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This post critiques popular AI frameworks that excel in demos but fail in production due to hidden costs and complexity, introducing a blueprint for reliable systems using an 'atomic' design philosophy. The proposed solution uses modular, single-purpose agents with explicit tooling and native observability to provide the transparency and control needed for scalable, cost-effective, and truly production-ready AI solutions.

A detailed summary of the blog post from benkunh.net/attention/

The 'Gut Check Manager' leadership style relies on intuition and a risk-averse approach, prioritizing a person's work ethic and attitude over their technical skills, which can create a cohesive team but may also lead to a subjective and high-pressure environment.

A detailed summary of the planning, development, and debugging phases for the 'Ah-Ha! Capture' Chrome extension.

Title: Cloud Development Without Local Docker? Navigating Buildpacks, Python, and Serverless Choices So, you’re excited about Cloud Native…

Problem I have my obsidian files on my google drive. I would like to have a google drive application that runs on my debian system that I…

Problem I would like to have a backup system similar to TimeMachine on Mac. Basically I would like to use my Synology NAS as a backup system…

Creating a platform that provides AI as a service can be a substantial endeavor, similar to what OpenAI offers with its APIs. Here’s a…

Synology notes docker-compose.yaml example for plex Install plex Add hw transcoding using this link and also this link Install sabnzd…

Problem I have some old Chromebook lying down and I want to install Debian on it. Solution I started with installing UEFI Firmware on the…

Here’s the essay What was Hayek’s main concern with mainstream economics? Hayek was concerned that mainstream economists were using…

Key Ideas Presented by Frankfurt In this insightful PDF by Harry Frankfurt on “Taking Ourselves Seriously and Getting It Right,” several key…

I was reading cross and the machine on Substack this morning which then resonated with the episodes I have been watching by Joseph Campbell…

Welcome to this tutorial where we’ll transform the exciting capabilities of GPT-4 Vision into a practical application using AutoGen. If you…

Figma AI Plugin Template The GitHub repository for the Figma AI plugin template provides a scaffold for creating a Figma plugin that…

The article discusses the importance of attention management in controlling one’s life and achieving productivity. It emphasizes the need to…

Notes on the synthesis of form - Christopher Alexander I appreciate Ryan Singer (rjs@) thoughts mostly. There’s always something new to…

Using RJ45 or SFP Port It is always the case to decide whether to choose a switch with access port of SFP port or RJ45 Ethernet port for…

I need to put this here so I have a reference I can look up when I forget. Block objects can either be inline or coded as independent blocks…

Log in facebook in parse allows for read permissions. This doesn’t require to launch facebook app. Simple popup allows this. Instead it does…

If you start getting lots of errors on your YCM plugin for vim, it’s most likely using 10.9. What you need to do is to compile your vim on…

Alcatraz is a nifty package manager tool for Xcode. I stumbled upon it when I was reading Jack Chen’s fuzzy matching code completion plugin.

To make vim more useful and act like bit like emacs, it’s possible to install this plugin called tslime.vim. I have tried official slime but…

Unlike many other languages javascript doesn’t have a standard way to import modules. This made people to come up with different solutions…

If you ever find yourself working with two different instances of vim under mac os x using tmux, copy/paste will not work like you expect it…

A handy website that lists top apps for Appstore for different countries across globe. It might give an insight about people’s purchasing…

Another app idea of mine is codename scrapbook. Often times, I find myself browsing through all kinds of webpages, PDFs, videos when I am…

This is a project I have been thinking about for a while. I envisioned it as a service for my own needs when I want to be able save charts…

That’s his final sentence in this interesting article by Robert Misik. Basically he touches good points about malls, how they are…

Jonathan Harris gave us a brief presentation at ITP about his latest works. He means a lot to me in terms of introducing me to the world of…

A revolutionary multi-player, multi-site game and arts space to be played across all five cities. Players use their own bodies to send balls…

There is a nice article in Herald Tribune about the information we have/ going to have more in the future through our cellphones and their…

I don’t like this whole naming style of the web 1.0, 2.0 etc. Then I was shuffling around articles from Kurzweilai when I read the third…

This blog became something in the back streets of my mind. I started to collect everything on a wiki rather than a blog. Also the time to…

I have realized that setting up a wiki is not the best idea ever. Since I set that up, I felt kind of divided between there and here. This…

I am so happy I have found a framework to work with; openFrameworks. It is a C/C++ library developed at Parsons for interactive art pieces…

So I am taking a class called Mainstreaming Information from Lisa Strausfeld The class started kind of mellow but I am really about the…

I am going to be keeping my Physical Computing without Computers class and projects notes in here along with support of my wiki and…

So after 2-3 months of summer sleeping, let me say hi again. Yes, the school starts on Tuesday! It is going to be a tough final year. Bring…

The work and comment of Roger Ibars’ about interaction make me think of it once again. This is not something new,it is the ongoing debate of…

I am going back to Istanbul at the end of this month, I am going to try to stay away from all this technology hype while I am there. I want…

It has been a productive semester to say. Especially I have improved my coding skills in every way. I have a great understanding of Object…

Tristan Perich reminded me a different approach that I didn’t think in general, maybe because I was taking it granted as it is what it is…

We have finished our project for the final part, here is a working prototype in 2D. It is running slow in macs, it is way much better in pc…

It is here. It is online in P3D mode, it is looking kind of jagged but whatever. Here is the applet. Beware though, it is 800kb, and crashes…

While I was searching processing boards about Verlet integration(that’s totally another post) I have come up with this Israelian fellow…

So I am doing this final with Eliot Rosenberg, and here is our proposal for the final. We are proposing to build a evolutionary creature…

I have been jumping too much lately from subject to subject and getting too much input just created a bottleneck problem in my head. Here is…

This is a workshop that Zachary Lieberman gave back in November in Barcelona. a workshop examining image processing and computer vision via…

I have been keeping those in my browser for a while now. Better to keep them here instead of there. Those might be helpful for what I am…

Here is my ugly and partly not working obstacle avoidance try. A little bit background for the applet: The creatures are normally wandering…

Flocking systems are so entertaining. Craig Reynolds’ did lots of cool stuff with those back in 80’s. There are lots of papers to be read…

Spending the last few days brainstorming about my final projects. Lately I am really interested in transforming data into “tangible bits” as…

Tracing boids brought me great resources. First of all I have discovered the classes that Reas is teaching at UCLA with the help of Michael…

Post regarding following Cellular Automata and Fractals week we had in Nature of Code. Iterated function systems or IFS, are a kind of…

Upon discovering receiver, I have come across to an article by Mark Pesce which is quite interesting. In article, he tells how our use of…

Vodafone’s receiver magazine is a neutral space where pioneer thinkers challenge you to discuss exciting, future-oriented aspects of…

My xport has arrived. Tom Igoe was kind enough to give me a small board to work with my xport, I have ordered the parts from digikey and I…

I am just keeping these for archives. There are bunch of pdfs popped up on the google, I haven’t checked them in details, here they are…

I was reading this good article calledSegmentation and Reassembly of the Digital Moving Image by Susanne Jaschko, and she was giving…

This is the class that I was going to take but dropped because of my health problems back in the time. I ordered my xport yesterday, I am…

We have ordered bunch of 880nm IR leds from super bright LEDs. Also I have come up with this useful information from the jitter list. Our…

Let’s see. What I have been doing, I have been messing around with code so much, lately I have found a great class notes from Jeffrey Traer…

Well it has been a funny week, I was playing with delicious API and trying to parse the data I got into some kind of visualization. There…

Nicolas (From Pasta and Vinegar) explains a nice point of different results of location awareness through mobile apps. It turns out that…

Screwed up as always :) Well I have some stuff at my hand but I think I generally dive in the code so much that I forget the build something…

Following Josh’s great idea of collaborating for the end semester show at Tonic, I am keeping the sources that I have found which could be…

I have been looking through The Dumpster at Tate’s site and I saw Lev Manovich’s article about this project and it was interesting for me…

After reading the paperDirect Manipulation vs. Interface Agents I think we already left the era where we were happy we were reaching all the…

This looks kind of interesting, could be a way to pursue for phd,actually it looks like it IS the way for me to go. I have checked out the…

object lets you perform mathematical operations on all the data in the jitter matrix at once. math operation will be determined by the…

At last… jit.qt.movie’s primary job is open a movie and read each frame one after other into RAM for easy access by other jitter objects…

Max Mathews and Bill Verplank is teaching a nice classover Stanford for the last couple of years and I am aware of it now. The class is…

There is a nice interview at artificial.dk with Noah Wardrip-Fruin. I came to this work through a fascination with possibilites of words…

Following the discussion on the microSound list, I was introduced to new names, one of them is Trevor Wishart who pursued a challenge of…

I just put myself in this situation, trying to figure out how does a charged particle move in a magnetic field, what kind of forced applied…

I know I haven’t updated this part for a while. We are learning the Bayesian Text Filtering right now. This is all you have to know about it…

Yeah, I was playing with processing and the examples Shiffman posted for this week’s assignment and I was able to transform the examples he…

Week 2 Here is my second week assignment for Nature of Code. It basically is a system where each Moo changes its location according to the…

Again one of the nights that I am lost in the infinite world of world wide web jumping from that source to another. Actually I have…

The text Machine Visions: towards a poetics of Artificial Intelligence just came in time as I was questioning myself if we were going to…

This semester Daniel Palkowski is instructing this class and I am in. Here is the syllabus for the class. In the first class we listened…

Perlin noise My first week assignment for Nature of Code is here. Some background about Perlin Noise; the noise itself was found by Ken…

The Computational Beauty of Nature by G. William Flake There are really good points that the writer makes in the introduction. ”… In making…

My code is not working as I want it to be, but then again if it were what would be the reason of taking this class :) So I am going to post…

I have been trying to implement Jackson Mac Low’s diastic readings[link] in Java for an exercise this week. I managed to work the algorithm…

I was reading Golan Levin’s paper about Computer Vision, and this area seems has lots of potential overall. In the beginning of his paper he…

The school bells are ringing again, well at least it was when I was in high school :) So I made huge changes in my schedule, big decision…

Diastic reading: Diastic reading is an arbitrary but not random way of selecting words from one text to create a new text. A key phrase…

First the precious link And from the papers : Can an image behave? In other words, if a digital image is a visual representation of colors…

I don’t remember how I came up with this. It is strange though I was watching BBC’s show The Blue Planet not more than 3 days ago and just…

Yeah, after a peptic ulcer surgery and staying at the hospital for 6 days I am home and still trying to recover. Yeah once again I realized…

I think I forgot to put this link for my ICM final here. The code based on heavily on Daniel Shiffman’s code for genetic algorithms which he…

The Computer Music Tutorial by Curtis Roads is mentioned in MSP Documents that comes with Max/Msp.

With having a great excitement I started to explore and go back in art history reading different sources which reveals how we come here…

Phew. The fall term is over. Time to chill out and gather new ideas from everywhere! ’ I have come up with this example of using light and…

Idea To explore how neural adaptation can create and change representations through interaction with the world. So I started basically with…

Getting data from our daily products and reflecting those to our environment live, a phone ringing transforming into bubbles, music playing…

I was reading Intel’s future goals about designing new user interfaces and I feel like it is really important to underline this, here are…

ok, my sweet bot is working now, I have made the corrections according to the feedback I got from James N. Sears(countless thanks to you…

The floor was opened from 12 to 6 today. I worked all day about the final and it was fruitful, I built the device and also I happened to get…

Whole neural nets theory is mostly applied to recognition systems. I have found some journals that could be helpful in the future. Plus the…

I got the parts from Images SI url, I have two gear motors, 2 rubber wheels and one omnidirectional wheel as the front wheel.. I got the…

I was reading and trying to clear it in my mind of all those concepts of connectionism, behavior-based systems, neural networks, cognitive…

I put the page online. I believe it has some errors in itself conceptually, some gaps that needed to be filled, I am sure they are going to…

BEAM Robotics BEAM is alternatively said to stand for: Building Evolution Anarchy Modularity Biotechnology Ethnology Analogy Morphology…

Actually first actual robot that is artificially intelligent was done through 40s by Grey Walter. There is a good historical data on how he…

Yeah, the winter is on its way and I need to find couple of ideas for the finals.

The trend continues in my mind spreading to other classes as well. It all started with the Markov chains in algorithmic composition…

Emergence is the process of complex pattern formation from simpler rules. This can be a dynamic process (occurring over time), such as the…

We have been working on this with David for the last week day and the night. We built our own homemade switches, built a nice layout for the…

I have just checking some sites and come up with this artist doing most of her projects on sound and they are looking really interesting…

Ok, we are on the final phase of the project in terms of deadline :) It is supposed to be finished until Wednesday. So What do we have right…

I am doing a midterm project with Karl Channell who is also a roommate of me. We are going to build a simple ball game in processing which…

I am still after that flashing idea which I haven’t found for Algorithmic Composition midterm project. Actually I was reading Csound Manual…

Actually without forgetting I have came up with this project from Finland. It looks like what I am looking for in terms of aeshtetic sense…

It has been harder than I thought. This whole debugging period is really stealing so much time off of me. I have prepared a pseudo code of…

The idea I mentioned in the previous post has evolved into something else. Actually I am still sensing the user’s color values through a…

Today after the class I went directly to finish my lab assignments for the PComp. Although I have spent 3 hours to figure out the code, in…

Hey, It has been a while since I updated the site, so I am directly diving in. Last week on Tuesday I was exploring some projects and…

It is going harder than I expected. This blogging thing. Actually I moved to my new space here in the city few days ago, and I have spent…

First of all, I have found a new objective for me in processing, read a photo’s RGB values and recreate it on the canvas. I think it could…

Basically I really like the idea of interpreting what the artist has built and doing something towards over our interpretations, thus…

Great, I could program my first pic without any problems. Here is what I built below. I used 4mhz crystal clock with 22pF capacitors to…

Red’s presentation has just passed. It was a great experience from start to the finish, gathering ideas, tough discussions, great moments on…

What a two days it was. Two days ago in the morning I plugged my powerbook’s power adaptor and momentarly it died. I returned it to the NYU…

Above, you see our tiny-or not- little cutie chippy’s diagram that is going to be around for the rest of my ITP period and more. Here is the…

Last Friday I headed to soldering workshop which Carlyn was giving, actually it was an useful one, I spent the day at the shop playing with…

I am going to give you one piece of advice about MT, don’t ever try to upgrade to version 3.2x, it is a pain in the neck. Having spent…