April 05, 2025
I spent unnecessary money trying to get Gemini 2.5 Pro Max and Sonnet 3.7 Max to create file attributes for projects and apply them to a new folder. Two things came of it:
Premium tool calls — $15 in total. Totally wasted money.
I made no real progress and ultimately just created a boilerplate template instead.
The boilerplate worked with only minimal edits.
The only positive from the experience is that I managed to completely revamp the UX for my image generation projects.
March 31, 2025
Ash, directed by Flying Lotus, is a bold and atmospheric sci-fi thriller that blurs the line between horror and psychological mystery. The film opens with astronaut Riya (Eiza González) waking up on a distant research station to find her entire crew gruesomely murdered, her memory in disarray, and a strange life force haunting the facility. As she attempts to make sense of the chaos, her isolation is broken by Brion (Aaron Paul), a fellow astronaut who answers her distress signal. Their uneasy reunion stirs up more questions than answers, as the film skillfully cultivates paranoia and distrust between its two leads.
Eiza González delivers a gripping and vulnerable performance, grounding the film’s surreal tone with emotional authenticity. Her chemistry with Aaron Paul adds dramatic tension, especially as their characters grapple with fragmented truths and personal histories. Flying Lotus, known for his musical innovation, brings a visually stunning and sonically immersive style to the screen, drenched in neon and laced with dread. The cinematography, sound design, and pacing draw clear inspiration from sci-fi staples like Blade Runner 2049 and Event Horizon, yet the film never feels like a copy — it embraces its influences while carving its own strange, cerebral path.
Though it leans into familiar genre tropes, Ash stands out for its ambition and commitment to mood over exposition. It explores themes of memory, identity, and the fragility of perception in the face of cosmic horror. Some viewers may find its narrative elliptical or its visuals overpowering, but that’s part of the film’s unique allure. Flying Lotus doesn’t aim for mainstream clarity; instead, he crafts a haunting, hypnotic experience that lingers in the mind. Ash isn’t just a film — it’s a plunge into the eerie unknown, where nothing can be trusted, not even yourself.
March 30, 2025
I’m down to the last two stories of You Like It Darker by Stephen King. I’ve always been especially fond of his short story collections, so this feels a bit disheartening. However, there are plenty of other books to explore.
I have the last third of Holly to still read, as well as Fairy Tale and Billy Summers. I still have not read Elevation either. In addition, there is a new novel out in May.
March 29, 2025
March 28, 2025
Google’s Gemini 2.5 Pro represents a significant advancement in artificial intelligence, featuring enhanced reasoning and coding capabilities. This “thinking” model processes tasks step-by-step before responding, resulting in improved accuracy for complex prompts. It excels in creating executable code from concise prompts and leads in benchmarks like GPQA and AIME 2025. With native multimodality, it interprets and generates responses across text, audio, images, and video, supported by a 1 million token context window, soon expanding to 2 million. Developers can access Gemini 2.5 Pro through Google AI Studio, with broader availability forthcoming.
