pillefitz

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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   I live in Germany and spend around 20k a year, despite living in a rather large flat in one of the most expensive German cities. No car ownership though.
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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   Reminds me of the lives of the great philosophers, who, in order to freely contemplate, owned slaves to do the necessary work
3. 63.▲
   by pillefitz 1y ago

   Well, Israel does manipulate the media, no need to come up with strawmen
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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   LLMs alone might be powerful enough already, they just need to be hooked up to classic AI systems to enable symbolic reasoning, episodic memory etc.
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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   The problem of overflowing context is solved by RAGs, though.
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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   I built https://readboost.io earlier this year. It adds Q&A to quiz yourself to the end of each chapter and lets you download the annotated ePub. Unfortunately, motivation left me after 3 months and it can't handle all
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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   Thanks for your insights. So far I've always worked on solo projects, and there's a faint glimmer of hope that having a (accountability-) partner would allow me to finally ship.
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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   For me, a break due to a stressful period at work or long vacation is typically crushing my momentum, and I'm rarely able to continue working on the side project after. How do you deal with it?
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   by pillefitz 1y ago

   How is launching impacting your commitment to your project? Once I built an MVP, I'm typically satisfied and move on (even though I convinced myself for weeks that my ambition would reach well beyond building an MVP)
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    What made it useful to you - the fact you could use the MVP yourself (internal motivation) or that you had an early user base breathing down your neck (external motivation)? Did this approach work consistently, or were possibly other factor
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    To summarize, sequential building didn't work, and parallel building you're currently in the evaluation phase of?
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    Ask HN: What change enabled you to consistently finish your side projects?

    51 points by pillefitz 1y ago|40 comments
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    What compells neurotypicals to start projects, then?
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    Interesting idea, but when looking for candidates, I don't have time for that.
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    They state themselves it's just system prompts.
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    Same here. There's no insights to be gained writing code that I couldn't have had iterating on paper (and possibly showing to users).
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    It's for sure not the "reverse", even if for some people with certain diseases the benefits may outweigh the risks. It's undeniably linked to certain cancers and arteriosclerosis
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    Aren't you worried about the health impacts of eating steak that frequently?
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    First I was annoyed by your response, then intrigued: It reads LLM-generated, but is it? If yes, how did it make the link to your app?
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    By latex he means LaTeX.
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    LLMs have more knowledge than you'll ever have, while being somewhat worse at reasoning. A friend of mine suffers from severe depression and after trying 5 medications, decades of therapy with different therapists, LLMs are the only th
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    Anything original, for that matter.
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    He did. "Care about it. Be a good host" is why people use the application vs. yet another soulless experience.
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    Have you compared returns on property vs. stocks?
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    We definitely need a way to flag AI content
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    You might like Robert Kegan's work, specifically "A discerning heart" as a quick primer. What you'd describe is a proliferation of stage 2 personalities that can take perspectives only alternatingly, but not simultaneous
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    By value you mean furthering the individualization and alienation by technology, which destroys the planet and gives us what, AI data centers? And the AI agents won't even do our jobs?
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    I'm mostly using it because our company uses the Microsoft Office stack. I put in lots of screenshots and have many different sections, such as a tab for meeting notes with one page per individual or meeting series. Also, it integrated
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    Thanks for letting me know! Haven't used it in a while after losing the initial momentum, day job and all, but will take a look on the weekend and report back in case I can replicate the issue
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    by pillefitz 1y ago

    His article https://andymatuschak.org/books/ inspired me to build https://readboost.io/ to embed Q&A and SRS into ePubs. Might be buggy still, but I personally found it quite useful!