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Yeah the "High frame rate understanding" feature caught my eye, actual real time analysis of live video feeds seems really cool. Also wondering what they mean by "video reasoning/thinking"?

I often wonder why I felt so disengaged from school, sports, and real life friendships back in the 2010s. Today, I think I can attribute most of that (and heavily relate to the article) to the freedom of online spaces and the lack of supervision; primarily, Roblox. As long as I kept good grades, no one really never peered into what I did online. It didn't help that I lived in the suburbs in the LA county all my life, so I felt both a "push and pull" toward online spaces.

Even back then, that era of Roblox felt distinct from the platform it is today. Roblox used to have their own bespoke forum page, and each forum "topic" had its own culture and regular users. Hence, it resulted in a lot of tribal behavior and personal identification with said topic label (some players would even make "bunkers" as places, where regular hangouts would happen.)

As a result, familiar faces (usernames) arose, and that's where I met my first and only consistent friend group lasting from middle school to university. Though I haven't talked to them much since.

I did get my programming interest and grew skills from such a creative platform, but I think I'm still reeling from my stunted social growth as well. As I hear about the current generation of schools, I wonder how much worse off I'd be if I had to grow up during the 2020s.

That's true, and it's also the reason why it's so important to ensure your information diet is of high quality. Any concept (especially harmful or radical ones) can be reinforced.

I had to learn this lesson a long while ago when I realized many sites I casually browsed were injecting and repeating many dark thoughts that weren't truly reflective of reality. I've been way more careful of my daily intake and the groups I associate with ever since.

It's not a book, but you might find this interesting: https://mathacademy.com

It's a (paid) online platform that breaks down mathematics (from 4th grade to university level) down into very small steps/skills, makes you drill them periodically, and also integrate them in increasingly advanced skills. The platform tracks your successes and failures to give you just the right amount of training at just the right time (in theory). You can see the exact skills they train as these really huge interconnected graphs, all created manually.

I read their pedagogy https://www.mathacademy.com/pedagogy and it seems to line up a lot with that philosophy. To use their language, they emphasize "finely-scaffolded steps" and "developing automaticity".

I always love to see more projects or initiatives in this area. I also know of https://physicsgraph.com that was inspired by it, but for physics.

In many cases, the comments can be filled with people agreeing with the creator, the people who follow the creator, the people who would defend the creator.

If you're gunning to be a creator with an audience, I don't think the answer is to completely ignore your audience. It's to learn how to cultivate a target audience, how to not engage with malicious people, how to be strategic about your messaging, outreach, branding...

Of course, if you're not interested in those (truthfully tiring) things, then your rule of thumb is a pretty good one for most people.

Death threats are always inexcusable & unjustifiable; that said, what exactly did he post? Perhaps some forms of content attract way more spite and hate than others?

I think in this day and age, with the combination of a young & unruly audience plus the edginess allowed on many platforms, you're going to be exposed to shockingly unfiltered behavior.

I also think there are specific forms of content (and your strategy of engagement online) that can mitigate this, e.g. posting political content versus some non-topical artwork.

I really can't express enough how much I hate this trend of fake testimonies with fake people with fake pictures. OP has other projects with blatantly fake testimonials too (one with the same "people"! https://viidure.app)

I did write about that! tl;dr I think it'd be really cool as an augmentation, the only thing steering me away from solely AI-generated graphs are hallucinations. But I think it definitely has a place in some capacity for anyone who wants to discover "what they don't know that they don't know", to find the prerequisite skills they don't realize they're missing.

https://euvinkeel.github.io/tart/Traversing-Knowledge-Graphs

Inspired by MathAcademy, I'm developing:

1) a note-taking workflow in Obsidian (you take bite-sized notes about a topic, then connect "prerequisite" notes in Obsidian's canvas editor)

2) a tool that uploads each note and graph data to a database

3) a webapp that presents those notes algorithmically using spaced repetition. This enables you to allow others to "traverse" your note graph in a guided and self-paced manner.

You can add "challenge presets" to each note so that your mastery of each piece of knowledge can be tested with simple flashcards, multiple choice, free response, or some visual/actionable task to force active recall. An algorithm uses your success rate and spaced repetition data to introduce & drill more advanced notes into your long term memory.

Here's some more reading I was inspired by:

https://www.mathacademy.com/pedagogy

https://www.justinmath.com/individualized-spaced-repetition-...

Even if there are a lot of imperfections and flaws about this project (like the sheer difficulty of curating a good knowledge graph to begin with), I'm hoping to make my note-taking in Obsidian more structured and thorough, replace my Anki routine, and make any of my notes into an automated + algorithmic course. If someone has another similar project (combining note-taking with hierarchal, topological knowledge graphs with spaced repetition and testing all in one platform) I would love to hear more about your approaches. Quick shoutout to one person I've seen who is doing something similar: https://x.com/JeffreyBiles/status/1926639544666816774

Oh, my mistake. I shouldn't have used the word "proprietary", but too late to edit. There does seem to be community-made runtimes: https://rive.app/docs/runtimes/community-runtimes

I've used Rive in a small personal project before and I really can't imagine creating or editing web animations in any other way. Apparently they also made their own vector-based feathering technique, which is also amazing:

https://rive.app/blog/introducing-vector-feathering

I do understand the appeal for an open format though. Rive seems to have their own proprietary (documented) binary format: https://rive.app/docs/runtimes/advanced-topic/format

Cool to see a new ECS project! I've been learning and using JECS (https://github.com/Ukendio/jecs) for a project of mine, and some of the core ideas (like Chunks) felt familiar. This project definitely seems to have a more in-depth documentation though and a lot more features especially by having its own scheduler stuff. Would love to try it out on a new project someday

Cool to see a niche tool I use suddenly on hacker news! I just use it to serialize Roblox game assets, but I do wonder how many people are out there using it for non-roblox purposes.

Whenever I don't finish my cup of coffee and it's cooled down, I like to add ice and cold sparkling grapefruit water to make the world's laziest approximation of espresso tonic.

Good point, but I wish I could swivel my head to enjoy the scenery at least.

I found the hallucination detector demo: https://demo.exa.ai/hallucination-detector

The search engine was impressive enough but I think this implementation was a nice cherry on top.

That raises the question of what work they should pursue.

I still remember being so excited to receive my OpenAI private beta key sometime in 2020. After watching a few videos on developers talking to it, I was incredibly hyped to create something ambitious with it only to quickly become disappointed with its capabilities after trying to wrangle with a bunch of prompts.

So when ChatGPT came out, I thought it was a cool toy with a chat interface skin and nothing more. Before I knew it, AI (and its hype) had invaded a lot of unexpected corners of my life; and as more time passed, with more unexpected and perverse capabilities being discovered, I found it harder and harder to believe in all the utopian visions Sam and others preached.

Hopefully a great super-intelligent god will properly retire me and my family before all our skillsets are automated away.

Discovering this site was one of the better things the internet has given me. Happy new year!

I've thought about the optics of talking about my own automatic job application system or including it on my resume, but I thought it'd be risky given the topic (like how listing your own startup is frowned upon, if I'm not mistaken?). Is it normally considered a bit risky or taboo?

If AGI is the excavator, why wouldn't it become the driver, bricklayer, and carpenter as well?

It doesn't comfort me when people say jobs will "go the way of photography". Many choose to go into STEM fields for financial stability and opportunity. Many do not choose the arts because of the opposite. You can point out outlier exceptions and celebrities, but I find it hard to believe that the rare cases where "it really matters" can sustain the other 90% who need income.

I wonder when we'll get the equivalent of fat padding and skin nerves on humanoid robots. Would that help make them less "waddly"?

Wow, that's the first time I'm hearing about that tactic. And it's dawning on me how egregious that is because it could be inoculating you against the very messages meant to dissuade you. Though I'm unsure how effective those messages were to begin with.

Finally—and this might be the most underrated factor—stay positive. Our industry can be surprisingly cynical. But look around: We're solving fascinating problems, working with brilliant people, and yes, being well compensated for it. A positive outlook isn't just about being nice—it's a career accelerant.

I don't disagree with how important one's mindset is. But it seems like this justification for the positive outlook -- meaningful work, amazing coworkers, and compensation -- is actually the end goal for a lot of people. Until that's achieved, it'll be a lot harder for some to internalize some of the points in the blogpost.

my "UBI" would be a couple of million dollars.

There's a difference between what your human brain would become accustomed to (which you'd be right, it'd scale up and up forever) versus what would allow the base level of health and opportunity. As in, not having to worry about eating the next day.

And because you're right that human brains strive for more wealth, UBI should grant you the opportunity to pursue it without fear of failure.

"A continuous record of the past 66 million years shows natural climate variability due to changes in Earth’s orbit around the sun is much smaller than projected future warming due to greenhouse gas emissions."

“Now that we have succeeded in capturing the natural climate variability, we can see that the projected anthropogenic warming will be much greater than that.”

"For the past 3 million years, Earth’s climate has been in an Icehouse state characterized by alternating glacial and interglacial periods. Modern humans evolved during this time, but greenhouse gas emissions and other human activities are now driving the planet toward the Warmhouse and Hothouse climate states not seen since the Eocene epoch, which ended about 34 million years ago."

Please read the article you're linking. Unless this is an awkwardly executed joke that I'm missing?

I took that phrase to mean "don't be blocked by any institution, person, or societal expectation to pursue what's interesting to you". Could be casual research, a cursory glance, or a deep internal investigation of yourself.

Which is always good to start as soon as you're aware of it. It's fine if you figure it out near the end of your junior year, your first job, or a midlife crisis. "Best time to start was yesterday, 2nd best is now" type of thing.

I think you make a really good point at the end, that those with antisocial and pathological passions shouldn't be encouraged for the sake of societal health. They can really make a huge profit if done in a certain way, right? Exploiting others like using dark patterns or scams definitely can reap huge rewards.

As a layman, I'm curious to know what you and others think about what standards should be held to meet the floor, what standards should be held to reach the ceiling.

To be clear, I like the idea of making something really useful and being rewarded from bettering other people's lives. I don't doubt that if you make something really useful for the world, you can gain a lot from it.

But when people talk about fairness, (I assume) they're usually thinking about the successful scammers, predatory practices, people not contributing to the world yet profiting a lot from it. They may also think about "essential workers" who, in contrast, may live paycheck to paycheck.

It becomes blurrier to me when I think about who "deserves" what.