Something about the way baseball itself is played seems to make recreations really satisfying -- like, more accurate? -- and fun compared to say, soccer hilights of matches on Youtube made with what looks like an EA soccer video game
I also really like the idea of recreating any type of event in this format. It's almost like photogrammetry but with as much creative intention as you have documentary. very awesome, very inspirational really
hoped this would happen for a long time but knew it takes a Google sized momentum to make it happen. Formalizing the goal is great and brings it closer to reality
"It’s utterly desiccating to log onto spaces seeking a live mind to joust and think with, and find a relentless stream of slop"
Am I in the minority for going online to learn stuff, download stuff and having zero point zero zero zero interest in jousting and co-thinking?
As I'm scanning the rant (and tbh the last two paragraphs hoping for some TL;DR summarization-love) I'm thinking "mans will find universal basic income quite upsetting", then I text-search "universal" and wouldn't you know the assumption was proven correct with a straw-man shaped cherry on top ("They’ll paint. They’ll garden. They’ll finally write that novel.")
What's the value -- like the real-ass human satisfaction -- of debating and hand-wringing over inevitabilities to anyone outside of the set of all authors provoking debate and hand-wringing over inevitabilities?
Love this and love seeing people building their own hardware/software tools. I hope to carve out the time soon to be one. Calculators are a perfect project
I wonder how viable this debate is outside of dev circles.
For example, if I'm new to programming today and I'm not part of any community that necessarily approves agentic coding or disapproves of vibe coding and I heard that C programs run fast as heck and I heard that I can automate jobs 1,2 and 3 with such a program, I generate said program and it works as expected per my limited experience then what's the issue?
Perhaps in a couple of weeks I notice I'm missing 1/4 of my HD space and I figure out probably via an agent that my cool C program is creating bloat through caching or creating hidden dot files, so I agentically/vibe-ally generate a patch. Maybe this encourages me to join a community of other amateurs or a pro-am community where I learn specifics - eg. the exact bug(s) in my code -- as well as metas -- eg. testing.
There will probably be millions and millions of people generating code for their own purposes thanks to LLMs, and the number grows as the technology develops and becomes more trivial. So I wonder how much value there is in the "how to think about this" discussion vs the "how to use this" discussion. It almost feels like religious encampments are forming over a false -- possibly manufactured -- lines of division
speaking of which, I was pleased to see FORTH in there. not that I've ever used it but I was introduced to it in the early 90s and it's cool to see that it's still useful
it's a top affordance of AI because pause development usually over complexity I can't manage or knowledge gap that I can't close in time to sustain momentum. Not only are those roadblocks a non-issue, my perspective shifts from in-the-weeds hacking to a perch with meta view to take the project to completion or maybe beyond previous goals. win-win to the power of win
This is AWESOME and I see from the comments that "Memory Lab" is a more or less standard thing. Ties in really neatly with the recent personal encyclopedia post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47522173
I can thing of a couple of content creators I've encountered who make fast voice presentations almost impossible to follow. almost as if that's the point -- like that academic debating style where speakers just speed-recite as many arguments as they can -- like the content is actually meant to be slower and their goal is data compression or something ...