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Sjlver
@sjlver #817269
Freelance software engineer, developing https://healthlearn.org, altruist, learner
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Rory Stewart gives A fantastic TED talk on unconditional cash transfers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt0HOe7gf7I
How we can use our money to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. I love how Rory provides evidence for his claims, and four reasons that explain why cash works so well.
I highly recommend the talk!
How we can use our money to end extreme poverty in our lifetime. I love how Rory provides evidence for his claims, and four reasons that explain why cash works so well.
I highly recommend the talk!
Watching all the o1 videos from OpenAI: https://openai.com/o1/
Wondering how the world will look in
~~10 years~~
~~5 years~~
~~1 year~~
2 months
Phew, this is really shortening my AGI timelines, even though it's "just" a system that smartly and repeatedly invokes an LLM...
Wondering how the world will look in
~~10 years~~
~~5 years~~
~~1 year~~
2 months
Phew, this is really shortening my AGI timelines, even though it's "just" a system that smartly and repeatedly invokes an LLM...
## Taking stock of one month of using Farcaster 1/2
- I've almost stopped journaling 😟 because I opened the Warpcast app instead of my journaling app before going to bed.
- I'm overall spending more time on social media. There are some signs of unhealthy behavior, such as checking notifications for the dopamine.
- I got a few good recommendations and tips, eg for Obsidian, Cursor, SrcBook, Zed. I feel pretty up-to-date on software development tools in particular.
- I wrote four articles thanks to /firstdraft. These aren't exceptional, but I value them because they clarified my own thinking. It's unlikely that I would have taken so much time for them, without the FirstDraft writing club.
- I've almost stopped journaling 😟 because I opened the Warpcast app instead of my journaling app before going to bed.
- I'm overall spending more time on social media. There are some signs of unhealthy behavior, such as checking notifications for the dopamine.
- I got a few good recommendations and tips, eg for Obsidian, Cursor, SrcBook, Zed. I feel pretty up-to-date on software development tools in particular.
- I wrote four articles thanks to /firstdraft. These aren't exceptional, but I value them because they clarified my own thinking. It's unlikely that I would have taken so much time for them, without the FirstDraft writing club.
Part #4 concludes the series. It explains how to get your shiny new passwords:
https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-4-shiny-new-passwords/
This is truly a /firstdraft that I hope to improve as I get smarter. Feedback is welcome!
https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-4-shiny-new-passwords/
This is truly a /firstdraft that I hope to improve as I get smarter. Feedback is welcome!
@kepano @daojoan.eth What do you like most about Obsidian? I feel I only use 5% of the features, what should I try next?
The ones I know and use:
- daily notes (with some custom keyboard shortcuts to go to prev/next day)
- search (e.g., search for "[ ]" to find todos)
... that's basically it 🤔
The ones I know and use:
- daily notes (with some custom keyboard shortcuts to go to prev/next day)
- search (e.g., search for "[ ]" to find todos)
... that's basically it 🤔
The fastest keyboard ever, because it combines voice and typing.
The keyboard has a speech recognition component that transcribes what I say. *Simultaneously*, I type parts of the text. Probably just the first letter of each word, and the punctuation.
Thanks to the extra information via typing, speech recognition gets almost 100% accuracy. It gets word breaks, punctuation, capitalization etc. correct. If there are mistakes, I simply use the backspace key, like I am used to. The extra information also means that we can use a comparatively cheap speech-to-text component, fast enough to run locally on the phone in real time.
I see potential here because this could reach high speeds, without special hardware, and without the need to learn new skills / exotic keyboard layouts.
If you're interested, go ahead! I'd love to see a prototype, and would be willing to contribute a little bit of funding. Get in touch :)
The keyboard has a speech recognition component that transcribes what I say. *Simultaneously*, I type parts of the text. Probably just the first letter of each word, and the punctuation.
Thanks to the extra information via typing, speech recognition gets almost 100% accuracy. It gets word breaks, punctuation, capitalization etc. correct. If there are mistakes, I simply use the backspace key, like I am used to. The extra information also means that we can use a comparatively cheap speech-to-text component, fast enough to run locally on the phone in real time.
I see potential here because this could reach high speeds, without special hardware, and without the need to learn new skills / exotic keyboard layouts.
If you're interested, go ahead! I'd love to see a prototype, and would be willing to contribute a little bit of funding. Get in touch :)
For the third week of /firstdraft, things finally get practical. I present my favorite tools for managing passwords and secret keys. Have a great read, and send me your feedback!
https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-3-tools-for-key-management/
https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-3-tools-for-key-management/
If I create an NFT that people can mint:
- Is this a sale? Or a service?
- Do I have to register a business?
- What do I need to know about the people who mint?
- Do I charge VAT?
- More generally, how do taxes work in this case?
I'm thankful for answers or links to a good guide 🙏🏼
- Is this a sale? Or a service?
- Do I have to register a business?
- What do I need to know about the people who mint?
- Do I charge VAT?
- More generally, how do taxes work in this case?
I'm thankful for answers or links to a good guide 🙏🏼
I estimate that there are about 20000 active, human Farcaster users:
- After two weeks of active use, OpenRank assigns a global rank of about 10000 to @sjlver.
- I guess I'm a median user.
=> ergo there are about 20000 users.
What do you think? Does that match your experience?
- After two weeks of active use, OpenRank assigns a global rank of about 10000 to @sjlver.
- I guess I'm a median user.
=> ergo there are about 20000 users.
What do you think? Does that match your experience?
I've been asking why people mint. I still don't have a good answer, but: people do mint and it works well for some creators :) 🎉
What is the point of minting someone's work? (honest question)
Minting seems to be a mix of bookmarking, sending money, and publicly liking something. Yet it's a strange bundle that does a mediocre job at each of these 🤔
Please help me make sense of web3 🙏🏼
Minting seems to be a mix of bookmarking, sending money, and publicly liking something. Yet it's a strange bundle that does a mediocre job at each of these 🤔
Please help me make sense of web3 🙏🏼
In this second week of /firstdraft, I continue my series on managing one's online security: https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-2-security-and-availability/
Part 2 illustrates the trade-off between security and availability, with many concrete examples.
Part 2 illustrates the trade-off between security and availability, with many concrete examples.
This repo contains code for an autonomous AI agent that writes novel scientific papers. The authors have split the workflow into a dozen steps, automated and orchestrated each of them. The example papers blew me away 🤯
https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist
https://github.com/SakanaAI/AI-Scientist
It's been quiet here since the Sunday deadline :)
Are you all working on the next piece already? May you keep the motivation up 🙏🏼
Are you all working on the next piece already? May you keep the motivation up 🙏🏼
In my first post of the August /firstdraft challenge, I give tips for gaining an overview of your online accounts: https://blog.purpureus.net/posts/personal-key-rotation-1-visualize-your-assets/
If you are like me, you have dozens of online accounts. Fortunately, visualizing them can be quite fun 😊
If you are like me, you have dozens of online accounts. Fortunately, visualizing them can be quite fun 😊
Are there Netrunner players here on Farcaster?
I'm so happy, because my new cards have arrived today 🤗 Now I have the System Gateway set and the Liberation Cycle.
Looking forward to the first game...
I'm so happy, because my new cards have arrived today 🤗 Now I have the System Gateway set and the Liberation Cycle.
Looking forward to the first game...
😊: I've written the outline for Sunday's post
😯: It's just over 800 words
😰 Firstdraft club might work a little too well 😜
😯: It's just over 800 words
😰 Firstdraft club might work a little too well 😜
Hi everyone! Since joining /firstdraft , I've been thinking a lot about my next writing project. My anticipation for the Sunday deadline shows that the FirstDraft concept is working well, as intended ;-)
Black Forest Labs released new FLUX.1 models: state of the art text-to-image.
It still fails the d20 test:
"a regular icosahedron made of wood"
It still fails the d20 test:
"a regular icosahedron made of wood"
Any tips for onboarding to Farcaster? As a newbie here, it's tricky:
- None of the people I know is around
- Some accounts start following me and interacting, but that seems 100% automated/spam
- my feed is a weird mix of mostly irrelevant things
I guess it will get better... hints for speeding this up are highly appreciated
- None of the people I know is around
- Some accounts start following me and interacting, but that seems 100% automated/spam
- my feed is a weird mix of mostly irrelevant things
I guess it will get better... hints for speeding this up are highly appreciated
Let my first ever Farcaster post be a link to `psst`: https://github.com/Sjlver/psst
It's my pen+paper implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing. Perfect for geeks who want to understand every step. Explore better security/availability tradeoffs for your secrets ;-)
It's my pen+paper implementation of Shamir's Secret Sharing. Perfect for geeks who want to understand every step. Explore better security/availability tradeoffs for your secrets ;-)