Which Historical Figure Would Have Been Most Intrigued by Today’s AI?
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz spent his life imagining a universal system of knowledge and reasoning. He would have seen modern AI as the incomplete birth of that dream.
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Turning Ordinary Video Into a 3D Scene With LingBot-Map — Without Buying a New GPU
LingBot-Map reconstructs navigable 3D point clouds from ordinary video, but its NVIDIA CUDA requirements make rented GPU resources more practical than buying dedicated hardware.
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Getting a Leclerc Fanny Ready for First Weaving
A practical beginner review for checking, tying up, warping, and weaving first projects on a 4-shaft Leclerc Fanny counterbalance loom.
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A Day of Intentional Maintenance: Using Claude Code as a Systems Partner
Most AI coding sessions are about building. This one was about knowing what you have, fixing what’s broken, and making the whole thing more defensible.
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Hermes Agent: Actually Easy to Work With
Hermes Agent by Nous Research is refreshingly low-friction. A look at the new async subagents feature and why the framework gets out of your way.
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5th tank of gas @ 7,626 km
Five fill-ups, 7,626 km, 116.59 L of gas. The Prius PHEV is averaging 1.53 L/100km gas-only, $5.51/100km total energy cost — roughly half what the old Civic would cost. Now with charts.
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Prime Minister Carney Launches “AI for All”: Canada’s New National AI Strategy
Canada’s new national AI strategy aims to create 250,000 jobs, boost AI adoption to 60%, and invest in sovereign AI infrastructure while prioritizing trust, opportunity, and Canadian sovereignty.
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AI | AI Watch | Photography
Using Gemini to stitch images
Two source photos, one very specific Gemini prompt, and a generated Georges Island panorama that tries to stay faithful to the real place while pushing the sky, fog, and water into something cinematic.
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AI | AI Watch | Photography
PIXLRelight Is a Relighting Demo I Want to Try
A short factual note on PIXLRelight, an Oxford relighting project that combines single-image editing with physically controllable lighting, and why I want to test it on real photos.
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AI Video Tools Are Getting Harder to Ignore
A short note on fast-improving AI video tools, using one of my photographs as the source image, and why viewers need a more critical eye online.