Purpose: Initially for testing out WordPress and named just blog for a while now will have some random writing and resources that cover former and current special interests former and dormant will be mostly archival and current will have not only my resources but vetted or linked resources.
Exclusive Orange, a working title
Exclusive orange, the name that is, came out of a machine learning exercise. I was trying to figure out a way to do create a non-two layer network XOR gate as a special case, this combined with a sort of orange cat meme, that grew into a few pages of fun, see below.
Unlike logical OR and AND, it is not usually possible in a single layer neural net (NN). But, it can be done as a single layer NN, provided that you add one more feature. I will cover this in a future post. A Neural Net is a network of artificial neurons in machine learning jargon. They are like the smallest level of computation possible right now for this type/flavor of machine learning.
The eXclusve ORange logo was whipped up in about 15 minutes in GIMP as a little branding joke, a challenge in a way . Like, in let’s see how fast can it be done and make something clean and clever. It highlights the letters that spell out XOR in orange. To the left the actual icon of the logo is the logic table for the XOR operation, represented symbolically. Top row False or False = False, middle two rows one out of two Trues = True, bottom, both true = False, the hallmark of XOR vs regular OR logic.
From Forest to Orange Cat
Above: Animation of the process of creating the blended images. The style of the center image below is imposed on the photo, below left. Each frame of the animation above is one epoch of the process. An epoch is a big outer loop of the machine learning code. More epochs and the image becomes refined.
The whole orange cat ‘thing’ came out of playing with the machine learning algorithm that created the images above. The method of imposing style came from A Neural Algorithm of Artistic Style on various pieces of art and images I was trying to play with style , like the forest above, also orange. Seems like an orange theme! Trying it out on the forest for a while, it takes hours to make revisions of the image in any useful resolution, I wanted to try, more like get sidetracked by something new is more like it and then came orange cat.
I grabbed a picture of an orange cat off of the web at the time and created various degrees of orangy-ness. I was also playing with ( General Purpose Transformer -2) GPT-2, generating text , so things like the following were pretty funny to feed into the machine learning model and I kept pushing the whole orange cat thing…
Hey it’s an orange cat, how do you know it’s an orange cat?
The GPT-2 model takes a snippet of text in, like my sentence above and then invents new text. It’s weird and kind of incoherent at times but, it’s amazing and amusing that it actually can get a bit of semi coherent text generated from a single sentence.
Orange Cat GPT-2 Fun
This is how to get a cat’s color right.
There are 5 ways to tell the color of an orange cat.
- You could use some more general color sense and simply say:
“In a very natural sense this cat is orange.” - You could use a “non-inflated” color sense or use “pure,” “normal,” or “out of place.”
What these five different kinds of orange cats are:
Inflated Color Sense is a lot more simple to learn if you have the patience to look at first. It’s a combination of the three colors in your system, but the colors of your own cat aren’t always right. The colors of the orange cat you are looking at here could be a bit cloudy, black or white, but it is likely that the orange color you’re looking for is simply pure white.
Pure White has been proven to be a great cat color, and if the color of an item is not as clear as it could appear in the eye, it will just be pure white. You will notice that in this scenario, the cat is in pure white for the entire length of the cat’s duration, and the more intense one is, the less bright you’re seeing. Pure white has been proven to be completely fine for cats, and if you look at a cat using pure white to get their color, you should not have any more issues with a cat who is still in complete purewhite.
If you look for it right away, you might notice a different color than you have seen them previously. For instance, a blue cat in pure white might not be an orange cat, but in their experience, a blue cat is more likely to be orange.
However, if you look deep into an item, you might see the exact same color. For instance, a red cat in pure white might show blue or green because they have had blue cat colors for years or a year or so. You might even see blue in your eyes that is more closely related to one of the above examples. You may have noticed the same colors you did in the last few months. So, if you try to make an orange cat color the same color as a red cat in the same way that a red cat is in the same way, you may see a different color than you originally saw. …See the full page
also the Orange Cat page
and Does the Orangest Cat Exist?
GPT-2 can be fun. Some day code like it might be used as an Uber word processing system.Fixing grammar and style of the written word. Also if it’s fed something like the contents of an encyclopedia for example, a person could type in a question, even one above the complexity of today’s search query online and it could give a general summary back in a form that is a specific report that it generates on the fly.
Site Plan
The site will generally cover topics such as…
- Machine Learning and AI under the categories Text Generation and Machine Learning
- Python Machine Leaning Course (PMLC)
- Trading Information, trading as in trading in markets
- Linux Computing Information under Linux
- Code such as Python, C, BASH Scripting, Scripts
- With some random writing interspersed under the category My Thoughts
- Other resources that seem interesting.
- Images as of 2023, if not photos are generally produced by https://stablediffusionweb.com/ it has far superior abilities compared to the hand built ML artwork styling code that I used in the earlier years of this site.
All of the categories can be accessed on the right side panel of the pages.
Legacy Info
Mostly Archival Information
Legacy tagline: Covering Computers, Food, Fermentation, Timelapse Photography and more.
This main purpose of this site is currently a test install for me to experiment with. I do a lot with WordPress and I wanted a place to try out a few things, without disturbing any live sites. I do have several Linux based servers at home including a Raspberry Pi server. My old server (P3-500MHz, running Ubuntu 10.04) died in early 2014 and I some big plans that I rolled out in Mid to Late 2014 for the new one, such as running OwnCloud, Samba, NFS, Wake On Lan via the Raspberry Pi and automatic shutdown. That Ubuntu based server is my storage for backups and remote file access, ( tunneling through the Pi which using SSH with RSA Keys ) along with eventually being the WordPress “sandbox” instead of this Blog page for WP experiments.
Newer Servers
This newer server written about above is a Dell Dimension 2400 and now as of 2018 is still in service as a secondary unit. A primary server running Ubuntu 16.04 is the main workhorse now, running on a Dell Optiplex GX-620 with a Dual Pentium at 3.4GHz. It has a primary SSD harddrive and additional drives, one SATA and 2 PATA as the board supports both technologies. It is where all of the backups of the other machines in my house go to. Backups are doing by using rsync with the -avh option from both the Linux machines and the one Win 7 machine. I do have a WordPress install running on the GX-620 and that is a good tool to keep track of all of the changes required to set up and maintain the server. This unit has been in service since Mid 2016 and has run great, needed a new mainboard at one point which was a $20 part and easy to swap. The GX-620 autosuspends nicely when there is no activity running on it and can easily be started using Wake On Lan. The primary SSD which makes the machine run fast, contains the OS and a picture gallery created by llgal which sorts pictures into folders according to the four quarters of the year and places them into folders by year. This makes it easy to track down a particular photo. The photos are scraped from the backups that exist on the secondary spinning drives.
Time Lapse Photography
I have also done some experimentation with remote monitoring using fswebcam and old servers that I used just to monitor my house when I am away. This lead to two developments, one was doing some timelapse photography and too the purchase of a Raspberry Pi for a 24/7 low power draw mini-server and more advanced remote monitoring.
Frontiernet site maintained from 1999-2012
I do have an old site with a lot of information on it and my artwork as well…
Weather Pages
The visual summary of current weather conditions is the one page that I still actively maintain on the old site. It is a page with weather maps, satellite view, jet-stream, temperatures, web-cam photos and links that may be of interest.
Visual Summary of Current Weather Conditions
I also have a site that displays the current weather conditions, temperature, humidity and barometer. The data is collected automatically by using a Raspberrypi and DHT22 and Bosch BME280 sensors and updated hourly. Data is also logged daily into concatenated files and dropped into a folder. History Logs
Wellsburg, New York Weather Station Page
Code Repository
A folder containing code that runs on the Raspberry Pi related to the weather data collection.
This Site
I am putting some interesting content on the site you are viewing as time goes on. Such as more info on setting up a Linux server, Raspberry Pi Server, remote monitoring, WordPress related info, info on fermented food/beverages, recipes that I found interesting…what ever else might seem worth sharing.
Visit the following blog categories for more info
- Fermentation
- Info Links
- Linux
- My Thoughts
- PHPList
- Plants
- Projects
- Raspberry Pi
- Raspberry Pi Server
- Recipes
- Server
- Television
- Time Lapse Photography
- Web Hosting
- WordPress