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this chain of replies reminds me of the famous HN comment about Dropbox - a good sign for Omnara!

This was written with ChatGPT, probably 4o specifically - does that not jump out at anyone else? Maybe just me because I throw productivity/spirituality stuff at it all the time and get this kind of language back.

"This isn’t a method I’ve perfected. It’s one I’m actively living. And every time I return to it, something shifts.

Try it for a week. Not to optimize, but to notice what becomes possible."

Wow, this is tempting me to use Morphik to add memory to in terminal AI agents for personal use even. Looks powerful and easy.

Hmmm, I can't seem to log back in, using a non-google email.

Recently I've gotten a lot of benefit from much of Alex Hormozi's thoughts. Yesterday I grabbed a 4-hour video, ran it through a free transcript generator, dropped it in Claude, and asked for an outline.

Unsurprisingly, Claude struggled to provide a complete outline. Like, it did a lot! but kept leaving parts out. I was able to prompt Claude to fill in more, good enough for me.

Anyway I dropped it into Miyagi Labs, waited 30 minutes while it said the course was creating. I kept it open in a tab and kept an eye on it. Eventually I tried to open a new tab into Miyagi (maybe I'd see it under My Courses?) but I was no longer logged in, and can't log in.

Also only the top right login button gives the option to use non-gmail.

Sorry if I broke something! I love the idea!

The LLPSI-verse was my gateway drug (Luke Ranieri's reading is great, if a little hard to understand due to dropping final -um).

I have a bad tendency to do grammar exercises instead of trusting comprehensible input, happy to see such a strong cottage industry of Latin writers now!

Yeah finding a niche for your drone is tricky! hence SOFweek to find context, "context is that which is scarce" as they say

This made me actually lol, you are so right

It's a FOSS project for an AI agent that can work in the browser. Just lets you give it a couple more tools than OpenAI/Claude can - I'm gonna use 1Password's SDK so it can use my passwords safely

https://github.com/kortix-ai/suna

What a lot of amazing projects!

I'm working on a defense drone.

I built a garage workshop with a Shapeoko 5 Pro, X1C, soldering station, and learned CAD (ok just fusion). I have a lil drone in the air and I'm adding OpenHD for vtx, Rpi for on-edge compute (Jetson would be better but is expensive).

Haven't figured out FHSS or GNSS-denied nav yet (tbh I feel like fhss is gonna be harder). And SITL in a good sim remains to be conquered (ros on osx is a terrible experience). I'm also designing a battery pack that's modular, quick-swap, smart/telemetry.

I've shifted a lot of focus to networking (attending SOFweek in tampa) for the normal fundraising/team-building/customer discovery.

I'm also basically broke due to bootstrapping so I'm about to partner on some b2b ai saas consulting with a friend, today I got Suna up and running, pretty cool.

Yaaayyy Legentibus! I only dipped into it but next time I return to Latin really look forward to working through all the material. Extensive reading ftw.

The Granada TV adaptation apparently was a sensation on both sides of the Atlantic, and they simply read out loud parts of the book where they hadn't filled in the script - "a book on film." I loved it.

Yes, I've lived here 17 years and see pedestrians most places I go - although to be fair there are many roads where pedestrians don't go (say, the service road alongside 71). Perhaps OP was in such a place.

I also did not own a car for years, commuting only by bicycle, and never had a problem.

Indeed, Austin's core is only about 5 square miles (the entirety of the East Side to the Greenbelt, Hyde Park down to far South Congress, say). Fairly compact.

It is no New York or London but it is walkable and bikeable.

I liked this piece - excellent high-level thinking through the available market opportunities, especially given the constraint of venture capital. And the moral framework is down-to-earth: nothing wrong with ambition and risk even when things go south, paired with a buck-stops-here attitude.

I'd bet good money OtherBranch will succeed.

On the one hand, seems he might have lived at least another decade. On the other, 75 is not too bad of an age and there are worse ways to go than adventuring (hope the end was not too tough!).

Yes, GitHub code search is much better than Googling for the same information.

And ChatGPT can't show you the whole codebase which is important to understand structure - plus sometimes it's easier to surf around a few files than have ChatGPT print at you.

Yes, I took all that from the article as well, which after all is not so subtle. Implying that Andreessen would have been a British Empire-style racist is indeed a scathing criticism.

But a hundred years ago, a houseboy and a butler were still very different people. To say that a hundred years ago this highly competent professional would have been a houseboy is, in effect, to call him one now: a no less scathing (and unintended) criticism of the butler.

Yes, I agree. Mostly mood affiliation, and so eager to condescend that it often condescends to the wrong people.

I rang the bell; an Asian man in khakis and a sweater answered. I snapped into guest mode, introducing myself enthusiastically. He responded with an odd coldness. Then I realized he was not a fellow guest but, I guess you’d say, the butler. A hundred years ago, he might have been referred to as “houseboy” and greeted me in a tux.

A butler has always been a person of authority, expertise, and responsibility. Why "houseboy"? Because he's Asian?

I reflected, perhaps unfairly, that marrying off their daughters to young men of talent and fortune is often how such families institutionalize their power.

The couple were in their late 30s when they married, and it is unclear why she would have no agency (or other value) here.

And many other snide remarks designed to show how blasé the author finds any rich person. He himself has brains and a soul, and they don't.

I do give small towns and communities far more credit than Andreessen does, let alone his guest's dreadful comment.

I love how clear and to the point this page/guide is. Beautifully summarizes the downsides as well as the upsides.

The system is even tempting to me as a homeowner not renter, but a similarly simple system that doesn't require running wires through the house might work better.

Although many of the results in Fast and Slow didn't hold up, Kahneman was always refreshingly open and honest about that, and keen to identify the limits of knowledge.

Which surely is one of the best things you can say about a scientist.

This was the nudge I needed - super easy to donate $5 a month via the app using Apple Pay.

I love this! See my comment elsewhere here for my own crossing of the Darien. Best of luck in Africa!

Back in 2011, I rode from Alaska to Argentina over the course of six months - Prudhoe Bay to Ushuaia. In fact I jumped in both the Arctic and Antarctic oceans!

We followed the Pan-Am most of the way. When we got to Panama, first we rode down south into the territory of the semi-autonomous Indians, the Guna Yala in the San Blas Islands. They charge a small toll to get in their territory.

Then we put our motorcycles onto dugout canoes and ferried onto a tiny island. You could walk clear across in about 5 minutes. They live on an archipelago of islands, and the women dressed traditionally, with piles of bracelets on their limbs. They had a sort of museum there with their own Flood myth, interestingly.

After a couple days our hope of a boat stopping by seemed unlikely, so we ferried back to land, rode back to Panama, and found a hostel run by a couple of Germans.

They contacted a British couple sailing around the world, who were happy to hoist our motorcycles on either side of their mast and take us to Colombia along with a few other couples also traveling, with a few stops at gorgeous Caribbean islands for snorkeling.

And that's how we crossed the Darien Gap!

I don't think the U-shaped curve will be intuitive to everyone - some conservative social narratives say that married women entering the workfore is a twentieth-century innovation. Although I'm with you that the causes of these patterns seem pretty intuitive to me and to many.

(Not trying to start a political debate or flamewar here - I was raised with these narratives, so it's an interesting graph to me)

This is really fun. Google Translate is incompetent at Latin, and I'm informed that so far ChatGPT still makes errors of grammar and word choice when generating Latin.

This experiment helps show we can use GPT-4/Claude to parse and summarize Latin, but doesn't yet show that we can rely on them to the level of a human expert.

I'm confident we'll get there pretty soon - and then will be able to rely on LLMs to generate Comprehensible Input and thereby greatly accelerate language learning.

This is a fair comment - price calculation is one of the main services the free market provides and I am also skeptical that a committee can perform that service to the same standard.

The great thing about CI is that it implies less is more. Don't do anything elaborate, don't memorize, don't practice grammar, just consume media you understand.

I'm at a somewhat intermediate level, so mainly I am just watching The Mandalorian, Clone Wars, etc, in Spanish with Spanish subtitles. I'll often repeat a phrase or sentence into Google Translate, or repeat it into ChatGPT mobile and ask for a grammatical explanation or if the phrase is colloquial.

I do copy transcribed phrases I like, so I can read them again later. That's all the review I do and is more than necessary.

I've also signed up for News in Slow Spanish but not sure how much that adds over watching TV tbh.

In a few months I'll think about adding conversational practice in some way.

I love this comment a lot. I am not fluent in Latin, but have also experienced amazingly fast progress using CI methods (relying on the resources you mention below).

Currently I'm brushing up on Spanish in the same way and absorbing (for instance) the subjunctive painlessly.

I think most people still underestimate how easily an adult can learn a language.

"Paul Nation in a 2014 article estimates that to acquire a vocabulary of about 5000 words a student needs read about 2 million words."

If you absorb about 3000 words a day, after less than a year you'll have read 1 million words. With a vocabulary of 2500 words you can do quite a lot. For me, in Latin, that's about 40 minutes of reading (I read faster in Spanish, slower in Ukrainian).

Read/listen/watch 3000 words a day, understanding the majority of the words so you understand the whole passage, and after a year or so you'll be mostly fluent.

These figures line up with your 200-300 hours to read the Vulgate, as well.

In the UK, finders of treasures such as this are legally required to hand it over to the government - but are then compensated at full market value. A happy case of aligning monetary incentives and civic goodwill! In the US the law is complicated, but often "finders keepers."

Upvoting to cancel out unwarranted downvotes. I don't share the political bent of the cited source but the answer is on-topic, to the point, and well within the Overton Window.

This is a reasonable question - we might have found some sort of "no free lunch" theorem! But as others have pointed out, so far no such inevitable tradeoff has been found, which in itself supports the view that it won't be.

There is Mikhail Blagosklonny's theory of programmed aging, in which aging is a byproduct of helpful developmental processes. This does seem to imply we need to mess with some pretty fundamental metabolic processes (hence mTOR inhibitors). That's close to what you're suggesting, but it still seems achievable.

Since all organisms are made of somewhat-similar cells, the bristlecone pine, the immortal jellyfish, long-lived tortoises and so on, are all important existence proofs that negligible senescence with no ill-effects is possible.

As they say, the goal is to die at age 150 with the body of a 30-year-old in a freak skydiving accident! It's been good to see longevity research move decisively out of crank territory in the past 15 years.