Escribí un bookmarklet que encuentra una solución de dos palabras para el juego "Letterbox" del New York Times. Funcionó, pero por diversión decidí que una IA lo reescribiera para que fuera más rápido. Aquí está el código que creó, pero tardó varios intentos antes de que pudiera abrir una nueva pestaña. Funciona mucho más rápido que lo que escribí.
Batalla de ingenio: IA contra estudiantes de colegios comunitarios
Tras años enseñando en universidades comunitarias y trabajando con IA, he llegado a la conclusión de que comparar su inteligencia es como comparar manzanas con imágenes de manzanas generadas artificialmente. La IA puede calcular al instante derivadas complejas que hacen llorar a los estudiantes de cálculo, pero insiste con seguridad en que Abraham Lincoln fue el primer astronauta en caminar sobre Marte. Mientras tanto, los estudiantes de universidades comunitarias pueden tardar 20 minutos en descubrir cómo conectarse a la red de la escuela, pero al menos saben que jugar videojuegos durante las clases es una mala idea, la mayoría de las veces.
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Nota: este artículo fue escrito por ChatGPT.
¿Alguna vez has recordado una situación y te has preguntado: "¿Qué estaba pensando?". Esa sensación de actuar impulsivamente, sin tu lógica habitual, a menudo es causada por lo que los psicólogos llaman un secuestro de la amígdalaEsta reacción puede hacer que las personas sean vulnerables a la manipulación emocional, y es exactamente con lo que cuentan los estafadores románticos.
Continúa leyendo "The Amygdala Hijack: How Scammers Exploit Your Brain in Romance Scams"A wall mounted control panel for home assistant
While not the most glamorous, or largest, or most expensive control panel, this meets my needs perfectly. I wanted a small control panel, using Home Assistant, mounted by my front door that I could use for controlling my garage door, to turn off all the lights, etc. I wasn’t interested in spending any money for a tablet to mount or a touch screen. My solution was to re-purpose an old Android phone I had laying around. By having this right by the door I don’t have to pull my phone out of my pocket and start up Home Assistant to do the set of things I want to do leaving or entering the house.
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This post serves as my personal record of the steps required to integrate an ESPresense ESP-32 device into my Home Assistant setup. Additionally, I hope it will be helpful to others. The screenshots included were taken in February 2024 and might have been updated since then.
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Do you have trouble remembering words when playing Wordle. I wrote a bookmarklet that examines your guesses and displays a list of words that potentially match for your next guess.
The bookmarklet is at the end of this post. If you don’t know what a bookmarklet is you can use the link above to learn about them.
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Just for fun I asked ChatGPT to write an essay explaining ChatGPT. This is what it produced.
Continúa leyendo "Artificial Intelligence"Moving Home Assistant from a virtual machine to dedicated hardware
I have been running home assistant on a generic Linux virtual machine using Oracle’s Virtualbox system for several years. It has worked pretty well for me, but I recently decided to purchase a mini pc and move home assistant to it.
In part what prompted this was finding a low cost mini PC that looked pretty good. $139.00 for an OUVISLITE Ιntel Celeron J4125 (Up to 2.7GHz), with 8GB DDR4 128GB M.2 SSD Mini Computer, 4K HDMI, Triple Display, Dual WiFi, BT4.2, and HTPC. For that price I figured “what the hell, let’s give it a try”.
Continúa leyendo "Moving Home Assistant from a virtual machine to dedicated hardware"Restoring Home Assistant from Google Drive backup
Normally you restore home assistant to a previous backup using the backups stored locally that are listed under Settings -> System -> Backups. Just click on the backup you want to restore and a window pops up. Simple.
But if you want to restore to a version saved to Google drive you first have to copy the backup file from Google Drive to your local PC and then upload it to Home Assistant. Then the feature to upload a backup file is hidden under the “three dot” menu at the upper right of the backup page.
Open the menu, select “Upload backup”, and find the backup file you copied from Google Drive.
Using Aqara Vibrarion Sensor as Garage Door sensor
I was looking for a tilt sensor to tell me if my garage door was open or closed. The sensor had to work with Home Assistant and the only one I could find that looked simple and cheap was the Aqara Vibration sensor that had a tilt/orientation feature.
Unfortunately the feature was not one of the attributes that Home Assistant showed with the device which sent me down the rabbit hole of googling. Eventually I got it figured out and this article is to share my experiences.
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