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Attending Biopunk Meetup in Frontier Tower

I was intrigued by this event so I decided to attend it. It was situated in Frontier Tower in San Francisco. The tower is dedicated to be a frontier in research. Each floor has people working on different aspects such as Robotech, Neurotech and AI among others.

Everyone was greeted and was welcomed to present themselves and what they are working on. It was very brief without any visual support.

After that we got to chit chat with the other guests. It was really awesome to meet scientists who are pushing the knowledge boundary. I hope one day i’ll be able to help the scientific community with my computer and programming knowledge.

 

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Vibe Coding with Convex Chef at Convex

My Friend Abdur from PyMug recommended me attend events on lu.ma. I found this awesome Vibe Coding Meetup from convex. I didn’t know convex company nor products so I decided to go there and try it out.

I was greeted by Wayne and he guided the participants on how to get started.

Since I was working on working my Frontend for my Kreole Chatbot, I decided why not ask convex chef to do it for me.

With 1 prompt, boom! It made me a whatsapp clone interface. But I wanted to interact with it. Send messages and reply back. I asked it to do that and it worked.

I was even more shocked to know that this is actually saving in the database. Crazy!!!!

Next step was to make it display the products from my chatbot. I thus asked it to create a carousel of products.

Magic once again. It looks so pretty. All the best practices from design i think are there.

But but but. When I asked it to make the add to cart functionality, it didn’t work due to some bug. My AI tokens were also depleted at that point and I started to debug manually.

I see it is a tiny error but since i was totally new to the framework, i couldn’t solve it.

And then came Food time and Demo time where everyone could showcase their vibe coded project.

 

It is such a cool office. They have guitars and drum sets!

Was a really cool experience. I invite everyone to try it out and let me know till where you are able to stretch it: https://chef.convex.dev/

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Using AI to Catch a Thief in Flic-en-Flac

A thief stole a bicycle on my porch and we have CCTV cameras installed. However, witnesses couldn’t recall the exact time, leaving us with three full days of footage to review. Watching it manually was impractical, especially since the mobile app couldn’t fast-forward remotely as it was not on the same LAN as the DVR.

We downloaded all 65 video files from the DVR, but even that was daunting. That’s when I turned to AI.

Using AI to Solve the Problem

I asked ChatGPT to write a Python script to detect bicycles in the footage.

The script worked immediately, but after some testing, I adjusted it to detect people instead—making it faster and more efficient.

It saved only frames with detected persons, reducing hours of video to just the important clips.

Tools and Setup

I ran the script on an Ubuntu machine with an NVIDIA RTX 4070 ti super GPU, which processed the footage quickly. What would have taken days was done in almost 3 to 4 hours.

The Moment of Truth

Reviewing the condensed clips, I finally found the thief on camera, riding away with the bicycle.

What do you think is the proper way to bring justice?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Trip to Madagascar: What is Diurnal Air Temperature Variation?

I was told Madagascar is almost same climate to Mauritius. So I did some research and indeed. The temperature matches that of Mauritius. I see Antananarivo will be 19 to 23 degree Celsius.

It would be kinda comparable to a Curepipe temperature in Mauritius.

But then I noticed something else. Have a look at the minimum and maximum temperature difference. In Mauritius is it around 5 degrees (23 – 18). But in Madagascar, it’s like 13 degrees ( 23 – 10).

During the day you may be fine wearing just a t-shirt

But on other occasions or at night, you might need to have 2 sweaters and 1 t-shirt.

 

But it’s alright. Just be prepared and you’ll be fine 🙂

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The Cornman and The Hen

There was once this man who whenever he saw a hen, he started running away as fast as he could. His friends asked him what’s the matter with him and hens? He replied: “I am a maize kernel. If the hen sees me, she will eat me”.

His friends spent lots of time and efforts to convince him that he’s not a maize kernel but rather he is a man!!!

Few days went by and the guys sees a hen nearby and his friends watched his reaction. As soon as the guy noticed the hen, he ran away as soon as he could. His friends asked him why did he run away? He replied: “I know that I am not a maize kernel but does the hen know that?”

I laughed at the joke when my cousin told me this like 20 years ago while we were still kids.

I have been rejected multiple times in my life in different areas. I feel down. I feel useless. I want everything to stop. I want to go back to my cocoon. Then I say to myself: No! You’re awesome. You’ve accomplished so much in your life. You matter.

But then the other side of my brain says: Yeah. We know that you are awesome but do the people around you know that too?