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novax81
·3년 전·discuss
In fairness to the algorithm, Autism, ADHD, and OCD have significant core presentation overlap, and often get talked about in the same spaces online. There's probably a high relation in their searches for the topics.

Doesn't stop the Youtube algorithm from easily being the worst of the major social media sites though.
novax81
·3년 전·discuss
I've written about some hierarchical manager system with some friends when exploring how to use AI for larger set tasks. While the easy answer is simply using something with much larger context - `Claude` is amazing with an API key if you're on the waitlist - we definitely followed the same idea of splitting up the context into individual groups.

We had some success actually with layering another AI into the mix - having one AI look at a summary version of the context as a whole, and decide which pieces of context to assign to each manager. This of course requires a sidestep into another database of some kind to store the "master context" (AKA the full conversation, so you likely already have it in some form of storage), and of course a lot more calls to the AI which overall increases latency quite a bit.

1. Use an AI to provide a short summary of each piece of logical context and map it by access ID 2. Use another AI to determine which pieces contain the most useful additional context to the piece of the task being evaluated 3. Build the context from the generated ID list and pass to individual task manager AI
novax81
·3년 전·discuss
Based on the comments (I'm also unfamiliar with emacs), you may also want to look into Obsidian. It keeps a local vault of files with some file structure magic to basically let you both easily jot down notes for later and find them (tag/header searching, etc) but also link them together (select some text -> extract into new note, and it backlinks, etc). For a bit I tried to get into being a "power user" of it, using scripts to collect things, add interactive widgets, bla bla. But at the end of the day, I've found it much more enjoyable to use in a very general way, linking documents together (I keep a personal writing vault, and a separate work vault) and giving myself ways to mash through ideas when typing makes more sense.
novax81
·3년 전·discuss
I've been exploring this concept a lot myself. It's more than just the physical (im)permanence of the output. It's how every letter is a purposeful, even the mistakes. Every mark reflects something about the subject, the creator, or both. The work itself may be recognized as art in some form - poetry, essay, etc - but the physical work is also art unto itself, if you consider art as the output of emotions into a form that can be shared.
novax81
·3년 전·discuss
As a web developer, I'll be perfectly honest in expressing shock that anyone would assume it wasn't being recorded. Even in far less important spaces, basically every click and keystroke is sent to some analytics service, and if you block it on the client, there's generally a server-side gatherer to pass on what it can. If you ever submit anything to any modern website, it is a somewhat safe assumption that it is recorded somewhere.

This applies a little less if you're in a country affected by GDPR, but even then - request that data some time, it's so much more than some people realize.
novax81
·4년 전·discuss
Man I hate this line of thought because I completely fall into it too, haha. For a really, really long period of life, I had just awful dental hygiene practices. Honestly don't even want to describe it because it makes me a little disgusted with myself (ironically, in a way). But, I also never had dental issues. Ate whatever, drank whatever, didn't care.

Then a few years ago I get my shit together more and start a daily routine. A few months in, I finally visit a dentist for, I swear, the first time in a decade. I'm expecting them to find the motherload of disease in there, but nope. They tell me everything looks fine, except for a tiny bit of gingivitis. Take some x-rays and I'm on my way. 6 months later, worst head pain of my life turns out to be a deep one that needs a root canal. Now I've got a bunch of fillings, a crown, etc.

I still brush daily and my mouth feels like shit if I go without for a few days. I know in all logical ways, it's just a string of luck and coincidence. But damn does the conspiracy part of the brain start spinning up on my anecdotal experiences... lol.
novax81
·4년 전·discuss
It's harder to get people to switch browsers nowadays. When Chrome first came out as a breath of fresh air (IE was IE, Firefox was better but a bit "heavy", Opera was... Opera), normal users would just nod and agree if you recommended a switch, and even as a power user, I only had to migrate a handful of extensions and behaviors over. At this point, browsers (particularly Chrome and Safari on their respective platforms) have ingrained themselves into their users daily routine. Things like bookmarks and some habits transfer pretty quickly, but casual users won't care enough about this (until they're impacted more).