as someone who’s spent a lifetime programming - a lack of math knowledge has been the biggest blocker of my career.
every time i learn more math, it opens the doors to new kinds of algorithms & software i wouldn’t have had access to previously.
If you’ve ever asked “do I need to know math to be a programmer?” I present you: me, 15 years of experience, 4 years as an SRE at Google, relearning what the fuck a polynomial is.
someone *please* make a magic folder that uses local AI to sort / name anything dropped into it.
i want this for like... taxes, personal information, qualifications, documentation, etc.
i'm too unstructured for the kinds of structure bureaucracy forces on me.
an embedding space for character archetypes in storytelling.
search by character name or description. explore semantically similar archetypes by scrubbing through the map.
express their vibe through color
soon? merge archetypes together or deconstruct them.
this is what i want exploring latent space to feel like.
pointing at positions in beautiful visualisations and going - what would the generative data point there look like?
prompt -> rpg character
i think this is going to be fun...
midjourney pixel art backgrounds -> hitherdither
character sprites & portraits in retro diffusion (then fed through hitherdither).
prompt -> rpg character
generate re-usable pieces for rooms and mix them with custom feature rooms - proc gen levels here we come.
walls are on separate layers so you can walk behind them (it renders an outline where your character is).
