As someone with terrible handwriting but decent cursive, i think cursive provides a better structure for achieving cleaner penmanship compared to non-cursive writing. My theory is that cursive’s consistency of soft, flowing loops rather than a mix of abrupt angles and disconnected lines helps create a more uniform result.
I also remember teachers telling you when writing cursive to seldom lift your hand from the page. I think that act of keeping your pen on the page for most of the writing process encourages a smoother and more natural flow, reducing the chance of jerky, uneven strokes
Most of the responses in this thread remind me of why I don't typically go into the comment section of these announcements. It's way too easy to fall into the trap set by the doomsday-predicting armchair experts, who make it sound like we're on the brink of some apocalypse. But anyone attempting to predict the future right now is wasting time at best, or intentionally fear mongering at worst.
Sure, for all we know, OpenAI might just drop the AGI bomb on us one day. But wasting time worrying about all the "what ifs" doesn't help anyone.
Like you said, there is so much work out there to be done, _even if_ AGI has been achieved. Not to get sidetracked from your original comment, but I've seen AGI repeatedly mentioned in this thread. It's really all just noise until proven otherwise.
Build, adapt, and learn. So much opportunity is out there.
> But wasting time worrying about all the "what ifs" doesn't help anyone.
Worry about the what if is all we have as a species. If we don't worry about how stop global warming, or how we can prevent a nuclear holocaust these things become more far more likely.
If OpenAI drops an AGI bomb on us then there a good chance that's it for us. From there it will just be a matter of time before a rouge AGI or a human working with an AGI causes mass destruction. This is every bit as dangerous as nuclear weapons - if not more dangerous – yet people seem unable to take the matter as seriously as it needs to be taken.
I fear millions of people will need to die or tens of millions will need to be made unemployable before we even begin to start asking the right questions.
Isn't the alternative worse though? We could try to shut Pandora's box and continue to worsen the situation gradually and never start asking the right questions. Isn't that a recipe for even more hardship overall, just spread out a bit more evenly?
It seems like maybe it's time for the devil we don't know.
We live in a golden age. Worldwide poverty is at historic lows. Billions of people don't have to worry about where their next meal is coming from or whether they'll have a roof over their head. Billions of people have access to more knowledge and entertainment options than anyone had 100 years ago.
Staying the course is risking it all. We've built a system of incentives which is asleep at the wheel and heading towards as cliff. If we don't find a different way to coordinate our aggregate behavior--one that acknowledges and avoids existential threats--then this golden age will be a short one.
Maybe. But I'm wary of the argument "we need to lean into the existential threat of AI because of those other existential threats over there that haven't arrived yet but definitely will".
It all depends on what exactly you mean by those other threats, of course. I'm a natural pessimist and I see threats everywhere, but I've also learned I can overestimate them. I've been worried about nuclear proliferation for the last 40 years, and I'm more worried about it than ever, but we haven't had another nuclear war yet.
I am not a doctor, but Modafinil is great. Similar effects to that of Adderall/Ritalin (increased focus, elevated mood, etc) but no major comedown or withdrawal type symptoms.
Can get with a prescription or found easily online. Would highly recommend it.
Definitely App Academy Open. App Academy is one of the original bootcamps and they have solid curriculum. They have their entire course for free online
In this context, do you mean SaaS for small and medium businesses? Or do you mean small and medium (sized) SaaS companies? Or is SMB in this context some other acronym I’m not thinking of?
I think that’s entirely dependent on who you follow and if you’re not actively utilizing your blocked/muted accounts and/or muted keywords from your feed.
The amount of value I’ve gained from threads on people I follow on how to do something or learning something is insane and the “rich, subtle discussion” in those threads on that topic is sometimes just as good if not better than the thread itself.
No denying the default Twitter is loud, and just wants to suck you into mindless scrolling of ads and things to get you angry about, but you are in charge of how you curate your feed.
If you're willing to spend a while figuring out how to make Twitter stop showing you conversations your friends are having/stuff they're faving/popular posts/etc then it doesn't suck as much as the default, true, but you're still stuck in a conversational medium that makes it impossible to emit an entire paragraph at one go. I run a Mastodon instance whose post length limit is set to roughly 7k and it's amazing how much I could feel a part of my mind unclenching after years of Twitter as I got used to it.
I agree, which basically sums up this entire thread and all others like it over the past couple weeks.
Air-chair economists pontificating on what will happen to our economy over the next 12-24 months like they know with certainty what they’re talking about.
I thought this article was arguably the most rational outlook I’ve seen. It’s insane to me that a small fraction of companies have had a couple routine layoffs, the market slightly dips as it always does cyclically, and people are already running around saying the sky is falling.
As a primarily backend dev, one thing that has recently helped me with my design skills is to use page builders.
I’ve found that they’ve gotten really good over the last few years and the code they generate is actually pretty solid. I’m the kind of person where I think I can tell what good design is, but I can’t actually design it from scratch myself.
I recently bought a subscription to https://shuffle.dev/ which has a page builder for tailwind, bootstrap, material, and bulma and it’s saved me a lot of time and generated some really slick looking sites.
A $20 subscription is definitely a lot cheaper than a designer and is faster than waiting for a design and then building it yourself. I’m not affiliated with them in anyway, but would highly recommend it as a part of your workflow.
I'm interested in this idea but, as feedback to shuffle, their demo sucks.
1. There are essentially three different types of UI component you can use within the demo, everything else is disabled. This makes building anything other than a landing page, within the demo, impossible.
2. The UI components that I could see (in five minutes of clicking around) are what I would term 'brochure-ware' components with nothing provided for forms etc.
3. The first thing that happens after you choose between bootstrap, tailwind etc is you get asked to choose a component library. As a non-designer I don't know on what basis I would choose between these and there's only a very ephemeral description of their characteristics. In my case I'm very interested in A11Y support and there's no indication to what degree, if any, those component libraries would help with that.
I'm not here to bag this entirely, I can see how it would be a significant accelerator in some cases but I do think addressing the above points would help.
BTW it's USD24/month or USD99/year from my point of view but it's possible they're A/Bing pricing.
I also remember teachers telling you when writing cursive to seldom lift your hand from the page. I think that act of keeping your pen on the page for most of the writing process encourages a smoother and more natural flow, reducing the chance of jerky, uneven strokes
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