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NishanStepak

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About NishanStepak

Nishan Stepak is a person interested in libraries, publishing, books, and technology. He is currently working on a side preojct called Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com He follows threads on books, technology, and artifical intellignece.

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    Maybe for local transport. Looks perfect for golf courses, industrial sites, parks, malls with a need for a car to move around in a confined space. The kind of thing where you need…

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    There is no permanent freezing because wealth can be generated with energy. This is point of bitcoin, the more energy and compute you have the more wealth you can generate. If ther…

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    I don't actively seek out AI coded tools. I continue what I am doing because AI is now added to almost everything. A good example is Overdrive which is a library ebook app. It has …

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    Comment #49180509

    AI's Arctic Land Grab. There has been a lot of recent data center construction in the Arctic.

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    Comment #49171977

    You are correct Polar Night is in Finland. Denmark is working on molten salt batteries. https://www.warpnews.org/energy/denmarks-first-molten-salt-b...

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    Comment #49158192

    Part of this is about a new way to store energy. In the Netherlands, they have started storing heat energy with sand, in Germany, they are using bricks. This has some advantages. I…

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    I had a little money invested in Presearch through Wefunder, but it went bust a few days ago. I thought it was interesting. Maybe someone can buy out the technology.

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    Comment #49157161

    I continue working on Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com Explore classic books and big ideas in a whole new way — a discovery system for the public domain. A three-floor knowledge …

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    Comment #49157004

    In terms of the amount of information in the current LLMs, I think the largest is 5.6 trillion bytes of memory, it is miniscule to what is actually out there. There are over 13 zet…

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    I spent some time learning about healthspan, how to stay healthy as you age. It is something which I have had an interest in for a long time. I am focusing on staying ten years ahe…

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    I am building a vibe coding project. As part of the project, I am reading books on each step of the process. This means first reading on how artificial intelligence works, then rea…

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    Comment #49144597

    To work on a major project related to universal libraries or universal knowledge graphs.

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    Comment #49144523

    When Google scanned its books, it did not destroy any of the books. This was because of the idea of the "cultural object" where the book has value as a physical artifact. The exper…

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    I had AI make a video for my site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzX3PIc4kY

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    Comment #49133285

    Consider getting an Ipad mini with liquid retina display. This is the best device display out there with the highest resolution. It is not an ereader, but it provides the same or b…

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    Comment #49106814

    Am a big fan of the Bobiverse. Excellent science fiction.

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    First email, then phone. Always works for me.

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    I have seen a lot of book applications coming out lately, 3D bookstores using three.js, book notetakers, aggregators of public domain books, social publishing applications, and oth…

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    The actual work is relaxing. Unfortunatley, the poltics around the work have become far from relaxing. I work with government and there have been many attempts to defund libraries …

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    This sounds like you could look into kickstarting so you can get the money to develop it. You kind of already know what stages and milestones you would need to go through to build …

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    Comment #49039508

    The Built In Pages have lots of startups on them. https://www.builtinnyc.com/ They cover a number of specific cities like Austin, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and other places. T…

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    I am looking for use cases and testimonials for the site which I created. If you have any suggested uses or experiences let me know. It would be helpful to see how people use the s…