patrickscoleman

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by patrickscoleman 1mo ago
Been spending a lot of time in the re-work phase and then fighting whatever arbitrary assumptions got baked into some early LLM output. Excited to try Ref and congrats on the launch!
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by patrickscoleman 2mo ago
I like writing by hand and now it’s easier than ever to just take a picture and give it to an LLM for a transcription if you need it on your phone/computer. Small local models work well for this too.
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by patrickscoleman 3mo ago
Obligatory link to a relevant Jorge Luis Borges story: Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote (about an author who copied Don Quixote word for word) https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl10/Pierre-Mena...
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by patrickscoleman 4mo ago
I've been digging into Thomas Metzinger[1] recently and here's a tentative component by component definition of human consciousness based on his ideas: - a model of your environment - desires - a process for modeling yourself in t
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by patrickscoleman 6mo ago
we have a crt tv with built in vhs in our office and have a bunch of old tapes one is “Mastering Windows 3.1” it’s fun to run in the background while working for your enjoyment, here’s a similar 3.1 tutorial video from that era uploaded to
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by patrickscoleman 6mo ago
Acquisition as marketing
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by patrickscoleman 8mo ago
I really love how Kosho Uchiyama describes meditation with the metaphor "opening the hand of thought" https://wisdomexperience.org/product/opening-hand-thought/
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by patrickscoleman 10mo ago
I'll jump in too. Also started coding with HTML in Neopets and then joined the middle school's programming club! We were playing around with C++ and Visual Basic. Love seeing these updates!
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by patrickscoleman 10mo ago
If you haven't already, you can turn off your YouTube watch history, which stops all recommendations. It makes it way less addicting. https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/95725
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
The worst customer support experiences of my life have been from Google, both while using Google Fi personally and GCP while working at Replit in its early days. Thankfully I'm no longer using either of those products now.
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Only tangentially on-topic, but I do all the financial modeling for the past several (early stage) startups I've worked for in Google Sheets. The ease, collaboration/sharing, and array formulas win out over the faster speed for ca
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Check out the work from the meditation research lab at Harvard [1] for more [1] https://meditation.mgh.harvard.edu/
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Great read. We've been seeing some wild emergent behavior at Rime (tts voice ai) too, e.g. training the model to <laugh> and it being able to <sigh>.
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
I recently picked up Mirrorshades and The Big Book of Cyberpunk (edited by Jared Shurin) [1] Will check this one out too! [1] https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/700576/the-big-book...
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Came here to say this, thanks. Only thing to add is that I like the "inbox" feature in Todoist (plus a single catchall project). I get overeager during the day and add a bunch of stuff. The inbox makes it easy for me to mostly jus
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
I do this with just an ever expanding notes file. Works!
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
their "private" is not private. about a month ago, i searched for some health-related stuff in a chrome incognito window and then immediately afterwards got related sponsored product ads on amazon in a logged in normal window.
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Ads are coming to ChatGPT too at some point [1]. Agree that ChatGPT has less spam than Google for now, but this won't always be the case. There are ChatGPT alternatives too (including Kagi's), so AI may end up taking a lot of sear
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Even as a foreigner who speaks Japanese, I frequently got the "we're closed" and crossing the hands in an X response while locals continued eating. Sometime they'd laugh and I'd hear "gaijin" (rude slang f
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
You should check out kagi then http://kagi.com/
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Highly recommend King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard for microtonal music too! For example: https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/flying-microtonal-ban...
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
Finally read it this year and so happy that I did! Although a lot of that reading was skimming haha. I think that's good for a first reading though. You get a really good idea of the overall pacing and chapter-to-chapter variety that w
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
It feels like some of the comments are responding to the title, not the contents of the article. Maybe a more descriptive but longer title would be: AGI will work with multimodal inputs and outputs embedded in a physical environment rather
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by patrickscoleman 1y ago
love the story! i took a stab at translating it: https://pscoleman.me/blog/axolotl
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by patrickscoleman 2y ago
Here's how to play: https://www.loom.com/share/14f8d6d097ef41319285cb6dd404a109?... Java is a bit of a pain. It's a compiled language, so if you make any edits to the .java files you'll need to run a com
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by patrickscoleman 2y ago
So fun, thanks for sharing! I'm feeling some nostalgia. The first game I ever made was also an ant defense game. You use a magnifying glass to protect your tomato at a picnic. As you get to later levels, the ants get bigger and the sun
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by patrickscoleman 2y ago
I am currently reading Ulysses, so this was a nice surprise on hn. Great historical context. Thank you! After many years of false starts, I stopped trying to understand everything and just let the prose wash over me. And now I’m enjoying it
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by patrickscoleman 2y ago
Tatami Galaxy
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by patrickscoleman 2y ago
My favorites by Aira: - "Episode in the life of a landscape painter" - mentioned in the article - "How I became a nun" - an introverted six year old claims to be a boy and a girl, mixes up reality and fantasy, and tastes
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What I learned building an AI language learning app(pscoleman.me)
4 points by patrickscoleman 2y ago|1 comments

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