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Uhhh, this is amazing.

I wasn just listening to a breakcore mix to help me work and this isn't too far off from what I was just listening too.

Now all we need is a queue of style prompts to slide in and out of the player and I'd listen for hours.


I don't see enough detail here to really advise.

Please consider having fun with it or getting promoted over him.


Heaven has the best climate, Hell has the best society.


Tried it, couldn't get into it. And this was when I was unemployed and living with my now wife. So, I had time galore.

It seems like a book you have to read cover to cover in one sitting to jam it all in your head.

Now, from what I recall I did chuckle a couple times. But other than that it was a big shrug-fest to me. Just couldn't muster a care.

I never thought I'd admit to such base and earthen attitude, nay vulgar. But there we are.


When I saw this, I looked on my bookshelf. I know I read something by Nabokov other than Lolita, and I wondered if it was Pale Fire. It was.

I remember liking it at the time, but that's all. Now I'm going to go back and read it again. Must have missed something.


Does google reader count? The social aspect was delightful


Copy-Paste?

Ctrl-A (select all)

Ctrl-C (copy)

Ctrl-V (paste)


the center of a current Overton Window, to be precise, that thing's slippery


If you take the Overton Window as a simple parabola, with an up swing on left and right side of curve.

I'm finding more and more that it has become more like a Mandelbrot Set and on any given day I'm not sure if I'd be considered Left or Right by any random other person who I also can't identify if they are Left or Right. It is almost like Left and Right are so confused now, that they have lost all meaning. Except when they vote, but they can't explain why they voted the way they did.


When it comes to LLMs being fed vast swathes of commentary, it's not so much the limits of the Overton window as the distribution.


> When it comes to LLMs being fed best to swab the son of commentary

I understand all of these words individually, but I do not understand them in that sequence.


Sorry, that's entirely my fault, I tried dictating it to my phone but in typical fashion all technology is getting worse every day and I didn't proofread the disappointing results.

Strangely apopos in a thread about computers generating undesirable text.


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What topics have a static field of knowledge?


Ok, but why? Please excuse my ignorance, it's well earned. I haven't been in the web design space for over 20 years. So, seriously, like, what is this for?

Just so we can? For presenting a specific kind of information?


This appears to be exploration, to see if we can find new useful ways to display and interact with information.

There have been many, many experiments in the past. Design features that work (such as listy designs, tabular designs, 2D designs, non-overlapping designs, etc etc) have stuck around. By "work", I mean that they are useful, practical, easy to understand, easy to implement, non-patented, etc etc.

If we stop experimenting, then we will stop finding new useful design features and UI design will stagnate.

Yes, current UI design is "good enough." But where's the fun in that? Whatever you believe the purpose of life is, experimenting and furthering humanity's knowledge is typically considered a good thing.

I think that this particular experiment is useful, and that there is potential here for more efficient note-taking and knowledge sorting (which could, in the future, potentially benefit everyone). Imagine an author writing plot point ideas into an infinite canvas, then assembling them on the fly. And then they bring those points into a second canvas, where they group them by character. Then they can freely move the plot points between characters, or leave them to the side, not assigned to any character but there, on the "plot points by character" canvas, ready to be dragged on. But then if they're looking at the plot points on the "plot points by time" canvas, and they set a plot point's character to "X", then it will automatically move that plot point into the region of character "X" on the "plot points by character" canvas.

That's just one example. I can imagine more, such as a materials researcher trying to design an industrial process. They could be working through potential chemical products, trying to decide which to use at a particular point of the process. This freeform canvas would let them keep a card for each potential choice right next to the place in the process that it would be used. That proximity of information could be useful.

I've found that Blueprints (a 2D scripting language) in Unreal Engine get really messy, and you're constantly neatening your programs. This particular experiment, with its anti-overlap and automatic grouping features, might lead to good changes in Blueprints in UE that make them neater by nature.


It's so that the topology of the design system can mirror the topology of the information being stored. Top-to-bottom and left-to-right works great for information with a linear, generally one-way directional flow.

But how do you show that certain concepts are similar and related? Wiki informational design says that you should do that by splitting things up into atomic concepts that individually have a linear informational flow and using hyperlinks to connect them. You might group things into common categories.

Links can show a connection, but not how close those connections are or any correlations. The idea of whiteboarding is that you're not limited to segmented linear information flows, and you can represent your thoughts visually.

The "infinite canvas" is to a whiteboard what a wiki is to a filing cabinet of notecards. Or what a plotted graph is to a table of numbers.


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