Blog
Various musings, usually about cognition, teaching, and other stuff, incomplete notes, digital breadcrumbs on scratchpads.
Messing around with Hugging Face’s Stable Diffusion
Notes and tests on getting stable diffusion working on my laptop and then seeing what it does to some of my own drawings
Pondering my defaults for Quarto websites and reproducible research projects
Quarto websites are a great way to package and distribute assets from a reproducible research project. I’m just about to start another project, and I’m thinking about issues with how I get started.
Observations on using LLMs for checking grammar, etc.
In recent posts I’ve been making add-ins and a shiny app for writing assistance tools in R Studio, where I do most of my writing. I’m finally starting to get some usable results. Discussing some observations about the process in this post.
Prompts for editing text with GPT
Testing out some strategies for writing assistant functions from GPT
Choose-your-own adventure with ChatGPT
Me fiddling around with GPT inside Rstudio to write a choose-your-own adventure story.
Writing an R tutorial with GPT in RStudio
I’m testing out the process of writing in RStudio using addins that send prompts and receive generative text from OpenAI.
Simulating Stroop effects with ChatGPT
This is a short post to determine how easy it would be to simulate performance in a classic human attention task using ChatGPT. The short answer is that it can generate data in the style of a Stroop experiment without too much effort on my part.
Convincing myself to run a Funkwhale pod
Funkwhale is an audio platform thing that supports activitypub. Collecting notes about it.
Unplanning my next course prep
Sunday morning thoughts on not overplanning while prepping a new course.
Blogging with Quarto
August 25th, 2022 - Quick tips on setting up a quarto blog using R Studio.
