Calendar is central, but I use a Google calendar which is important to me. Connect it?
Seems like a "dlog" is a calendar entry. So is my "journal" broken up into separate pages, not a sequential document or blog?
2:30 ff, strongly suggest that for your next video you pre-script it to avoid fumbling and mumbling.
5:10 side note, interesting that your personality(?) model was from 2018, well before LLMs.
7:50 for an app to produce such output (impact of a friend on mood) you surely must do a copious amount of extremely frank journaling. When, and in what format? As scattered calendar entries? I'm confused how I fuel the app.
10:40 relating diary entries (reported activities and attitudes) to one's stated goals -- this is what I would expect an AI to do, and tell me about them rather than the reverse.
I'm sorry, I just don't see how I could use or adapt to something like this when I have a well-established diary/blog and calendar, it would mean changing many daily habits and adding what looks like a lot of detail work.
Thanks so much for your detailed feedback and for watching my rather unvarnished intro video with too many ums and ahs!
- Calendar is central, but I use a Google calendar which is important to me. Connect it?
Dlog will use the default apple calendar which, if is your Google calendar, will display automatically.
- Seems like a "dlog" is a calendar entry. So is my "journal" broken up into separate pages, not a sequential document or blog?
Not quite, a calendar event has a title and notes. The title of the dlog will be whatever you call it, the default is (if your name is anon) Anon’s Dlog. The notes of the event are where the journal entry is stored; along with Dlog tags such as goals, journal type, and sentiment scoring.
- 2:30 ff, strongly suggest that for your next video you pre-script it to avoid fumbling and mumbling.
Yes, agreed, I made that very quickly yesterday. I’ll re-record it today. I still want to keep it quite unvarnished though as the HN mods told me that this is what Show HN community prefers
- 5:10 side note, interesting that your personality(?) model was from 2018, well before LLMs.
Yes, I never dreamed this would be possible until the introduction of ChatGPT.
- 7:50 for an app to produce such output (impact of a friend on mood) you surely must do a copious amount of extremely frank journaling. When, and in what format? As scattered calendar entries? I'm confused how I fuel the app.
Yes, you’d just journal normally, as you have various important experiences you can journal about this in free form, stream of consciousness etc.; or use the guided four rings prompts in the Journal Coach at the top left of the Dlog entry area. It doesn’t have to be copious, or systematic, because the model is time series, it doesn’t require fixed repeated entries. If you use Dlog for a few days or weeks I’d be very interested to see if you found the responses useful. And again, if you send me a DM I’ll provide a free perpetual license so Dlog is always free for you to use.
- 10:40 relating diary entries (reported activities and attitudes) to one's stated goals -- this is what I would expect an AI to do, and tell me about them rather than the reverse.
The feature at 10:40 relates to just summarizing the entries that have been added to that goal; it is not related to the AI coach (which does what you’ve stated that you expect i.e. relates diary entries to activities and attitudes to ones goals)
- I'm sorry, I just don't see how I could use or adapt to something like this when I have a well-established diary/blog and calendar, it would mean changing many daily habits and adding what looks like a lot of detail work.
Apologies, I do think the technical intro video is giving a lot of behind the scenes background information which may be overwhelming if you’re simply looking to journal and improve well-being.
I would gently recommend that you try it out for a few days and see that it’s fairly intuitive to use and well worth the process once you start seeing the insights from the coach (which get better over time).
None of the sliders sound anything at all like my tinnitus, which is a very high complex hiss, maybe up around 6-9Khz? and steady, or varying slowly in volume. But no beeps or boops like this system.
It's not meant to mimic tinnitus, it's intended to help you cope with tinnitus. Tweak the settings until you find an arrangement that helps you. Of course, there are no guarantees. Personally, I like it.
> The next logical step is to invent a way to scale linearly with the number of constraints. “That is the North Star for all this research,” she said. But it would require a completely new strategy. “We are not at risk of achieving this anytime soon.”
My bet on this would be to abandon moving to vertices like simplex does and move on facets instead.
However, this requires to solve a quadratic 'best direction' problem each time which if IIRC reduces to 'Linear complementarity problem (LCP)' (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linear_complementarity_problem). The LCP problem scales with the number of active constraints which is always smaller than the dimensionality (N) of the problem. So if you have number of constraints P >> N you are golden.
Note that Dantzig has also contributed to LCP.
Obviously any breakthrough in these basic methods is directly translatable to more efficient learning algorithms for training single layer neural nets (perceptrons). Extending to multi layer NNs is not far off from there...
Some quite random claims here, can anyone provide citations?
> GPT-5 can do things no other A.I. can do. It can hack into a web server. It can design novel forms of life. It can even build its own A.I. (albeit a much simpler one) from scratch
Especially "design novel forms of life" blinks "Citation required" in neon colors.
The article goes on from there with a lot of very credible, real-world jail-break examples. But that opener...
> three Scottish brothers have set a new world record by completing the first and fastest unsupported row across the Pacific Ocean...
> The previous record of 159 days had been set in 2014 by Russian rower Fedor Konyukhov.
Um, if they are the first to do it, how can there be a previous record? I guess the Konukhov trip was "supported"? Or not "full"?
Refer to David Brooks' opinion piece in today's NYT, about Republican Nihilism. He claims there is a spirit of "burn it all down". Seems to be seconded by several comments in this thread.
I'm rapidly getting to the point of joining that group.
I'm getting real tired of fighting tax breaks for people with 131 Scrooge McDuck piles of money already, at the cost of services a large portion of the country uses or may need.
To be clear, I don't have kids, but want my tax dollars to fund free lunches, but we can't have that. Instead we get garbage like public school busses being used to drive kids to private schools, while the public school students walk. (See Ohio)
Oh I think the wealthiest will be the first with heads on pikes when it all comes tumbling down.
The wealthiest people aren’t descendants of Julius Caesar, the Medicis, the Hapsburgs, Rollo (who is an ancestor to every European monarch), the Astors, the Vanderbilts, the Morgans, etc.
Some of these are moderately wealthy now (eg the Rothchilds) but they don’t dominate the world’s wealth.
Part of this is that can be hard to maintain a lineage over time. Also, foolish fail sons will squander family wealth.
But some wealthy people just go the French Revolution way.
I don’t believe the Gateses, Musks, Bezoses, etc will survive the upheaval, violence and revolution they are making inevitable.
From the outside, the current model looks more like the Russian style burning down, not French revolution.
At the end it's an olygarchy with too much stockpiled military slowly creeping on it's neighbour and stationning troops "on vacation" across the border.
The wealthiest live in gated communities with private security, and are the ones who can scramble to their private jets when SHTF. The ones whose heads mostly end up on the spikes are the richest proles (i.e. "top middle class") - those who have enough money that it is obvious they're each, yet not enough to buy actual security or to be truly isolated from the rest of society if they so wish.
Yeah but who are their private security, cooks, cleaners, gardeners, handymen, pilots, etc? They're ordinary people and loyalty becomes harder and harder to motivate when the world is burning down.
Also, where are they running to? In an increasingly interconnected world, the whole developed world looks like it'll go down together.
I advocate for things like universal healthcare and providing food and shelter for every person not only because it's moral but also because we can afford it and it preserves the current system. If the ultra-wealthy really took a long-term view, they'd be fighting for those things because they simply won't survive the revolution.
But I believe we're beyond the point where electoral politics can halt a violent upheaval of the current economic order. And many, many people will die in that process.
Based only on the headings and titles of the charts on the first few pages? I smell an AI writing. I mean, do these titles sound like an intelligent human wrote them?
"Charts paint thousands of words..."
"Leading USA-Based LLM User" -- what does that even mean? With a value of "800MM" where MM is what units?
"AI Usage + Cost + Loss Growth = Unprecedented" -- how can you add three things that don't appear to be commensurable? Also, what is "Loss Growth" and how does it add to "Usage"?
There are plenty more examples in the charts later. The Overview section, while not so obviously AI-written, has an over-the-top enthusiasm and loose structure that makes me squeamish. I don't trust it, but that's just me I guess.
The address given for the Byte Shop, "1063 El Camino Real in Mountain View", is ambiguous. It needs to specify either 1063 EAST El Camino Real or 1063 WEST El Camino Real, two quite different locations.
Neither of those matches the store that I remember patronizing circa 1978 or so, to buy a California Computer Systems S-100 box. That would have been on El Camino just north of Grant Road, circa 80 W El Camino.
It’s West. If you look at google maps for that location, there is a landmark pinned for “The Original Byte Shop”. There you can see a B&W photo from back in the day.
Well I just had to try it on Claude 4.0, I mean somebody has to, right? and it did a clean, if rather terse, breakdown, concluding with:
Caesar's last breath: ~0.5 liters (typical final exhale)
Total atmospheric volume: Earth's atmosphere has a mass of about 5×10^18 kg. Using the ideal gas law with average molecular weight of air (~29 g/mol), this gives roughly 4×10^44 molecules total.
Molecules in Caesar's breath: 0.5 liters at standard conditions contains about 1.3×10^22 molecules.
Your inhale: ~0.5 liters also contains about 1.3×10^22 molecules.
The fraction: Caesar's molecules represent (1.3×10^22)/(4×10^44) = 3.25×10^-23 of all atmospheric molecules.
Final answer:
(1.3×10^22) × (3.25×10^-23) ≈ 0.4 molecules
So statistically, you inhale less than one molecule from Caesar's last breath with each inhalation, but over the course of a day's breathing, you'd likely inhale several molecules that were once in his lungs as he died.
Also when copy/pasting into Python to try it, I got an error because \“ is in fact U+201C not an ASCII quote. (Surely that's not the subtle issue?)