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Lonely Octopus Joke
On the Lonely Octopus program Discord server, there are bot commands that we use to do things like check course info and “buy” events. Today, while perusing the commands list, I found (what I think is) an easter egg. The command was: /drinky and it had no information about it. Of course, I entered it,…
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New Kitten
Has it really been a week since I last posted? I adopted a stray kitten (shout out to the Cat Distribution System) this week and so I’m on kitten time. This week I’ve been making progress on my AI Art Critique solo project from the Lonely Octopus program, which incorporates new code concepts for me…
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Struggle Sesh: VS Studio & Python
Last night I spent a ridiculous amount of time coding Python within my VS Studio work environment. The mistake I was making was SO SIMPLE and had nothing to do with my code at all! I’ll look back on this and laugh one day, I’m sure. For now, I’ll outline it for my fellow noobs…
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Learning Discord
I’m a little embarrassed to say that I’m totally new to Discord. Since I was 15 years old, I’ve been playing in online forums, writing blogs, and sharing things online. Which is kind of normal I guess because I’m a millennial who spent my pre-teen years in a pre-Internet/cell phone/social media world. I got my…
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Study Sesh Notes: Prompt Engineering
Today I completed the first step of my personalized study plan: The Ultimate ChatGPT Technical Self-Study Bootcamp, which includes 30 videos. The concepts are really familiar to me already because I spent most of May this year studying prompt engineering on Coursera, specifically the Vanderbilt University certification program taught by Jules White. What I enjoyed…
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Two months in
I’ve been learning all about artificial intelligence and data science in the last two months and decided it was time to start documenting my process. This is my first blog post about it. I haven’t blogged since ’06 or something, so this feels very nostalgic.