jinay
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Comment · 1 year ago
Timestamped link to the YouTube video: https://youtu.be/T08wc4xD3KA?t=124
Comment · 1 year ago
Ooh I haven't, but this is exactly the kind of follow-up I was looking for. Thanks for sharing!
Comment · 1 year ago
I recently did a deep dive on open-endedness, and my favorite example of its power is Picbreeder from 2008 [1]. It was a simple website where users could somewhat arbitrarily combine pictures created by super simple NNs. Most images were garbage, but a few resembled real objects. The best part is that attempts to replicate these by a traditional hill-climbing method would result in drastically more complicated solutions or even no solution at all.
It's a helpful analogy to understand the contrast between today's gradient descent vs open-ended exploration.
[1] First half of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T08wc4xD3KA
More notes from my deep dive: https://x.com/jinaycodes/status/1932078206166749392
Comment · 1 year ago
Soon we'll start having a humans.txt format to account for this
Comment · 1 year ago
Please add an llms.txt file! https://llmstxt.org/
I'd love to see how far I can take this by giving it to an LLM and asking it to format for me with Quarkdown.
Comment · 1 year ago
https://github.com/JinayJain/dictator
Built one for myself. It's context-aware and promptable.
Tested well on Linux, not so much on other platforms but in theory should support them.
It's a bit meta but I wrote it mostly using Claude Code. Once I had an MVP, I was able to prompt much faster by just speaking out what I wanted it to change.
Comment · 1 year ago
I used to think that typing speed was not really that important, especially when now we have so many LLMs doing the typing for us. But honestly, now I think it's even more important because the specificity and detail in your prompts are paramount to getting a good response, and something like a dictation tool (which is what I'm using right now) is really good for generating very specific prompts.
In fact, I wrote all this out using a dictation tool in ~20 seconds (258 WPM).
Comment · 1 year ago
Went in an incognito window and searched "io" and this announcement was shown right above Google IO [1].
Comment · 1 year ago
I'm more referring to launch timing
Comment · 1 year ago
Likely no coincidence that they announce their company, io, during Google I/O.
Search "io" on Google right now and see what comes up...
Comment · 1 year ago
That's not the only concern though. The web is by far the most accessible way to distribute something, which is paramount in getting people to use it.
Comment · 1 year ago
They really need to fix the kerning on some of their charts
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