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Sebastian_09··on Our $445M Series D
Really cool company! Checking out the state of the product I would have expected to see a gpu / tpu server there. Is this on the roadmap?
Sebastian_09··on Salad Theory
You have to be able to toss a salad for it to be a salad, no? They tried too hard to make pizza salad…
Sebastian_09··on Show HN: Sokoban AI Solver
Fun game! Solver seems really smart. It would be great to disable double tap to zoom or make it slightly more adapted to phone screen sizes
Sebastian_09··on The Essential Question: “What should I read next?”
I find the best recommendations to be the works cited in other works you like. You can press pause in a movie when the camera goes over the bed side table book, or write down the movie they go see in the book you read. Gives a growing list to discuss with your librarian, although some time you need to branch out. Nice idea that’s mentioned there, shame it is only for non fiction books, would be interested in a fiction equivalent!
Sebastian_09··on The new rules of context engineering for Claude 5 generation models
Are you sure this is Rilke? Couldn’t find anything online - it seems it’s close to a quote by Zora Neale Hurston
Sebastian_09··on Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future
What I’m not sure to understand is that if you want to just run Claude code or openclaw type software with llm apis or subscriptions (and not run local models) to benefit from a local file system and always-on capability for ‘second brain’ type of workflows, I guess you don’t need a Mac mini but can run it on a raspberry pi or an old laptop ? Does anyone have experience with that ?
Sebastian_09··on Fingerjigger
If you think about it as a game and not a typing exercice it's quite good, feels a bit like a typing guitar hero, and the animations are fun. Also learned some words. It lacks an accessible about page, you only reach it once going through a complete round.
Sebastian_09··on The new literalism plaguing today’s movies
Quite a bad piece, the end note is ironic: the author doesn’t seem to be paying a lot of attention for a film critic apparently interested in litteralicity.

> An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the ending of “A Complete Unknown.”

I cannot see any common denominator in the multiple examples that the author gives and cannot relate to them (what point is there to put on an equal footing a micro analysis of a dialogue in Megalopolis -voluntarily grotesque- and the choice of film format in The Architect?).

Maybe there’s an intuition here, but I feel it is not well illustrated. The author probably hopes that she will be remembered for coining this wishy washy concept.

Sebastian_09··on Experimental imperative-style music sequence generator engine
I’ve been using Strudel.cc lately which provides a live REPL for a JavaScript equivalent to Tidal, it’s wonderful (although there’s a lack of community forums / discord which would be nice for beginners)

To try it out: https://strudel.cc/

Sebastian_09··on Context Engineering Guide
Prompt engineering and now ”context engineering” are really the poor man’s engineering work when you’re subject to model iterations and cannot control any of the stochasticity of the models… what we need is better science to understand how to control large model’s output, not more LinkedIn AI influencers
Sebastian_09··on Social media decline: Users are shifting to messaging apps and group chats
Although not exactly generic shopping streets you describe, but “anonymous” places also have been theorized and dubbed a “non-place” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-place)
Sebastian_09··on Clone-a-Lisa
Interestingly very much looks like a Rothko !
Sebastian_09··on Arc Browser 1.0
it isn't mentioned anywhere but it's chromium based — which is of course is practical, but I wonder how dependent on Google that makes them and other browsers using it
Sebastian_09··on PCSX2 is an open source PS2 Emulator
Yes surprisingly worked out of the box with great perf on a M1 Pro (stable 50fps) for two games I tried (latest nightly from the front page, 1.7xx)
Sebastian_09··on Text-to-4D Dynamic Scene Generation
Link to paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.11280, dynamic visualisations only work in Chrome (?)
Sebastian_09··on I have no capslock and I must scream
Sounds like dutch to me
Sebastian_09··on My out-of-body experience in a sensory deprivation tank
If you wanted to try out such an experience, any recommendations on what makes a good vs. a bad place ? A lot of the websites I found are not very engaging to say the least
Sebastian_09··on An Origami Samurai Made from a Single Sheet of Rice Paper
You have this nice simulator that he actually contributed to that shows this connection between meshes and folded origami! https://origamisimulator.org
Sebastian_09··on Black 3.0 – The blackest black acrylic paint
seems it absorbs a bit less light than vantablack but the comeback at Kapoor is quite fun https://www.dezeen.com/2019/02/05/black-3-0-stuart-semple-an...
Sebastian_09··on Bitcoin Is Time
Along these lines, there is an excellent book by John Kenneth Galbraith - Money: Whence It Came, Where It Went (1975) that covers the whole history of money, with much details & wit
Sebastian_09··on Self-organising textures from cellular automata
Warning for people suffering from trypophobia, some of the combinations can be quite disturbing! [0]

Very interesting how the patterns react to disturbances like rotation, and the animation is very smooth

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia

Sebastian_09··on Surround sound from lightweight roll-to-roll printed loudspeaker paper
Fascinating - there's a video from the paper in a book format they did here https://www-user.tu-chemnitz.de/~schg/t-paper/wordpress/t-bo... (2015)

Looking forward to cool applications, though it's probably going to be leaflets & magazin ads with sound first

Sebastian_09··on SaaS We Happily Pay For
It does actually, that’s crazy - if anyone is curious enough to check it out would love to hear why
Sebastian_09··on Minimal 16x16 Dots Coding Environment
This is so great!

Would you know of any resources to build a little led circuit like that on a breadborad, with standard components, that could be powered by a Pi?

In smaller dimensions of course, but even 4*4 would be interesting for educational purposes. The things I found online all used pre-built led boards which is less interesting I think.

Sebastian_09··on The physiological effects of slow breathing in the healthy human
>I don't know if it's just Baader-Meinhof at work

A bit off topic but I was wondering what you mean with Baader-Meinhof - don’t see the obvious link and curious if there’s an expression / connection linked to RAF

Sebastian_09··on Chrome exempts Google sites from user site data settings
I have a different experience with that: on a current MBP, Google office suite software (docs, slides, agenda, mail etc) regularly uses 100% cpu in safari for no apparent reason, and clearly also has some memory leaks were single tabs bloat to 2-3 gig memory... Have to kill the the threads manually. I would say it’s fairly unoptimized / pushes you to chrome
Sebastian_09··on Federated Learning for Drug Discovery
You can check out the substra orchestration back-end which this is built upon https://github.com/SubstraFoundation/substra

disclosure: I work for a partner