Michael E JohnsoninAI AdvancesAI: Sometimes replacing a human is a VERY good thing.Meta, Anthropic, Alibaba, Mistral, and other companies have been releasing open source Large Language Models (LLM/AI) for the last couple…Sep 2616Sep 2616
Michael E JohnsonDIY Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner: Part 5, Phase Change Material Heat BatteryCan we use a Phase Change material to store heat from the room?Sep 15Sep 15
Michael E JohnsonDIY Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner: Part 4, Upgrade to 48v/Smoke TestLet’s make some upgrades to the Solar Peltier System. Since starting this project, I’ve learned a lot about planning power budgets, how…Aug 24Aug 24
Michael E JohnsonDIY Repair/Upgrade: 12v Power Drill Battery ReplacementWhy throw away a good drill because the batteries die? Meet my old Black and Decker 12v Matrix Lithium drill (BDCDMT112) that was nearly…Aug 12Aug 12
Michael E JohnsonThe Perfect Date Night — Snack Tray and Couch Co-Op.A tray of snacks and couch co-op video games has been a long standing “date night” tradition of ours for almost 30 years.Aug 11Aug 11
Michael E JohnsonDIY Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner: Part 3, First Test RunThe Solar A/C was installed in a window and ran for 12 hours! I learned a lot building this project to this point, and it’s been fun to…May 22May 22
Michael E JohnsonDIY Solar Powered Window Air Conditioner: Part 2, Redesign/PrototypeI’ve been building a solar powered Air Conditioner that can sit in a window and help take the edge off the heat in one of the rooms in my…Apr 23Apr 23
Michael E JohnsonDreamcoat: Cosine Similarity using Bit Values (Part 1)Complex floating point vectors can be (I hope to show) accurately represented by binary values converting each floating point number down…Mar 28Mar 28
Michael E JohnsonVSDB: My Experiments with VectorspacesAnyone familiar with the LLMs and “retrieval augmented generation” (RAG) probably knows how vectorspace engines are used now as a way to…Mar 26Mar 26
Michael E JohnsonNixtamalizing Millet for Corn-Free Tortillas, First Attempt.Nixtamalization is an food preparation method invented by indigenous peoples in the Americas that increases the nutritional value of foods…Dec 11, 2023Dec 11, 2023