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@NoContextDutch1 @grok where is this video from?

@stefanprodan Just discovered this project via an @ on GitHub. Nice that other folks know their Latin & Greek! My boat is called the Cybernaut, and I always joke I named it after myself. (Timoni is my actual legal birth name.)

This made my day 🎉 Couldn’t hope for a better introduction to timoni.sh Thanks Viktor and welcome to the Timoni’s early adopters gang 🤗

@ratlimit Do you have aphantasia? Or is this a shitpost?

Someone should study how diving into AI makes us absorb its capabilities. When I hit ~50k image prompts, I noticed something insane: Simply *thinking of* a prompt would cause images to "appear" in my mind. Hard to explain—It's like I "see" it MENTALLY without seeing it visually.

@aaron_leib God this is embarrassing

Here is Meiner’s explanation in a newsletter that went out tonight. The resolution is slated for the city commission agenda next Wednesday, March 19.

Update: Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is proposing to terminate @OCINEMA’s lease in South Beach because the theater screened ‘No Other Land’ over his objections.

@dakshgup @dravishakatoch This math ain’t matching. Hard work does not equal good work. High potential DEFINITELY does not mean working these long hours. Look up the basics on neuroscience, cognitive load, and decision making. This subject has been talked about widely, even in pop psych, for decades.

Good question - < 10% of seed stage startups become so big so the equity is worth anything, so if you wanted to become wealthy through equity, you’d want to work at the highest potential 10%, which would be roughly the hardest working 10% There are brilliant people that get their best work done working 10 hours a week and resting for the remainder. They will probably be successful somewhere, but they probably won’t enjoy it here, at this point in our journey.

recently i started telling candidates right in the first interview that greptile offers no work-life-balance, typical workdays start at 9am and end at 11pm, often later, and we work saturdays, sometimes also sundays. i emphasize the environment is high stress, and there is no tolerance for poor work. it felt wrong to do this at first but i’m convinced now that the transparency is good, and i’d much rather people know this from the get go rather than find out on their first day. curious if other people do this and if there’s some obvious pitfall i’m missing.

Do we know who the ~18m are that didn’t vote? Trump won this time with less votes than he lost by last time. And 15m apparently voted for Kamala to be VP, but not President. Biden & Kamala’s platforms are not so different, so where did those 15m people go? Who are they?

I know this is aphex twin updates but jesus christ

@TylerAlterman Cause old people have a lot of knowledge, and can be useful to diffuse issues or solve other problems. Humans have excelled as a species because we are great at knowledge-sharing, not because we're great at breeding.

This feels like a very stupid question, but – from a Darwinian lens – why does the drive to survive continue after a person has successfully raised a bunch of children, is past reproductive age, and can no longer work? Seems expensive

@michael_nielsen Yes! Funnily enough, I read your first thread, read the quote, then thought to myself, 'misuse of the word worship but I like the point'—then your reply had exactly the right reframing. DFW was a dramatic dude though. Of course he went with 'worship'

The error is in the use of the verb "worship". It would be closer to true if the word was "sacrifice". The question: "what are you [really!] willing to sacrifice for?" is an incredibly interesting one Or put in more secular terms: what ends are you willing to be extremely uncomfortable for? What do you really value, enough to get up early in the morning, to put in dull hours, to have difficult conversations, to grow in ways that are uncomfortable, maybe extremely uncomfortable, to endure pain and suffering?

This quote from David Foster Wallace has bothered me ever since I first read it. I think because it contains a bad error, but nonetheless points at something very important

@DePanther @dannyaroslavski It wasn't EditorXR, but I don't know if it was Tiltbrush!

@dannyaroslavski I remember it on Unity Editor VR, but not sure which was first. @timoni ?

World scaling ala TiltBrush was one of the most monumental XR interactions. youtube.com/watch?v=JDccdG…

@gekido Sell your shares hon 💚

@maxweisel @augmentedcamel Yep

@augmentedcamel I have been asking for this since 2016… I’ll believe it when I see it. x.com/maxweisel/stat…

Just about every time I have a good idea for Vision Pro. Some bogus API limitation prevents me from building it. I /love/ that you can run multiple apps side by side, but to access any ARKit features, I lose the ability to participate in multitasking...

@itzik009 @iBrews @rabovitz For sure, was using it often in 2018 (x.com/timoni/status/…) and wrote about why I liked the term about a year later (x.com/timoni/status/…). Funnily enough, now I prefer "contextual computing"—a lot of devices can be world-aware without the spatial component.

@iBrews @rabovitz Also remembering @timoni take on it way back

“For the first time” Leaving the debate side of whether XR = spatial computing, remember Magic Leap started using the term publicly back in 2018. @rabovitz is this blog post archived anywhere? Would be good for the history books !

@superamit @AlaskaAir Nice!!!! This is fantastic. I wish they'd come to the East Coast; they were my favorite WC airline.

After @AlaskaAir canceled my flight last week, I had to buy the last seat on another airline for twice as much and take a $169 Uber to get to my destination. Alaska refunded my original ticket, but I asked them to reimburse the extra cost of the new flight + Uber. Surprisingly, they agreed, and just sent a $779.62 refund. I'm impressed that they did this. We often read horror stories of how airlines treat their customers, and I figured I should call it out when one did the right thing.

@carljsamuelson Aw, thank you! Definitely not here often but this is nice to see :)

Hey gang. If you’re still here, it’s @timoni’s burfday. So Many Candles!!! 🎂🎂🎂

@shivon It's good to hear from you. 💚

@eshear People are really missing the part where he said "I didn't make a scene, I didn't pout, I even ate half". She's the one who escalated. Anyone who said "in front of her kids?!" seems to have missed that she was the one escalating, too.

This is an incredible gold/blue dress post…I seriously cannot comprehend how someone comes to a different answer. Read the story, then vote: who is the asshole?

@michael_nielsen @readwise save thread

Quite. It's funny, it's all just opinion (including my comments here). Some of it is cloaked in quantitative measurement, but so much of that seems more like mismeasurement that it seems like research theatre, I'm afraid

@simonw @andy_matuschak Yeah, my take too. Lots of mimicry, especially in early childhood, and especially songs.

@andy_matuschak I wonder how long it takes children to learn to do that My guess is that it actually takes quite a lot of practice - hear a tone, try to make it, adjust up and down - but once that's baked in it sticks with people

If one person sings a pitch, many (most?) people can "sing back" that same pitch, without any/much special training, often with little adjustment needed. This seems really surprising! We can naturally transform from "hear frequency" to "control voice muscles to reproduce it"?

@superamit Fun fact: I sometimes lucid dream, and was having that high school dream one time when I realized: wait, I have a pretty good job now and a decent salary, so maybe it doesn't matter if I take this test or not...? Never had those dreams again. Not kidding!

What's it called when it's been literally decades since school and you still have that dream where you freak out bc you just realized you forgot to attend one of your classes all semester.