bentoniteclay

Maybe to expand on this a bit, I suspect supply chain transparency is an important goal. It's generally accepted that if you're using a phone, you're probably using a product that at some level relied on slave labor / forced labor.

Some companies, like Fairphone, have made huge strides into addressing this problem, but there's a big question about how sustainable they are in our present economy. They may fail because of restrictions they have imposed on themselves, that every other company should be operating under as well.

I think a lot about the problem of increasing heat waves causing heat-related illnesses and death. The amount of consecutive days spent above a wet-bulb temperature of 32 degrees C is expected to increase most for countries in the tropical regions of our world (and subtropics).

Many of the countries in these regions are quite poor. Many have weak electrical grids that may fail in severe heat waves, and many residents are unserved in the first place.

If I could quit my job and work on anything else, I think it would be this problem. I don't know enough to say where efforts should be focused. In some cases, providing AC units and improving the electrical infrastructure may be the answer. Maybe in others, the answer is installing geothermal heat pumps, or some other off-grid solution like solar absorption chillers.

A couple notes from trying this, though people have probably already said them:

Would be nice to be able to pull down the conversation box so that it can fit more text in it (forgive my vocab, not a software guy lol).

Would also be nice to cancel my audio if I screwed up, as is common when learning a language. This leads to incorrect words/phrases ending up in the conversation and hurting the flow. For this matter, it would also be nice to undo things you have already said, though perhaps this is a limitation with the ChatGPT API?

All in all, really cool! Great job on this.

I'm curious what your thoughts are on iNaturalist, as a computational biologist. I'm a frequent user of that platform and I often wonder about the biases involved with user-generated content like that (people probably have a higher propensity to upload observations of flowering plants than they do of ferns, or bacteria, etc.).

So I guess I wonder: is it a common resource for a computational biologist (or similar), or is it just considered a source of mostly garbage data?