Laser Cutting Bookmarks, Ideas & Inspiration

Did you know? Money Remittance

Blockchain could improve life for millions of immigrants who suffer exploitation when they send money home to their relatives. Western Union, MoneyGram and other intermediaries have a monopoly on the movement of money, collecting $38 billion annually in remittance fees. Fees can run as high as 20% and most of the people who pay them are low-wage workers.

Dee Hock (Visa) – Quote

I like this quote from the founder and CEO of Visa. I believe “thinking out of the box” is a challenge for many of us when your mind is fulled with preconceived notions and ideas. I am also reasonably convinced there is strong correlation between the longer you continue to use and believe the existing ideas, the harder it is to get them out …

2019 – Moab MTB Trip

Hellava good time!

Day 1Colorado to Moab in a shady van organized by Scott
Day 2Slick Rock
Day 3Dead Horse Point Tour in the AM and Outer Bike and North 40 in the PM
Day 4Delicate Arch Hike for Sunrise and Dead Mans/Bar B
Day 5The Whole Enchilada
Day 6Hymasa and Captain Ahab

Clockwork PI

GameShell is the a modular, portable game console with a GNU/Linux embedded operating system. It allows you to play thousands of classic games from Atari, GB, GBA, NES, SNES and many of history’s greatest consoles. GameShell supports programming languages like C, Python, Lua, and LISP.

Such an awesome little device …

Open Source Project: Rasa UI

Rasa is an open source machine learning framework to automate text-and voice-based conversations.

Rasa UI is a web application built on top of, and for Rasa. Rasa UI provides a web application to quickly and easily be able to create and manage bots, NLU components (Regex, Examples, Entities, Intents, etc.) and Core components (Stories, Actions, Responses, etc.) through a web interface. It also provides some convenience features for Rasa, like training and loading your models, monitoring usage or viewing logs.

I developed Rasa UI to help me manage my bots as well as creating and managing the training data. The app is developed on NodeJS, and uses a simple SQLite DB for persistence (previously PostgresDB). read more