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i help computers talk

[Jane Manchun Wong @wongmjane]

She chats with Elon using iMessage instead of X, The Everything App ™

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@42loops they could have went with zengularity, a missed opportunity

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@paulg We say agents, personal assistants, thinking of AI as an autonomous human, before starting to see them as their own thing. We are the carriages.

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@paulg I use a similar one: "If you were the main character in the movie of your life, what would the audience be screaming at you to do"

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@42loops At the heart of most simple advice is the compound effect, the strategy of reaping huge rewards from repeated small, seemingly insignificant actions.

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Exploring @paulg essay on cities and ambition made me ponder the parallels with social media. What message does Twitter send? Which prompts the question: Can you optimise for a given message through UX? What’s a better message that could attract users away from Twitter?

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@Mappletons Learning to suppress action and speech despite high levels of adrenaline contributes to raising your stress threshold, @hubermanlab mentions it could be achieved through cold showers or cyclic hyperventilation, but i guess HIIT works in a similar manner.

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@rauchg the letter O and the number 0 look almost identical, was there a deliberate reason not to try to disambiguate the two?

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@Sadache I had a similar thought the other day, in a way, whatever thing you find beautiful is a production of your own brain, as in it’s a rendering. A beautiful sound/view ? It was captured by your senses and reproduced by your brain. So it’s your internal CPU/GPU that is amazing.

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@teawaterwire @sakofchit is that Sentence case i'm seeing? 👀

(i dig the font)

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Consistency is the actual workout.

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Enjoyed reading this new paper[1] from Sanjay Ghemawat et al. proposing a different programming methodology than that of microservices.

Honorable mentions to @akkateam

[1] link to paper : https://t.co/qNbr6hS4a8

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@paulg @elonmusk

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@typesfast good decision

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Doing the right thing in a society organized for self-destructive behaviors makes you standout as a weirdo. I recently joined a local blueprint meal prep community in Paris (thanks @bryan_johnson) and boy what a superpower to feel validated in your "weirdness"

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if Buddhism was invented in the 21st century, it would look something like the blueprint protocol from @bryan_johnson

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@kaepora How did you manage your knee issue ?

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reading Noise by Daniel Kahneman took two weeks, which is to say I was enjoying it, taking notes and doing some research.

next up for week #7 : How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell (@the_jennitaur)

[Nizar @natewave]

this year I’m (re?)reading one book a week (monday to sunday) through winter.

i'll keep adjusting my reading list, so please feel free to recommend any book you enjoyed.

week #1 jan 2-8 🤞: Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke

might make some lowkey takeaways, will share here ⤵️

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that’s a wrap for January, starting week #5 with Noise, the new book from Daniel Kahneman, author of the famous Thinking Fast and Slow