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by tombarys 2mo ago
+ let LLM generate just scaffolds, skeletons + do not let it generate code (let it generate leading questions instead of answers) + let it test you (try learning-opportunities repo from CatHicks)
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We Need the Friction of Existence (about AI and the fact that thought≠language)(lifehacky.net)
2 points by tombarys 4mo ago|1 comments
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by tombarys 4mo ago
I just published my interview with Benjamin Riley at Cognitive Resonance. I enjoyed it a lot. He is the founder of a consultancy that helps people understand how generative AI works — they use cognitive science and see AI as a tool that has
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by tombarys 5mo ago
Thank you for your feedback and the insight, .... you are probably right. Short live demo would be probably much better, I will think about it in the near term. :D "massively multiplayer online dotolist" – sounds scary, but the us
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Thousands todo apps, but none allows one-click collaboration with my grandma(medium.com)
9 points by tombarys 5mo ago|3 comments
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by tombarys 5mo ago
Todo-list apps are nothing new. You might think sharing a handful of editable tasks among a few people would be dead simple. You'd be wrong. To my knowledge, no simple tool of this kind exists. There are countless complex apps that wan
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by tombarys 8mo ago
it is simply about the fact there is a lot of lifestyle guidelines to walk as much as possible with “50 metres” textual context, but there is barely same amount of texts suggesting taking your car to a carwash with you as this is boringly o
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by tombarys 1y ago
> "Images can blend in the background, reading takes active processing so we're much more sensitive. And for the end user of a product, they care 0 or next to 0 about AI code." Very interesting point!
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by tombarys 1y ago
Agree 100%.
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by tombarys 1y ago
I understand. The question is what does it mean to "survive" for someone. For me survival means: - continuing to do my best at the language level – even if more people would start be gradually satisfied with less - I just believe
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by tombarys 1y ago
This is a topic for another article! We tried hard to use (test) translation tools in some real-life scenarios. The results seemed like they can help first but then we spent a lot of time again to reach our standards. As a side-effect, our
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by tombarys 1y ago
You are right. It plateaued and even degraded in some way. Or we just got more sensitive to its bullshiting?
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by tombarys 1y ago
Good point! Thanks. I like the perspective of "choices" during creation. It is an essential principle of the real art that it is a result of thousands/millions of deliberate choices. This is what we admire on the art. If you
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by tombarys 1y ago
> "Consumers don't care if art is generated by AI or humans" Maybe not yet. The real "art" consumers were always very sensitive and asking for originality (thus scarcity). It is an essential principle of the art
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I avoid using LLMs as a publisher and writer(lifehacky.net)
172 points by tombarys 1y ago|130 comments
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by tombarys 1y ago
I am a book publisher & I love technology. It can empower people. I have been using LLM chatbots since they became widely available. I regularly test machine translation at our publishing house in collaboration with our translators. I h
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by tombarys 2y ago
Thank you very much. I will think of a way to improve the shading while keeping the basic principle and simplicity. Thanks for the other ideas; it is still in progress. I added pasting the calendar from Apple Calendar yesterday.
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by tombarys 2y ago
Done
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by tombarys 2y ago
Actually, the spiral is ugly when it does not start at 8 a.m. ;) I added 6 a.m. and 7 a.m. as these were the most frequent workday start times users asked for. But I can also add other times for early birds. For night owls: you can add an e
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by tombarys 2y ago
I will think about possibilites.
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by tombarys 2y ago
Oh, thank you! You have many great ideas, @purple-leafy. This public version stems from the Roam environment where the outliner solves many things for you. Here I am using just a simple edit window without additional functionalities now. Th
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by tombarys 2y ago
Thanks, good idea, I will look into this!
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I created a new time-blocking concept for busy days and it works(nautilus-omnibus.web.app)
48 points by tombarys 2y ago|18 comments
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by tombarys 2y ago
Hey hackers! I've got something exciting to share: Nautilus Omnibus. It's not your typical time-blocking tool. The public prototype offers a unique circular day view that automatically advances all unfinished tasks. I initially de
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by tombarys 3y ago
I haven’t! I will check it, thanks. More ob Nautilus here: https://lifehacky.net/how-i-learned-to-plan-better-and-what-...
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by tombarys 3y ago
Dear hackers, do to-do lists help you plan your day? Or do they increase your stress as they do for me? I’ve tried millions of apps, but their tasks always look one like the other — one task, one line. To-do lists are just unintuitive and u
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What to do when you are a terrible with to-do lists (spoiler: learn to code)(lifehacky.net)
3 points by tombarys 3y ago|3 comments
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by tombarys 3y ago
Even this is not answer to your question (others did it well), I love this hack for simple moving windows by clicking anywhere: https://mmazzarolo.com/blog/2022-04-16-drag-window-by-clicki...
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by tombarys 4y ago
My solution: I am a book publisher (age 50, 25 years in publishing). But during my life I found that I deeply love programming too in a way you mentioned – solving problems. Small, private conundrums. Sometimes creating simple apps. But jus
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by tombarys 4y ago
Hi, I think it is perfectly natural – as others write here :) But still, you can do a lot about this. I am 50 and I feel even better than in my forties. We have three kids, I run demanding business (book publishing in small country) and I h

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