Speaking is quick, listening is slow 🔗
Thank goodness voice computing is finally happening. Now we can work on making it good. The tech is here, like the free Whisper model (what an unlock [...]
Interconnected
Posts
Filtered for electricity and mayonnaise 🔗
1. Rain panels? Rain panels. researchers have found a way to capture, store and utilize the electrical power generated by falling raindrops, which may [...]
mist: Share and edit Markdown together, quickly (new tool) 🔗
It should be SO EASY to share + collaborate on Markdown text files. The AI world runs on .md files. Yet frictionless Google Docs-style collab is so ha [...]
90% of everything is sanding e.g. laundry 🔗
What mundane pleasures will I be robbed of by domestic robots? Sometimes I feel like my job at home is putting things into machines and taking things [...]
Singing the gospel of collective efficacy 🔗
If I got to determine the school curriculum, I would be optimising for collective efficacy. So I live in a gentrified but still mixed neighbourhood in [...]
Do today’s work today 🔗
You couldn’t go a week in the 80s as a kid in Britain without someone saying "Oompa-Loompa stick it up your jumper." You did this action too, pumping [...]
The natural home for AI agents is your Reminders app 🔗
AI agents do things for you, semi-autonomously, and one question is how we coordinate with them. By "do things for you" I mean Claude Code that writes [...]
Real like ghosts or real like celebrities? 🔗
This chart from the back of Ursula Le Guin’s Always Coming Home lives forever in my head: Always Coming Home is a collection of texts from the Kesh, [...]