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rlupi
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No, Obsidian is quite more powerful. Obsidian has built-in support for markdown, images, PDFs, canvas (via JSON Canvas which they developed and open sourced https://obsidian.md/canvas ), and others. For databases, you can ad
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It moves photos between local files, dropbox, and google drive, depending on how you configure it. From a quick look at the code, so far you can achieve the same with exiftool if you mount those sources as local drives. There isn't muc
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Seriously? > I’d imagine if Apple said “sure, we’ll open up [...email...] to Android devices as part of our Apple One subscription” you’d have people up in arms because Apple was charging for it and now they can send and receive email fr
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2y ago
Yes, absolutely (I am strongly agreeing with you!) I am not implying anything metaphysical. I think the best way to illustrate my point is to actually let AIs illustrate it, so here are a few questions I asked both ChatGPT o1-mini and Gem
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Do you rotate to keep your motivation alive, or because of other reasons (e.g. let a topic simmer for a few days, so you get inspired / or reducing risks by gaining more information or knowledge over time)? Because multitasking is the
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I think you touch a very important point. Many spiritual paths look at silence, freedom from the inner voice, as the first step toward liberation. Let me use Purusarthas from Hinduism as an example ( https://en.wikipedia.org/
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Good insight. Ah... category theory :-) Array-of-Stuct (AoS) treats order in arrays as meaningful, arrays as lists, so AoS => Struct-of-Array (SoA) doesn't loose information. It is a sound transformation because it is a homomorphism
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Modern agriculture enormously increased the amount of food we produce, but overexploitation and the choice of quantity over quality impoverished the outputs. We have more quantity of less nutritious food[1], more food waste, and we are driv
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I wish more people actively worked to reverse these trends, for example join Sadhguru #savethesoil movement ( https://consciousplanet.org/en/save-soil/about-us https://consciousplanet.org/en/sa
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Not so strange... there is a name for that common phenomenon that underpins corruption and obesity: wetiko. "Wetiko is a cannibalizing force driven by insatiable greed, appetite without satisfaction, consumption as an end in itself, an
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Guys, you have to fix USA! > Healthcare, decent sized apartment, 5 weeks of paid vacation, free or easily affordable pre school, overtime pay, decent schools and free college, is a good start. This is literally the (by-law) standard of l
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If the MPQ files are not too big and they match across languages, architectures and stages of development (e.g. same file names), the simplest solution is just to compress related files together. Let the compression algorithms figure out th
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KISS. You can just use a "cone of silence" spell... ... that is, take a A4/letter blank piece of paper, fold it like a cone and tape it down, then take a red large-tip marker and write "SILENCE!" or "BUSY"
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We have found both orientations on organic compound coming from space[1]... while the risk posed by our own actions is way way higher, I wonder if we can find ways ways to protect from these lower risk scenarios in the future. [1] https:&#
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> Question then becomes, how do you build such non-constrained machines? Also, how do you confirm that such machines—or even small scale prototypes—are not constrained by classic laws of physics? You mean, like... transistors? ;-) https
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I have been really impressed lately using Samsung Dex on a XReal Air 2. AR glasses have really improved in the recent years. It gives you a better screen than many small laptops. For longer trips (train, airplane), add a mechanical wireless
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> I haven't seen any convincing explanations on what the plant's advantage would be. It doesn't have to be an advantage in emitting clicking sounds, just more advantageous to the plant overall lifelong wellbeing to be that
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What you describe are two different speeds at which AI/AGI goes through Gartner's hype cycle. An interesting question is: why do we need hype cycles? Both in general, and what's peculiar about AI and AGI... most ideas don
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In other words, considering we are talking about string and unicode... There are two types of programmers, those that are wrong and those that are very wrong
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We, humans, use dreams for consolidating memory and information recall, process emotions and rehearse feelings in different imagined contexts, mental housekeeping / pruning away partial or unnecessary information, replay recent events
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/world/europe/naples-volca... Half a million people in Naples and surroundings would be directly affected, in addition to the impact on local and global weather pat
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Congrats! I don't know if you remember, but we had a nice chat over Google Meet about causality some years ago. We met not reddit.
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> Trees don't make choices and engage in that type of creativity, nor does the forest floor or canopy. From a philosophical point of view, I'd argue that trees and life have much more of the ability to make choices and even exp
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"Our" computers aren't actually ours. Are they? What is "sandboxing" in the age of Microsoft Copilot+ AI, Apple Intelligence, Google Gemini already or coming soon to various phones and devices? Assistant, Siri, Cort
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What an interesting way to put the trolley problem: > There's a runaway trolley barreling down a railway. Further down the tracks there are five people tied up and unable to move. They will die once the trolley reaches them. > Yo
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I think cutting out all but "business-critical" travel has done far more damage to innovation than any WFH disconnect. I can think about several situations that could have been solved 6-12 months earlier (IMHO) if L4+ were allowed
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Google has both H100 (and previous generations) and TPUs. Different teams and projects use different accelerators. In fact, I am a bit surprised to see Andreessen Horowitz mentioned in the fourth place, since Google has more than that numbe
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If a company makes something like Meta's ray-ban smart glasses but with the one function of being an AI shopping assistant (preferably offline), it would instantly make the case for why AI is good for the world. I think it could quickl
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I can't help. > "Once I saw this guy on a bridge about to jump. I said, "Don't do it!" He said, "Nobody understand me." I said, "What's so special about you?" He said: "I don't
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