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Formerly: - CTO @ at LabDAO - CTO @ Resurgo Genetics - Core team at Coko Foundation - Core team at ContentMine - Mozilla Fellow for Science - PhD Student in Plant Sciences @ University of Cambridge [engineering photosynthesis] - Made http://solvers.io (now retired) with davedx (we met on HN <3) - Developer of AnkiMobile
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> Glanville, R. (1976). What is memory, that it can remember what it is? In R. Trappl et al. (Eds.), Recent Progress in Cybernetics & Systems Research, Volume 7 (Proceedings 3rd European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research). Washington, DC: Hemisphere Press.
1. What is this education intended to optimise for?
2. What are the various participants (including students) optimising for?
3. What aligns 1 and 2?
Sometimes hard like interesting and you get to do really novel thinking. A load of p2p/decentralised things are hard like this.
Also sometimes hard like you get to a particular challenge and it turns out to be a notoriously unsolved mathematical thing, or you push against subtle boundaries of core libraries, runtimes, systems etc. Working with metagenome assemblies is this kind of hard.
Honestly the hard code I've done made such a difference to my brain. There's plenty of trivial stuff I'm happy to have automated, but of I can't work on the hard problems I may as well not be involved at all.
No clouds. No gatekeepers. Just you, your machines, and unstoppable intelligence.
A couple of bits of feedback:
1. Code samples on the site have broken whitespace on mobile (Android/Brave) so look a bit intense.
2. The pricing is complex to reason about - I have to consider the technical aspects and the number of users? Why don't I just get an API key?
Ask a stupid question, get a stupid answer.
There's a community edition that's GPL, and it does say they're 'going open source' but clearly it's not the exact same app as the official distribution:
This is the repository for the Chatbox Community Edition, open-sourced under the GPLv3 license.
Chatbox is going open-source Again!
We regularly sync code from the pro repo to this repo, and vice versa.
0: https://chatboxai.app/en/termsHaving bad security or engineering and losing a bit of money does not compare.
I'm surprised this isn't a more popular thing now.
And reflecting on your approach, perhaps it's quite a good way to on-board lots of organisations that might have been hesitant or left behind otherwise.