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Can’t you put this in the agent instructions?


So Raspberry Pi With GPU?


the GH/GB line is also based around Arm. the CPU here doesn't matter.


what are some of the agents that people have built using Claude?


I really like it. How did you create rooms for playing with friends? Did you use a specific tech or open source library?

I am trying to implement the same for a game I am building but have no idea how to go about doing it.

Thanks in advance


I'm using python/django. I just made a room object and set up websockets for the live messaging feature. I can show you some of the code on discord if you want(though I doubt you're using python to make a game, mine's kinda simple so python works well)


Why not buy an 85” tv? They are dirt cheap and you can place them far. For webcam, I have used my dslr in the past but any webcam works as now Google meet autozooms in on the face


The article makes the claim

> reflected image from a projector screen is gentler on the eyes than a projected one from a computer monitor

If true, that is a very strong reason. However, it strikes me as a [citation needed] or questionable extrapolation from indirect/diffuse room lighting or bias lighting.


Citation most definitely needed. Perhaps the rationale is that the image is blurrier, or the contrast is worse, but both of those could easily be simulated by a monitor if you valued them.


I'd have taken it more as, reflected light would be better than straight to the eye light


How does the eye even "know" which kind of light it is? What's the difference, is one spectrum smoother and the other spiky or what? That's the part where a citation is needed.

Paper is more pleasant on the eyes for many reasons that don't apply to a reflective very bright projector screen.


This is me being a 100% armchair physicist, but I'd theorize it'd be something like trying to iluminate a room with a flashlight vs pointing it to a white (diffusive?) surface, counter intutively you achieve better* ilumination with the aditional diffusive surface

* Better for say, photography


Arguably what I think is actually happening is the focus distance has increased considerably.

The muscles that contract or relax to change your lens shape (to focus your vision at different lengths) don't work linearly. Most of the work/tension of the lens is happening in the last meters range. Such that looking out at a 10m distance or 200m distance is a lot closer in muscle tone then the tension applied to focus between 10m and 0.05m.

Most likely what is happening is that the visual field workspace is equivalent but the eye strain is considerably reduced from being able to not look at something so close by such as the displays we use every day.

The theory in the article is that this is due to reflected vs direct light but I think this is a post rationalization derived from the author's experience. The perceived experience is that it is easier on the eyes. The reason is less clear.


Indirect, reflected light is easier on the eyes than a direct one like from TV's and monitor backlight.


Says who? A photon is a photon.

Also, having to be in a dim room focusing on a brighter light is itself uncomfortable.


Indirect reflected light like you get from a piece of paper, or an e-reader, or almost any everyday object, yes, I can see how that is easier on the eyes.

But in the case of a projector, the screen is lit by extra light; I'm not sure the situation is all that different from a regular monitor.


That works too. It depends on what you value. If you want more screen real estate while keeping a long distance between your eyes and the screen, then go for the projector.


From company pov, yes. Because they want people who are driven to get to next stage.

From individual pov, no. Because everyone a different priorities in life.

Goal is to find the company where their expectation meets your priorities.


Even for the company, having some team members that you know are happy to just sit where they are and get work done is a good thing. If everyone is gunning for promotions, some people are going to be disappointed, and retaining your team is a challenge.


I use substack thinkingthrough.substack.com

I have hosted many in the past. Self hosted, wordpress, and a php version (I forgot what it was called)

The biggest problem with all those was dealing in spam comments and bad cross links.

Then I tried medium but it didn’t use to share subscriber emails.

Ended up migrating to Substack and been very happy with it for past 3 years


Have you considered not having Comments?

That would completely eliminate spam and ~100% of your troubles.


yeah I thought about it but then it defeated the purpose of comments i.e. engagement and perspective of reader. Substack does a good job at it


Why does it need Google login? Can I use it without it?


Does anyone knows if there are any instructions on how do you configure the money bot?


Basically just setup a discord webhook, and most languages will have a discord client you can use. Just when you get a subscription webhook event from stripe/apple/google, send a notification to that webhook


I looked into this problem a while back and haven’t looked at since.

The base ai model sounded like whisper ai from meta. Did you train the voice yourself or is it one of defaults?

I am always curious as to what copyright issues products like this run into. Also whats the stack like to build something like this?


isn't whisper the speech to text model by openai? which model did you mean?


yeah thats correct. I meant this one https://voicebox.metademolab.com/


Yeah I tried a bunch of them and OpenAI's TTS was by far the best.

Outside of that standard tech stack Next.js, Postgres, TailwindCSS.

It is still early days for ML TTS, and it will be exciting to see the compute requirements drop and for it to run on the device. OSS models have some promise, but still not there from quality perspective.


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