Glenn Boustead
gbottawa.bsky.social
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
Forgot this one - might be about 50% correct at the moment. Lots of room for improvement though
October 24, 2025 at 1:52 PM
October 24, 2025 at 1:37 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.
October 24, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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
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
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.
August 18, 2025 at 11:40 PM
I forgot to include this image from Wikipedia. And to express thanks for translation.
August 13, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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
It was Mavis Staples night tonight at Ottawa Jazzfest.
June 22, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Somehow I couldn’t attach these other images
June 17, 2025 at 1:32 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.
June 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Apparently I need to say it is a video @deonandan.bsky.social
June 8, 2025 at 4:51 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.
June 8, 2025 at 4:39 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-...
May 29, 2025 at 5:09 PM
May 1, 2025 at 10:35 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!
May 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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
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
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
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
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
My book has arrived! Excited to get into it after a morning ski. @garystager.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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
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