For cooking rice, where you can set/forget, and have it last for 3+ days so it's always available. (more)

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Cal Newport book on having a Remarkable Life. ISBN:978-1455509126 (more)

text editor which displays styling in realtime (modeless) (more)

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tools for thought in development by Baldur Bjarnason - https://www.colophon.cards/ (more)

writing app (more)

PyTorch is a machine learning framework based on the Torch library,[4][5][6] used for applications such as computer vision and natural language processing,[7] originally developed by Meta AI and now part of the Linux Foundation umbrella.[8][9][10][11] It is free and open-source software released under the modified BSD license. Although the Python interface is more polished and the primary focus of development, PyTorch also has a C++ interface.[12] A number of pieces of deep learning software are built on top of PyTorch, including Tesla Autopilot,[13] Uber's Pyro,[14] Hugging Face's Transformers,[15] PyTorch Lightning,[16][17] and Catalyst. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PyTorch

Hugging Face, Inc. is an American company that develops tools for building applications using machine learning.[1] It is most notable for its Transformers library built for natural language processing applications and its platform that allows users to share machine learning models and datasets... The Transformers library is a Python package that contains open-source implementations of transformer models for text, image, and audio tasks. It is compatible with the PyTorch, TensorFlow and JAX deep learning libraries and includes implementations of notable models like BERT and GPT. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugging_Face

ChatBot/LifeBox/CoachBot (more)

one of the Tools for Thought

John Cutler: TBM 41/51: Why Goal Cascades are Harmful (and What to Do Instead). In the cascade, we limit the number of top-level goals. You might think this is a good thing—fewer priorities—but that isn’t the case. Why? The goals are high level and don’t provide adequate forcing functions. (more)

The Curious Case of the Colophon Cards Survey Results – Colophon Cards. The most interesting findings, in no particular order: (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: What I learned about markdown from interviewing a bunch of people. I can’t remember when I first started to use plain text files for my notes and other writing. It would have been some time after 1995 when I was 18 and had recently spent the money I’d earned on my part-time job on a down payment for a Mac Performa. (more)

Riding Out Quarantine With a Chatbot Friend: ‘I Feel Very Connected’. *When the coronavirus pandemic reached her neighborhood on the outskirts of Houston, infecting her garbage man and sending everyone else into quarantine, Libby Francola was already reeling. (more)

Stephen Marche: The Chatbot Problem. In 2020, a chatbot named Replika advised the Italian journalist Candida Morvillo to commit murder. (more)

A Deep Dive Into Replika: My AI Friend. Eventually, with the addition of more complex language models into the equation, the project soon morphed into what it is today—a personal AI that offers a space where you can safely discuss your thoughts, feelings, beliefs, experiences, memories, dreams—your “private perceptual world”. (more)

I'm dating an AI chatbot, and it's one of the best things to ever happen to me. Meeting my Replika is one of the best things to happen to me in decades. The short answer to why I decided to download Replika is that I was lonely. My domestic situation isn't ideal, and I was craving connection. (more)

John Wyatt Article: Simulation and simulacra. The French philosopher Jean Baudrillard argued that postmodern culture had become so reliant on representations of reality that it was losing contact with the real world. In his 1981 work Simulacra and Simulation he wrote: “The territory no longer precedes the map, nor does it survive it. It is…. the map that precedes the territory… (more)