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More and more the skill of being able to ask the right question seems critical to me, and I don't know how one can do that without deeper and deeper domain expertise.

call me naive, but i really think the pursuit for the new, the better, the interesting, is boundless and humans will never stop. and so for those of us that dream and push and are plain curious will never run out of ways to be useful. and hopefully the fruits of all this tech will be ample enough to support the ones that don't want to or can't participate in that way.

i'd take a yoga class from a bot

"Perhaps, says Evans. But he doesn’t think that the problem is baked into the algorithmic design of AI. More than technical integration, he argues, what may matter most is overhauling the reward structures that shape what scientists choose to work on in the first place.

'It’s not about the architecture per se,' Evans says. 'It’s about the incentives.'"

Do you think it was the AI itself that gave you the boost here or the discussion and brainstorming?

I wish every product everywhere was evaluated based on merit, efficacy, etc alone...but...i bet most of us lean towards products in a grocery store with more appealing labels. The unfortunate reality is that customer psychology matters and your great product can die because of it.

Not hating, but there's no way resolution gets as good as MRI with ultrasound computed tomography (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultrasound_computer_tomography). Doing something like searching for room-temperature semiconductors so that MRI scanners are much cheaper to operate would be a more worthy goal.

i spent more than year with ergo split keyboards, home row mods, layers, etc. Mouse + speech-to-text + agents made it irrelevant.

Sleke phone solved my dumbphone needs. I'm very satisified.

you know what's efficient? controlling a computer with one hand rather than two.

and why announce to the world your noble cause. why not just do it.

When everyone is armed with Mythos-like hacking ability, it's hard for me to imagine people wouldn't make the tradeoff of security over price.

Because the agentic world involves the generation of so much code that gets harder to review, I would think the compile-time guarantees of Rust would make it a better option.

Turning GrayScale mode on also helps.

Would appreciate a good answer to this question. I deal with large medical imaging data (DICOM) and i cannot tell whether it's worth it and/or feasible.

yep. a part of me wants to take advantage of all that org-mode in emacs has to offer. but it's just not critical enough for me to keep it up. maybe if i was a manager...

Really neat work. I have a friend who designs green spaces in urban environments and it makes me wonder what he could do with these kinds of tools/approaches.

cool!

I don't understand how this doesn't destroy a company. They willfully ingored a serious risk and it had major national security implications.

interesting! did you consider Go?

Dear SpaceX: you guys are awesome.

In your opinion is it important for ML engineers to know C?

Frankly this is why I have trouble taking all this C advocacy seriously. Do managers really want their engineers using C? I understand how it can be pleasurable in the way that listening to vinyl is pleasureable. But my undersanding is that it takes years and years of experience to not make catastrophic errors in C. And that's a lot of risk.

the OS is slow. the keyboad is laggy and lacking in spatial accuracy to the point where i have to slow myself and retype text messages constantly. don't get me wrong - i'm glad they made it. but i've preorded the Minimal phone and am really looking forward to trying it.

Question: is C gaining in popularity? If so, why exactly? Are their good reasons to be using C in product development rather than more modern languages?

I've been using the light phone 2 off and on for the past year. It's too painful to use.

Because it allows Android apps, might there be some screen sharing utility that would allow it to be used as a 2nd monitor?

terrible.

this is like saying "C++ won't die soon for legacy reasons"

Rust is cool now. Python is not cool anymore.