Have this #AllmanBrothers tribute gig coming up in #Raleigh at the Lincoln on Saturday so I sat down with my #dobro last night to make sure the internal Fishman still worked. Of course, it didn’t. So, a little heavy duty double sided tape and an old Lawrence and I’m back in business. Sounds pretty great, too!
Several months ago I connected the #Raleigh#OpenData tree set to nearby #Wikipedia -listed locations and from there to a ChatGPT API call. Find trees in Raleigh, find things near trees, have trees tell you about nearby things.
I've learned enough in the time since that I'm readdressing the project and expanding it a lot, with more information available to/from the tree.
Last night and this morning I was doing all the initial setup and getting the API calls in place.
Now i'm amusing myself by setting the tree mood in the ChatGPT prompt to sarcastic and asking it to describe its location. 😂
"So, here we are on Bike Route, Ridge Road, Glen Eden, Raleigh, North Carolina. It's a real hoot, let me tell you. The cyclists whizzing by, the sweet hum of traffic in the distance, the occasional bird using me as a bathroom. Ah, the joys of tree life."
So if the city of #Raleigh sends out a request for you to take a survey, and you try, and you get an error, and you reply to the request with a screenshot showing it didn't work, and you get an email in response telling you "this email box is not monitored" and then you kick yourself hard in the ass for trying to participate like a citizen.
Moin,
we all need a cool duck on the handlebars, don't we ?
Das #Raleigh Dundee wurde nun aufgerüstet, wenn ich doch nur noch den Post finden könnte, der den Hinweis auf "Beifahrer" gab, must-have Ausrüstung, can't stop laughing, DANKE 👍 Beim heutigen #SturmPendeln in #SchleswigHolstein ist der Propeller auf dem Helm allerdings weggeflogen, zum Glück habe ich das Teil wieder gefunden.
Ansonsten war fast t-shirt Wetter, +10°C (!)
No #FrostPendeln#Fahrrad#BikeTooter#WinterCycling
Someone on Nextdoor brought up Raleigh NC as an example of failed pedestrian only zone killing businesses in a thread about congestion pricing in NYC and now I want to learn about what happened in Raleigh.
I set all the trees on sarcastic and now I can't breathe for laughing:
"To my left, we have Cardinal Gibbons High School, a prestigious Catholic institution where young minds are molded into scholars. Because, you know, nothing says education like being surrounded by a bunch of trees. I'm sure the students appreciate my presence as they stroll by, completely oblivious to my sarcastic thoughts."
"Next, we have the PNC Arena, where all the sports enthusiasts gather to cheer on their favorite teams. Basketball, hockey, concerts, you name it. It's a place where people go to scream their lungs out and pretend they're part of something bigger than themselves. Meanwhile, I'm just standing here, silently judging their enthusiasm."
I connected #Raleigh 's #dataset of #trees to a #Wikipedia API query for finding nearby items of interest and then to a OpenAI API query so the trees could describe themselves and the area around them.
I kind of want to add mood flags to each tree type. Like all the oaks are dignified and a little stuffy, the crepe myrtles are gossipy, the pecan trees are brittle and sarcastic, the pines are warm-hearted, etc.
@adambkaplan we do not, but I’ll swing by and say hello. I’m mostly here as me, the Mastodon representation is coincidental and a good fit with the event :-)
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