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Vincent Bons · Builder of odd and wonderful things
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The library
Everything I've written, one shelf for every year. Every book has a card in this drawer. And the piano in the corner plays.
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20253 posts
- Building a Modular MonolithA practical guide to building a modular monolith in Kotlin and Spring Boot
- Mana from the Machine: An AI-Powered MTG Set GeneratorBuilding an AI system that generates complete, custom Magic: The Gathering sets, covering theme creation, card mechanics, AI-generated artwork, rendering, and creating playable output for virtual tabletops.
- "Tails of Power": An AI-Generated Fantasy Trailer"Tails of Power" explores the current capabilities of AI video generation tools. By combining Midjourney's image generation, Kling AI's animation, and AI-generated music and sound effects, this project demonstrates both the potential and limitations of creating cinematic content with AI.
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- Quantum Aeon: A story written by alien intelligenceA story to read or to listen, written about and by alien intelligence.
- Exploring another planet: AI-generated Nature PhotographyDiscovering an alien planet using AI photography with midjourney 5.
- Journey into the Dreamhold: Testing GPT-4's General Intelligence Through a Text Adventure QuestExploring GPT-4's General Intelligence. How GPT-4 tackles the challenges of an interactive text adventure.
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- Museum of imaginary artA museum with artists imagined by GPT-3 and artworks created by Midjourney.
- Building a text generation model from scratchIn this blogpost I am going to code a text generation model from scratch, based on the transformer architecture.
- DreamboothUsing Dreambooth to create a customized stable diffusion model for my cat.
- Imaginary creaturesCreated by GPT-3, Dall-e 2 and me
- GPT-3 as a muse: generating lyricsUsing a finetuned version of GPT-3 to write lyrics in the preferred style.
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20203 posts
- Solving Lunar Lander using DQN with KerasSolving the OpenAI gym LunarLander environment with the help of DQN implemented with Keras.
- Starting a self-hosted Ghost blogA guide for setting up your own self-hosted Ghost CMS blog on Ubuntu 20.04 using Docker Compose.
- Programming CarcassonneI describe my process of programming the board game Carcassonne in Python, and my preparations for using this game as a reinforcement learning environment.
On the piano
Two pieces I wrote. Click the piano in the corner, or pick one here.
The lighthouse
The keeper's quarters. The coffee's on and the console's plugged in.
The workshop
Things I'm building. Most of them started as "wouldn't it be fun if…"
a silver card engine
Argentum
KotlinA Magic: The Gathering rules engine and game client. Play full games against friends or an AI opponent.
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a quill that writes by itself
Talespinner
AIStories spun together with AI: interactive tales that grow as you play.
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a printing press
Mana from the Machine
LLMsAn AI-powered generator for complete, playable Magic: The Gathering sets, art and all.
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a game in progress
Carcassonne
PythonThe board game Carcassonne in Python, built to be an environment for reinforcement learning. Later rebuilt in Kotlin.
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a network of glass nodes
Transformer
PyTorchA text generation model built from scratch on the transformer architecture, one attention head at a time.
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a gramophone
Music Generation Toolbox
PythonA toolbox for generating music with transformers. It helped write our song for the AI Song Contest 2021.
32 generated songs, played on a creaky old gramophone.
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a lunar lander, still practising
Lunar Lander
KerasTeaching an agent to land softly on the moon with deep Q-learning, in the OpenAI Gym LunarLander environment.
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a terminal by the hammock
lazyhttp
GoA terminal UI for running .http test plans step by step, like lazygit for your HTTP requests.
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By the campfire
Hi, I'm Vincent Bons. I build things with AI, write about them, and play guitar when the fire's going. This island is my corner of the internet. Stay a while.
The mountain trail
Every cairn marks a stretch of the climb. The summit is where I am now.
The stones on this trail are still being carved. Meanwhile, the whole climb is on LinkedIn.
Where to?
The signpost only points at the big places. The rest you'll have to find.
Field journal
Things you've found on the island. Some only show up at night.
- ???Someone is napping where the boats come in.
- ???Someone got to the bench before you.
- ???Look up. Then click.
- ???Follow the sound of strings.
- ???Some wells go deeper than others.
- ???Every good journey has benches.
- ???There are holds on one of the rocks.
- ???The trail keeps going up.
- ???Someone left in the middle of their turn.
- ???Check the water by the dock.
- ???Only at night. Only for a moment.
- ???Count the moons in the sea at night.
- ???Not all the music on the island is played outdoors.
- ???↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
- ???Someone in the workshop keeps tripping over things.
- ???Lean in close to the globe in the library.
- ???One book on the keeper’s shelf won’t open.
- ???The keeper’s telly has a game about where he grew up.
- ???Someone in the meadow has a ball and all the time in the world.