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At least we didn’t have to steal it from the original inhabitants.

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I also found it interesting, and the title pretty much describe what happened? I don’t see the problem

Holy shit, an actual AI celeb replied to my comment and did a thing! Thank you kind sir

This is great, would love filters for duration and sort by upload date

Aha, I haven't looked into such aspects much - I'm "output" driven. But its good to know about that, if I feel like trying it- thanks.

For me, Opus 5.5 has been consistently much better than Fable 5.1- in all aspects, but especially reasoning and "attention span"

What is stopping Anthropic, Google etc from essentially building models that completely replace the concept of code?

You point a model to an API and get a fully working UI right away. I don’t mean an agent CODED the UI - I mean the model inferred it from its training data and renders it to you “live”

Or the other way around? You serve it a UI- and it acts as the backend etc? State and persistence becomes an issue, but the model could freeze things into deterministic structures (specific parts become -just in time-frozen, for example when data needs to be saved)

Maybe this is old news already- but the consequences are kind of mind blowing

I've tried hard to pin down why I appreciate listening on some devices more than others - and your comment made me realize that I'm the kind of person that actually appreciates "more" spatial information rather than the "dry signal" - to the point where I made my own app to do that with all my audio sources (surraura.com). For some reason it helps my ADHD, and lets me focus easier.

Money, Agency, Autonomy. I fully agree, but I imagine (dread?) a future where there are private/gatekept models that are only accessible for those with compute and/or wealth and/or access.

Edit: I also didn't mean that the compute would be restricted - I meant what you describe, to offer them the compute.

Wouldn't it be possible, that at some point in time, offering compute or intelligence would be considered a valuable form of altruism? And we're just seeing the first few baby steps of that?

Someone ultra wealthy person owns a whole data center, and offers 10% of the capacity for helping "nature and animals"? Agents research new potential medicines for animals, do climate change studies etc etc?

Sure, this experiment is probably bound to fail because agents have no "real" way to provide income for themselves at this time, and its not intelligent enough o doesn't have enough scale, but as an experiment of what might become a common reality in a few years I consider it interesting.

Is this at all possible to run locally on a MacBook pro m5 (48gb ram)? What kind of performance could I expect? Or would you run this somewhere in the cloud? What HW / which provider would you choose (single user for exploration only)

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JEV is a new type of AI (https://typesafe.ai/blog/introducing-system-one-models-and-j...)

I thought the Kiwi API was invite only for a while?

Anyway, looks cool - and seems very fast!

This is really cool! Are you using something like JEV for this? Where does the flights data come from?

Cost per correct answer.

cost_per_correct = total_spend / correct_count

Why this metric. "-X% tokens removed!" is a marketing number if it ignores whether the answer was right. A tool that saves 90% of tokens but makes 20% more mistakes has worse cost-per-correct.

I found that token savings is really not worth looking at. Benchmark a baseline (without novgraph) vs novgraph on a set of tasks. Often with such tools, the agent requires more turns and cache hits are fewer so the actual cost ends up similar, but the agent actually takes more time to complete.

Build your own benchmark or try mine: https://github.com/jahala/copeca .. Haven't touched it for 3 months, so not sure if it's still up to scratch.

1. "ye old prompte" vs goals / loops / evals - how to utilize models in the best way is changing rapidly (exemplify with karpathy's autoresearch)

2. agent harness - which harness fits best to the kind of work you are trying to do. pi vs claude code vs conductor.build etc.

3. repo harness - how do you set up your repo for agents to (hypothetically) work consistently across vendors/models (claude.md, architecture.md, engineering.md - git hooks, agent hooks, etc)

4. privacy - ensure using the correct settings to (at least hypothetically) avoid models being trained on your unpublished research

Interesting, but please add a screenshot in the repo so we can see how it works?

I’m working on an app to help my late diagnosed ADHD - through sound.

The app wraps whatever is playing on mac through device convolution (old radio, hifi system) - Room convolution (a bedroom, a forest) and adds ambience (rain, wind, waves) and Apples spatial processing - so it sounds like a real space.

For me - hearing the sound in a space really helps more than just the dry sound.

https://www.surraura.com/

I went from having an experience of life, of reality - that was very self-centered, lonely and nihilistic - to basically a "life worth living". I wish I had met with meditation - through genuine teachers when I was much younger.

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It sounds like you are “failing” because you have a mistaken idea and application of meditation.

Meditation means “getting used to”

Get used to what? Well, that depends on what you are already used to and not.

One example:

Imagine, visualize in your mind, the home you grew up in. Maybe you can even "walk" from room to room and see familiar items.

Now ask yourself, is this thought - the mental projection of your home - "you". Did you just experience witnessing "yourself"?

What about every other thought - how are these thoughts "you"?

* So - are you "used to" thinking that you are your own thoughts?

- If you feel that you "are your thoughts", and they represent "you" - then “who” or “what” is the thing that are observing the thoughts as they happen? Are these two things one and the same?

Getting “used to” and integrating such direct - experienced -knowing of how your reality actually works is in many spiritual traditions considered steps to “awakening”

But even if you are completely allergic to even the word “spiritual”. It never ceases to amaze me, that we all - materialistically speaking - are carrying extreme mental supercomputers - but we never take a second sit down to figure out how these work. You are carrying the one central equipment that determines every aspect of your quality of life, but you’ve never for a moment tried to understand how experience unfolds?

Ok, so how to begin “getting used o” and “figuring out”?

First of all, to do anything worthwhile at all, you need to be able to place and maintain your attention over time - concentrating. This is obvious to you. If you want to get a good education, a good job, be a great sportsman - than that requires effort and concentration. Intelligence can of course offset some of that, but intelligence without diligence is equally as useless as not being intelligent.

To practice concentration and diligence, you should learn meditation with an anchor. What is an anchor? Anything you choose to place your attention on, and return to if the attention has wandered elsewhere.

What is attention? Your bandwidth of experience is limited. If a bee stings you, the pain of that will overpower your experience of hunger. All your ideas about grabbing a burger go straight out the window.

If your experience is neutral, you can willfully shift your attention between your senses.

Let’s try it now.

Now you are just experiencing the sounds you are hearing.

Now you are feeling the sensation of the weight of your body pressing against the surface it is in contact with.

Now you are imagining and experiencing the sensation of tasting a very sour lemon, or strawberry.

Now you are imagining and experiencing the visual playback in your mind of Einstein peeling a banana.

You really can use any anchor (object of attention), but it is usually recommended to begin with placing the attention on the breath - like the physical sensation of air entering and exiting the nostrils, and counting one cycle of in-out as “one”, and then counting to 10 or 21. Decide before you start, how many repetitions of 10 or 21 you will do.

The concentration aspect of the exercise is maintaining the anchoring of attention on the physical sensation. The “mindfulness” aspect of the exercise is remembering or rather - not forgetting - your anchor.

The moment you realize you have stopped remembering, and your attention has moved to a different sense (ear hearing sounds, eye looking at something, mind having a thought) - this is the exact moment to rejoice, because you are learning - and your are remembering, and you are being mindful. So the moment you remember what you were supposed to do, congratulate yourself and re-place your attention on the chosen anchor.

In the beginning, do this for no more than a minute. But do it often- 5 times a day. Once you start getting used to that, and that becomes easy, then increase.

It’s important to know, that meditation like this does not cause you to become unfocused or unconcentrated or distracted - it simply shows you through direct experience how unfocused, unconcentrated and distracted you already are.

And it’s even more important to know that this exercise - this method of getting used to - does not immediately reduce or remove that, but it will naturally do that over time.

How much time? Well, that depends on the mind and mindset you start with. Some people say 3-6 months of daily practice.

And if that sounds like a lot- try to put a value on a life where you are mindfully choosing your actions vs a life where you are simply being a passenger of actions - causes and conditions - being chosen for you.

This is the diligence aspect. If you want to experience the fruit of being able to willfully place your attention wherever you chose- to achieve whichever goal you set yourself - then you have to use your intelligence and recognize the need to train it. If you are unwilling to practice this key instruction that holds to access to everything else, then everything else will - logically - probably not be accessible to you.

When you begin to train in this extremely simple thing, you will experience right away how unwilling and unable you are to do it. Logically you understand that this is perfectly sensible. But still, you may be unable to do this for years. And that knowing, combined with the apparent inability to practice consistently- diligently, is one facet of the suffering of existence we all experience, but can’t put into clear words.

I hope you do not ever dismiss meditation ever again as “not working”, or even “woo-woo” or mystical - but recognize that your inability to appreciate its function, or to train it it - is the actual thing that “isn’t working” and what is causing the suffering and discomfort.

I recommend the book "Attention revolution" by B. Alan Wallace

In most cases, the quality of your attention determines your quality of life. Your ability to focus on education, work, personal relationships etc will often determine the outcomes. So yeah, it's an elementary factor that most other things in our experience rests upon.

Meditation - «getting used to»

A most elementary form of meditation, is getting used to placing your attention on a sensation and keeping it anchored there - even when other sensations or thoughts arise.

Following the breath- place your awareness, your attention, on the sensation of air passing through your nostrils. Count one inbreath and outbreath cycle as «1», and count until 10 or 21. Decide before you start, how many repetitions of 10 or 21 you will do.

If at any point your attention has drifted to a different sensation - seeing, hearing etc, or thinking, visual imagery etc, then congratulate yourself for noticing, and restart from «1».

I recommend «The attention revolution» by Alan B. Wallace

Opus 4.8 is my daily driver, and it's miles away from what I got out of Fable 5

Really cool! Where would you get the data for something like this? Is it open, or its scraped?