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He did. "Care about it. Be a good host" is why people use the application vs. yet another soulless experience.

Have you compared returns on property vs. stocks?

We definitely need a way to flag AI content

You might like Robert Kegan's work, specifically "A discerning heart" as a quick primer.

What you'd describe is a proliferation of stage 2 personalities that can take perspectives only alternatingly, but not simultaneously as in stage 3. It has become a fun and at times enlightening pastime to view the world through his framework.

By value you mean furthering the individualization and alienation by technology, which destroys the planet and gives us what, AI data centers? And the AI agents won't even do our jobs?

I'm mostly using it because our company uses the Microsoft Office stack. I put in lots of screenshots and have many different sections, such as a tab for meeting notes with one page per individual or meeting series. Also, it integrated well with Teams

Thanks for letting me know! Haven't used it in a while after losing the initial momentum, day job and all, but will take a look on the weekend and report back in case I can replicate the issue

His article https://andymatuschak.org/books/ inspired me to build https://readboost.io/ to embed Q&A and SRS into ePubs. Might be buggy still, but I personally found it quite useful!

A while back I built https://readboost.io/ but so far never advertised for it. The idea: Embed Q&A into your ePubs and optionally download Anki cards for your book. Probably gets buried here, but maybe someone finds some value in it.

Working in management, OneNote is my second brain I couldn't do without. Pages of meeting notes everyday, documentation of internal processes etc., all of which I regularly look up.

I was recently reading another book of Ballard while on the flight to London and, shortly after arriving, visited the Barbican. What a magical experience it was!

At least FAANG and well-funded startups did a lot of overhiring. When thinking about stable jobs I have classically boring ones in mind, such as ones in utilities or defense

They are useful to reach Arc-N+1

"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a socialist.

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me.

—Martin Niemöller"

Dear Americans, please do something. Protest, write letters to congressmen etc. We Germans went through all of this 90 years ago..

A few counter points: Most developers prefer Claude 3.5 (or the slightly improved 3.7 since a few days back), which is a year old already. What was supposedly ChatGPT 5 will be called 4.5 instead, after two multi-month and hugely expensive training runs. Grok 3 was trained on a massive cluster of 200.000 H100 and still not beating SOTA models.

There's certainly not "a clear way forward", even though one may hope the billions invested will lead to algorithmic breakthroughs.

In image processing at least, NN typically learn a Fourier or Wavelet representation in their first layers. Biggest benefit of applying a transformation beforehands is to reduce training time / obtain better generalization by "removing the dimension that doesn't matter".

E.g. in a suitable space, one coordinate could represent the rotation of an object. You could do the transform and discard this dimension if your NN should be rotating invariant.

Could the default be misalignment, and by fine-tuning it on anything we're deviating from the local optimum we call alignment?

You're not doing whatever oppressed group you're representing a favor by using weird, alienating pronouns.

Looks cool! Any luck finding paying customers yet?

Awesome, I did something similar a while ago. What's your motivation? F

Why is that? GTD for me was the only system that stuck. Set it up once and have it synced across all devices (I use MS ToDo, as it's free, comes pre installed ony work computer and doesn't have many fancy features).

The secret is to set up a weekly reminder to review tasks.

I just use MS ToDo synced across all devices with GTD. My "Waiting For" bucket currently contains around 20 items, most of them with reminders to follow up on the status. No way I would keep on top of it without a structured system.

Bigscreen Beta if you have a VR headset. Let's you e.g. sit in front of a fireplace with a friend and watch or listen to YouTube

I rather spend life in a poor democracy than a rich technocracy which supports dictators around the globe.

I'm increasingly happy we have these regulations that prevent us from being ruled by the likes of Musk.

Eat your own dog food, i.e. use your own product

If I can host the backend myself, does it imply it's not a commercial offering?

Cutting subsidies would weaken Tesla's competitors (according to Musk)

They were at least united and somewhat effective in commiting these atrocities.