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I like writing by hand and now it’s easier than ever to just take a picture and give it to an LLM for a transcription if you need it on your phone/computer. Small local models work…

Obligatory link to a relevant Jorge Luis Borges story: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (about an author who copied Don Quixote word for word) https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp…

I've been digging into Thomas Metzinger[1] recently and here's a tentative component by component definition of human consciousness based on his ideas: - a model of your environmen…

we have a crt tv with built in vhs in our office and have a bunch of old tapes one is “Mastering Windows 3.1” it’s fun to run in the background while working for your enjoyment, he…

Acquisition as marketing

I really love how Kosho Uchiyama describes meditation with the metaphor "opening the hand of thought" https://wisdomexperience.org/product/opening-hand-thought/

I'll jump in too. Also started coding with HTML in Neopets and then joined the middle school's programming club! We were playing around with C++ and Visual Basic. Love seeing these…

If you haven't already, you can turn off your YouTube watch history, which stops all recommendations. It makes it way less addicting. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9572…

The worst customer support experiences of my life have been from Google, both while using Google Fi personally and GCP while working at Replit in its early days. Thankfully I'm no …

Only tangentially on-topic, but I do all the financial modeling for the past several (early stage) startups I've worked for in Google Sheets. The ease, collaboration/sharing, and a…

Check out the work from the meditation research lab at Harvard [1] for more [1] https://meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/

Great read. We've been seeing some wild emergent behavior at Rime (tts voice ai) too, e.g. training the model to and it being able to .

I recently picked up Mirrorshades and The Big Book of Cyberpunk (edited by Jared Shurin) [1] Will check this one out too! [1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700576/the-bi…

Came here to say this, thanks. Only thing to add is that I like the "inbox" feature in Todoist (plus a single catchall project). I get overeager during the day and add a bunch of s…

I do this with just an ever expanding notes file. Works!

their "private" is not private. about a month ago, i searched for some health-related stuff in a chrome incognito window and then immediately afterwards got related sponsored produ…

Ads are coming to ChatGPT too at some point [1]. Agree that ChatGPT has less spam than Google for now, but this won't always be the case. There are ChatGPT alternatives too (includ…

Even as a foreigner who speaks Japanese, I frequently got the "we're closed" and crossing the hands in an X response while locals continued eating. Sometime they'd laugh and I'd he…

You should check out kagi then http://kagi.com/

Highly recommend King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard for microtonal music too! For example: https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/flying-microtonal-ban...

Finally read it this year and so happy that I did! Although a lot of that reading was skimming haha. I think that's good for a first reading though. You get a really good idea of t…

It feels like some of the comments are responding to the title, not the contents of the article. Maybe a more descriptive but longer title would be: AGI will work with multimodal i…

love the story! i took a stab at translating it: https://pscoleman.me/blog/axolotl

Here's how to play: https://www.loom.com/share/14f8d6d097ef41319285cb6dd404a109?... Java is a bit of a pain. It's a compiled language, so if you make any edits to the .java files y…

So fun, thanks for sharing! I'm feeling some nostalgia. The first game I ever made was also an ant defense game. You use a magnifying glass to protect your tomato at a picnic. As y…