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better frontends for prompts. Weighting (model pays more attention to stuff in parenthesis) and blending {average|of|some|words} both seem very useful

More resources on HN thread for Vector Databases: A Technical Primer (PDF).

And SimonW on embeddings.

one to print out and read in a cabin

and relatable HN thread

couple of apps and updated cheat sheets for OP-Z howtos

interesting to watch if we can finally make recycling financially viable

I still don’t quite understand what happens with the salt but more water in places seems good

Prompt engineering guide based on researching and creating prompts for production use cases.

More on the loneliness/time with people charts. That novelty and learning and socialising peak, then decline for the following decades.

Solutions:

1. scheduled, recurring social events with friends and family. Make it more automatic
2. Take a break every quarter. Design another level for for life’s video game.
3. Learn how to learn
4. Celebrate the 25th birthday, like a passage into actual adulthood.
5. Create rituals.

And HN discussion

This seems like it would just amplify existing insta/guide issues rather than solve any problems… Though maybe the ability to make it tailored could mean it more finds hidden gems for you

People become preoccupied with food

I liked this good vague title better than WaPo’s more clickbaity What happens when you get stoned every single day for five years?

we often apparently underestimate how much people will act to avoid adverse outcomes

Generating your own teaches the kinds of errors to look for (and what makes things seem less “real”). Will effortless “realistic” generation be possible or there will inevitably be a gap there

stop pushing the robots! It just wants to kick the little ball.

stretching exercises for people who sit a lot

Current streak: 1 day

we are still very ill-equipped to deal with knowing what not to trust

Mapping Fn is useful. Mostly saved it for this best ever outro:

I’m also secretly hoping to start crafting wood flutes and composing music so that I don’t have a need for remembering any hotkeys anymore.

the four hobbies:

doing the thing	getting gear for the thing
talking about the thing	talking about gear for the thing

surprised I had not considered this - since 2 laptops (work/non-work) has long seemed like a no-brainer.

I agree that flexing the boredom muscle is good, as is finding joy in time to yourself.
But don’t know if embracing solitude is the right conclusion to draw from a chart of alone time increasing over lifespan.

That you could also flex the socialising muscle, and try to buck a trend from a chart of averages.

I am already off the chart on average hours per day, so there is also that…

If there is a choice between changing and not changing, I can assure you the latter is the much easier road. How splendid it feels to revert to form. How cool and lovely and sweet. I believe that most of us, in our gut, know what we need to do in this life: We need to leave that job. We need to leave that relationship. We need to stop smoking, stop stuffing our face with peanut butter and fudge, stop hiding in that closet, whatever that closet happens to be for you. But change is hard, man. Ask Obama. Ask anyone who’s ever tried to change.

What I wish I had known when I was drinking in that ridiculous closet is that change requires failure. It requires screw-ups and a mouthful of grass and shins covered in bruises and I’m sorry, but I don’t know any other way around that. It also requires time and patience, two things I don’t particularly like, because I was raised in the school of epiphany and instant gratification, which is why I loved alcohol, because it was fast, immediate, pummeling.

helpful writeup, on choices and tradeoffs

seems like a lot more emphasis on the jar than the contents.

keeping notes simple, rather than getting caught up finding (or making…) a perfect and complicated and powerful notetaking system

cutting costs to keep consumer prices constant over time

Nice writing. Interesting little random snippet on commercials over the decades

People seem to have been worse at interviewing in the fifties, but maybe they just had different sensibilities.> Or rather, they must have had different sensibilities, but did these just involve lower standards, or would a fifties viewer be reading things from the exchange and appreciating things about it that I am blind to? This kind of mystery seems like a thing to keep in mind in general.
It also seems quite hard to answer these questions.

I have some slight concerns that a lot of clips are of researchers pushing them over.

Consider the option of how to make a universal OTG cable with your own hands