The Lantern: Keeping Family Stories Alive with Local, Open AI This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge Week 4: Ghost in the Machine. What I Built The Lantern is a local remembrance journal that turns small memories into a tribute. Save a story about someone: a Sunday ...

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8 Voice AI Features Most Developers Overlook

8 Voice AI Features Most Developers Overlook Voice AI has moved from novelty to a core component of modern applications—think smart assistants, accessibility tools, and immersive games. Yet when building voice experiences, many developers focus on the obvious: basic speech-to-text (STT) or text-...

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Data Modeling Ivanpah: 173,500 Heliostats, One Sun, and a Lot of Missing State

I spent a week trying to represent Ivanpah as data. Not the whole plant, just the part you can see from a car: three towers, three mirror fields, and a boundary fence. It turned out to be a good exercise in knowing what a model can hold and what it quietly drops.