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Teleoflexuous
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
Step 0: You will be making Korean stake. Step 1: Mix those ingredients. Step 2: Now that you mixed those ingredients, do something else.

System started doing Step 1, believed it was over so moved to Step 2 and when was asked to go back, kept going back to step 2.

Step 1 being Step 0 and Step 1 combined also works.

Again, it's also a weird way to prerecord. If you're prerecording, you're prerecording all steps and practicing with them prerecorded. I can't imagine anyone to be able to go through a single rehearsal with prerecorded audio to not figure out how to do this, we have the technology.
Teleoflexuous
·10 bulan yang lalu·discuss
There's a simple explanation that isn't 'prerecorded'. I'd be very happy to accuse Meta of faking a demo, but that's 1) just a weird way to fake a demo and 2) effect that has easier explanation.

You ask AI how to do something. AI generates steps to do that thing. It has concept of steps, so that when you go 'back' it goes back to the last step. As you ask how to do something, it finishes explaining general idea and goes to first step. You interrupt it. It assumes it went through the first step and won't let you go back.

The first step here was mixing some sauces. That's it. It's a dumb way to make a tool, but if I wanted to make one that will work for a demo, I'd do that. Have you ever tried any voice thing to guide you through something? Convincing Gemini that something it described didn't happen takes a direct explanation of 'X didn't happen' and doesn't work perfectly.

It still didn't work, it absolutely wasn't wi-fi issue and lmao, technology of the future in $2T company, it just doesn't seem rigged.
Teleoflexuous
·tahun lalu·discuss
Thanks for checking it out. It could definitely use larger library of sounds in general.

Ideally, I'd like to allow sharing and storing of presets, but it was simply out of scope for the PoC - the functionality is there in the desktop version btw, but it on the other hand asks users to download an unknown .exe and then share mp3 and json files with each other, putting us firmly in the mid-90s'.
Teleoflexuous
·tahun lalu·discuss
Oh, I'll check what's going on in Safari. Thanks for the report, if you could forward me if there's any error in console, I'd greatly appreciate it.

It's especially surprising if the 'audio playing' icon is there, since that should be coming from the browser itself.
Teleoflexuous
·tahun lalu·discuss
I come to shill my webapp for background noise because it has a twist not appearing in anyone's recommendations.

Whenever I'm switching between tasks (thinking vs reading vs writing) I'd either turn the sound off or on, given I needed more or less attention at the moment. Minor problem with that was that sometimes unexpectedly I'd stick with the new task longer than expected, start to get bored, but w/e background sound I had on didn't match the task, so I'd look for something else... Overall a bit annoying for some groups of tasks.

I'm experimenting with mixing music with podcasts with extra noise and turning it on and off, but I also made https://stimulantnoi.se/ (with extra reading on psychological basis of the design and link to open source standalone desktop app on https://incentiveassemblage.substack.com/p/why-is-nobody-ser...). It allows for mixing (including uploading additional) sounds into sets and binds switching between those whole sets to media keys for quick access.
Teleoflexuous
·3 tahun yang lalu·discuss
I've been working on white noise app for a bit, but with a slightly different focus. While it's maintaining the same core points (limited bullshit, hopefully clear interface, sound staying on with phone screen being off) it addresses problem I constantly found myself having with every app: if I want to switch anything, I have to go back to the webpage/app and there goes some of my focus. Link: https://stimulantnoi.se/

So I made an app focused (hehe.) on ease of switching between noise intensity. There's a long explanation why it's important if you want one (https://incentiveassemblage.substack.com/p/why-is-nobody-ser...), but if you're the kind of nerd who knows about 'flow state' and 'Yerkes-Dodson law', you pretty much got everything covered. The core point is: if intensity of your main activity is changing, your background noise should too, so that you maintain the same total level of arousal. Most likely double so for ADD people.

My current solution is to use media buttons (forward/backward) to control intensity. It took much more work than you'd expect to get media interface to do this without breaking currently playing sounds. In general anything that isn't 'Play this sound' works much worse than one would anticipate with how prevalent media is on the internet - I see ambiphone does the same thing with playing sounds separately, but you saved yourself from managing media interface, so I can't quite tell how much pain exactly you have experienced with this.