Category: Articles
Meta Horizon Workrooms “lean back” move is the most immersive thing
This might seem like a minor thing, but when we're screen sharing in presentation mode in Meta Horizon Workrooms (a VR workspace), sometimes someone starts talking and it makes me "lean back" to establish eye contact. We're lined up classroom style, and the room is set up to allow everyone to see a large shared screen...
I am finally leaving Evernote (exporting Notes to Markdown)
I've been watching Evernote stagnate and become less useful to me for many years and based on anecdotes from many friends, a lot of people are in a similar state. I've tried migrating to OneNote, Notion, Mem, and others, but no migration path has ever really worked...
Using Whisper and GPT to summarize YouTube videos
I probably spend an average of 30-60 minutes a day on YouTube listening to amazing experts share knowledge about breaking news. After seeing Auto-GPT in action, I finally decided to do some coding with Whisper and GPT, and created a little program that fetches YouTube videos, transcribes them with Whisper, and summarizes them with GPT.
ChatGPT (GPT-4) music composition experiments
I had a little conversation with ChatGPT (GPT-3.5 and GPT-4) about musical composition, which was interesting. I have to imagine that if someone threw a ton of sheet music at the next version of GPT, it could become proficient (and maybe even genius) at composition in every genre (including crazy mashups).
Using ChatGPT and OpenAI’s Whisper to transcribe and translate old family archives
Tonight, using AI, I transcribed and translated an old, digitized audio tape into a bilingual SRT for almost literally pennies. The recprding is from 1979 and is of my parents and me speaking Mandarin to each other while telling / reading stories. I was 3 years old (!).