Since I’ve started using GrapheneOS, a deGoogled Android build, I’ve missed several services you typically get from Apple or Google on my device, one of those core services is Speech-to-Text. It helps a lot to speed up note taking, writing text messages, etc. I’ve been using a very crude Vosk keyboard on Android to fill …
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ChatGPT for Homeschool Planning.
I’ve been absolutely blown away by ChatGPT. I’m still reeling by the implications of it’s abilities. I’m hoping it only improves from here, as I suspect it will be dumbed down as it starts to impact some high-level professional job positions. There are quite a few ways that we might use ChatGPT to plan for …
Lessons Learned, First Year of Homeschool in Review
Ahh Summer! We are currently on our Summer migration North to Maine, from Florida. Now is a good time to revisit the past year in review. Spoiler alert, it was a huge success. In this short article I’ll cover where we started, what worked, and how we adapted through our first year of homeschooling our …
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One small bet, Learnalot.net
My wife and I have started homeschooling our daughters since the last year. Personally, I’ve been pushing for it long before COVID. But, since that’s become such a concern, we decided to give it a shot and see how it goes. One year in, we’ve all fallen in love with it. I can’t imagine that …
Building a Conversational AI Chatbot + 3D Avatar
The goal for this project is to build a voice-to-voice CAI (Conversational AI) integration with an interactive 3D Avatar. Initially, it will integrate with SAP Conversational AI, which despite it’s name, is a text-to-text service. So, round trip looks like voice-to-text => CAI => text-to-voice, out to the user. Hopefully the performance isn’t terrible. Here’s …
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Starting again
I’m rebooting this old site into a WordPress blog, as well as this ancient Twitter account, to keep track of my entrepreneurial endeavors. I recently joined an interesting group, run by dvassallo around making small bets. Building small products, SaaS, Educational, physical, and otherwise. Little products, that when you sufficiently define and execute them, they …