jskherman

Well not everyone has the privilege to buy new books, especially course-mandated books that the professor "coincidentally" wrote and costs hundreds of dollars.

I would even say that "crossing out lines you disagree with" is vandalism because a book can always be read by others and come to a different conclusion and debate in their mind from there.

Why treat books as disposable mind scaffolds when they can be used again by others productively and even preserved for later generations? If you found a book to be at least somewhat useful to write notes on, then why would others not also find it useful?

Margin notes are fine though as long as they do not make the main contents of the book unreadable like "crossing out lines".

Check out the FUTO keyboard or FUTO voice input apps. It only uses the whisper models though so far.

Hello, just wanted to share. This piece just finally hit me with the surrealness of autonomous AI (with personality) in modern society is now a reality. It made me question what is consciousness? Do we need a biological body? Does a virus count as alive?

It feels like Sci-Fi novels coming true.

Python is its batteries.

I think what you're trying to describe is a Jupyter notebook but in a slimmer package. Maybe marimo or quarto? Maybe there are already notebook viewers out there (on GitHub?) that only allow view or edit without code execution, if that suits your needs.

Hello, thanks for the work for finally having an analog to Claude Code.

A natural question to ask is, if in the near future, can Google One "Google AI Pro" subscribers have higher limits than what is offered for free users?

Looks like I just inadvertently skipped to level 4 every workday, due to working inside of a restricted area with lots of proprietary industrial stuff.

Yeah, I also found dotted notebooks to be the sweet spot. It's cleaner than a lined or gridded notebooks and especially helpful if they're already numbered.

The tweaks they found in the article is basically a proto-version of the Bullet Journal but just with its index system.

Physical notebooks are nice but as I have to come to know throughout the years, they are also kind of "disposable" and cannot survive long-term if you have to do any amount of moving. You wish you could keep all of your journals/notebooks in an archive but seems infeasible when you don't have your own house or your house is just too small. The rising rent and house prices just makes this all the worse.

On a related note, see Hollo: https://github.com/fedify-dev/hollo

They're doing the Apple strategy. Less spotlight for other third parties, and less awareness how they're lagging behind so that those already ignorantly locked into OpenAI would not switch. But at this point why would anyone do that when switching costs are low?

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This is the whole main challenge of the quantified self movement all over again.

There's a lot of attempts to solve this problems but not much has been found, possibly because the whole setup of ELT processes is a lot of chores (just think about the whole inconsistent formats of data across services). It's like having a second job in data engineering, and I'm not even remotely in the software/data industry! I just like and do coding as a hobby.

From what I read and experienced, it makes the size of the Git repository much bigger than it should be with how Git tries to keep copies of old binary files (specifically the data and hash) since it cannot diff those unlike plaintext. You eventually have cache of the old files in the repo if you're not deliberate with setting --depth when cloning.

I see. I considered doing a static site dedicated to images on Cloudflare Pages and hotlinking from there. According to the docs[1], Cloudflare Pages projects support up to 20000 files.

[1]: https://developers.cloudflare.com/pages/platform/limits/

Like encoded base64 and using a post-processor to convert the images?

I think Telegram is plenty fast enough re:(1) on Android especially with a Home screen shortcut to your private Channel. It just gets quickly cluttered with mixing messages and file uploads.

Yet, with the current climate of the job market it keeps getting harder and harder to find a job nowadays, especially for entry-level positions. Doesn't that strike you as odd that instead of having more demand there's less even as technology exponentially becomes a huge part of modern civilization? There seems to be already a filter for those who are not "nerds" with the current situation.

Symmetries in Nature strike again! It's just like in Noether's theorem.

Similarly, per chance, is there also an extension for the browser to show a tree graph or a directional node graph like in Obsidian for the sequence of websites you visit in your browser history to see your whole rabbit hole on the Internet? I'm pretty sure the tech is already used by the advertising industry.

There's also libraries like trafilatura in Python featured here in HN some time ago that could extract content from websites to help augment the data.

What kind of approach did you take? I was thinking along the lines of requiring something like rewind.ai or some program that autoscreenshots your screen at a set interval (or originally a recorded video split into several images later) and having a vision-capable model (particularly specialized in UIs) describe these set of images in order to build a dataset of images-tags-description and the like.

Indeed, anything goes! What matters is the result of experiments. Fundamentally science is about understanding more about the world. It does not matter if there are "magical" or "mythical" entities or not. In fact, I would even argue that my current position as to science and religion is similar to that of the position taken by Georges Lemaître.

There's a lot of peculiarity when you study science and even math. Some things just seem too elegant to be coincidental like Euler's equation and the phenomenon of emergence, but even if they are coincidental that realization of coincidence and the slim chance of it happening is also fascinating. On the other hand there are also mind-boggingly unelegant things about nature that require empirical methods because exact and analytical methods aren't cutting it to describe phenomena. It feels all like a mish-mash of different mechanics/rules put together. I do believe Lemaître understood it well that by researching the sciences we also, in its own way, are trying to learn and know about God and his creations (assuming you accept the axiom that God created the universe).

This answer looks eerily similar to the llama-3-sonar-large-32k-online model by Perplexity on labs.perplexity.ai

Now this had me curious. Is there someone out there who has actually created a theme/template website for a static site generator like Hugo, Zola, or Jekyll where you could use both the usual markdown and the actual code files themselves? It seems fairly doable based off the templating engines available.

On the other hand, Docker seems to be a bit overkill for something one could use a static site for instead if it's supposed to be self-hosted. It's even better security-wise. Otherwise, I wonder if one could upload a gist and have it run on the server through some unknown exploit.

I think it's not so much as having many options but more so of having a lot of backup plans for when things eventually go wrong. There's analysis paralysis after all. It would be better to say that empowerment is maximized when there is a definitively best choice and there are several good backup choices (complete with sensible rankings down the chain of backups, ideally definitive) if the original choice suddenly becomes unavailable due to the arbitrariness of life.

Complex numbers! I didn't expect complex numbers to have a deeper relation to quantum mechanics. It feels like negative probabilities is just the "sqrt(-1) doesn't make sense" topic all over again. Yeah, why is it Quantum Mechanics taught on how it was historically sequentially discovered instead of reorganizing it in a clear manner for future students? This may be long overdue and might even yield new perspectives on quantum mechanics from future researchers.

The model is actually pretty good. I tried some silly lyrics from a copypasta about eyeglasses and it's not half bad:

https://suno.com/song/74eb1694-f388-42fd-86fa-960b83177afc

https://suno.com/song/99e8a89f-a955-4284-a474-1403ac0620e0

[start devil's advocate]

Uh... What makes this better than just installing something like the Stylus extension and learning some CSS? For the price (and even a subscription?) it just seems ridiculous and just spending some time with perusing MDN docs and/or an LLM. We may not even know that in the future that this extension will be properly maintained for a long time, making the settings difficult to migrate. Will this export to CSS?

Even if this is aimed towards non-technical users, in the first place most laypeople looking to change websites' looks will either (a) use Arc Boosts most likely, (b) learn some CSS eventually since they will most likely be design-oriented people, or (c) use Stylus if they have heard of it and just use the preexisting styles made by the community on popular websites that a majority of people spend time on (which already have good styles)...

[end devil's advocate]

The UI of the extension looks nice though but it just seems kind of ridiculous with the pricing.

Some of the songs generated with this are hilarious. For example:

https://www.udio.com/songs/jPdgtC9en8s8nh5V2aZUJa https://www.udio.com/songs/dkp5W5P6oCuCmcbfHMtSUR

Lol, yes. Scientists, engineers, accountants, businessmen, etc. all use Excel. They say the modern world is built upon spreadsheets (even broken ones that show the wrong data). I forgot who said this though...