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Thursday Seeds | Witch’s Butter
The list of plants that I want to grow. It’s changing and it’s really much the same. Catmint and Saffron Crocus are on the list. They are already in the ground. These others? Tansy is good for repelling a lot of bugs, ticks and fleas being among them. There are other ones that I’d like to grow. On the inside, there are propagations that are going on. Spider plants and pothos are easy ones and as they grow, there is a need to either get more pots and plant or give these lovelies away to others. I call it Amish plants and usually it’s given to those that have birthdays.…
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Thursday Seeds | The Cat
I’ve posted before about the book by Blake Snyder, “Save the cat.” It’s a great book about writing and understanding of story from the inside out. This past weekend, I had a taste of that story in the literal sense. I had a cat that I could not find. He was last reported up a tree. Chased there by a neighbor’s dog. Jack, the cat, has done this before. His flee mechanism is to go UP. Dogs can’t get you when you are up. The only problem is getting down again. Just weeks ago, this happened. He was up a smaller tree and had to figure out how to get…
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Thursday Seeds | Sketches with no pencil
A sketch with no pencil is what, a finger painting? And what would be so bad about that? This one, a set of dolphins was done with iPad; procreate looking very much like pastels. There are sketches of my kid’s over painted fingers placed on a page to be decorated later. I may dig that out for you to see. No one would really know that was what was going on but me, unless I tell you. Does it change how you look at the sketch? Maybe. I call small autobiographic notes and posts here a sketch too. A “what if” story that may or may not be taken seriously…
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Thursday Seeds | Playlist Heaven
The beauty of learning new music and even new genres is that new ideas can arise from them. Not just musical ideas, but certain sounds can bring up memories of past times and also inspire new ones. What would it be that you would select to listen to while you look at those pictures that you took from the weekend? The played tunes from the time of shots is one genre, but what if you are listening to another one while you do edits? Would it look different? Last night, I found saturation edits being more prevalent and I wonder if the kind of music that I was listening to…
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Thursday Seeds | Data that Samples – Part 2
Last week we talked about the data and how it relates in the mode of LLM and the proximity percentages of how words relate to each other. What if we use a different context? Data that samples. Let’s go in a musical direction. Why? Because it’s art but also science and math too. Those are subjects that AI can get its head around with a semblance of context. It could be the liaison that brings it all together. Do you know anything about the Orchid? Or Telepathic instruments? It’s a new music idea that uses an AI module to help predict where you might want to go musically. Orchid is…
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Thursday Seeds | Data that Samples
Let me preface this post with an important point: I’m not a data scientist. I do have training in systems and processes in my industrial engineering back ground. The beauty of this is that I have a different view point than many classically trained scientists. They could look at my article and scoff their heads off. To each their own. But this is almost the very point of the last article that I posted regarding data: Graphers that POV. My view point could be valued to the point that it could change the way we look at certain given types of data. It’s curious to think about how an algorithm…
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Thursday Seeds | Renewal
Spring is here in the South. The seeds are sprouting, the bumble bees are the first pollinators to arrive, and rains happen when they feel like it. Luckily, no massive storm clouds for this neck of the woods. These are the blessings that should be counted in the number of the seeds. The data samples could be in those numbers too. Because not all will survive, seeds tend to be many so that some will find a good place to germinate, grow and bloom. Bloom where you are planted. <=The Seed idiom of the day. Incidentally, I promised a data that sample post this week. Stay tuned for next week.…
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Thursday Seeds | Graphers that POV
What are graphers? They are typically numbers people but really relate to data best in graphic form. They understand the need to harness the data that many companies are already storing. Instead of using SQL and traditional databases, they use graph databases which structure the data in a design pattern. Using these design patterns, graphers use a different method to pull that data out for presentation so that business leaders can make specific relevant decisions about their business. My usual go to when I refer to the need of a knowledge graph is “graphers gonna graph”. This takes it all a step further. Because not only do they graph, that…
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Thursday Seeds | Lens not in Focus
I did twirl for this picture to let the camera lens blur on purpose but I got the idea from a previous shot where I thought the camera was off and it did a partial swirl. Then I decided I wanted to do it intentionally. Deep set eyes, depth perception, and the changes of eyes when we get older are the reason many of us in the 50s are now buying up the market in reading glasses or other optical corrections that otherwise would not be needed. You made it to this age! Good for you! Now here’s a tool. Laser surgery is an option. And perhaps since it has…
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Thursday Seeds | Travel in your Head
Traveling to the fun places! That’s where we want to go. It’s cheap. Cheaper than the real thing! Unless you haven’t actually been anywhere, then your head isn’t full of amazing places. You have to feed the library or it really is boring in there… or here. The beauty of a collective is sharing. Even if I’ve never had the pleasure of going to Hawaii, I can still get there if I know some folks who have and they share photos. Photos are so much easier to share with the internet. They let us intersect into each other’s lives in a way we didn’t have growing up if you are…
