On March 27, 2023, the New York Times broke my Wordle Solver. Specifically, they added a word not part of the 2,315 possible answers the original game allowed. The new word they added was GUANO, which amused me as a metaphor for introducing an unexpected new word. To account for this change, I’ve updated the code for the solver to …
side projects
I created some photos of my family in various styles using Stable Diffusion 1.5 with Dreambooth on Google Colab. Find a good tutorial here.
See-to-solve is a tool to identify the right move for turn-based games, starting with Chess. The original idea was to use machine learning-trained models to: I was planning to run this on my Ray-Ban Stories glasses. My motivations for this project were: The current version leverages many open-source projects to build steps #3 and #4 for online chess (source). The …
I created a wordle solver. When starting with the word SALET it solves for all possible words in 7920 guesses, or 3.421166307 on average (Distribution 1: 0, 2: 78, 3: 1225, 4: 971, 5: 41, 6: 0). GitHub – jonparis/wordlesolver My solver reaches the theoretically best solution. It was close to perfect in Jan/Feb when I started but slow. I …
In the run up to this last Mother’s day my wife’s book, The Runaway Mommy (published in 2013) was downloaded over 7,000 times in just a couple days. It has been encouraging to see all the positive reviews pour in as reader’s continue to appreciate her humor and the artistry of the Scott Rim, the Illustrator. If you are …
If you are a parent of young kids you are sure to relate to the Runaway Mommy, written by Jane Paris, my wonderful wife. Watch the campaign video and you’ll see some our kid’s antics that informed the story! These last number of years Jane has been the biggest supporter of my work with IVCF and Astrid. She bore the lion’s share …