Ross Sclafani

Technology. Humanity. Empathy. Entropy.
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[Ross Sclafani @rosssclafani]

don’t bring it up and i won’t ring it up

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guy who just got a tiny air fryer:

[Sam Altman @sama]

we made a chip and it is fast

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@messedupfoods jokes aside yogurt did this for me

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i’d simply get hired by a smarter AI

[Xah Lee @xah_lee]

hi guys, I am a high IQ fired by AI

[⊔╙𝖊⋁༏𝜼 @ulevinn]

the X app is secretly an alternate reality game and Elon isn't naive to that fact

your timeline is simulated to literally induce timeline shifts in not just your reality, but collective conscious as a whole

it wouldn't surprise me if X has its own classified intelligence agency tasked with inducing and studying altered states

remember, Elon is a schizo at heart👀

[Mikhail Samin @Mihonarium]

Can humans learn a new sense?

Some Australian tribes use cardinal directions in their speech: they talk about east and south instead of relative left or righ. They constantly track the directions.

There have been projects that gave people elsewhere the sense of cardinal directions: belts and ankle bracelets that vibrated from the direction of north. That worked well. As a side effect, that made it easier to know where places are relative to each other and improved the ability to navigate. But you had to constantly wear them; the moment you took them off, you lost the sense. You didn’t really acquire it, you just had it temporarily.

I decided to fix this.

Last year, I made an app that uses headphones to make the user hear a sound that comes from the direction of north. That alone did what wearable devices can do. You specify [1..300] seconds and become continuously aware of cardinal directions.

But then I did something better, that made the sense persist even when the app is off.

Instead of hearing a sound that appears to come from the direction of north, you hear a non-directional cue sound every [2.300] seconds; and then, one second later, a directional sound that comes from north.

So rather then constantly feeding the brain with answers — which create the feeling of north, but don’t persist — the app feeds it a question and then the answer immediately afterwards.

You quickly learn to anticipate the direction the sound will come from. As the feeling of the direction in which north is gets stronger, you can decrease the frequency of the sounds. And you acquire a sense of the direction of north that persists even when the app is off! You continue to track north even as there is no more sound, because tracking north is what allowed the brain to predict where the sound will come from immediately after the cue.

I originally made it for iOS, now it’s also available for Android.

https://t.co/4k4QJTQcNJ

(And it’s open-source, feel free to contribute!)

[Ross Sclafani @rosssclafani]

this little known iphone accessibility feature is accidentally the most powerful way to end a bad phone call

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@satyressrobots the australian model is elite release it globally!

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until ur “AI” can create this ion wannit

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@bigreschsfan there is no other choice in situations like this

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@memechaotic but you shoppin

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can we talk about these fdny helmets for a minute?

this amount of drip is completely unnecessary

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@mattturck paging @hankejh

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@SopranosWorld

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@NBA_NewYork i grew up with zach zarba. that guy was an elite big brother to one of my closest friends. he will bring order back to this series

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@GaryMarcus

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Sam Altman on AI deal flow between top labs

[Sam Altman @sama]

interesting recursive loop here maybe

[episode one @E1podcast]

Don Draper drunkenly leaving work at noon and wandering into a Magic the Gathering tourney in a cafe, lighting a cigarette and whispering to some guy in shorts asking what’s happening.