Jesse Clark’s Blog

A traditional alignment chart uses a 2-axis grid to describe 9 moral alignments:

Good - Evil
Lawful - Chaotic

Our favorite family-friendly video games (and other media)

These images were generated by neural networks using this notebook.

Resources
Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene: first "mainstream" introduction to AI Art.
The Illustrated VQGAN: The neural network generating images is VQGAN. This is a description of how it works! Fairly technical.

Cake is a task-runner for CoffeeScript.

It can be useful to invoke external scripts from cake, if they are written in another language or simply don't fit in the Cakefile. Suppose we have a scripts directory populated with various text-based executables, and we want to automatically define a cake task for each of those scripts, with an appropriate description, like so:

Metalsmith is a popular static site generator.

The metalsmith command-line interface allows a build process to be defined by a single JSON file. If you want to vary the build process in different situations, you need to write a script that duplicates much of the logic of the CLI. It's possible to avoid duplication by requiring the CLI binary from another script. This gives us an opportunity to modify the config with conditional or non-serializable data: