alex
@alexwastaken
curious librarian
alex
I've never been a PKM person. I've tried them because I felt like those where things I needed to do, but it always felt like a chore. Like "I needed one of those" vs. "I want one of those".
Sublime is really, really different. Yeah, you can put stuff on it like any other tool, but the vibes here feel calming, meditative, joyful. Like the point
... See moreThis brings me to my core thesis: The inconvenience and inferior data transfer speeds of conversational interfaces make them an unlikely replacement for existing computing paradigms – but what if they complement them?
Julian • The Case Against Conversational Interfaces
“you may think LMs are just like, oh, just predicting the next word. What's the big deal?
But in order to do that, it has to understand the universe and everything in the world that has ever happened and existed and everything anyone's ever written to predict the next word.”
-Ilya
I remember a psychiatrist once telling me that I gamble in order to escape the reality of life, and I told him that’s why everyone does everything.
― Norm Macdonald, 2016
The deadline for YC S24 is tomorrow. Here's why you SHOULD NOT APPLY TO YC:
YC seems like a reasonable proposition. They give you some money to help start your business, and they promise you access to a community of people that can help you along the way. In exchange, they don't ask for much. The standard YC deal is... See more
"the road to freedom is a beautiful system."
-Phil Jackson - the winningest coach in NBA history - on the importance of frameworks to guide decision-making