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kovek··on Claude 4
Don't humans learn intentions over their life-time training data?
kovek··on A hackable AI assistant using a single SQLite table and a handful of cron jobs
Why not use a smartphone for the user interface?
kovek··on Gemini Live with camera and screen sharing capabilities
I think it would be nice if the Pixel Fold could do: Have a browser on the left showing some content, and have Gemini on the right, where you can prompt it with questions or asking it to take actions on the left.
kovek··on How the Index Card Cataloged the World (2017)
I find that when carrying the Hipster PDA in a pocket, the index cards curl up and get bent. However, it almost satisfies all my requirements for a portable note-taking device.
kovek··on Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life
I like to have a category (folder, list, document, etc.) per entity that I am interacting with. That entity can be a government, a company, a person, an object, or other.

What do you think?

kovek··on Show HN: I 3D scanned the interior of the Great Pyramid at Giza
I really like the tool. However, I just hit an issue... Somehow, I was dragging in the view, and it did a text select on the whole view. Now, everything is highlighted blue as if I selected it, and I don't know how to de-select it.
kovek··on I Trained My TikTok
Imagine if an AI could simulate(/emulate?) a person. What if it could simulate(/emulate?) a community.

Some people are almost becoming friends with AI already

kovek··on I've used all the notebooks
I wish there was a way to always produce a notebook, without the hassle of getting it out of the backpack without having to carry it (uses 1 out of 2 hands). Same for the pen. I think finding a surface can also be difficult. Anyone has ideas?
kovek··on Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire
I didn’t understand you.

But, imagine a DDOS attack on the nodes serving the blockchain. I don’t see why “pay once read forever” works financially.

kovek··on Discussions: Real human answers in search results
It looks like these days, NLP models are able to “seem” human. Start generating many reddit accounts, act like humans, gain karma. When an important discussion appears, use the army of bots to debate that product A is better than product B

EDIT: If previously the race was to make a business look legitimate (page rank), then now it is about making users look legitimate (human rank)

kovek··on Guido van Rossum: Let Web3 die in a flaming ball of fire
The amount of storage is not unlimited. The amount of goodwill from the nodes is not unlimited. The value of ethereum is not unlimited. The amount of reads can easily be “played with”
kovek··on 5-min breathing workout lowers blood pressure as much as exercise, drugs (2021)
I'm curious how breathing with this device compares with breathing through the nose
kovek··on 1.5-Inch Hand-Carved Agate from 1500 B.C. Shows Sub-Millimeter Details (2017)
> It's very possible that our understanding and implementation of childhood development has a larger impact on intelligence than these presumed random mutations.

Bones from burial sites of past hunter-gatherer societies are associated with larger jaws and mouths, while bones retrieved from former farming cultures have decreased jaw size. [0]

I believe jaw development has effects on mental health. Thus, I think our non-genetic changes do happen to affect our mental capabilities. There must be other factors than jaw size that do so.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_jaw_shrinkage?wprov=sfti...

kovek··on Dall-E 2
One of my teachers once said “An art piece is never done”. So, I wonder what could that mean for the model to keep making improvements to the piece.
kovek··on What’s new in Emacs 28.1?
I always like to ask: Has the pixel-scrolling story gotten better on Emacs? I like how I can scroll smoothly on Visual Studio Code.
kovek··on The singularity is close?
I think it's good to do the following. Assume that jobs are taken over by AGI, one by one. Which job will be left last? Which job would I want, given this change?
kovek··on React v18.0
IIRC mobx is much easier to use than Redux. Any thoughts on this?
kovek··on Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator
This still makes sense! TPUs are useful for AI, which itself will be very very useful. It’s almost like it’s the best investment. That’s why smart players buy them all. Maybe I’m going out-of-topic.
kovek··on Nvidia Hopper GPU Architecture and H100 Accelerator
Does it make sense that all the GPUs are bought out? They each provide a return for mining in the short-term. In the long term, they can be used to run A(G)I models, which will be very very useful
kovek··on How I learned to stop worrying and structure all writing as a list
I don't understand what's being explained. Should people use lists alongside paragraphs?
kovek··on Researchers train an algorithm to interpret pig grunts as emotions
One day, animals will be part of our parliaments.
kovek··on Researchers train an algorithm to interpret pig grunts as emotions
“Train an algorithm” sounds better than “train an AI”
kovek··on Apple Event March 8, 2022
Do you mean the TPU in pixel 6? Can you link some article about the shitshow?
kovek··on What's the problem with old but excellent Mac apps?
Would developers stick to dedicating time for macos if apple took a smaller chunk?
kovek··on Not everyone should meditate
Me too!
kovek··on Pokitto: Open-source pocket gaming console
Someone stole my Vita and my Switch is not old enough… If I can get this on Amazon it would be awesome (for pokitto)
kovek··on I use Org Mode for personal logging/journalling
Do you have smooth scrolling in Emacs? How do you sync your work with your smartphone?
kovek··on Mastering Metacognition: The What, Why, and How
As a maybe philosophical zombie, I would like to know more about these attempts you are mentioning.
kovek··on Top Performers Have a Superpower: Happiness
Here’s a video about happiness. It explains that has something to do with our prefrontal cortex (which IIRC is related to intelligence) - https://youtu.be/4q1dgn_C0AU
kovek··on Ask HN: How do you hack your health?
I feel as if my doctor doesn’t take my signals seriously. Should I find a different doctor? How do I find one that will fit?
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