jaysonelliot

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by jaysonelliot 6mo ago
You should use your own words. It might seem that a tool like Grammarly is just an advanced spellcheck, but what it's really doing is replacing your personal style of writing with its own. It's better to communicate as an individu
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by jaysonelliot 9mo ago
I bought their Clicks phone case for iPhone and was very disappointed. The keyboard was dismal to type on and slowed me down significantly. If they're using the same keyboard in this phone, it won't be of interest to me.
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by jaysonelliot 9mo ago
546,229 character-length URL for the Crime and Punishment example. Half a megabyte for a URL. That certainly is a thing.
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by jaysonelliot 10mo ago
Which ones do you prefer?
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by jaysonelliot 11mo ago
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
Before installing all those apps the author listed, I'd recommend this exercise: Let the battery die on your phone, and live one week without it. Cold turkey. Tell people in advance if you need to, give them an alternate way to reach y
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
Most people probably don't. I'm an editor who's been working in print for years, so the keyboard shortcut for an em dash is muscle memory for me at this point. I have always been a Chicago Manual of Style person, so I don&#x2
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
"Dug tunnels" - one of the most ridiculous boondoggles of any modern industrialist. The Boring Company is a machine for overpromising to get government contracts and underdelivering at exponential scale. He didn't start PayPa
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
"Today, you still find airbrush-inspired art in advertising that’s done digitally rather than with ink on paper. The digital art is a little too perfect though — the gradient blends are flawless, while an airbrush would give you the sl
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
Every time Douglas Adams' biscuit story is told, I laugh as hard as if I were hearing it for the first time.
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
I work for Khoi. I should ask him if he really gave this quote.
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
That's a very insightful take. I think an LLM would have some role in a good text adventure game, in terms of being able to understand any natural language input and respond intelligently. But as you point out, it would need to do so w
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
It's a pretty cool proof of concept. I did run into some weirdness with it right away when trying the Harry Potter book. The app kept switching between 2nd and 3rd person for Harry. The main thing for me, though, was the feeling of emp
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
That's a great point. For example, my wife probably knows me better than anyone in the world. She's very good at seeing a book and knowing I'm probably going to like it. That includes your example of "this is a good book
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
The concept is great. Some constructive feedback on the execution: I expected to be able to provide a lot more than just five books. The splash page says "Our AI analyzes your reading DNA to recommend books you'll absolutely love—
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
It wasn't a rendering by an artist, it's just an autogenerated Midjourney image.
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
Using Midjourney to visualize a historical structure like this is not just lazy, it's very misleading. Especially when there are actual digital recreations, available for free use under Creative Commons, based on historical information
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
The AI generated images were an immediate turn-off to me as well. Whatever one thinks of the aesthetics, they're a huge signal that I'm looking at a product that's focused on monetizing me. The overall design is unfocused and
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
You're making the error of judging Raskin's approach with the knowledge of user interfaces that a person in 2025 has. It's been 40 years since that interview. Many people today weren't even born yet. In that 40 years, m
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by jaysonelliot 1y ago
Does this mean the CIA is not subject to the Federal Records Act, or does it mean they're simply flaunting the law?
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Can you explain that joke for me? I keep reading it and I don't get it.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Absolutely agree. There's a huge advantage to working on a pre-internet computer for word processing, in terms of being able to focus. But the VIC-20 screen is painful to look at. Personally, I use an Apple //e with WordStar.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
This sounds so absolutely absurd that it would probably work.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Excellent UI and very fun to explore, although North America is conspicuously blank before 1607. Hopefully more sources can be added to this to fill that out.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Yes, it really does matter. The concept that "language evolves" is absolutely valid when you're talking about the introduction of new words and phrases and adapting existing words to new purposes. It's not the principle
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
I doubt that becoming another "developing economy" where you have to spend 8-10 hours a day working in a call center would increase happiness.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
Despite the headline CBS gave the article, it seems the problem is not with happiness, but with the seductive appeal of materialism and the effects of exposing one culture to another. Social comparison theory is the idea that our satisfacti
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
I'm confused by this statement in the article: << LignoSat is made of honoki, a kind of magnolia tree native to Japan, and has been made using a traditional Japanese technique without screws or glue. >> From photos I&#x27
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
I find it sadly ironic that using AI to make images of animals directly contributes to the global warming that is driving those same animals extinct.
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by jaysonelliot 2y ago
It's very fun! The only change I'd make would be to use real photos of the animals instead of the AI images. It's hard to relate to them the way actual pictures would be. Pexels is an excellent source of free, creative common

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