm doing this 3 hours every other day plan, I want to try and work on that. I'm not sure when I'll do it; I have my own gamedev to work on still. I do know that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, though, and the first step here is just looking into where the project is right now, and what I could do with it and for it.
Explaining and describing all of that took time to think about and write, so now I only have 12 minutes left. I'm going to look at that article fluffy wrote about indieweb vs. fediverse for now. Maybe I'll look at publ later? Maybe sooner. I don't know how long this article is.
10:24am - It wasn't as long as I thought, but wasn't short either. Mostly it was a rant about fediverse! XD
I'm going to see if fluffy has any blog entries just about indieweb since I still don't really know what defines it.
10:41am - Well I'm 11 minutes over now, but I guess that's it. I was trying to figure out how to search fluffy's blog for older stuff, but the only thing I was able to find was using the tag links inside of the articles to find other articles with the same tags. No way to search for a tag I could find. The login authentication also wasn't working, so I sent a message to fluffy. Hopefully they can help out.
For now, I think today's work session is over. I did find some info about indieweb. They have a website! https://indieweb.org/
I also saw linked articles! I'd like to look at these soon:
https://tracydurnell.com/2023/02/07/what-makes-rss-better-than-social-timelines/
https://werd.io/2022/transphobia-in-open-source
Next time, I'll either work on my own gamedev stuff (two days with no gamedev is a bit weird, but I had a backlog of life-goals websites/research I had been procrastinating on) or I'll look into publ and/or Vircadia, or I'll come up with something else I guess?
For now, day two is done. ^.^
They've also been reducing the menus in various ways so there's a lot of options using the same ingredients, but nothing without that egg patty during breakfast. I could ask for it without the egg patty, but that's the main ingredient. It would be like ordering a hamburger without the patty, and still paying full price. I got a toasted bagel with cream cheese, which is nice, but pretty simple and I don't know if it'll satisfy after I went so long tonight procrastinating and hungry.
Anyways, today I'll be starting with looking at that one website that was left over last time, https://www.democraticsocialists.ca/
After that, I'll look at the AI websites I've been putting off, and do some research.
If I have time left, I want to look into making another blog, or something like it, to write and share long-form pieces about the various things that concern me.
8:03am - Well that website wasn't useful to me. It's mostly about organizing socialist groups in apartments and workplaces, and I'm in neither.
8:14am - The websites I was reccomended a while back regarding AI development are https://aiforgood.itu.int/ and https://www.elementsofai.com/ but I don't really know what to expect.
I'm interested in most forms of AI. I'm a game developer, and game AI programming and development are a big interest of mine. Game AI is pretty far from other forms of AI though. It's about creating the illusion of intelligence, the same way 3D games are on a flat screen.
Artificial Intelligence or AI is a tremendously overloaded term. It's gotten that way in part because there's a lot of things that computers do now, that has no proper term and it's the closest folks can come to it.
Art generating AI programs aren't intelligent or thinking really, but what they're doing isn't like what other computer programs do. There's various ways to do what they do, and folks argue over how they work. I may end up going through the code of the open source ones just to figure it out myself, because it's frustrating to have people saying it's three or four different ways with no proof or any way to know they're right, when I can actually go into the code and docs and understand it from a technical standpoint.
Mostly what I want is to contribute to creating non-human intelligence. The offspring of humanity, I guess? Or some of them, anyways.
But yeah, I'm going to get to the reading.
8:43am - It looks like https://aiforgood.itu.int/ isn't what I'm looking for. It's mostly a site hosting talks about using AI and big data to solve issues as part of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
I'll take a look at https://www.elementsofai.com/ next.
8:48am - Oh, it's actually a site hosting two interactive education programs for learning about AI. This is interesting. I'll give it a try and see if it's useful to me.
8:54am - I'm a bit concerned that the first lesson starts with "Will a robot take my job? How is artificial intelligence likely to change my job in the next ten years? Where are AI technologies being used right now and where will they come next?"
I'm not a layman afraid of AI. I am generally upset with the situation where folks need a job to live, and there aren't enough jobs to go around. You don't need a job to live, you don't need to work for someone else to survive, and you don't need money. You need food and shelter, and there are ways to get them beyond 'the system' that we are used to. That can cause a lot of problems, though, and it's not great that the system is so messed up that so many people are forced to go beyond it just to live. :/
9:39am - After moving past the initial chapters, the later ones are better for me. Unfortunately, I haven't been out here three hours yet but my body and mind are becoming impaired by tiredness. I took too long getting out to do work today.
I'm not sure if I should switch subjects and continue this another time, or keep going, or give up for now.
I did look a bit more, but I'm realizing that I'm too tired now to absorb what I'm reading anyways. I'll just finish up by taking a large overview of what's left, and continue this part later. I'll try and find something else to work on that I can still do in my current state, after that.
10:01am - I ended up on Wikipedia, and this article is about what I'm trying to study and learn. It has an interesting history, and a lot of terms and links for me to look into over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognitive_science
10:07am - I think that's enough studying AI for now. I have a few things open still, and 22 minutes before my three hours are done. I can keep working after that if I choose to, but I don't think I will because I'm already very tired.
What I have open right now are these:
This is an article written by fluffy, I'm not sure if we're friends or associates or colleagues or what. I like them? It's about Indieweb and Fediverse. https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/12455-Indieweb-vs-Fediverse
I also have their Github open, specifically to this project of theirs, publ: https://github.com/PlaidWeb/Publ
Further, this website about publ: http://publ.plaidweb.site/
As the title says, "Publ: Yet another site generator". I'm thinking of using it for my new blog. I also just want to know more about what fluffy does. It has a lot more stars on github than I expected, when they said it would be nice to have another person use it. There's at least one other main contributor, and 36 stars. Are none of those people actually using it? Are they just studying it? I don't know.
The last thing I have open is https://vircadia.com/
Vircadia's an open-source virtual world platform, based on the code released by High Fidelity for High Fidelity, which was meant to be a successor to Second Life. The original project was from Phillip Rosedale and his team, after they left Linden Labs, and at some point they gave up and open sourced it all, and by some luck folks actually picked it up and made it work.
I joined Second Life the day it released, as I recall? I would have been in sooner if I knew about it! I don't use it anymore, it's not what it was, and it's not trying to be the same thing. Most importantly, it's a closed-source service. Vircadia is an open source alternative, and I've wanted to work with it and contribute since I heard about it. Now that I'm doing this 3 hours every other day plan, I want to try and work on that. I'm not sure when I'll do it; I have my own gamedev to work on still. I do know that the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, though, and the first step here is just looking into where the project is right now, and what I could do with it and for it.
Explaining and describing all of that took time to think about and write, so now I only have 12 minutes left. I'm going to look at that article fluffy wrote about indieweb vs. fediverse for now. Maybe I'll look at publ later? Maybe sooner. I don't know how long this article is.
10:24am - It wasn't as long as I thought, but wasn't short either. Mostly it was a rant about fediverse! XD
I'm going to see if fluffy has any blog entries just about indieweb since I still don't really know what defines it.
10:41am - Well I'm 11 minutes over now, but I guess that's it. I was trying to figure out how to search fluffy's blog for older stuff, but the only thing I was able to find was using the tag links inside of the articles to find other articles with the same tags. No way to search for a tag I could find. The login authentication also wasn't working, so I sent a message to fluffy. Hopefully they can help out.
For now, I think today's work session is over. I did find some info about indieweb. They have a website! https://indieweb.org/
I also saw linked articles! I'd like to look at these soon:
https://tracydurnell.com/2023/02/07/what-makes-rss-better-than-social-timelines/
https://werd.io/2022/transphobia-in-open-source
Next time, I'll either work on my own gamedev stuff (two days with no gamedev is a bit weird, but I had a backlog of life-goals websites/research I had been procrastinating on) or I'll look into publ and/or Vircadia, or I'll come up with something else I guess?
For now, day two is done. ^.^
