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About
Bram Adams (@bramses) is a creative technologist and commonplacer based out of NYC. What are your favorite books? You can see an irregularly updated Goodreads list here, but my top five are (these are affiliate links, so I get a bit of kickback if you buy a copy. Thanks!): 1.
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a faq about me
Character Sheet
meet the crew!
Bram Adamsthe characters that occasionally appear on ba.dev
Contact
For questions, comments, greivances, concerns, life updates, small talk, chitter chatter, information about my car’s extended warranty policy and more; I can be reached at: bram + hello a bramadams d dev
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Projects
GPT-3 and OpenAI
GPTs
A collection of the GPTs I’ve written
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GitHub - bramses/moon: A CLI that can do smart GPT completion based on contents of files
A CLI that can do smart GPT completion based on contents of files - bramses/moon
bramsesGitHub - bramses/switchboard: OpenAI Plugins Template using OpenAPI spec and FastAPI
OpenAI Plugins Template using OpenAPI spec and FastAPI - bramses/switchboard
bramsesGitHub - bramses/gpt-to-chatgpt-py: Convert a regular GPT call into a ChatGPT call
Convert a regular GPT call into a ChatGPT call. Contribute to bramses/gpt-to-chatgpt-py development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesGitHub - bramses/gpt-to-chatgpt-ts: Convert GPT Completion call to a ChatGPT call
Convert GPT Completion call to a ChatGPT call. Contribute to bramses/gpt-to-chatgpt-ts development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesGitHub - bramses/xegos
Contribute to bramses/xegos development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesObsidian
GitHub - bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-vault-2023: A highly opinionated, fully featured Obsidian vault that can get you from Zero to Zettelkasten lickety split!
A highly opinionated, fully featured Obsidian vault that can get you from Zero to Zettelkasten lickety split! - bramses/bramses-highly-opinionated-vault-2023
bramsesGitHub - bramses/chatgpt-md: A (nearly) seamless integration of ChatGPT into Obsidian.
A (nearly) seamless integration of ChatGPT into Obsidian. - bramses/chatgpt-md
bramsesGitHub - bramses/obsidian-stack-overflow: Fetch Stack Oveflow answers and copy paste them directly into Obsidian
Fetch Stack Oveflow answers and copy paste them directly into Obsidian - bramses/obsidian-stack-overflow
bramsesCommonplace Bot
GitHub - bramses/commonplace-bot: An LLM augmented commonplace book, available for public viewing
An LLM augmented commonplace book, available for public viewing - bramses/commonplace-bot
bramsesGitHub - bramses/quoordinates: Use OpenAI Embeddings to visualize Kindle Highlights from Readwise!
Use OpenAI Embeddings to visualize Kindle Highlights from Readwise! - bramses/quoordinates
bramsesIssue 29: Anything But Commonplace
Commonplace Bot is live!!
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GitHub - bramses/quo-host
Contribute to bramses/quo-host development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesGitHub - bramses/kindle-streamer
Contribute to bramses/kindle-streamer development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesCal Newport Bookshelf and Recommendations
Notion – The all-in-one workspace for your notes, tasks, wikis, and databases.
A new tool that blends your everyday work apps into one. It’s the all-in-one workspace for you and your team
Stenography
Stenography
GitHub - StenographyDev/autopilot-vsc
Contribute to StenographyDev/autopilot-vsc development by creating an account on GitHub.
StenographyDevGitHub - bramses/comde: GPT Code Descriptor and Markdown Creator
GPT Code Descriptor and Markdown Creator. Contribute to bramses/comde development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesiOS
GitHub - bramses/i-aint-reading-all-that: voice record > whisper > gpt > copy to clipboard
voice record > whisper > gpt > copy to clipboard. Contribute to bramses/i-aint-reading-all-that development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesScripts
GitHub - bramses/ytclip-10s
Contribute to bramses/ytclip-10s development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesGitHub - bramses/spotify-recently-played-markdown-list
Contribute to bramses/spotify-recently-played-markdown-list development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesChat Mode
GitHub - bramses/ghost-gpt
Contribute to bramses/ghost-gpt development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesGraph Mode
GitHub - bramses/ghost-to-nomic: Upload your Ghost blog posts as a Nomic Map
Upload your Ghost blog posts as a Nomic Map. Contribute to bramses/ghost-to-nomic development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesCreative Coding
GitHub - bramses/poems: Creative Code Poetry
Creative Code Poetry. Contribute to bramses/poems development by creating an account on GitHub.
bramsesGreatest Hits
A Full Year of Weekly Newsletters
Issue 52: A Year Around the Sun
Reflections on a year of newsletter-ing, and what to look forward to next year.
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Your Art or Your Life Series
Issue 50: Reset your Social Media Annually
On the controlled burn of online profiles
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pt 1
Issue 51: Your Art or Your Life
Why a Personal Domain is your Domain
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pt 2
The Well-Read Series
Issue 44: Is Being Well Read Actually a Thing? Part I - Zero to One
The superpower we neglect to use
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part I
Issue 45: Is Being Well Read Actually A Thing? Pt II: The Upper Class of Readers
How we can achieve reader mobility through inertia, and become a master with density
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part II
Issue 46: Is Being Well Read Actually a Thing? Pt III: The Well-Read Archetypes
On being well read within, without, by mastery
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part III
On Arbitrage
ARBITRAGE
im all in on arbitrage
Bram Adamsrecording with OBS is free real estate
Running a Zero Waste Flywheel
Put your dollars to work!
Bram Adamsdecrease friction to zero
Do Less, Better (with leverage!)
How can entrepreneurs use leverage to maximize their profits and minimize their losses?
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Issue 38: The Art of Self-Surveillance
I see...me
Bram AdamsMoving Away From Obsidian
Why I Migrated 300+ Posts From Obsidian Publish to Ghost
303. 303 posts manually backfilled one by one from Obsidian Publish to Ghost, with great effort and mental + physical expense. But why? The Goal of a Zettelkasten For the uninitiated, a zettelkasten is a form of a personal knowledge management system (PKM). The Zettelkasten method prioritizes small pieces of information
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The PKM Niche is Crowded
To be successful in the PKM niche, I argue that counterintuitively PKM should be used as a tool to become big in another realm of idea space.
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Creative Coding
Kingdom Hearts Menu Style Portfolio
~~ dearly beloved ~~
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Bleeding Edge Technology is Made for Silly Art
The only defensible use for bleeding edge tech is play!
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Peace of Mind
When we say we want peace *of* mind, what we really mean is that we want peace *from* mind
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A Candid Conversation with my Artificial Self
Using GPT-3 to get to the brass tacks of humanity in an AI world
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I Must Find A Place For Their Souls To Rest
I’m done with the feelings I’ve learned to know in paradox
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Embeddings Creative Coding Exploration
Embeddings as Shapes v0.1
Embeddings, this time as shapes! (v0.1)
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Embeddings Visualized as Colors
Mixing p5 and embeddings!
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On Computation
Why a Computer is a Universal Tool
why is a computer a universal tool?
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The List
can we imagine an exhaustive list of tasks computers can do?
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The Universal Tool
There is an old adage that “when you have a hammer, everything begins to look like a nail”
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Bridging the Distance in Problem Space
How CPUs actually move through the problem and solution space
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What Is a Problem
wait, so what *is* a problem exactly?
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On Books
7 Books I Read In 2023 That Live In My Head Rent Free
as a Creative Technologist
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The Future of Blogging
Blogging Has Just Changed Forever and No One Is Talking About It
Blogging has recieved a major upgrade, from an unexpected place.
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Are GPTs Websites?
Issue 42: Are GPTs Websites?
Or are they perhaps something else altogether?
Bram Adams2023 Reflections
Issue 41: Reflecting on 2023 and Predictions for 2024
The Holiday Issue Part II
Bram AdamsSixteen Weeks of Time Blocking
Issue 37: Sixteen Weeks of Time Blocking
When you hold the sand from a broken hourglass in your hands, it’s just sand.
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