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Building Clipper: An AI Image Generator You Control

Wed, 07 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

“If you’ve ever pasted 50 prompts into an image generator one-by-one, this is for you. I hit my limit and built Clipper to solve it.”

📖 Summary

In the previous blog post I wrote a research paper: Cross-Modal Cognitive Mapping. This paper is about turning your conversations into images to gradually map your thought patterns. The implementation of this paper is an application called Prism.

A component of this app is image generation from prompts or your conversations. All of the Foundation models support this but it’s a pretty janky process where you have to generate the prompt paste it into a text box and download the image. I just went through a week of doing this while building a prompt toolkit. While I was doing this I kept wishing I built the app which I’m going to share with you now.

FFmpeg: A Practical Guide to Essential Command-Line Options

Thu, 06 Feb 2025 13:38:55 +0000

Introduction

FFmpeg is an incredibly versatile command-line tool for manipulating audio and video files. This post provides a practical collection of useful FFmpeg commands for common tasks.

FFmpeg Command Structure

The general structure of an FFmpeg command is:

ffmpeg [global_options] {[input_file_options] -i input_url} ... {[output_file_options] output_url} ...

Merging Video and Audio

Merging video and audio, with audio re-encoding

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.wav -c:v copy -c:a aac output.mp4

Copying the audio without re-encoding

ffmpeg -i video.mp4 -i audio.wav -c copy output.mkv

Why copy audio?

Color wars: Cellular Automata fight until one domiates

Tue, 21 Jan 2025 11:53:56 +0000

Summary

This post is about color wars: a grid containing dynamic automata at war until one dominates.

Implementation

The implementation consists of two core components: the Grid and the CellularAutomaton.

1️⃣ CellularAutomaton Class

The CellularAutomaton class represents individual entities in the grid. Each automaton has:

Attributes: ID, strength, age, position.
Behavior: Updates itself by aging, reproducing, or dying based on simple rules.

2️⃣ Grid Class

The Grid manages a collection of automata. It: