Author: ericblue

Art Analyzer

Reading Time: 4 minutes Analyze artwork using GPT Vision and LLM This past weekend I spent time diving deeper into OpenAI’s GPT-4 Vision capabilities. I figured this would be a good excuse to blend my interests in software development, AI/LLMs, and artwork. I wanted to see how quickly and effectively GPT-4V (gpt-4-1106-vision-preview) could analyze artwork given an uploaded image.…
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ChatGPT-Twilio-Java : Enabling communication with ChatGPT over SMS

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s been quite a while since I’ve blogged, or published an open source project! With ChatGPT taking the world by storm, and finding myself using it daily, I decided to do something I’ve done before – opening up an SMS interface using Twilio. When you’re on the go and just need a quick interaction, nothing…
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Artwork Focus: Tonalism

Reading Time: 2 minutes For the past month, I’ve been researching more on the Tonalism style of art. This was a very popular style of art in the early-mid 1800s to early 1900s before Impressionism became the rage. I really like the mood / atmosphere, and darker color themes and stories you can tell with light. I particularly like…
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10 Improvements I’ve Made As A Result Of Being Immersed In The Quantified Self Movement

Reading Time: 10 minutes Overview For me, tracking data related to my overall health & fitness has been a long and amazing journey; starting off almost a decade ago in 2009 with my Total Recall post (http://eric-blue.com/2009/10/18/total-recall/), my idea on fitness tracking after waking up from a dream (http://eric-blue.com/2010/08/14/fitness-tracking-platform-personal-informatics-for-fitness/) and ultimately building a health & fitness data aggregation company…
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Blogging in 2019? Looking Forward and a 15-Year Retrospective

Reading Time: 2 minutes Let me start by saying, where in the world does time fly?! Getting a new personal website refresh done and porting over hundreds of blog posts from the last 15 years was long overdue – 5 years by my count. So, better late than never! Blogging seems to be a thing of the past for…
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Announcing ActiveOS

Reading Time: < 1 minute It’s been quite a while since I’ve regularly written a blog post.  I’m hoping to change that after the New Year and start writing regularly again as I have a lot to share, and much has been happening since the blog has been active.  With that in mind, my health & fitness tech startup – ActiveOS…
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Home Automation with Belkin Wemo, Twilio, and Siri

Reading Time: 3 minutes Ultimate Hack Mashup – Belkin Wemo + Twilio + Siri A quick note: For another home automation trick and those interested in finding out about the earlier Twillio callbox+TV popup/notification hack check out STEM (https://github.com/ericblue/STEM).  Certain models of Samsung TVs allow popups for incoming phone calls for Samsung phones, but this can be extended to…
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Weekly Lifestream for November 13th

Reading Time: 2 minutes Shared Weekly Lifestream for November 6th. Weekly Lifestream for November 6th Whoever handles social media at @Gizmodo needs fired. Shame on them for posting snuff videos. Forget off topic.. beyond disrespectful. Shared 5 Big Happiness Myths Debunked–And The Power Of Negative Thinking | Fast Company | Business Innovation. Building a ’45s era memex makes me…
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Weekly Lifestream for November 6th

Reading Time: 2 minutes So, after numerous relapses and a multi-year battle and hard work I graduated out of chronic back pain and have been injury free for a while I’m getting into Foundation Training as a way to improve posture, work on mobility, and secondary muscles. I’ve been focused on majorly improving strength this past year, but am…
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Weekly Lifestream for October 30th

Reading Time: 2 minutes Shared Weekly Lifestream for October 23rd. Weekly Lifestream for October 23rd Upgrading to JUST 10lbs extra on bench working weight makes a world of a difference – barely cranking&hellip; http://instagram.com/p/f3EEBOFyKu/  Shared BitCortex – An Open-Source VR Headset Inspired by the Oculus Rift. Shared HydraDeck – Hydra motion controls now in Unity! | Unity 4 Integration…
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