Weeklog for Week 50: December 12 to December 18

Dec 18, 2022

Progress

Finally finished some k8s work. Now on to more k8s work and k8s-adjacent stuff. If you ever need a Kubernetes expert, send me an email.

Prepared for stats for this year: I now have a full year of weeklogs, which means I can do some analysis.

The best science images of 2022
Beyond coding. We forge. — Forgejo: Replacement for gitea, looks very nice.
Riffusion: "You've heard of Stable Diffusion, the open-source AI model that generates images from text? Well, we fine-tuned the model to generate images of spectrograms, like this: (image of an audio spectrogram) The magic is that this spectrogram can then be converted to an audio clip:"
BundesMessenger shows Germany's embrace of open standard messaging
2019 Winners -- The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest
‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture -- Quanta Magazine
Dogs use fast-acting face muscles to help them make puppy-dog eyes -- New Scientist: We essentially bred dogs to make facial expressions at us.
I Asked ChatGPT To Explain Some Jokes to Me - Susam's Maze: World's most eloquent idiot.
Wedge of Aiud - RationalWiki: Someone found an aluminium object next to some dinosaur bones. So the only conclusion you could have is ALIENS! Spoiler alert: it's probably from the digger that dug up the bones.

delta-V by David Suarez: I've now reached a point in the story where the competition turns, uh, competitive. And then I dreamt how it should continue and now I'm scared to continue because it's probably not as good as what I thought.

Immortality: I have no idea what this game is about, but it's amazing. You can skip from clip to clip by finding other clips with the same things in them.