Peter Kaminski

Anthropic’s “Imagine with Claude” is a preview app builder: describe an app, it generates screens & fakes persistence as you click. It’s experimental, not for real apps, and only higher-tier Claude accounts can access it for now. Kinda cool.

More deets and links: peterkaminski.wiki/imagine_with...

Hey, export your ChatGPT convos once in a while. I hadn't done mine in too long and ended up with a 190Mb `conversations.json` file, oof!

I updated an existing Python JSON->MD export script to be able to handle the new reasoning and tool call messages ChatGPT uses: github.com/daugaard47/C...

Massive Wiki Wednesday is currently on an irregular schedule. Next meeting: July 30, 12:30 PM PDT / 19:30 UTC, us02web.zoom.us/j/8487694203...

Main agenda: MarkPub 1.1.0, markpub-themes

Add'l: MassiveWiki/MarkPub+ATProto, Excalidraw

Smoke Signal (optional RSVP): smokesignal.events/did:plc:66wz...

Playlist Commander interface showing a list of 6 playlists with song counts and durations, with "Chill Vibes" and "Focus & Deep Work" playlists displayed in detail in split panes below.

Playlist Commander interface with playlist thumbnails at the top and "Focus & Deep Work" and "Chill Vibes" playlists shown in side-by-side detail panes with their respective songs listed.

Playlist Commander interface displaying all playlists in a sidebar on the left, "Chill Vibes" playlist details in the center, and an empty "Select a playlist" panel on the right.

YouTube Music-style "Playlist Manager" interface showing "Road Trip Classics" playlist with 76 songs, featuring a gradient thumbnail and a list of 5 songs with artist names, albums, and dates added.

Noodling UI designs for a potential personal project, a YouTube Music "Playlist Commander". Wouldn't play music, would be a power tool for managing playlists.

I keep fine-grained music playlists for different qualities in songs: "fast backing rhythm", "sounds happy, actually hurting", "3-4 time", etc.

I knew I had a lot of playlists, but TIL I have **~500** of them. No wonder it's hard to find the right ones!

Thinking about using AI to help. 🙂

A comparison table of five decentralized storage platforms and their key characteristics. The table has 6 columns: Platform, Incentive Mechanism, Storage Duration, Encrypted By Default, and Readable w/Web Gateways. The platforms listed are: IPFS - Uses no incentive mechanism, stores data as long as it's pinned (which costs money), is not encrypted by default, and is readable with web gateways. Filecoin - Uses FIL Token as an incentive mechanism, has negotiated terms for storage duration, is not encrypted by default, and is readable with web gateways. Arweave - Uses one-time payment as an incentive mechanism, is designed for data permanence in terms of storage duration, is not encrypted by default, and is readable with web gateways. This row is highlighted with a red border. Storj - Uses STORJ Token as an incentive mechanism, operates on a subscription-based storage model, is encrypted by default, and is not readable with web gateways. Sia - Uses Siacoin as an incentive mechanism, operates on a contract-based storage model, is encrypted by default, and is not readable with web gateways.

Arweave still looking good for "eternal" publishing / public archive, because of one-time payment and design for data permanence. permaweb-journal.arweave.net/reference/st... (Design ≠ guarantee, of course.)

And there's a Git forge, protocol.land , that uses Arweave for storage!

Will explore more.

A basic calculator application named "SimpleCalc by PK" with a minimalist user interface. The calculator features a white rectangular display area with a blue border showing "0.7734" in black text aligned to the right. Below the display is a 5×4 grid of buttons. The top row contains a red "C" (Clear) button, gray parentheses buttons "(" and ")", and an orange division (÷) button. The next three rows contain the number keys arranged in a standard calculator layout: 7-8-9 with a multiplication (×) button, 4-5-6 with a subtraction (−) button, and 1-2-3 with an addition (+) button, all in orange. The bottom row features a "0" button, a decimal point (.) button, a backspace button with a delete symbol (⌫), and a green equals (=) button. The calculator has a clean design with color-coded buttons: gray for numbers and basic functions, red for clear, orange for mathematical operations, and green for the equals function. The interface appears within a white modal or popup window with rounded corners, featuring a close (×) button in the top-right corner.

Need a handy calculator? Try my new "SimpleCalc by PK", it's free & open source . It runs in your web browser. Click a bookmark to toggle it on/off. It displays over your current web page.

Apologies, it's a tiny bit technical to install. I'll make a video someday.

codeberg.org/peterkaminsk...

Speaking of the collapse of societies, as one might, I rediscovered this reading list of ~65 books a friend and I assembled 1.5 years ago, when times were simpler. (Didn't seem that way at the time, but Events Have Transpired.)

chronicles-of-change.collectivesensecommons.org

Claude 3.5 Sonnet w/ some simple custom tooling has been my go-to programming assistant (Node, React, Python) for a while now & it's been really great. I'm super excited to see 3.7 Sonnet & Claude Code drop. Thank you, Anthropic!

www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...

docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/agen...

Obsidian is now free for work. Bravo, @obsidian.md!

I set up Forgejo (a Git forge) for an org's internal use today.

Stock docker-compose.yml plus Caddy for TLS. Pretty much Just Worked. One config change after setup: LANDING_PAGE to change the default home page.

I've been following Gitea/Forgejo since the fork; Forgejo looks like it's got momentum.

A daytime photo of a high-altitude passenger aircraft with contrails against a vibrant blue sky, with a half-moon visible in the lower portion of the frame. The plane appears as a small white silhouette with two distinct white contrail lines trailing behind it as it crosses diagonally through the frame.

Not an _amazing_, shot, but it's still pretty cool you can get a snapshot like this with a smartphone (Pixel 7 Pro).

This was two days ago. Alaska Airlines AS714, a Boeing 737 Max 9, flying over San Diego from SEA to SJD at 37,000 ft, going 522 knots. Oh, and the Moon at approx 1,190,000,000 ft. :)

I have a mondegreen in Elton John's "Rocket Man". For "burning out his fuse UP HERE ALONE", I hear "AT PERIHELION"

I keyphrase searched ChatGPT & got a lovely hallucination that "Fuse Up Here Alone" is a track by the band "At Perihelion" avail on streaming, w/ links to Spotify & the band's website!

Announcing Meridian v1.2.0!

peterkaminski.github.io/meridian/mer...

Meridian is a free, open source time zone converter in one HTML file.

It instantly creates easy-to-copy time lists using standard time zone abbreviations.

It's perfect for printing times for international events or global teams.

Macro underwater shot of the arm of a Fragile Rainbow Star (Astrometis sertulifera) at the Point Loma tide pools in Cabrillo National Monument. In real life, it was cute and attractive, not scary. :-) Camera: OM System TG-7.

Plex: 1 January 2025 Earth Remembering; X Marks the Past; Announcing MarkPub 0.4.3; Let in the Light; Regenerative or Greenwashed; State of the World 2025; Pix from Italy; Fall 1986–As My Dad Lay Dying

Plex: 1 January 2025, the newest issue of my inter-community newsletter, is now available on the web. If you're a subscriber (free or paid), you should have also received it in your email inbox.

plex.collectivesensecommons.org/2025-01-01/

Probably not the one you were looking for, but maybe still useful resources about LLMs / attention / transformers:

www.understandingai.org/p/large-lang...

deeprevision.github.io/posts/001-tr...

x.com/rfeers/statu...

drchrislevy.github.io/posts/basic_...

& "attention":

bsky.app/profile/pete...

I'm not saying I used these. I'm not saying I didn't, either.

git-repos-no-upstream.sh
# finds git repos without an upstream, outputs list to stdout
paste.sr.ht/~peterkamins...

tar-repos.sh
# tars repo directories, excludes venv and node_modules, reads list from stdin
paste.sr.ht/~peterkamins...

In another part of my life, I'm a Midjourney maniac. I just started a separate account, @pixelthesia.ai, where I aim to share beautiful and unique pieces that spark joy.

There's also a free email newsletter, with paid newsletters coming early next year: pixelthesia.ai

Thx to Chris Aldrich of boffosocko.com for turning me on to Kuru Toga mechanical pencils!

I'm now the happy owner of a white Advance (turns twice as fast), a 3-pack of graphite leads (2B, B, HB), and a 7-pack of assorted colored leads.

Also nice paper to write on: a Maruman Croquis S163 sketchpad.

@robm.wtf @maxy.bsky.social PS, also check out Long Now, e.g., rosettaproject.org or longnow.org/clock/

Also deadmedia.org, although it's a little bit.... dead.

web.archive.org/web/20240306...

Arweave Wiki A decentralized wiki for Arweave.

@robm.wtf @maxy.bsky.social, check out Arweave:

arwiki.wiki#/en/storage-...

("Data Permanence, Not Network Permanence" is esp. interesting)

Root of the wiki:

arwiki.wiki

Here's my hello world post from 2022-11-25, let's check it again in 98 years (or 998, etc.)...

arweave.net/f9IHcqGS7tDX...

Large Emotion Models (LEMs) Framework: A Comprehensive Analysis | Peter Kaminski Large Emotion Models (LEMs) Framework: A Comprehensive Analysis This is a fictional exploration of the idea of "Large Emotion Models" following the release of the Meta AI paper, Large Concept Models:...

A science fiction exploration of the idea of "Large Emotion Models", which would focus on understanding, processing, and generating subtle, complex, and dynamic emotional content and responses in high-dimensional emotional spaces. whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...

Large Emotion Models (LEMs) Framework: A Comprehensive Analysis | Peter Kaminski Large Emotion Models (LEMs) Framework: A Comprehensive Analysis This is a fictional exploration of the idea of "Large Emotion Models" following the release of the Meta AI paper, Large Concept Models:...

Here you go, a fictional exploration by me and the LLMs, whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...

Can't see something like this not happening eventually!

@whtwnd.com is a blog platform running on atproto.

Also see other atproto apps like @frontpage.fyi @linkat.blue @smokesignal.events, and clients like useouranos.app which can directly view the apps' data.

bsky.app/profile/bman...

Good one, Gabe!

But yikes, I bet that'll really happen...

Human-written prompt: "Write a short SF story about me in 2025 sending writing advice to myself in 1985 ... based on contemporary advice about changing LLM-generated language to sound more personal and less like marketese."

(1985 Pete needed the advice!)

Claude story: whtwnd.com/peterkaminsk...

This seems like a big deal.

Meta AI proposes "Large Concept Models" to complement "Large Language Models".

(i.e., reasoning in an embedding space of concepts rather than words)

github.com/facebookrese...

arxiv.org/abs/2412.08821

popularized article: www.marktechpost.com/2024/12/15/m...

The word "attention" is a neat little pivot point in the near history of AI, particularly the current crop of LLMs.

Andrej Karpathy & Ksenia Se do a nice job of straightening out the history of "attention" in AI:

x.com/karpathy/sta...

www.turingpost.com/p/attention

huggingface.co/posts/Ksenia...

AI Coaching Forum (AICF) AI Coaching Forum (AICF) is a welcoming community for all levels of AI expertise. From curious beginners to seasoned professionals, AICF offers peer mentoring, expert-led seminars, exclusive resources...

A few of my (non-techie) AI friends & I are launching AI Coaching Forum next year.

We've been prototyping internally, but next week we're going to have an open house: 5 free one-hour zoom calls with our coaches.

Check out our home page to read more. Click the zoom links to RSVP.

aicoaching.forum