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Cool visuals, as with everything like this where the creator probably just churned open datasets through LLMs there are many inaccuracies particularly around borders.

An interesting effort though, and at least this one has a decent page about sourcing.

Really like the look of this. I use Claude Code (and other CLI LLM tools) to interact with my large collection of local text files which I usually use Obsidian to write/update. It has been awesome at organization, summarization, and other tasks that were previously really time consuming.

Bringing that type of functionality to a wider audience and out of the CLI could be really cool!

Thanks for listening! Yes, I am "that" one.

I wouldn't call myself a historian, but I have been doing a history podcast since 2014.

I agree that Ben's writings on LLMs and how they impact the humanities/history are great reads. But I am also the perfect target market for that kind of discussion, dev by day amateur historian by night.

I think it appears to have done a good job of summarizing the points that it summarize, at least judging from my quick watch of a few sections and from the YT Transcript (which seems quite accurate).

Almost makes me wonder if it is behind the scenes doing something similar to: rough transcript -> Summaries -> transcript with timecodes (runs out of context) -> throws timestamps that it has on summaries.

I would be very curious to see if it does better on something like an hour long chunk of audio, to see if it is just some sort of context issue. Or if this same audio was fed to it in say 45 minute chunks to see if the timestamps fix themselves.

Seems particularly funny in an article about Emacs, a piece of software that lets you get in situations where some portion of your "just create" time becomes "managing my custom emacs, please don't break".

You beat me to this comment, but you are absolutely correct.

Reminds me of the issue with bad CGI in movies. The only CGI you notice is the bad CGI, the good stuff just works. Same for AI generated art, you see the bad stuff but do not realize when you see a good one.

No, but it might cause some people to say "so I am not having kids"

Agreed, classifying all draws as boring is just wrong.

There are boring draws, some are excruciating to watch because so little is happening.

There are also draws that are the most stressful, exciting, and action packed games you will ever see.

I was going to mention Warp here as well. It is fantastic when it comes to almost anything in the terminal. It has caused me to use the terminal a lot more on all of my computers because I don't have to spend a bunch of time poking around on Google to find the command to run.

I have used it for ffmpeg and then a lot of other slightly more complex commands. A recent one from the other day was gathering up all of the .epub documents in a directory tree, renaming them to the name of the directory they were in, and then placing them all in one single directory. That would have been a whole project for me, and Warp gave me the command with just that description. Any LLM interface would have done the same, but Warp just let me hit "Enter" and run it, no need to copy and paste.

On the flip side, I get absolutely garbage sleep if I don't eat within about 1-2 hours of going to sleep.

Given the pace of development in this space, it is probably worth noting in the title that this is from November 2024 so the results might be a bit dated.

Many of those leaving Nasa today are probationary employees in their first years of employment. This isn't making up for past mistakes, it is hurting Nasa's future.

I wonder if this is at least partially related to the move away from phonics over the last 20 years (which is now coming back): https://apnews.com/article/phonics-science-reading-c715dea43...

Looks like some states that re-emphasized phonics in a major way saw improvement, particularly in lower income brackets: https://apnews.com/article/reading-scores-phonics-mississipp...

If there are no upvotes, what dictates something being "Featured" on the homepage, the items of which are said to be the "Greatest"?

I think the Ergodox ez does those keys better than a standard keyboard because they are split between the two thumb clusters in the standard layout. Don't even have to move my hands to hit any of the four keys. It was one of the things I was looking for in a keyboard.

Yeah, I would recommend this be VERY low on your priorities list because of all of the challenges involved.

There is a reason none of the major podcast apps have even attempted to do anything with ad blocking.

One of the challenges that are always going to be present when trying to skip podcast ads is that the vast majority (especially on larger shows) of ads are inserted dynamically even those that are read by the host. That means that not everybody gets them (geo targeted) and they may not be served to every listener at all times. Makes it a more challenging problem than the baked in sections of YT vids that Sponsorblock targets.

Now I am wondering if there are any deep studies of "World War 2 movie scenes where they talk to a map" from movies. That scene from A Bridge Too Far is a great example of giving the audience some spatial understanding both quickly and using the scene for character building as well.

Interesting article! The details on the maps are always interesting. The first map of 1939 shows the British blockade line of the North Sea that was so important during the First World War but would play a much lesser role in the Second, it probably would not even be present on most maps made after the war.

I am assured of this.

The CEO will be forced to spend an entire meeting in a remorseful mood, do you know how hard that is? He will need a raise due to the amount of trauma that will be experienced.

Spec page: https://www.apple.com/mac-mini/specs/

This reminds me of a early career Software Engineer who thinks the answer to every complexity problem is to throw it all away and start a rewrite.

I look forward to their third attempt in a few years when Arc: The Sequel gets similar user reviews about it being too complicated.

Seems that way.

I believe you mean this one: https://ludic.mataroa.blog/blog/i-will-fucking-piledrive-you...

uBlock Origin blocks 330 items on that page, which I think is a personal record for the sites I have been to.

Surprised this was not there from the beginning. It can result in much better output. My problem with the default prompt is that it often is just two equally "knowledgeable hosts" kind of just bouncing information back and forth. With being able to customize the prompt you can create a kind of "explainer" and "listener" dynamic among the hosts that really helps the overall flow of the episode.

Something like this:

The two podcast hosts have very different levels of knowledge on the topic. The first host is the expert on the topic and explains the subject and the details to the second host. The second host has very little existing knowledge about the subject but will react to the information and ask follow up questions.

A bit of a sensational title, I would say that Learning to Read as early as possible, then reading well above age level, would be a greater "Educational Life Hack".