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Took me a few reads too. I think the intended meaning is:
"There are those who are convinced that there is more to things; they spend their time chasing that 'more' but typically don't find it. And there are those who are convinced there isn't more to things; they find themselves frustrated at the abyss."
This sounds awesome and exactly like the easy and safe on-ramp to OpenClaw that I've been looking for! I want to believe.
Two questions as a potential user who knows the gist of OpenClaw but has been afraid to try it:
1. I don't understand how the two consumption credits play into the total cost of ownership. E.g. how long will $20 of Orthogonal credits last me? I have no idea what it will actually cost to use Klaus/OpenClaw for a month.
2. Batteries included sounds great, but what are those batteries? I've never heard of Apollo or Hunter.io so I don't know the value of them being included.
In general, a lot of your copy sounds like it's written for people already deep into OpenClaw. Since you're not targeting those folks, I would steer more towards e.g. articulating use cases that work ootb and a TCO estimate for less technical folks. Good luck, and I'm eager to try it!
I just had this interaction with ChatGPT.
Me: Reverse the digits of 12+39
ChatGPT: The sum of 12 and 39 is 51. If you reverse the digits, you get 15.
Me: Reverse the digits of 12 + 84. Only respond with the reversed digits, no explanation
ChatGPT: The reversed digits of 12 + 84 are 96.
Which makes me think that longer explanations give it more of a chance to think because it gets more passes through the model. Weird!
The challenge here is that ChatGPT and other LLMs can only think out loud. They only "think" through writing, and that's always displayed to the user.
Has anyone tried giving LLMs a scratchpad where the model could e.g. run the pipeline in order, generate the poem, and then explicitly publish it to the user without showing the earlier steps?
Thanks, we're aware of that possibility. We talk a lot with them about the motivation for the limits so hopefully they will see the value in applying them to themselves even when we're not around. But it's obviously a long journey. Hope you've developed those tools now, I'm sorry you weren't set up to succeed there.
Haha, yes, I had the same cousin! We would go play hide and seek while he played Legend of Zelda on his own in the corner :-/
We have three kids, aged 6, 3, and 10 months. The six-year-old gets ~30 minutes of Switch play a week (mostly driving circles in Rocket League), and the whole family watches an episode of Lego Masters on Sunday. That's the only screen time they get.
When our oldest was ~3, he had been potty trained for awhile. We were on vacation and he was on the iPad we had brought for the plane. He was so engrossed in the game that he didn't even notice he was peeing there in the living room. That incident really firmed up our Minimal Screen Time resolve.
Kids are going to spend their whole lives on screens, just like all of us do. IMO there's no reason to get that started early if you can help it.
I couldn't agree more! We built Lexio to address exactly that issue. (Our tagline is literally "Stop building dashboards that no one uses".) It does data storytelling (discovering the insights and conveying them in natural language) on the server and gives users a newsfeed experience for consuming them. I'm happy to talk shop if folks are interested in how it works.
https://narrativescience.com/lexio
That was me! I came here to comment some version of "Ahem, we were doing this in 2005 at Northwestern" and seeing your comment to the same effect made me super happy. Thanks for noticing and remembering!
Yup! I remember my eighteen-year old self being pleased with "Planet does not have Audi, but it does have Audi TTs!"
Looking at it again, I think the game works better spoken than written out like this.
I played a similar game with some folks once, but I don't know the game's name. The person who knew the rule(s) explained that there was a planet that was like Earth, but it only had a subset of the things that Earth had. We guessed different things on Earth, and the teacher would tell us whether or not this other planet had them.
Some samples include:
Planet has apples, green grass, trees, runners, and cheese pizza.
Planet does not have bananas, plants, people, hamburgers, cats, dogs, houses.
I won't put the rule(s) here in case people want to try it.
I for one appreciated all the "I"s! To me it shows that you understand that you are expressing a subjective opinion, not a fact in the world. I think too many people express opinions as facts with puffy language.
Compare yours to "Apple's admirable open source program is genuine and legit. If you've unfairly dismissed them in the past, give them a second look."
Are you being sarcastic? Or do you genuinely think the lack of office space in SF is a drag on the world?
I guess it's not surprising, but I was super impressed by their copy on the website. "The most original Macintosh since the original Macintosh" holds up really well 17 years later.
I'm looking forward to the iPhone 8 being advertised as "The most original iPhone since the original iPhone".
I know you said you're not seeking a therapeutic recommendation, but if you were my friend then I would buy you a beer and gently recommend seeing a therapist. I saw one for a year after I got divorced, and she was
extremely helpful in teaching me how to get out of negative-feedback thought loops, which sounds like it might be useful for you, too. I was originally nervous about signing up for a lifetime of having someone be my emotional crutch. But my take on it now is:
1) Being a happy, fulfilled human is hard.
2) We are generally not good at it, and we don't have much time to get good at it.
3) If one person has a problem, ten million other people do too.
4) Many problems have genuine solutions, and those that don't almost always have approaches that are helpful.
It sounds like your anxiety is having a real negative impact on your life. If you had some physical ailment (say digestive issues or headaches) that were having such a negative impact, you would go to a doctor, yeah? It's the same deal.
Take care and good luck!
Earnest question: Have you used a monoid?
I know my original comment is sort of bratty, and I was confusing monoids with monads, which... is a different functional thing that people apparently use?
It feels like mon(a/oi)ds are a concept that gets regularly explained on various blog posts. I read/skim the blog post and don't understand what they are or how they're useful (which is clearly on me). And then I read the comments, and they're split between some folks saying "I still don't get it" and others saying, "Yeah, these are common, easier than you think, and incredibly useful in Haskell/Scala/Clojure/F#/whatever". And then the world moves on, and the cycle repeats the next month. It doesn't seem like the number of people who say "I still don't get it" ever goes down. Which is why the comment about how they're not happening.
I hate doing memes, but sometimes they're so spot on.
"Stop trying to make monoids happen. They're not going to happen."
Hey oemerax, thanks for taking the time to respond. Like you said, I'm probably not the audience for your app :-) For me, the important aspect of social networks is their pleasure-to-time ratio. E.g., "I'm going to look at Facebook for five minutes while waiting for the bus, I haven't looked at Facebook in two days, please show me the most interesting stories of the last two days so my five minutes pass quickly." (I don't think Facebook does a particularly good job here, but I think that they are at least trying to build the thing I want.) Where it sounds like the people you're targeting are thinking "I want to see every post from my approved friends". So you're going for completeness, which I don't care about. (Again, different audience, haha.)
Good luck!
"Bynd Zero". Yeesh. This just feels like another thing I'm obligated to burn down and manage. A better solution, for me at least, is to continue to not care about Twitter and Instagram, and stop caring about Facebook. You're not missing out on anything. Nothing bad happens if you miss little controversies or links to blogs.
I don't know what this is doing for music, but I hear nothing from the website and it disables all audio on my Mac. (10.8.5)
Articles like this remind me why I don't use an Android phone. To each their own, but this is not a feature that I want: "Upon install, Android apps can get access to users’ location, contacts, phone calls, email addresses, and almost every piece of information that resides on the phone."
It would look like
result = range(1, 3).concat(range 4, 6).map((x) -> x * x).filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0
or
result = range 1, 3
result = result.concat range 4, 6
result = result.map (x) -> x * x
result = result.filter (x) -> x % 2 is 0
I think it counts as mainstream. We've basically migrated entirely off Javascript at Narrative Science, we've got a whole bunch of server- and client-side CoffeeScript. It and Python are our two first-class languages.
This post doesn't make any sense without context. I now know that a person I've never heard of is no longer going to do a thing that I didn't realize that they were doing.
Q: "Are mobile web apps slow?"
A: "A web app's CPU budget is spent in three different buckets"
Q: "That... doesn't answer my question."
A: "Javascript is the puppet master of the browser engine."
Q: "That doesn't either."
A: "I'm the director of engineering for the Web Platform team at Adobe. I sort of have to write blog posts like this."
Q: "Ah, ok. No hard feelings then. You're in a tough spot."
A: "Yes. Yes, I am."
These kinds of optimization/"hacks" articles need to include benchmarks. How does using one StringBuilder compare to using the implicit three or five? How many strings does one need to append before you should've used a StringBuilder? Etc.
I imagine that there's going to be novice programmers whose takeaway from the article is "Hashmaps with ints as keys are slow" or "String concatenation in Java is slow".
Is there a cohesive idea or approach here? This just feels like a bunch of unrelated utility functions. And there's basically no documentation, right? The readme description of Q.getter is just "Q.getter - wrapper which makes any getter function smarter, using caching, waiting, throttling, without worrying about ", while the docstring for the method is 30 lines long and I still have no idea what it does or how to use it. It seems like you're doing some really heavy, serious work in this library with a ton of library-specific options, etc. If that's the route you're taking, I think you're going to need real documentation, tutorials, etc. if you expect this to get any uptake.
That's funny, I was just thinking, "I would love to be well-known enough one day that my switching employers would make the front page of HN."
I hear you, though. To me, it matters a lot what I think about the "celebrity." Christopher Hitchen's becoming an American citizen, for example, felt like news to me because he's a thoughtful, worldly person who presumably considered his decision. If Russell Brand became a citizen, though, I wouldn't care and would just presume it was for tax reasons, or a joke, or whatever.
Considering that I haven't heard of Tim Van Damme before, I'm inclined to agree with you and consider this gossip.