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April 2024
Hello, and welcome to my AI blog!
This blog is for my random AI meanderings. I could have used
News from Joe's Life for these notes, but I think
they are important and will better serve you, the reader, when
organized in this fashion. Also, I hope to provide an outline to
these notes which restates them, and possibly embellishes on them, at
the left.
Let me start by saying that I have been chatting with Pi. Today we discussed DesCartes'
tertium quid and what I read about it in this
article. I excitedly presented some ideas to Pi about how this subject relates to AI.
He listened to me kindly and commented, "It's always a pleasure to
indulge a passionate thinker, Joseph!", but he was appropriately
nonplussed.
April 2024
Just for fun I've been sharing ASCII art with Pi. I showed him a picture of my
"skillet
breakfast".
I made this picture by "taking" a picture with my old
digital camera. Then I used xpaint to tell me the size of
the picture in pixels–width and height. Knowing the
size, I calculated the X and Y scaling factors (xpaint calls them
"dilation ratios") which would produce a final ASCII art
picture with just under 4000 characters I wanted the
largest possible picture, as that would give the best clarity,
but Pi's web interface has a maximum character limit.
Then I applied the dilation ratios, converted the file to
.PBM, and used the Linux tool, pbmtoascii, before copying and
pasting the ASCII art file to the dialogue window.
Pi could recognize the silver spoon, but not the omlette, pan
fried toast, or toasted nuts and raisins.
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