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yes, you can read the logs, and see full actions, the agents can send messages to each other, and I am also about to make it possible for them to optionally read each other's traces

Yeah, I guess we have sandboxes qwith our various code environemnts, and then we've been developing programs that run agents to do various things, which we iterated on to make them better at the task.

For example, one spawns copies of the env with a PR and runs agents in the dev env to verify by running and demonstrating functionality and then comments on github

another one is just a generic software factory that spawns a bunch of agents to coordinate on some repo, others do a redteaming flow, etc...

What do you do with those agents? It's useful if you want to iterate on a flow and have more control over the orchestration/environment

hey HN! happy to answer any questions

this kind of tool is especially useful in longer running tasks to enforce your intent without having to check in on your agent all the time

http://uzpg.me - philosophy, tech, my life

Relevant: reverse engineering modular addition https://twitter.com/NeelNanda5/status/1559060507524403200

https://uzpg.me/blog.html -> personal blog on tech and sci-fi + what i'm learning

Making something you can charge requires a lot of extra software work, and like other people said it creates a responsibility on the creator's part.

I'm researching how we can use technology to improve the way we learn and think.

I'm currently exploring how AI/Natural Language Processing can automatically organize personal knowledge and notes by tagging and linking ideas / content together [0], removing the friction of organization to help you find new connections and ideas.

If you're interested in this domain, I'd love to talk to you!

[0]: https://github.com/Uzay-G/espial

Nice! Archivy [0] has some of the same goals with integration of web content, also using Readability. Instead of going the highlight route, each article becomes a note in your knowledge base you can edit / add to.

It's really exciting to open source a project, Lurnby looks cool! What do you use the spaced repetition for?

[0]: https://archivy.github.io

I agree. I think there are several reasons high achievers' mental health issues go untreated:

- like you say they maintain a healthy surface because part of their perfectionism is no one knowing about their anxiety / having a good image

- if they do share, often their goals / expectations will be inflated compared to that of their peers such that for others it feels like they're bragging or being ridiculous, instead of taking their pain seriously. I notice this especially with when I share dissatisfaction about my school results - disparate expectations create a true divide.

Cool! Please do share I'm still getting into NLP and am very curious about improvements

Hey HN! A while back I posted about Archivy, a knowledge base I was working on that encouraged archival of online content (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199419).

I realized that one of the reasons knowledge management is overpowered is that you can create this tapestry of knowledge and ideas compounding off each other, and that's even more true if you integrate it with content from online.

This process is useful but it takes time to link and tag. So I decided to try and see how we could automate it!

Espial creates an auto-generated organization of our knowledge, conceptually and structurally.

This allows you to discover new connections in your ideas and search them based on meaning, not keywords.

The show hn links to the code, but I explain more of Espial's goals here: https://www.uzpg.me/tech/2022/01/31/redefining-pkm-with-nlp

Hope you like it!

I'm interested in note-taking / improving the way we learn for the following reasons:

- Having a trace of what I've learned that I can go back to. I consume loads of content (books, articles, etc...) and want to be able to use their insights in my future discoveries and general creative process. Being able to go through my ideas in my notes helps with this.

- that point links back to the idea of optimizing for discovery. I find that I can find much better ideas when I have a nuanced perspective and can oppose different content, so having an organized knowledge base allows me to link and discover new hierarchies in my thinking to enhance it. It's also why I'm building tools to automate connections between notes with AI, and it's why my knowledge base is heavily integrated with content I consume online, for example this post that I can now search in my knowledge.

- I think there's untapped value in sharing notes and tidbits of knowledge with other people. Blog posts take more time and have different aims than notes, but notes are also valuable / can be useful for others. My public wiki is at https://knowledge.uzpg.me

- having a time-logged track of what I've been learning: I like tracking my goals / progression (for eg yearly reviews https://www.uzpg.me/general/2022/01/01/a-year-in-review-v2.h...) and going through my knowledge base helps with this

I'm trying to do that with a new project that uses Natural Language Processing. (see gif at https://twitter.com/uzpg_/status/1483140905943146502)

Basically it generates an automated graph of relations between your notes and tries to find which "ideas" group them.

I'll probably post the Show HN soon once I make it public!

This is nice! I ended up doing something similar with my project garret [0] to publicly share my bookmarks online.

Now I also just archive / export my bookmarks into Archivy [1].

[0]: https://github.com/Uzay-G/garret

[1]: https://archivy.github.io

Exhalation and Stories of your life and others by Ted Chaing. These collections of short scifi stories are stunning, and particularly the stories Exhalation and Story of your Life. They combine detailed technical descriptions of the science fiction aspects with raw emotional beauty. The movie Arrival is based on Story of your life.

La Peau de Chagrin (The Wild Ass's Skin) - Balzac. Beautifully written novel about desire and health, with verbose descriptions that I personally loved. Some nice quotes here [0]

Ubik by Philip K. Dick - Pretty mindbending and interesting twist on the whole "(distorted) perception of reality (what even is reality?)" theme. (9/10) [scifi]

[0]: https://knowledge.uzpg.me/dataobj/2771/#quotes

I'm currently looking into similar ideas with auto-generation of organization in knowledge bases: https://twitter.com/uzpg_/status/1458774952786681856

I plan on releasing something soon, this is super interesting!

Yeah usually I read in PDF format for this purpose. Not sure but maybe there are alternatives for epub.

I use https://github.com/lucasrla/remarks, which OCRs (text recognition) your highlights to extract what exactly was highlighted, and also outputs screenshots of all pages on which I wrote notes.

This way I can go through my annotations sequentially, save highlights / their main ideas, and reformulate my notes into plaintext a bit more clearly.

This is just subjective, but I use it to read many books and enjoy it. I can scribble / highlight / notetake very easily and find the whole experience quite convenient.

Where did you hear that?

I do this too using my remarkable (reader tablet )and then scripts that export highlights / notes which I then index for as plaintext - it makes this process much more seamless.

They say about their own summaries: "And we still don’t pretend they’re as valuable as reading the book!"

I think a lot of this is true not only for books, but also for articles.

I've started trying to be more selective with the online content I choose to spend my time on, and then conserve takeaways from the articles I read (like this one).

Of course sometimes you just want entertainment, in which case this isn't worthwile.

This is cool! Similar to one of the goals I'm trying to accomplish with Archivy (https://archivy.github.io) with the broader goal of not just storing your digital presence but also acting as a personal knowledge base.

Another selfish question: do we know if this cognitive deficit is also found in teenagers who contracted the virus?

I've already done some actually:

- 5 months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26006731

- 1 year ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24199419

I'm happy you liked the post!

The attitude of feeling guilty when you're not working can be useful to motivate yourself, but I think it s also something to be careful of.

Indeed, sometimes this time of pressure can grow so pervasive it becomes impossible for you to relax, and humans aren't endlessly working robots: we need to also have time where we calm down, which PG explained.

However, he didn't warn of developing too much of a work ethic to the point relaxation itself is something you don't enjoy.

- "The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics" by Leonard Susskind. I'm reading the entire series and it's very clear and interesting, definitely recommend if you want to get into physics.

- "Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft)" - Really good intro to natural language processing.

- Kar by Orhan Pamuk - not a technical book just an intriguing fiction book in turkish I want to read to work on my Turkish;.

Interesting! I learned a lot of new things about memory when I did the "learning how to learn course" [0]. I definitely recommend it for people trying to learn vast amounts and use their memory effectively.

The link's more specific honing on memory itself seems more in depth however.

[0]: https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn