Glenn Boustead
@gbottawa.bsky.social
I wanted to respond to this saying something like how important sitting in a circle and having discussions about a wide range of topics would be better than hitting a turn in button for something you may not have done. Then I saw this machine and thought of the Jetsons. We need to think about tech..
October 28, 2025 at 10:46 PM
I wanted to respond to this saying something like how important sitting in a circle and having discussions about a wide range of topics would be better than hitting a turn in button for something you may not have done. Then I saw this machine and thought of the Jetsons. We need to think about tech..
Forgot this one - might be about 50% correct at the moment. Lots of room for improvement though
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Forgot this one - might be about 50% correct at the moment. Lots of room for improvement though
@jmoenig.bsky.social I tried the MNIST data using a 10000 record csv. I used only 200 items to train in 784-100-10, and got through around 50 epochs before my computer hiccuped (likely memory?). It was enough to have what I consider to be a great start.
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
@jmoenig.bsky.social I tried the MNIST data using a 10000 record csv. I used only 200 items to train in 784-100-10, and got through around 50 epochs before my computer hiccuped (likely memory?). It was enough to have what I consider to be a great start.
Here’s a video of sax versus clarinet. Even with poor playing it could tell the difference between these similar instruments.
August 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Here’s a video of sax versus clarinet. Even with poor playing it could tell the difference between these similar instruments.
I’ve had time to mess around with these new blocks. I’ve tried several instruments and it works quite well. What I haven’t been able to figure out is how to have more than 2 instruments be detected in one model. I tried different classification numbers but no success yet. Video in reply…
August 20, 2025 at 6:34 PM
I’ve had time to mess around with these new blocks. I’ve tried several instruments and it works quite well. What I haven’t been able to figure out is how to have more than 2 instruments be detected in one model. I tried different classification numbers but no success yet. Video in reply…
Fun times. Sounds like you’ve visited these topics in an abstract way. It reminded me of this story from Ken Kahn’s new book
cmkpress.com/product/lear... where a little girl very concretely encounters these ideas using pebbles. I’ve attached the story as a photo but have a spare copy of the book.
cmkpress.com/product/lear... where a little girl very concretely encounters these ideas using pebbles. I’ve attached the story as a photo but have a spare copy of the book.
August 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Fun times. Sounds like you’ve visited these topics in an abstract way. It reminded me of this story from Ken Kahn’s new book
cmkpress.com/product/lear... where a little girl very concretely encounters these ideas using pebbles. I’ve attached the story as a photo but have a spare copy of the book.
cmkpress.com/product/lear... where a little girl very concretely encounters these ideas using pebbles. I’ve attached the story as a photo but have a spare copy of the book.
I forgot to include this image from Wikipedia. And to express thanks for translation.
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
I forgot to include this image from Wikipedia. And to express thanks for translation.
Branford Marsalis quartet closing out Ottawa Jazzfest tonight. Accompanied by a giant dragonfly removing the pesky mosquitoes. It flies too fast to photograph.
June 30, 2025 at 1:18 AM
Branford Marsalis quartet closing out Ottawa Jazzfest tonight. Accompanied by a giant dragonfly removing the pesky mosquitoes. It flies too fast to photograph.
It was Mavis Staples night tonight at Ottawa Jazzfest.
June 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
It was Mavis Staples night tonight at Ottawa Jazzfest.
Somehow I couldn’t attach these other images
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Somehow I couldn’t attach these other images
I’m looking forward to learning how to do this in Snap! as well. I made something similar in the past using @dalelane.co.uk Machine Learning for Kids, but it goes to Watson to create the models.
June 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I’m looking forward to learning how to do this in Snap! as well. I made something similar in the past using @dalelane.co.uk Machine Learning for Kids, but it goes to Watson to create the models.
Apparently I need to say it is a video @deonandan.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Apparently I need to say it is a video @deonandan.bsky.social
Beautiful evening at singingout.com Iconique show @ Koerner Hall Toronto. Such a caring and loving community of humans. @deonandan.bsky.social you would like the Bowie tune.
June 8, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Beautiful evening at singingout.com Iconique show @ Koerner Hall Toronto. Such a caring and loving community of humans. @deonandan.bsky.social you would like the Bowie tune.
I spent a lovely day yesterday at NGMPS messin’ around with micro:bits. The grade 4/5 students made good use of @4pip.bsky.social book “Invent to Learn with the micro:bit” @garystager.bsky.social @sylviamartinez.bsky.social and are captured by their teacher at www.instagram.com/reel/DKNVpj-...
May 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
I spent a lovely day yesterday at NGMPS messin’ around with micro:bits. The grade 4/5 students made good use of @4pip.bsky.social book “Invent to Learn with the micro:bit” @garystager.bsky.social @sylviamartinez.bsky.social and are captured by their teacher at www.instagram.com/reel/DKNVpj-...
I forgot to tag people @sylviamartinez.bsky.social @garystager.bsky.social
May 1, 2025 at 10:35 PM
I forgot to tag people @sylviamartinez.bsky.social @garystager.bsky.social
I’ve been wanting to get a thermal camera going. I tried online tutorials and such but I don’t really want to learn Python and HTML in great detail. I finally got it going “Ken Kahn style”. Chatted back and forth with Gemini. Very much like with a real personality. Even called it a moron once!
May 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
I’ve been wanting to get a thermal camera going. I tried online tutorials and such but I don’t really want to learn Python and HTML in great detail. I finally got it going “Ken Kahn style”. Chatted back and forth with Gemini. Very much like with a real personality. Even called it a moron once!
So I can now share the video that goes with this post @jmoenig.bsky.social @kgiori.bsky.social
March 15, 2025 at 12:20 AM
So I can now share the video that goes with this post @jmoenig.bsky.social @kgiori.bsky.social
The new speech blocks are fun to use. I got the finch to do some basic moves. My daughter wanted a backflip. Not today. But the patterner in me is satisfied. @jmoenig.bsky.social @kgiori.bsky.social there is so much more fun to come! (It won’t let me post video - I’ll work on that)
March 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
The new speech blocks are fun to use. I got the finch to do some basic moves. My daughter wanted a backflip. Not today. But the patterner in me is satisfied. @jmoenig.bsky.social @kgiori.bsky.social there is so much more fun to come! (It won’t let me post video - I’ll work on that)
Thanks! With only a few minutes to try it it works perfectly. I can’t wait to get right into it and add some physical devices to control and converse with. It also spelled my name correctly - that must be related to synchronization with other data on my computer???
March 14, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Thanks! With only a few minutes to try it it works perfectly. I can’t wait to get right into it and add some physical devices to control and converse with. It also spelled my name correctly - that must be related to synchronization with other data on my computer???
This is a fantastic book. Written in a straightforward and concise manner by someone who knows what we need to hear about AI and learning. My copy arrived a few days ago, along with another yellow book. Both wonderfully calming and inspiring to read given the brain-cycle stealing current events.
March 4, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is a fantastic book. Written in a straightforward and concise manner by someone who knows what we need to hear about AI and learning. My copy arrived a few days ago, along with another yellow book. Both wonderfully calming and inspiring to read given the brain-cycle stealing current events.
I’m jealous of the Jazz you are seeing. Yesterday was cross country skiing in the woods. Today was downhill. The book is fantastic so far. It travels with me and I can read while in transit. We are fortunate and the hill is only 45 minutes from home.
March 2, 2025 at 10:15 PM
I’m jealous of the Jazz you are seeing. Yesterday was cross country skiing in the woods. Today was downhill. The book is fantastic so far. It travels with me and I can read while in transit. We are fortunate and the hill is only 45 minutes from home.
My book has arrived! Excited to get into it after a morning ski. @garystager.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
My book has arrived! Excited to get into it after a morning ski. @garystager.bsky.social
I asked deepseek r1:1.5b (local on a Raspberry Pi 5) to be president of the USA and respond to the question: will you visit the crash site? As a compassionate human being, it gave a decent response, even as a tiny model. It was not able to descend to the depths of a psychopathic narcissist.
February 1, 2025 at 12:35 AM
I asked deepseek r1:1.5b (local on a Raspberry Pi 5) to be president of the USA and respond to the question: will you visit the crash site? As a compassionate human being, it gave a decent response, even as a tiny model. It was not able to descend to the depths of a psychopathic narcissist.
Thanks for spreading the joy of creative computation to more children. I had hoped to go this year but am choosing to go to Reggio Emilia instead in April.
January 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Thanks for spreading the joy of creative computation to more children. I had hoped to go this year but am choosing to go to Reggio Emilia instead in April.