1. svdr 3 days ago parent

   Michael Levin has a lot of new ideas.
2. svdr 3 days ago parent

   The idea that there is much more computation (and intelligence/agency) going on in biological and other systems seems to be getting more popular. (The author writes: The whole body is a computer: it’d be wasteful for evolution to only use the brain for computation when other systems could take part too.). Michael Levin has some super interesting ideas about this.
3. svdr Nov 13, 2025 parent

   I first thought the spinning was an optical illusion, like https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/how-our-b.... But in this case the spinning is real and you don’t see the rotation except in a small area (your fovea).
4. svdr Oct 17, 2025 parent

   I think the difference now is that traditional software ultimately comes down to a long series of if/then statements (also the old AI's like Wolfram), whereas the new AI (mainly LLM's) have a fundamentally different approach.
5. svdr Oct 15, 2025 parent

   I'm using the smaller models for things like searching and summarizing over a larger part of the codebase. The speed is really pleasant then.
6. svdr Sep 19, 2025 parent

   Is there a distinction made between business customers and consumers? (B2B/B2C)
7. svdr Aug 7, 2025 parent

   I guess I mean that we are awake experience the input from our senses, and that in a dream only the replication of the experience of seeing or hearing etc. is needed, not a replication of the input of the senses which then leads to the experience.
8. svdr Aug 5, 2025 parent

   Your brain does not need to render any environments, just the experience of being in them.
9. svdr Aug 4, 2025 parent

   When images of Mars are shown on social media, there always is a flood of 'Devon island, Canada' comments, so depressing!
10. svdr Jul 26, 2025 parent

    The removal is only temporary.
11. svdr Jul 10, 2025 parent

    Hi Preet, I think this is looking great, and a lot of features are present already. Two things to consider: I think your pricing is too low to be taken seriously by a lot of organizations; also, with a one-time payment support is an issue.

    Second, to have a selling point, you might want to focus on privacy. Is the data shared in any way? Where is it kept? What measures have you taken to keep data safe? Will it be deleted if I cancel my account? That sort of things.

    Anyway, good luck and keep on going!

12. svdr Jul 4, 2025 parent

    I've been programming for 40 years and have started using LLM's a few months ago, and it has really changed the way I work. I let it write pieces of code (pasting error messages from logs mostly result in a fix in less then a minute), but also brainstorming about architecture or new solutions. Of course I check the code it writes, but I'm still almost daily amazed at the intelligence and accuracy. (Very much unlike crypto).
13. svdr May 12, 2025 parent

    Who remembers Steve Gibson's 'little corner of the web'? He wrote super small Windows applications in assembly: https://www.grc.com/smgassembly.htm
14. svdr Feb 27, 2025 parent

    It it false but I would not blame the parent; the ISP blocked page is unclear and suggests the block is linked to Russia.
15. svdr Jan 29, 2025 parent

    Yeah, if I understand correctly AI will create it's own internal reasoning language through RL. In R1-Zero it was already a strange mix of languages. They corrected that for R1 to make the thinking useful for humans.
16. svdr Nov 4, 2024 parent

    I think here it is bearable because the page is more like a presentation. The worst is when nothing special happens, and you only notice scrolling is off.
17. svdr Oct 12, 2024 parent

    We are using Helpscout wich is very nice over all. The also do not send the weirdly formatted ticket email, with 'respond above this line' etc.
18. svdr Sep 14, 2024 parent

    Did you find out what the error was in computing the volume of the truncated icosidodecahedron?
19. svdr May 31, 2024 parent

    The attackers are demanding only $500,000 as a ransom payment, that's cheap!
20. svdr May 13, 2024 parent

    Technically it is, of course, but the experience is completely different, and I get the feeling people call it that to downplay it.
21. svdr May 12, 2024 parent

    I always think people calling AI just ‘fancy autocomplete‘ haven’t really tried it yet.
22. svdr Mar 28, 2024 parent

    This is a nice daily newsletter with AI news: https://tldr.tech/ai
23. svdr Mar 13, 2024 parent

    I guess they must have put some time in Sora?
24. svdr Feb 23, 2024 parent

    Amounts are written like this: $1,102,684,1B. Shouldn't the last comma be a period?
25. svdr Dec 29, 2023 parent

    I wanted to use a MacOS VM with Parallels for development. It is very easy to install and runs fast, but it's impossible to sign in with an Apple ID, which severely limits its use.
26. svdr Dec 22, 2023 parent

    I'm using Chrome on a fast mac but the animations still had hickups.
27. svdr Dec 20, 2023 parent

    That is true, but cities themselves are very slow to regulate (and prevent) this.
28. 2 points Nov 30, 2023

    Google Experiments with Bold Changes to Search

    1 comment svdr bigtechnology.com
29. svdr Aug 8, 2023 parent

    Wouldn't web scraping be possible by taking screenshots of the rendered pages and then reading them with OCR?
30. svdr May 17, 2023 parent

    I did, thanks!

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