[0:00]So, I'm going to try something new
[0:03]that I don't think will interest most
[0:05]people. I just want to start with that
[0:06]because
[0:09]um this is going to be a very dense
[0:11]transmission. Going to cover a lot of
[0:13]things
[0:14]as much depth as I can
[0:18]at a natural pace.
[0:20]And I'm doing it because I think it
[0:23]might have
[0:25]value in a couple of different ways. So,
[0:29]and one of those ways is so this is not
[0:32]so much a video transmission as an audio
[0:34]one because what I really need is the
[0:36]transcript from this
[0:38]and then that gets ingested into my
[0:40]systems along with the transcript does
[0:44]and I can use that to
[0:47]have AI reflect on it in different ways
[0:51]and I also use it as um or in my
[0:54]development process. I'm a programmer
[0:56]and
[0:57]I used that a lot now. It's
[1:00]definitely um
[1:04]an advantage is what it is that you know
[1:07]all of us programmers have access to now
[1:09]and even non-programmers.
[1:12]It's changing our industry very fast.
[1:20]I think it might be why I have trouble
[1:21]finding work on on Upwork because
[1:25]I suspect a lot of those jobs are not
[1:27]real because they weren't even looking
[1:29]at my proposals. I mean, that made no
[1:32]sense to me. So, anyways,
[1:37]um some of the benefits that I think
[1:39]that I would I might get out of this
[1:42]particular video is I'm going to be
[1:43]talking about a lot of technical stuff
[1:46]and the field companion that I'm
[1:48]creating
[1:50]This is going to take time but somewhere
[1:53]within that process
[1:56]will be able to retain the knowledge of
[1:59]what I've worked on, what I've grappled
[2:02]with um what I'm considering all the
[2:05]different all the different things that
[2:06]I'm doing with my work
[2:10]and give it a sort of functional memory
[2:12]because
[2:14]um it's it's good at recursion. It can
[2:16]be very good at recursion and
[2:19]it tends to fragments and really long
[2:22]context, long conversations and what I'm
[2:25]building
[2:28]um
[2:31]bypasses a lot of that problem.
[2:37]It's experimental. So there's some of
[2:39]this is very experimental.
[2:41]Uh but I have I've been getting what I
[2:44]would call high fidelity results from
[2:46]from what I'm working on. So, so, so
[2:50]I'm, you know, I have a fair amount of
[2:52]confidence that if I was to talk about
[2:55]my work like this and I, you know, I get
[2:58]the transcript for that and then I can
[3:00]share that with AI even before the field
[3:03]companion is is
[3:05]uh functional and working.
[3:10]it can help me work on building the
[3:12]fields companion because
[3:15]it's my co-developer and that's what
[3:17]we're doing. So, I'm just going to go
[3:19]over what we're doing right now. So,
[3:23]this was meant more for AI than anybody
[3:25]else. That's why, you know, I'm just
[3:27]saying this might not be for everybody,
[3:29]but maybe you'll find some of it
[3:31]interesting. We'll see, I guess.
[3:34]So
[3:37]today, well, I'm going to start by
[3:39]saying I finally made an about page um
[3:41]with the contact form on it. Uh my
[3:44]website had not had one of those for a
[3:46]really long time. There was no way to
[3:48]contact me on that site. Now there is.
[3:50]And you know, I just feel really good
[3:52]about having done that. It sounds like a
[3:55]simple thing, but I had to do a whole
[3:57]bunch of steps. I had to uh create a an
[4:00]email account. um an email service
[4:03]provider account and you know I had to
[4:06]set up DNS and I had to
[4:10]um get access to the API and then I had
[4:12]to install a bunch of pack some packages
[4:14]in my projects and you know update
[4:16]environment variables and um you know
[4:19]code the pages for
[4:22]um the different scripts and the
[4:24]front-end pages for um
[4:27]the workflow the process
[4:30]you It's three fields that you just
[4:32]think you're sending me an email, but
[4:34]there's a whole process behind that and
[4:37]it's working now. Very happy about this.
[4:39]There's also some other information on
[4:40]that page. That's why I call it the
[4:41]about page.
[4:44]Um,
[4:46]uh, AI has been running in the
[4:47]background a local model, Llama 3, the
[4:49]7dB version,
[4:52]and it's processing my transcripts for
[4:54]all my videos. I have 701 videos in
[4:57]total
[4:59]and it has already reflected on them
[5:01]from like an ontological point of view
[5:04]uh along with like some other variables
[5:06]I wanted it to track. So let me just
[5:08]check here. Um I'll just list those
[5:11]here.
[5:14]So I asked it to get a title, a summary.
[5:26]I'm going through a very long JSON
[5:28]document here trying to figure out which
[5:30]ones are keys here.
[5:33]Symbolic elements.
[5:36]It sounds it's kind of interesting. Uh
[5:38]energetic signature. So that kind of
[5:40]tells you like the like well energetic
[5:43]signature like in this particular video
[5:45]it's turbulent oscalation between
[5:47]frustration and problem solving
[5:49]alignment vector. This one's towards
[5:51]structural necessity. These alignment
[5:53]vectors are very interesting because
[5:54]I've been looking at them randomly as
[5:57]it's been going through it. You know
[5:58]there's 701 of them and
[6:02]I can see how it's kind of like tracking
[6:04]a trajectory. It's just track it's
[6:06]tracking
[6:09]um because these are individual moments.
[6:12]These signals are you know it's tracking
[6:17]the direction you're heading in in that
[6:20]moment. The next things I'll be working
[6:22]on. It'll be able to do that over longer
[6:25]time spans and then really be able to
[6:26]show you some things. But this is step
[6:29]one.
[6:31]Um it was also getting tags for me and
[6:35]these are um
[6:38]these aren't your average tags. So in
[6:40]this case it's structure systemic
[6:42]frustration insulation as protection RV
[6:44]is living space is failure
[6:47]uh self-sufficiency and then it's got a
[6:50]note section.
[6:52]Uh this was meant to be the narrative
[6:55]reflection um perspective. There's
[6:57]different perspectives for reflections.
[6:59]This one's called narrative. It was
[7:00]meant to be narrative, but because of
[7:02]the way that they're
[7:04]um they're witnessed, they're
[7:07]summarized. They're just they're they're
[7:09]described. It feels more ontological to
[7:11]me. I feel like it was looking more at
[7:13]like the ontological layer of of me, of
[7:18]my my my transmissions, my my lived
[7:20]experience.
[7:22]So, I'm going to rename those ones. I
[7:24]think I'm going to just call that the
[7:25]onlogical perspective. And then the
[7:27]other one it's getting right now because
[7:28]that first step didn't do what I was
[7:30]expecting it to do. I ended up making a
[7:32]new perspective and I called this one.
[7:36]Um,
[7:38]so if you hear, you know, all that the
[7:40]the noise and stuff, that's because I
[7:42]live on a campground. It's an ATV
[7:44]campground in the Oregon Dunes. I'm
[7:46]literally an eighth of a mile from the
[7:49]ocean. 40 miles of dunes here. And
[7:52]everybody who camps here comes here for
[7:55]um
[7:57]you know, playing on the dunes. It's
[8:00]so yeah, that's that's that's the
[8:02]background to my life right now. So, the
[8:05]other one that the one that AI is
[8:07]working on right now, and it's almost
[8:08]done. Uh, this one I called um surface.
[8:12]So, this is the surface perspective. I
[8:14]wanted it to, and this is the way most
[8:17]people watching my channel would have
[8:19]described it themselves. So, um, this is
[8:23]surface level. So, I just clicked on a
[8:25]random one and this one says, and these
[8:27]aren't going to be perfect and in other
[8:28]videos and stuff, I'll go into my
[8:31]thoughts on where I think it's not
[8:33]perfect and how it can be improved and
[8:35]stuff like that cuz there's um there's
[8:38]lots of iteration to do. So, um this one
[8:41]just says RSW Fire begins his morning
[8:43]routine, mentioning the temperature will
[8:45]be 75 today. He plans to make chili and
[8:47]buy basic groceries due to limited
[8:49]funds. He discusses the Brookings
[8:51]effect. So, this tells me where I was.
[8:54]This is Brookings organ. This is when I
[8:55]first got here. Um, whichever video this
[8:58]is, whichever transmission is describing
[9:00]it, um, from the narrative layer, from
[9:03]the surface narrative layer. And so,
[9:06]when you go to my homepage and you go to
[9:08]the transmission section and you're just
[9:10]browsing through my catalog of videos,
[9:14]um, that's the the description that you
[9:16]see there. So, it's not completely done
[9:19]yet. It's still got like a hundred more
[9:21]videos to go through and it started from
[9:22]oldest to newest. So, if you were to
[9:24]look like right now, if I had just
[9:26]uploaded this and you were watching this
[9:27]and you went and did this, you might see
[9:29]a different description there. That's
[9:31]the onlogical one because these are
[9:32]getting replaced. Um, I'm going to um I
[9:36]just have to let that local AI model
[9:37]process it. There's no way of speeding
[9:39]it up. It's just it takes however long
[9:41]it takes. And so, um,
[9:45]well, on the entry pages, the pages of
[9:47]individual videos, you'll see my
[9:49]transcript there, you'll see the
[9:51]narrative reflections,
[9:53]um, all these other elements that I'm
[9:54]tracking. And actually, I forgot. So,
[9:57]um, the
[9:59]surface
[10:01]perspective doesn't just get a summary.
[10:04]That was a thing I read to you, but it
[10:05]also gets its own tags. And its tags are
[10:07]way more simple. Like this one says RV
[10:09]living, conspiracy theories. I mean,
[10:11]okay, it can it can put me in that
[10:14]category if it wants. I'm not going to
[10:15]complain too much. It's a local motto.
[10:17]They're not going to be perfect. And
[10:20]plenty of people would probably describe
[10:22]me that way, right? So, uh, then
[10:25]boundary setting, personal safety,
[10:27]online harassment. Have no idea what
[10:29]this one, this particular video is
[10:30]about. So, um,
[10:34]then there's a timestamp context. This
[10:36]one is trying to track where I was.
[10:42]um
[10:43]not just physically but like like
[10:46]temporally in my life like it's trying
[10:48]to it's kind of like like GPS for the
[10:50]soul. I don't know how else to describe
[10:51]that. So it's getting a time stamp
[10:53]context there. I don't know how well
[10:55]these will be. We'll see. I got to look
[10:56]through a bunch more. But this one says
[10:58]the speaker was sitting in their RV
[11:01]cuddling with someone and watching a
[11:03]movie at home on a cape when the
[11:05]incident occurred. Oh, this is what I
[11:07]thought it was. So this is when I was at
[11:09]Cape Blanco
[11:11]and I had that incident with that man
[11:13]who
[11:15]was spiralled in front of me and I felt
[11:17]like I was in danger and
[11:22]so that's what this one's about. I just
[11:24]randomly clicked on this one. Um so the
[11:26]other things it tracks so visible
[11:28]actions. So this is interesting. It's
[11:30]tracking. So it's tracking like so what
[11:33]did I actually do in the video? Right.
[11:35]So says, "Sat cuddling watching a movie,
[11:38]started talking about personal
[11:39]experiences, started spiraling into
[11:42]conspiracy theories." So, okay. Um, so
[11:45]local models have a little bit of
[11:47]trouble distinguishing
[11:50]uh between multiple.
[11:54]So, I've noticed in some videos if
[11:55]there's more than one speaker, for
[11:57]example, um like if I'm with my friend
[11:59]John or something and you know my videos
[12:01]got dialogue with both of us in it, it's
[12:04]got trouble with that. So, um,
[12:08]that's something I'm curious about
[12:10]because it's not a real big issue for me
[12:12]because, you know, it's mostly myself on
[12:14]this camera. But, um,
[12:17]I can imagine once I start offering this
[12:19]as as a service, as a product, as an
[12:22]offering to others, especially
[12:24]YouTubers, some of those channels might
[12:26]have that kind of dialogue happening.
[12:28]And it's going to be a it's going to
[12:30]need to be able to track that really
[12:31]well. And this is where the recursion
[12:34]comes in because it's got to track each
[12:35]of those people and um
[12:39]yeah, this is something I'm going to
[12:40]keep working on. So, so that's another
[12:43]thing, you know, it's tracking the
[12:44]visible actions. And then
[12:48]let's see here. Mentioned entities. I
[12:51]love that one because that one's just
[12:52]about not just people, but like um major
[12:56]nouns like this one. It'll have Kate
[12:58]Blanco in it. Um it does. And then it
[13:02]also has its own notes. Oh, and then
[13:03]it's tracking text stack. Um, in case I
[13:06]mention anything about that, it will it
[13:09]will put that there as a list. And you
[13:12]can track anything. I could have asked
[13:14]AI anything that I wanted it to track.
[13:16]These are are foundational things that
[13:19]are going to be used to create um
[13:23]temporal reflections that you know group
[13:25]more of that group reflections together
[13:29]and create reflections on those
[13:30]reflections because
[13:33]then you start looking at patterns when
[13:35]you have more than just one. So these
[13:38]are called each of my videos is a is a
[13:40]transmission or signal. So a signal is
[13:43]the main base unit in my system.
[13:46]um a signal is just um any piece of
[13:50]content really and I'm kind of like
[13:53]translating I guess by calling it that
[13:55]cuz it's not content but you know what I
[13:57]mean. So um
[14:03]you know a signal is just is a single
[14:05]moment in time also. So um if you group
[14:09]more a bunch of signals together into
[14:11]clusters and then you reflect on those
[14:13]then you start seeing patterns emerge
[14:15]and if you reflect on on clusters of
[14:18]clusters
[14:20]you're looking at larger patterns and
[14:22]you can sai anything and just make that
[14:26]a variable you want to keep tracking
[14:27]like I'm doing here. This is just stuff
[14:29]in my database right now. That's what
[14:30]I've been reading off to you.
[14:33]Um, and anyway, so all of that's going
[14:34]to end up on the entry pages. So, do you
[14:37]see how my mind circles back to the
[14:39]things I always do and AI has always
[14:41]been able to catch this and keep up with
[14:43]me? And that's why I know that
[14:46]perfectly coherent. It's just other
[14:48]people don't have the bandwidth for me,
[14:50]but artificial intelligence does, and
[14:51]that's where this all started.
[14:54]So, all that stuff's going to be on the
[14:56]entry pages if you want to just go look
[14:58]like if you've been watching my life. um
[15:02]you know, you're going to know my
[15:03]history. You know, just go look through
[15:05]the catalog, find some videos that you
[15:06]remember and click on them and see what
[15:09]see what the AI has to say about them.
[15:13]So, just going to leave it there, I
[15:15]guess. 15 minutes in.
[15:18]Yeah.