To put all of this into perspective, it would be good to know what "... not consistently candid in his communications with the board" means.
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My guess is that it has support for time, but not for calendars. The fact that a "month" is a static length points in this direction.
Maybe there's going to be a calendar module in the future though?
For those who are goal-oriented, the focus is on the outcome: discovering new things, earning money, or making an impact. LLMs can achieve many of these objectives, potentially overshadowing the achievements of goal-driven individuals. This could be particularly disheartening when the goals are as fundamental as earning a living.
On the other hand, those who are process-oriented value the journey itself - the state of flow, the challenge of problem-solving. For them, the advent of LLMs is less troubling. It's not the first time a process has been automated away from humans: Knitting remains a beloved activity despite the existence of industrial looms. Enjoying programming for its own sake is unaffected by the efficiency or capabilities of LLMs.
I think it's valid to be upset about LLMs taking jobs. But under the assumption that one's basic needs are met, I think it's a good reminder that focusing on process over goals can make you both happier and more resilient to outside change.
Once you look at this outside of work (the second line), it becomes even more clear: Everybody can do "anything" but not "everything", not just CEOs.
You can summarise this whole article with this: Balance.
- SMRs are not yet delivering on their promised benefits and cost savings due to challenges in scaling and production.
- The SMR concept is yet to prove itself with efficient and cost-effective factory-made parts and repeatable construction practices.
- Concern exists that the enthusiasm around SMRs could lead to more unfocused subsidies for the nuclear industry without addressing the industry's deeper issues of inefficiency and historical missteps.
- SMRs are seen as one option among many for balancing renewable energy, and they should not be considered the only solution.
- Their capabilities are mostly theoretical at this stage, and there's uncertainty if they can bridge the gap between their promise and reality in terms of cost and deployment hurdles.
- SMRs might receive undue favor over other equally promising technologies for providing firm power.
In conclusion, David believes SMRs are getting more attention and investment than warranted by their current capabilities and progress, potentially detracting from other solutions that may offer better returns or efficiency for transitioning to a renewable energy grid.
[^0]: https://transcripts.volts.wtf/the-volts-catalyst-pod-crossov... (starts at around 26:13)
- SMRs are not yet delivering on their promised benefits and cost savings due to challenges in scaling and production.
- The SMR concept is yet to prove itself with efficient and cost-effective factory-made parts and repeatable construction practices.
- Concern exists that the enthusiasm around SMRs could lead to more unfocused subsidies for the nuclear industry without addressing the industry's deeper issues of inefficiency and historical missteps.
- SMRs are seen as one option among many for balancing renewable energy, and they should not be considered the only solution.
- Their capabilities are mostly theoretical at this stage, and there's uncertainty if they can bridge the gap between their promise and reality in terms of cost and deployment hurdles.
- SMRs might receive undue favor over other equally promising technologies for providing firm power.
In conclusion, David believes SMRs are getting more attention and investment than warranted by their current capabilities and progress, potentially detracting from other solutions that may offer better returns or efficiency for transitioning to a renewable energy grid.
[^0]: https://transcripts.volts.wtf/the-volts-catalyst-pod-crossov... (starts at around 26:13)
Personally I'm using Tailwind for 90% of the styling. If I keep repeating a certain combination of classes often, I'll group it with a custom class. (Edit: See colejohnson66's comment for an example)
Two advantages of tailwind that I didn't see before I started using it:
- It's often easier to find what I want in the tailwind documentation, and it comes with nice examples. MDN is great, but with Tailwind I get reasonable presets.
- TailwindUI: Saves me a lot of time and looks good without feeling as generic as bootstrap.
- Volts by David Roberts: Interesting by itself, but makes me less pessimistic about the climate crisis. He talks to a lot of fascinating entrepreneurs, usually working with "hardware", which as a software engineer always feels like magic to me.
- 13 Minutes to the Moon: Blew me away, and it's relatively quick listen. It's a detailed retelling of the moon landing with original audio.
- Dolly Parton's America: Also a limited series. Goes into why Dolly Parton is such a cultural icon. Learned a lot about the US.
I'm professionally interested in podcasts since my company provides transcription services. We're launching a free magazine of podcast transcripts. If you enjoy knowledge-dense podcasts, feel free to suggest your favorites for transcription: https://withfanfare.com/podread/
> To enable using context beyond limited context windows, we propose virtual context management, a technique drawing inspiration from hierarchical memory systems in traditional operating systems that provide the appearance of large memory resources through data movement between fast and slow memory.
From Wikipedia[^0]:
> Boffin is a British slang term for a scientist, engineer, or other person engaged in technical or scientific research and development. A "boffin" was viewed by some in the regular services as odd, quirky or peculiar, though quite bright and essential to helping in the war effort through having and developing the key ideas leading to transformative military capabilities.
[^1]: https://excalidraw.com/
Edit: Nevermind, I found it in his follow-up:
> Q: I guess you won’t be getting much work from DC in the future.
> Bill: I haven’t worked with DC for the more than two years since I handed in my final script for this new run of Fables. At that point I fired the lot of them and haven’t regretted it. Why spend my remaining years continuing to work with thugs and conmen?
> While Portugal clearly has the most divorces per 100 marriages, looking at divorce rates per 1.000 inhabitants in other European countries alters the picture of the country as one unsettled by significant numbers of divorces. With nearly 1.7 divorces per 1,000 inhabitants Portugal has roughly the same divorce rate as Germany and the Netherlands. Interesting is furthermore that although marriages in Portugal tend to result in divorce lightly more often as in Luxembourg (80.3%), the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg experienced a 0.6 point higher divorce rate.
[^0]: https://www.statista.com/statistics/612207/divorce-rates-in-...
I got annoyed with SVB because the online banking feels from the 90s and they charged fees that I found excessive. Switched to Brex a while ago, and never looked back.
I was planning on closing our SVB account for a while, but didn't get around to yet. Now it seems like it might close itself. I wonder what the process will look like to get the $300 back we had on there.
I'm curious in what relation this paper stands to his work.
[^0]: https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/future-visions-w...
One of the biggest learnings from this book so far, is that a certain level of anxiety is inevitable. Especially when you're doing work that is meaningful to you.
Being able to accept that anxiety and still continue is what makes all the difference.
I was (and still am) obsessed with productivity. But I more and more my tasks had felt like something I needed to get done, to afterwards finally be able to relax and profit from them. But this time never came and I just got busier.
The book does a great job at explaining how much of our daily grind is based on a refusal to accept our finitude. And once we accept our finitude, we can get a lot more done in a happier way.
Yes, exactly. We do forced alignment when you edit your transcript. The new words don't have any timestamps, so we need to align them. For short sections we use interpolation. If we need align whole sections we use Gentle[^1].
We know the start and end timestamps on a word level and we know the current player time. So all we do is set a CSS class on the words that are currently playing. We not only highlight the current word, but also the words that are close in time. This is what generates the effect.
We just released autoscroll, which is something that was requested often.
We're doing forced alignment with audio recordings i.e. podcasts. Here's an example from a test client: https://www.withfanfare.com/p/seldon-crisis/search-by-the-fo...
Grateful for any feedback you might have.
Also, if you run a knowledge-dense podcast, or know somebody that does, I would love to talk to you/them. I'm for example considering to link places, people and things in a transcript.
> The film required 800,000 machine hours and 114,240 frames of animation in total, divided between 1,561 shots that totaled over 77 minutes.
This comes out to 24 FPS. The article talks of 140k frames, but it looks like they didn't use all of them for the final movie.
The 140'000 image files would translate to an 80 minute runtime at 30 fps. So I assume that's all the storage they had.
Makes me think of the day when my friend brought a 256MB USB stick to school and we were blown away.
> Those 6 files is all you need to create a Mastodon user. Here are some caveats you may have already noticed.
> - Following doesn’t work
> - Posts don’t work
> - Only 1 user per domain
The post might be technically interesting, but I find the title misleading.