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NishanStepak
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Part of this is about a new way to store energy. In the Netherlands, they have started storing heat energy with sand, in Germany, they are using bricks. This has some advantages. It allows the direct use of heat for industrial processes
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I had a little money invested in Presearch through Wefunder, but it went bust a few days ago. I thought it was interesting. Maybe someone can buy out the technology.
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I continue working on Babel Nexus https://babelnexus.com Explore classic books and big ideas in a whole new way — a discovery system for the public domain. A three-floor knowledge graph: 21 science hexagonal galleries on Level I
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In terms of the amount of information in the current LLMs, I think the largest is 5.6 trillion bytes of memory, it is miniscule to what is actually out there. There are over 13 zettabytes of information on the internet. Part of the capac
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I spent some time learning about healthspan, how to stay healthy as you age. It is something which I have had an interest in for a long time. I am focusing on staying ten years ahead with my health.
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I am building a vibe coding project. As part of the project, I am reading books on each step of the process. This means first reading on how artificial intelligence works, then reading about how to vibe code, then about how prompting work
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To work on a major project related to universal libraries or universal knowledge graphs.
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When Google scanned its books, it did not destroy any of the books. This was because of the idea of the "cultural object" where the book has value as a physical artifact. The experience of reading a physical book is different th
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I had AI make a video for my site. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehzX3PIc4kY
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Consider getting an Ipad mini with liquid retina display. This is the best device display out there with the highest resolution. It is not an ereader, but it provides the same or better resolution and you can write with it.
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Am a big fan of the Bobiverse. Excellent science fiction.
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First email, then phone. Always works for me.
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I have seen a lot of book applications coming out lately, 3D bookstores using three.js, book notetakers, aggregators of public domain books, social publishing applications, and others. This seems ready made because recipes can easily be co
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The actual work is relaxing. Unfortunatley, the poltics around the work have become far from relaxing. I work with government and there have been many attempts to defund libraries recently as well as government agencies related to librari
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This sounds like you could look into kickstarting so you can get the money to develop it. You kind of already know what stages and milestones you would need to go through to build the project. It would be a matter of breaking it down into
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The Built In Pages have lots of startups on them. https://www.builtinnyc.com/ They cover a number of specific cities like Austin, Boston, San Francisco, Seattle and other places. They also have news and company pages.
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I am looking for use cases and testimonials for the site which I created. If you have any suggested uses or experiences let me know. It would be helpful to see how people use the site as well as positive statements about the site. I need
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I am looking for use cases and testimonials for the site which I created. If you have any suggested uses or experiences let me know. It would be helpful to see how people use the site as well as positive statements about the site. I need
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I prefer walking meditation, not sitting meditation. You are not your thoughts.
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https://newsnow.com https://yahoo.com https://google.com https://reddit.com https://gmail.com https://bing.com https;//wwww.libaryjournal.com https:/&#
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I keep it simple. Every morning, I write in a notebook listing my long term goals and cross them off as they get done. It reminds me of what I need to do every day and it is quick. I put a number next to the goal and if there is an immed
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Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford and Critical Path by R Buckminster Fuller
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I updated it with layout improvements and links to audiobooks through Librivox.
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I upadated it recently with layout improvements and added links to internet archvie audiobooks through Librivox for many of the books.
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I focus on a few subjects in specifically, this makes it manageable, AI and libraries, AI and publishing, and AI and energy. Otherwise I would get overwhelmed.
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A lot of sites require you to wait a bit before doing anything. Metafilter makes you wait a week before posting for example. They want long term people.
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Maybe it existed in some other place and time, but we will never truly know. This article reminds me a little bit of Philip K. Dick's writings on alternate timelines. People remember a lot of things differently. Your memory of what h
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I am finding that crafts as a subject is somewhere between science and knowledge. People argue about whether a craft is an art or more related to science with things like glass blowing or welding. There are other things like how Greek dra
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Reddit has a magic quality to it. There are a ton of groups. Some of the groups I have used so far are Betatesters, Buildinpublic, Earlystageapps, Indiehackers, Sideproject, Startup Ideas, Y Combinator. There are also specific groups like
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Not so much for individual searches, but for types of information. I have had people ask for hexagons covering ceramics, knitting, art, and other hexagons. A lot of the public domain sites are very generic. They are designed to promote p
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