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vibecafe.briansunter.com 9mo ago

Show HN: Lo fi beats to vibe code to – infinite diffs and lo fi

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cuckootimer.com 10mo ago

Show HN: CuckooTimer – Cuckoo Clock Productivity Timer

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imaginarytext.ca 1y ago

Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs

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convo.cards 1y ago

Show HN: I made a conversation starter card game

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briansunter.com 2y ago

Organizing Notes in 3D with AI

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briansunter.com 2y ago

Analyzing Coffee with Data Science + ChatGPT Code Interpreter

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briansunter.com 3y ago

Headphone Eye Mask – Stop Doomscrolling and Disrupting Your Circadian Rhythm

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www.vice.com 3y ago

The Young People Working for the Most Evil Companies

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www.un.org 4y ago

United Nations World Population Prospects 2022 [pdf]

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briansunter.com 4y ago

Publish your Second Brain online with Logseq for free, forever

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github.com 4y ago

TL;DR for YouTube Videos with GPT3

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twitter.com 4y ago

Generating mermaidjs flow diagrams with GPT-3

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arxiv.org 4y ago

CoAuthor: Designing a Human-AI Collaborative Writing Dataset

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briansunter.com 4y ago

Let's build a decentralized social network together with Logseq

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briansunter.com 4y ago

Generate a personalized learning guide for any subject with GPT-3

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github.com 4y ago

OpenAI GPT-3 Logseq plugin

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briansunter.com 4y ago

AI Powered Notetaking with the GPT-3 Logseq Plugin

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briansunter.com 4y ago

Cooklang – Managing Recipes in Git

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briansunter.com 4y ago

Getting Started with Python in 2022 – pyenv and poetry

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arxiv.org 4y ago

Optimizing Learning Chinese Characters Using Topological Sort

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briansunter.com 4y ago

Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and Tips

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web.stanford.edu 4y ago

The Library of Babel – Jorge Luis Borges

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briansunter.com 4y ago

How to Take Smart Notes in Roam Research

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www.atlasobscura.com 4y ago

You Can (Probably) Still Drink the World's Oldest Bottle of Wine

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briansunter.com 4y ago

Five Minute Journal – Daily Journal Techniques and Tips

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fs.blog 5y ago

This is Water – David Foster Wallace

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flowingdata.com 5y ago

Peak non-creepy dating pool

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www.etymologynerd.com 5y ago

The word “decide” has deadly origins

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www.wsj.com 5y ago

A New Generation Takes the Lead in Myanmar Protests

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www.asahi.com 5y ago

440-year-old graffiti found at Gifu temple to be preserved

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Talk-Llama 3 years ago

Elevenlabs voice is amazing but it's so expensive. You can easily spend $20 on a single conversation.

Try waking up at as early and walking a few miles each morning. Has improved my mental health a ton.

lifting is great but walking is so easy to get started and be consistent

bumped into someone holding a giant knife while opening the door to leave my apartment in soma.

Bike stolen in locked garage in locked bike cage with u lock. Usually take it in my apt, but stolen the one time I left it overnight.

Saw techies get shoved into fences on embarcadero

Wine bottle thrown across the store in Safeway. Saw things being stolen from Safeway ~25% the time I went shopping. Mentally Ill people perpetually wandering the store.

Saw many physical altercations between security guards in Walgreens many times. Saw someone being tackled then spitting in the Gaurd’s face while trying to be held down.

People following me while my parents were visiting shouting profanities

Seeing car break ins in the middle of the day.

Many scary situations

Lived there 9 years. Can confirm it got much worse in the past few years.

Productivity porn 4 years ago

Productivity porn is anything that after having been consumed makes you feel like you were productive when in reality you didn’t actually do anything.

I disagree with the line of thinking that all research which isn't immediately useful is unproductive. It just needs to be limited. Set a time limit of 30 minutes per day for researching and improving your meta process.

Those articles on AI you read on hackernews might be planting the seeds for your next career change. It's impossible to know ahead of time.

I think the ideal breakdown is 20% research, 70% action and 10% reflection.

Productivity porn 4 years ago

It's a healthy balance.

Watching Ali Abdaal and dissing all productivity techniques is like watching a Crossfitter and dissing all forms of physical exercise. Yes, some people take exercise too far, but most people do nothing and that's a much bigger problem.

I see him as trying to push the envelope and give you a wide range of ideas. I don't try to copy everything he does, but he puts out a lot of ideas and usually some idea will stick.

I do believe there's always a better way of doing something. I especially believe in the productivity techniques to increase self reflection and "leverage" like the "daily highlight" and "five minute journal". It doesn't matter how productive you are if you haven't sorted out your priorities.

Logseq is the one.

I consider it the spiritual successor to emacs org-mode.

- outliner

- open source and free

- 100% offline (good for notes at bigcorp)

- flat files + git

- plugin marketplace (like vscode)

- Good Mobile App

Only current downside is some issues with cross device syncing, but that’s coming out soon.

You need a commercial license to use obsidian at work FYI.

I've been doing a lot of experiments with gpt-3 on twitter.

Works with mermaid js

https://twitter.com/Bsunter/status/1535062559069376512

Great for making study guides

https://twitter.com/Bsunter/status/1535730704138444801

I also wrote a plugin to interact with gpt3 in the logseq text editor and some examples here.

https://github.com/briansunter/logseq-plugin-gpt3-openai

I have a few posts on my blog

https://briansunter.com/blog/gtp3-openai-logseq-notetaking/

https://briansunter.com/graph/#/page/how%20to%20use%20gpt3%2...

I feel the exact same way. The built in publishing feature is a little rough and not optimized at all. I get the impression that logseq is investing a lot more energy on their own hosted solution than the self hosted publishing right now.

Despite the downsides, as someone who spent way too much time tweaking their own static site, it's really nice to be able to write and organize all the public pages along with my personal stuff inside logseq. I just tag a few notes as public and push them at the end of the day. I was spending way too much time configuring and polishing the static site instead of just getting the notes out there. Seems like a decent option for someone nontechnical to make a site too.

Since Logseq handles everything with plain text, some people are just generating a static site from those files directly, but you lose some of the advanced logseq features. There's also a plugin to export your notes as a hugo static site. https://github.com/sawhney17/logseq-schrodinger

I'm looking into doing this to make a "light" version of the notes as a static html site at some point, but I'll reevaluate when logseq reaches 1.0 and they solidify their roadmap more.

Your list of issues with the existing system is really nice. I'll link to that in this post when I push my next batch of updates so people are aware of some of those sharp edges.

Hey Chris! It's definitely an area I'm interested in. The super decentralized IPFS blocks is a little bit of a pipe dream, but it seems like it could work in theory.

I like logseq because the "primitive" where they store/organize the data called a "block" which is pretty well thought out. It's just an object with content and a pointer to a parent. Seems like you could content hash it and store it on ipfs forever. Haven't fully thought out what that would look like yet though. It could be developed as a plugin for logseq. Seems like it could scale, lots of other problems like search though.

    {:block/uuid #uuid "62a8318e-ff36-4f97-9ef5-f19c3f3041bf",
     :block/left {:db/id 67152},
     :block/format :markdown,
     :block/content
 "Users create a bio under a page called `[[logseq-social/profile]]`",
     :db/id 67144,
     :block/path-refs [{:db/id 20}],
     :block/parent {:db/id 67160},
     :block/unordered true, 
     :block/page {:db/id 20}}
https://github.com/logseq/logseq/blob/d0755ef161eb826e452b92...

The other dapp "primitive" I'm interested in is dChat. Seems like there could be some overlap between blocks and chat built on the same primitive.

For now, I'm mostly focused on getting technical users to just make their own personal sites since it's really easy with logseq and netlify.

I'm not a dapp expert at all (though I do host my traditional static site on ipfs https://gateway.pinata.cloud/ipfs/QmRDPhzAjBdBovPhhPKt4tanFp...)

Happy to hear from you and I'll definitely look into the lens protocol!