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Blind-sided
It was a rushing, a burning, an all-things-are-change, a compulsion. I was torn up for three days or was it two weeks, except the long moments when I just forgot. Intertially, suddenly remembering,...
View ArticleOn intuition’s relationship to rationality via language
A three year old draft blog post I just found. Feels worth publishing – the improvements in AI since then if anything make it clearer, and all the “right now” caveats justified. It’s better to start...
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Art I enjoyed in 2022 – top eight
To my surprise this list is television heavy – I didn’t find any incredible new board games, and I was disappointed in most video games. It’s somewhat in order – my favourite is roughly last. Thanks...
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This kind of rosy yellow glow in my head
A book review of “Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic” by Russell T. Hurlburt and Eric Schwitzgebel (2007) A couple of years ago I realised I didn’t have a visual imagination. This...
View ArticleWhat is high-quality about the data that trained generative AI?
Our brains have 100 trillion connections. Large language models have up to half a trillion, a trillion at most. Yet GPT-4 knows hundreds of times more than any one person does. Geoffrey Hinton, deep...
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The little differences between Android and iOS in 2023
These days I alternate mobile operating system. Partly because as an app-making professional I strongly feel I need to understand both, and partly because it slightly irritates people who are die-hard...
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Netatmo smart thermostat! How much gas I saved last winter, and how to...
This post has two sections, one about gas prices and energy savings, the other about Android automation and the Netatmo API. 1. What a smart thermostat is like and how much money I saved Last year,...
View ArticleA week making something each day
As a challenge, last week I made five things, one each day. Each had to be finished in some sense, and preferably published. This is what I made and what I learnt! Monday – Godot game My goal was to...
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Announcing “Mindful Media Club”
I’m starting a meetup / online commnunity to share tips on skillful use of social media. Things like browser plugins that let you customise YouTube, tips on settings, social practices like how to form...
View ArticleMy mind sampling results
One of the projects in my week long hackathon was to make a system to sample my own mind with a random alarm. This was crudely based on Hurlburt’s Descriptive Experience Sampling – there are lots of...
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Instalamb, my browser plugin to control Instagram
Lots of dancers, civic society organisations, artists, musicians, clowns are only on Instagram. Unfortunately, my mind finds the platform distracting and overwhelming – for my own accessibilty I need...
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