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was funny how much of this was relevant when released (“use this version of tasker and this version of android”) but completely not relevant later

“Not yet. This will be available in the rewrite.”

probably no

we can’t compete with AI boyfriends either. Or AI friends:

Soon, these “fake people” won’t just be indistinguishable from real people, they’ll be better than real people - because they’ll be whatever you want them to be.

The agreeableness thing I have seen come up a few times recently. We probably prefer it, so I assume training will be biased toward it. There are times you don’t want the computer to argue with you, but hyper-agreeable friends does not bode well for echo chambers.

Slides and transcript on the challenges of designing with language models

more AI experiments on reading and generating images

link from mum

incredible op-z project organization tips

plant and animal 3d models

clever if true

Changes to carpark design guidance published here - chargers, fire safety, and weight increases.

the average vehicle’s weight has increased from 1.5 metric tons in 1974 to nearly 2 metric tons in 2023.

related to the big car loophole

maybe another thing that gets worse as cars get heavier.

bad month for podcast apps

“regenerative”, “nature-based”, “climate-neutral”, “efficient”, “reduced emissions intensity” agriculture with “sustainable intensification”, coming soon.

Electrical Engineer on power generation. Some runs counter to climate debates are out of date

What is my preferred path to a green energy future? I still see no fundamental reason to vary from Cornell professor Carl Sagan’s recommendations to Congress in 1985 :

• Solar power
• Safe fission nuclear power
• Fusion nuclear power on a longer time-scale

Make it a game, host things, do things.
Interesting section is “What happens once you have a lot of friends?”

wild how the first few answers are completely unhelpful but subtly hint that the guy may die

awesome idea. Keep original links, redirect to archive if not found

twitter thread on a reddit thread on foods being tasteless now

how to overcome almost anything, apparently

some great and helpful tips

• Punch (yellow encoder on mixer page): this is the most important. To my hobbyist ears, it seems to both set the threshold and the release, but I’m not sure. Note: it seems to take a second to apply changes to this value.
• Master Drive (Blue encoder on Master track): seems to add saturation and makeup gain.

1. Increase Punch at least a bit
2. Increase synth group gain (blue encoder on mixer) until it’s just triggering the punch/compressor, which is shown when the yellow encoder’s LED slightly turns blue while the sequencer is running
3. Increase drum group gain until the kick and/or snare are running into the compressor, creating that sidechain-like sound
4. Make small adjustments to Punch, Synth group gain, and Drum group gain until it fits the song
5. Adjust Master track drive for each section of the song according to how “full” or saturated I want it to sound to be.

One big reason for that is that while imitating the lifestyle habits of healthy people sounds like an intuitive strategy, I think it’s actually a pretty bad one…
to manage alcohol consumption more effectively and I’d tell him … try to drink less alcohol? Except maybe it’s okay to cut loose sometimes… but not too often? Ultimately, I just don’t know; it’s not a problem I have.

maybe? Saw some tweet on the equivalent of “I can’t remember phone numbers” but for coming up with ideas. Maybe worrying, probably fine.

Audacity for browser

this is cool. would like to make a converter to generate these from color images

I think this is the source of the “men at 25 at mature as women at 18” thing.

when everything is AI, nothing is

learned about this on a video of “depth of different bodies of water”.

not sure if I would actually find this useful, dense multi-arrowed charts are often hard for me to follow. Cool though!