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what AI can tell us about human suffering

aim for practical utility first, by building something that addresses an actual need that you have. You don’t need an unsolved problem, but there should be something unique about your solution

programming book from 1962

What’s key here is that this outcome is noticeably worse for consumers, who are more of an afterthought in the equation. In this sense, the DMCC, like the DMA before it, disrupts competition law as we know it.

Curious to know where they got with diffs - I have had problems with sonnet generating diffs, using LLM to apply it usually works but feels very wasteful

found that impact is negligible

Beautiful animated voronoi tiles

I remember this one! On the hand dryer with a picture of a kangaroo and an emu, blue biro speech bubble from the emu saying “I wish I had hands”

someone also got one on twitter recently as is doing high res scans of it

lot of “Note | maybe related” linking articles, but this seems like something I would be interested in

free book teaching preschoolers to read - also app with some phonics system.

look inside
it’s Dijkstra’s algorithm

“if you really learn all of these, you’ll know 90% of what matters today*”

drawing things in 2-5 minutes
good notes on drawing, included link to Line of action which looks great

cool concept, worried about yet-another-custom-client, pricing (not listed??), privacy policy, over-emphasis on spelling out TLS and AES

but cool concept

username is Time Lady and it sounds like she’s asking about centuries-old Windows versions: “Which Windows version are you running - 1809, 1903 or 1909?”

preventing birth defects in seedless watermelons

this is exactly the kind of thing people wanted computers for

in hex it’s a 1 and then a lot of Fs

I have had far less success trying to do this with chatgpt. Should try with gemini

great easter egg

have fewer projects, pssht

How many of you have seen an electron? that’s the problem with computers. you can’t get your hands on the things that are moving around

first degree in computer science was 1968 - computers are new. Oldest person with a desgree in CS is 39, average Apple employee is under 30 (is this overconwsidered today?..)
“they are very dumb, but very fast”
he was talking about CRAY supercomputers, about computers being dumb
“let’s say I could move 100x faster / I could go outside and grab a bouquet / be back inside” - interseting this was about magic. But that computers still don’t interact with the real world. “could you go get some flowers / go get some coffee?”
electic motor example

The analysis revealed consistent nonlinear patterns in molecular markers of aging, with substantial dysregulation occurring at two major periods occurring at approximately 44 years and 60 years of chronological age

also with music

also great domain

Beau eats his body weight in beans then runs 50km.

cool if real