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We’re playing with embodied LLMs that can externalise thoughts in a virtual environment. The idea is to help facilitate knowledge work. It’s not our main area of interest, but it’s…

I see the red rings in front. I tried adding some depth cues to see if I could see it both ways - https://i.imgur.com/LsPtsRr.png It kind of works, but for me it feels more like th…

In 2015 the UN created 17 ‘Global Goals’ ( https://www.globalgoals.org/ ) that are meant to be a "shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into …

Of the 10 most popular multiplayer games in 2023[0] seven of them owe their core mechanics to mods / flashes of brilliance from a handful of amateurs. A more or less correct histor…

Exactly what I was after, thank you. Your other comment[0] with a link to game engine recreations is also super useful. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36374297

Does anyone have examples of games with a client/server architecture, where new clients have been written, but that can still connect to an original server? I think there's a valua…

The only UI/UX newsletter I subscribe to[0] also has a a similar problem, but the advice is usually solid. Maybe the first and/or last rule should be ‘seek feedback’. [0] https://u…

I still think of early human progress as this slow march forward rather than what I expect it really was - thousands of years of rediscovery and reinvention by a few million people…

Both metaphors seem apt. One is leaning towards how a product makes a person feel when using it, one is about what the product offers. I hear arguments around what products can off…

If we’re at a place a LLM can make and use tools I’m excited about the limits of its ability to create tools... specifically to create new tools. For me that kind of entailment is …

I'm never going to stare at TV static and see deeper meaning in random noise, and while this is almost the opposite of that, I'm surprised by how I felt watching this. Awe and mild…

SEEKING CO-FOUNDER | Metaverse/Collaboration | Technical Founder | UK | Pre-Seed A couple of years ago I started to build https://www.temin.net/ for my own personal use. Describing…

That makes sense. What the long-term effects of such 'performance enhancing' tools might mean for how its users think, or externalise those thoughts, is hard to call. I also wonder…

Some people are better at writing than editing, some people are better at editing than writing. I find it necessary to heavily edit when writing - up to, and including, this commen…

What I'm waiting for is when these imagined conversations are generated for an audience of just me . When references I understand and abstractions I'm familiar with are tossed arou…

Successful people (judged by their own metrics of success) are generally willing to make short term sacrifices for long term gains. My reluctance / fear / discomfort often isn’t ev…

I always framed this more as ‘the tools will not save me’. A better pen won’t make me a better illustrator, no system/framework/methodology will take in garbage and spit out gold. …

A lot of videogames have their value tied up in 'forcing' players to spend a few minutes (or hours) on logistics that eventually give rise to ritual, rather than just giving them a…

I was never a fan of this genre as a kid, but recently attended a launch event for a choose your own adventure book about change management, of all things - https://www.change-ninj…

The article mentions different tools to think with (pen, paper, keyboards) and different methods of thinking (drawing/writing). Knowing when to pick what, or when to transition to …

By far the closest online equivalent to pop-ins I've had has been... inside video games. The first 10 hours of playing DayZ, a survival FPS with in-game spatial audio, was a revela…

For the software side of things, I was frustrated enough to develop what basically ended up as sticky notes in 2D+3D (shameless plug: https://www.temin.net/ ). I use it for note-ta…