2024 Retrospective
It's been a big year, this one. And with the start of 2025, we've reached 3 years of "publication" on this blog. So, I thought I'd blab a bit about what's happened in the last year. Not really about important
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My short experience in high school debate
All the way back in high school, just about 5 years ago, I was a freshman looking for clubs to join. For some reason, I ended up joining the speech and debate club at my school. It was already a pretty well established and famous team, and I was dropped
Exploratory Endeavors #2: Scanlation
Once upon a time, there was a version of myself that didn't read manga. But time passed and at some point, I found myself reading scanlated manga from various sources. (Scanlation is taking comics in one language and translating it into another language) But like I mentioned with
Endless Greed
I am greedy. I want more, always evermore. Although not in the materialistic sense. I have a greed to maximize the utility of every second of every day. Every hour that I'm just scrolling social media or mindlessly looking for content on YouTube is another hour I could
Exploratory Endeavors #1: Youtube Vlog
This summer, I redid my entire website, coming up with new goals, designs, and code. As part of the overhaul, I had to come up with a new "tagline", or the text that's displayed in the hero section. As part of that, I decided to describe
Onimai youtube video essay except there is no video so it's just essay
I just finished watching & reading Onimai, so I'm just dumping my thoughts here video-essay style, except with no organization. Also please stop reading. I blame the Youtube algorithm. It kept serving me clips from this anime. Again and again. And I blame the fun artstyle and pastel
fine, no really
I finished a story today. Which always puts me in a moody retrospective kinda vibe. It is also 12:30 am. Just about the right conditions for the kind of meaningless moody blog writing characteristic of a cliche character in a poorly written YA novel. But sometimes it really is
Storyteller
What is your purpose in life? When you wake up in the morning, what got you out of bed? What is humanity's purpose? What do we do? What is it that we do best? We do many things for many reasons, but in a lot of ways, we
Neuro Dev Log 8
It has been a while since the last dev log, huh? I haven't been sleeping on the project though. Let's run through all the updates/changes. First things first: A frontend/control panel. At first, this was just an excuse to install and learn Figma, since
Things I like
Just a couple days ago, I 100%ed DDLC+. It's prompted some self-reflection, and I thought I'd write down some things I like. When I was younger, this wouldn't have even occurred to me to write about. But idk, as I think about it,
The AI Communication Problem
There is a problem with AI. I don't mean any of the technical, ethical, or political problems, I'm specifically talking about the problem we have of accurately informing the public about how AI works. Of course, I'm sure I'm not the first
Rule 1
Rule 1: Don't let anything stop you from doing the thing you want to learn. All other Rules are subservient to Rule 1. If any other rule stops you from following Rule 1, ignore them. I'm writing this for myself. So, if you disagree, just create
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Neuro Dev Log 7
Today I wasted some more time on the discord audio thing then gave up and moved on. However, I did work on integrating vtube control and twitch integration. I modified the tts library to output text into my virutal audio cable, which feeds into vtube studio and the microphone volume
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Neuro Dev Log 6
Today I tried to integrate the current system into a discord bot. The only thing I learned was that I hate working with receiving data from discord voice channels. Literally all I've done today is painfully digging through pycord's source code and documentation trying to first
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Neuro Dev Log 5
Posting this devlog the next morning because I was up till 2 am gamin. Anyway, today I actually just went ahead and wrote all of the python code like I outlined in dev log 3 I think. Since I had such a clear plan it wasn't too hard.
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Neuro Dev Log 4
Day 4! Today's Goal: Give the LLM some character! I was busy with other stuff today so not as much progress. First thing I did was to read up on Samantha and try copying her system prompt over into the web-ui to prove that this can work effectively.
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Neuro Dev Log 3
Another day another dev log! Happy new Year. Today I worked on putting together a proof of concept system for a end to end audio in, audio out system. I decided to not use the STT and TTS extensions because they are not designed to stream audio in or out.
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Neuro Dev Log 2
Today's goals: Experiment with and get TTS and STT working. So first I just installed the "builtin" coqui-TTS extension, and found that it worked, but not super well. I then found erew123/alltalk_TTS, which is a fork of the coqui-TTS extension with more features. The
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Neuro Dev Log 1
Edit (5/6/2024): The GitHub repository is public here: kimjammer/Neuro, see what it's become now! Today begins my journey to recreate Neuro sama until I get bored. I will try to record what I've learned each day in a dev log like this. Idk
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Standard Issue Anti Cancellation Disclaimer
Just in case it's necessary in the future, thought I'd throw this in here. All expressed opinions and thoughts are limited in scope to when they were written. Their continued existence on this site or other publication is done for archival purposes only and do not
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Resonating Numbers
Some numbers resonate, don't they? Welcome to another midnight writing session by yours truly. For me, they were 13, 16, and 18, so far. Being that many years old just felt very right. I suppose I identified with the identity. Or maybe they just represented common stages of
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Essays Restored
There we go, the free writes from almost a year ago are back up. It's been a wild ride, last year. The whole reason I started this blog was to get some writing practice in for college apps. Now they are over, I'll be in college
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Free Write 5
This is a free write. For Purdue app. Prompt: Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences. I first started learning taekwondo in 6th grade. Over the years, I've trained, tested, and rose to acquire a second-degree black belt. I enjoy taekwondo because One
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I like sunsets
thats it. i like clouds too. so pretty, so fluffy. combined even better