Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week marks the 20th anniversary of when I first started writing online and published my first blog post. In 2010, I released my first open-source project: an unofficial Fitbit API written in Perl. At the time, I had no grand vision—just curiosity and a desire to document my thoughts and pursue my passion across…
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAnalyze 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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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’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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Reading Time: 2 minutesFor 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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Reading Time: 10 minutesOverview 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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Reading Time: 2 minutesLet 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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Reading Time: < 1 minuteIt’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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Reading Time: 3 minutesUltimate 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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Reading Time: 6 minutesThis week I’ve had a few of my interests intersect – the Quantified Self, virtual reality, biofeedback / neurofeedback, and consciousness. Earlier this year I came across the Oculus Rift , a next gen virtual reality headset, that looks to be a game changer (no pun intended). Like many people fascinated and growing up with technology…
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Reading Time: 6 minutesI’m currently working my way through the excellent book Mastery by Robert Greene. Actually, I’m listening to it as an audio book through Audible.com. I’ve never been a fan of audio books, but I’ve found that it’s great to listen every day for about 30 minutes or so on my morning walk. It may take a while…
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