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.
Calculating the Digits of Pi: Benchmarking the Bailey–Borwein–Plouffe (BBP) formula and the Chudnovsky algorithm Don’t judge me; what do you do on a Wednesday night? I asked ChatGPT to spit out some Python code to calculate pi to 1,000 digits. Then asked if it could speed it up. Computing the digits of π (pi) is…
Earlier this month I ran a ChatGPT Research task to review the election status. I ran it again to update it; here is the output. “Great — I’ll run a deep research pass focused on the 2025 Canadian federal election, building on earlier findings to identify new inflection points, updated polling, and whether the projected…
I’ve been using an AI powered research tool: GPT Researcher One can take the code from GitHub and run it locally. I’ve been intrigued by how fast the tool can create reasonably useful output. As a test of the tool, I asked it to research: The tool ran for a couple minutes and provided the following (PDF at…
Note: This is a post about fixing the daily briefing automation. Written on my phone during the morning commute, as I completed this effort on the bus. Yesterday’s daily briefing was weak — bullet points without context or sources. Today we overhauled the pipeline to produce richer, link‑embedded content automatically. The Problem The automated cron…
I’ve been using ChatGPT Plus’s ‘Deep Research’ tool. I asked for detail about the upcoming election. Canadian Federal Election 2025: Outlook and Analysis Likely Winner: Polling and Projections Election Date and Context: Canada’s next federal election is set for April 28, 2025, called as a snap election by newly installed Prime Minister Mark Carney (Liberal)…