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Right now I'm playing around with some of the concepts mentioned by Michael Levin in his Ingressing Minds paper preprint. I'm implementing their agentic bubble sort for fun. I'm al…

Given me a place to put down my thoughts.

Last year I built a currency conversion assistant for my company accounting, and this year I built a self-hypnosis app for myself. They were both fun projects, and the hypnosis one…

Thank you for sharing - I'm glad you lived!

On the programming front, I've been working on a little self-hypnosis app for myself that I'll probably go ahead and release. And outside of that I've been finishing up a novella d…

Mine is: https://liza.io I'm fine with email but there's also a comment system on the posts that I probably prefer :)

I think this one might be super interesting for its entertainment value, but there has been some strong criticism as to its credibility. For example, here's a pretty comprehensive …

Do you think if you're in that kind of situation, where you are dying on a beautiful mountain, you would have it in you to appreciate the beauty around you? I was imagining it to b…

Of course the distinction itself is important in its own way, but I think/hope everyone here fully realizes and accepts that he technically donated as a private individual. You can…

I started doing this after moving to a university town at the end of 2024. Just taking random evening courses that sounded interesting. Having never studied past high school, it's …

Mm if I had to actually see myself dying, probably not. If I could just get a letter with the information, as with a short story I read once, probably yes. Assuming the expiration …

I sometimes get emails and blog comments like this and always love them. One of my favorites was a comment last year, left on a 15 year old post about building my first gaming PC. …

I was not actively applying but it ended up being a bit under a month from layoff to offers.

> What are your philosophical thoughts on paying a subscription to get your work done? I've paid for subscriptions to get work done for years. Educational materials, IDEs, source c…

Both of those questions have everything to do with feelings, no?

I have observed this in myself when I began to over-leverage AI in my workflows. I've since become more deliberate with what kinds of tasks I will use it for, although I still slip…

I'm not sure what the take-home of this message is since you can replace "AI" with just about anything... "If you use a keyboard to do your work, you can be replaced by someone els…

Great idea, done. I fixed the second one normally because that's just embarrassing. I guess at least we know it was really written by a human? ;)

Hahaha I missed that completely, sorry. ...Now I kind of don't want to fix it :D

For me the small screen is fine as long as I can maintain the mindset of this being a _drafting_ tool, not an editing or structuring tool. I generally don't need to see more than a…

I chose the keyboard I wanted :)

I use the Onyx Boox Palma for a portable eink drafting setup. It's worked pretty well. I wrote about it here: https://liza.io/portable-writing-setup-with-onyx-boox-palma/

I post a lot of notes on my personal blog. From lectures and such. I use AI to proofread the notes I took during the lecture. Other than that it outputs them in exactly the same le…

My team was recently laid off, myself included. Before formal termination my employer had to negotiate with my union and run everything past them - from a potential exit deal (whic…

That seems like a really tenuous connection for him to make if that's what he's doing. I find it difficult to believe that ambitious people outside of a certain niche would refuse …