Thinking about phenomenology - studying your own subjective experience of the world - and how it might relate to a world of super-capable AI. Meditation can be a way of doing it. read on scrawl

Working on a book log, with multiple short entries per book.

I read "Turning the database inside out" by Martin Kleppman. I've also been thinking about better ways of providing concise context for LLMs. Both have to do with stream processing. Especially struck by the Kleppman description of state made up of derived data from an append-only log of immutable facts. Which I think is also how people are starting to do memory for agents. read on scrawl

Working with embeddings - particularly with the goal of aiding thinking - a lot of the challenge is where do you draw the line for chunks. Paragraph-by-paragraph? Essay-length? Book-length? read on scrawl

I watched the Welch Labs video about the 'bitter lesson' and I think it shifted how I think about LLMs a bit. read on scrawl

I've been thinking about monks and tech and attention. If one of the challenges of life today is managing attention in a world of content designed to take it (ref Chris Hayes Sirens Call), then monks stand out as example of group that willingly placed constraints on their life in order to manage attention. read on scrawl

Thinking about personal OS. More like a personal dashboard but it could expand from there. read on scrawl

Returning to the winamp skin shuffler connected to Spotify.

Neovim as window manager preview

I recorded a video of my current Neovim + Niri setup: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCbwL1iRWXk

Testing out printing little foldable music boxes with the barcodes. Fun to try and decide on the dimensions - I'd really like a spine.

Also not sure what I want to do for structure. I put a cardboard in one of these - I bet I could cut up some scrap 1/2" plywood to use as blanks...

Testing out a barcode scanner as a way to play albums (through Spotify in this case). Wondering if this is a way to bridge from tangibility of physical media to flexibility of digital.

Working rough player scanner. TODO: I accidentally mirror-flipped this video

Spotify IDs are kind of long to do directly so switched to sequential IDs and a lookup

A "artistic operating system" made up of printers and a barcode scanner. http://screenl.es/

Looks like a barcode scan amounts to clicking into an article - probably feels satisfying to do

Receipt printers seem to be in use as well

Four recent experiments:

1. Webcam to avatar on canvas

Webcam to avatar on canvas

Apparently a set of folks are working on IDEs for visualizing base model completions as trees. I love that people are experimenting with this.

From https://x.com/transkatgirl/status/1997846030369562794/photo/3

More paint tests with the projector and touch frame.

Painting with an IR touch frame, projector, and http://image-paint.constraint.systems

paintbrush

ball

I got the projector sized to the IR touch frame. I made a desk inset for it and a wood overlay to sit on top.

The overlay makes the section non-interactive (it had to be an overlay bc the IR beams need to get from one-side to the other).

Thinking about a couple posts in relation to AI-use.

One by Geoffrey Litt on using agents to prep a tutorial, particularly this: