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A videography hobbyist In my free time, I like shooting videos of my family’s adventures and doing some basic editing. I shoot on my cellphone and a GoPro. For the past several years, I have rendered my final projects in 1080p at 24 frames per second. I liked the ability to shoot in 4k and still “zoom in” digitally to 1080. That also let me shoot slow motion video at 1080, and match my final render resolution. I recently got a newer GoPro, so now I can shoot 4k at 120 fps, which allows me slow down to 20% speed if I render my final project at 24 fps. ...

Building a large language model from scratch I’m a machine learning / A.I. hobbyist. The technologies fascinate me, and I can’t seem to learn enough about them. Sebastian Raschka’s book, Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch) caught my eye. I don’t recall how I stumbled on it, but I found it when it was still in early access from Manning Publications. I purchased it, and started working through it as the final chapters were being written and released. I just completed the book and all the included work and loved every minute of it. ...

Why? Does the internet need another blog? Definitively, no. Do I have original insights that you will benefit from reading? Most likely not. So what’s the point of this blog? I recently changed jobs, and I’m learning a lot. I retain information better when I describe it to someone. I also have a fear that if I constantly regurgitate my ongoing education to my close family, they will eventually want to murder me. That’s where this blog comes in. I’m going to teach you what I’m learning, so I can learn it better. ...