Thanks to those pesky spammers I can no longer use email for notifications from my different systems because they no longer allow basic authentication (ie user and password) for sending emails so this morning I had to find an alternative. I let Google’s Gemini know my problem and it provided me with multiple alternatives and I was able to implement a solution in less than an hour giving me time to make cinnamon rolls for child number 2!
Who said AI is not making us more productive¿?¿?
Read on for the details!
Offline LLM
Shiver me timbers! I have been listening to multiple podcast interviews with AI pioneers and finally decided how to repurpose an end of life out of support server from work: setup my own little LLM! Little did I know how easy it is, and you do not even need an end of life out of support server from work to do this! I already have multiple LLM models on my laptop as well!
Read on for how you can do this as well!
Cercedilla Field Notes: Fall Flowers at Ermita de San Antonio
Not so sure the fall edition of this field notes will have as many flowers to reference as the spring edition, but read on to see if I discover more than one!
P(doom)
New word of the day: P(doom) is the probability of existentially catastrophic outcomes (so-called “doomsday scenarios”) as a result of artificial intelligence
I leaned this word from a very interesting deep dive podcast by NPR Explains… titled AI and the Probability of Doom. Take a minute to listen to it and then come back and let’s discus P(doom)!
Indo-European languages
This morning I was cleaning my computer’s desktop and stumbled across this family tree of languages that I had downloaded from Wikipedia after listening to an interview of David Reich by Dwarkesh Patel. I could not just throw it away as it really is mind blowing and wanted to keep it handy for reference so here it is:
Finished Video Games
This post is just note to myself to document the video games I have finished.
Summer Moment of Zen 2025
I just got back from this summer’s moment of summer Zen!
Cercedilla Field Notes: Butterflies
This morning we went for a walk in the European Redwood forest of Cercedilla, and I was captivated by 4 or so white butterflies dancing among themselves and immediately wanted to get a picture of one of them to ID it, but they were too involved in their mesmerizing dance to settle on a flower for a picture so we continued our walk. A bit down the trail my wife said “There is one!” and so I caught it (virtually) and uploaded it to iNaturalist and will use this post as a place to document and reference the different buttefies I discover in Cercedilla!