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VR for the masses. I'm sure it will progressively find more niches as the hardware and use cases mature. But as a mass computing medium ? and with a headset ? Nope (Sorry Apple)

I believe we will have to wait for the intersection of Holography [1] and Generative video AI [2] to mature (15-30 years ?)

[1] https://blog.google/technology/research/project-starline/ [2] https://tech.facebook.com/reality-labs/2019/3/codec-avatars-...

Some alternative sites do this (for HN content) by AI :

https://histre.com/hn/

https://www.kadoa.com/hacksnack

rentry.co (since 2017 [0]) is like pastebin but with Markdown [1]. rendering is Ok

[0] https://rentry.co/what#why-rentry [1] https://rentry.co/how

This is one of those great projects that would benefit from local LLM integration.

this is often called “audio to midi" or "Music Transcription". the best ones specialize in an instrument (piano, guitar, voice...).

free/online options :

https://basicpitch.spotify.com/

https://ai-midi.com/

https://samplab.com/audio-to-midi

You will have to convert the midi output to notation in any notation software like Musescore

or the Silvet Note Transcription plugin [1]

[1] https://code.soundsoftware.ac.uk/projects/silvet

Mentally, I use handpicked spotify playlists as if it were an "indie" radio : They are curated (no Spotify algorithms), simple to "activate" (just play), and many are frequently updated.

One advantage is that I can easily "tag" certain music, to explore in depth, but also to find new playlists so that the cycle continues and the music never stops (like a radio).

Speaking of prog, I'm currently enjoying this 80+ hours playlist :) [1].

[1] https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6U7YflqS9WyaJse5H7dyee

Note : you can still access public bookmarks by tag on pinboard [1]. "AND" operator also works.

[1] Example : https://pinboard.in/t:bookmark

Sure. What I had in mind is partial paywalls, like the NYT.

> Training AI models using publicly available internet materials is fair use

Question: Does this apply to paywalled content too ?

Can't believe this is still in existence! Used to be my go-to IM platform a couple of decades back.

Mixcloud fingerprints audio to pay royalties to the artists whose tracks get played [1] (if that's what you're asking)

[1] https://www.mixcloud.com/mixcloud/posts/how-we-pay-creators-...

Not going to counter you. In related examples, I will pick ClickUp from your list. It is the closest to this one in terms of trying to combine a database, (multi)composition, and communication (Notion is more specialized than that.)

I would say that in this arena, the 2010s started with Quip and ended with ClickUp. Quip was sold at $750 million, but Salesforce never let it bloom. ClickUp is now worth 4 billion dollars.

Just one critical thought: Consolidation must transcend mere visual modularity and deliver deeper usefull integration to compensate for the absence of features of dedicated tools.

You highlighted the second part of the 1955 proposal, while it is actually the first part that is problematic. I don't think we came any near to precisely describing (for humans) every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence. And this is precisely the problem with the term.

Most people will certainly not know what LLM means if we stop using it now. I say, Let's give it a chance.

It is certainly not irrelevant, and it certainly is at the basis of most DAW/vst stuff. But, there are still a lot of new ideas around. And you do find some historical articles [1]. No books I know of, though; I wish I could write one :)

I suspect the high complexity and decentralization of the community's evolution leave scholars disoriented. It is the same story for the music being made (with these same tools) itself; the genres exploded around 2000, and most popular music histories speak more of the Beatles than the last 25 years.

And a final point: these new tools (and again, the resulting music itself) are sometimes brushed aside as 'low brow' in academic electronic music circles.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38864623

I admire two things here: the hardware aesthetic, which is just beautiful, and the pioneering spirit, which is extremely daring.

That said, I've got a bone to pick with the standard narratives in electronic music history. They dwell on the origins like here but gloss over what I believe to be a cambrian Explosion brought about by DAWs/plugins from the 2000s. I get that it's 'history,' but this explosion deserves far more attention and analysis.

So, you are looking for a "religiously presented" science text [1] rather than "scientifically presented" religious text (as most comments here suggest)?

[1] i.e inferring classic religious ideas, like God/demons/etc from scientific premises

You here made a list of "American Lobbies" and down another list of "Foreign Lobbies," which is clever but desinginious.

He is talking about America's most powerful lobby FOR a foreign country. So this list is useless. Also, your second list only includes official foreign agents, while most pro-Israel lobbying is not registered as such (notably AIPAC).

I think it is the slide that gives the wrong impression.

4% of a near-universal product? That's hardly irrelevant. Can anyone name a small non-profit tech company dominating a daily essential consumer-facing product ?

The placement of the key will vary, but in some cases, it will replace the right CTRL key or Menu key, a Microsoft spokesperson told BI [1]

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-ai-button-pc-keybo...

In a sense, we may have less need to create "formal, structured documents." Even today, many companies archive a large part of their informal conversations (meetings, emails, Slack...) in addition to "memos" and other short docs. The LLMs may get their data from there. Imagining a future where even open everyday conversation is recorded is a privacy nightmare, so this may not always be possible in less digitized environments (immigrants assistance ? I don't know)

Also, proponents of AGI believe that advanced forms of AI will require less training to be "creative," or at least to "infer/reason" on "low-level data" in order to create "higher-level" knowledge.

After the duty to document, comes the duty to expose it :

- How do you format that doc ? which is particularly relevant if you'd like to roam around. the author's Berlin guide is a good example [1]

- How do you find exactly what you want ? Some say that there's no longer (or lesser) need to document because we have LLMs. I would argue the exact opposite : Given their ability to streamline the retrieval process (into a naturally "human" chat), every documentation's worth is actually magnified by LLMs.

[1] https://nicolasbouliane.com/projects/all-about-berlin

> No technology needed, can be done anywhere, anytime.

I call this doing nothing with... nothing. It aligns closer to the spirit of emptiness.

... with https://retool.com/ as an option

Naturally You can't prove it (yet) for obvious reasons. It is about preventing "a risk of genocide", acording to experts :

UN : https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-expe...

Scholars : https://time.com/6334409/is-whats-happening-gaza-genocide-ex...

Historical (Arab) Perspective : https://dawnmena.org/the-historical-roots-of-israels-genocid...

I believe the root of the problem is a misconception of how humans function. The prevalent trends in related fields, from AI/Neuroscience [1] to PKM/TFT [2], are further entrenching this crude rational/willpower-based perspective.

Perhaps the true (meta)rational perspective is to actually understand how to embrace the larger complexity of human experience (including sensibility/creativity/play...). Maybe the real willpower is to stop obsessing over this limited viewpoint (and the fears it produces) all the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_brain

[2] https://numinous.productions/ttft/

Related Trivia : France stands out as one of the select countries that enforce a music quota system, which appears to be among the most stringent : a minimum of four in ten songs broadcast by domestic radio stations to be in the French language [1]. (link : it is this same french music that will be further supported by the new Tax)

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_quota#France

The funny thing is that the web has always been (by definition) a "Content as a Graph" (of interlinks). It is just not "displayed," or rather, it is displayed sequentially, as though we zoom through the graph's edges themselves. There's no extensive overview, but that might be precisely what makes it so mentally unburdensome.

I've come to the conclusion that I need to loosen my grip. So basically, as long as I can export my data in an open-enough format, I will use anything I'm comfortable with and then I won't worry much about organizing my data. The two main reasons are:

- Most notes are ephemeral anyway. The other day, I found a box of folders from my 20s (a long time ago), and it was just a dusty "curiosity box". We change, and the world changes.

- LLMs are already at the level where you can literally just put all your digital stuff in and then have a usefull conversation with it. We just need better open integration, efficient local models...

My only rule for lesset structured data (= note-taking) is that the tool must support my "current" process of thought, not any hypothetical future need. I use outliners for that.

My only rule for the more structured data (= KM bases) is that I can potentially merge the data together (CSV will do) and use it in any interface I like (good filtering...)