adriano_f

This is a great point. I highly recommend "Liminal Thinking", which explains how what he calls "Battles for the Obvious" like this get started.

adriano_f

anno scorsodiscuss

What I've been doing when I want to avoid this "unexpected leading", is to tell the LLM to "Ask me 3 rounds of 5 clarifying questions each, first.". The first round usually exposes the main assumptions it's making, and from there we narrow down and clarify things.

I've read you comment about all the things you tried, and it seems you have much broader experience with LLMs than I do. But I didn't see this technique mentioned, so leaving this here in case it helps someone else :).

adriano_f

anno scorsodiscuss

I also tried Zed on Linux a few months back, and had GPU/driver issues, so it was either slow or didn't run. Tried it just now and it worked right out of the box, and it's incredibly fast.

I will keep playing around with it to see if it's worth switching (from JetBrains WebStorm).

adriano_f

2 anni fadiscuss

I don't promote often enough, but my writing platform is basically built for working this way:

https://gingkowriter.com

(came up with the concept when struggling to write my PhD thesis)

Hope it helps!

adriano_f

2 anni fadiscuss

Thanks for taking the time to add these details. Will add to the arsenal of tools. Best of luck!

adriano_f

2 anni fadiscuss

My son (11yo) has had this as well for the last 2.5 years. Seeing an Audiologist for treatment.

Can you elaborate a little on "listening to violent noises" approach? When do you do this, for how long? Is it graduated in intensity, like exposure therapy?

Thanks!

adriano_f

2 anni fadiscuss

Hilarious!

(For comparison, here's GPT-4 getting it on first try: https://chat.openai.com/share/9e17ed25-d9ea-4e72-a9d8-a139ca... )

adriano_f

3 anni fadiscuss

I've started teaching my (homeschooled, 10yo) son Python, and he's been briefly exposed to some 3D software (including Blender).

I'm curious: how do you imagine this working? Can you name a few examples of the learning possibilities that you have in mind?

adriano_f

9 anni fadiscuss

Ok, glad it's mentioned somewhere.

Couldn't find any mention first time I checked it out.

adriano_f

9 anni fadiscuss

I'm the creator of the app that inspired this one, http://gingkoapp.com

They say imitation is the best form of flattery, but I'm surprised Ray that you didn't credit Gingko at all. It's practically identical.

Thoughts?

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Edit: My bad... it's not on the website, but I see Gingko mentioned and linked in the Readme. Thanks Ray.

adriano_f

9 anni fadiscuss

Actually, it does Markdown, which includes images, and anything you can embed as HTML.

Also, supports LaTeX.

adriano_f

10 anni fadiscuss

My wife and I, and our 3 yr old son, got rid of most of our possessions, stored the rest, and went of for a 6 month stint of the digital nomad life.

We both have location independent businesses, so we could have continued indefinitely. But nearing the 3 month mark (which was the longest we'd gone in the past), it started to wear on us.

Constant novelty can be just as destructive as constant monotony. You need a balance, and only you can find what that is for you and yours.

We don't regret the trip at all, though. It made us realize what we really missed (family, green spaces, people who loved our son, and wouldn't mind watching him ;). As a result, we ended up moving back to a suburb closer to family, instead of the decidedly cooler city, 2 hours away, we used to live in.

Quite a pendulum swing, from digital nomad to suburb life, but really, as long as we have each other, and love our work, location doesn't matter that much. Which means, in the end, that being free to move around indefinitely also means you are free to stay as long as you like in any one place.

adriano_f

11 anni fadiscuss

Interesting approach.

I agree with the premise (code is structured, and shouldn't be handled as flat files). I've played with the idea of using my own card-tree editor as a LISP editor before: http://blog.gingkoapp.com/features/gingko-as-a-lisp-editor

It's an avenue I definitely want to explore.

adriano_f

12 anni fadiscuss

Lots of interesting points, but I disagree with the logic that "we are not designed to handle more than one layer at a time" necessarily implies that a tree-editor is impossible/undesirable.

Yes, we are only built to think of an idea/code/story/essay at one "level" at a time. You are either thinking about the overall structure of the code, or a particular line. A particular scene, or the overall plot.

But that's precisely why a tree editor, one that separates the levels for you, is so useful. You can always "zoom in" to the details by going right, and "zoom out" to the big picture by going left.

Have a look at Gingko, for our approach to solving this problem: http://gingkoapp.com

adriano_f

12 anni fadiscuss

This is pretty much exactly what we're trying to achieve with Gingko.

It's a full tree editor, that is being used for everything from PhD theses, to television screenplays.

http://gingkoapp.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCKZHsICm8

adriano_f

13 anni fadiscuss

Thanks for the feedback!

Yes, more than three layers deep is our highest priority, along with offline mode.

And you are right, I meant "depth-first"; makes more sense.

adriano_f

13 anni fadiscuss

Thanks for the feedback, and I'm glad you like it.

My cofounder is working on full offline support right now, as it's been a much requested feature.

adriano_f

13 anni fadiscuss

"Hypertext" perspective shift... I like that. What's your project called? Can I see it?

PS: My ancestry goes: Italian > Argentinian > born in Kuwait > living in Canada. "Ferrari" means iron-worker in Italian, so it's not a rare surname in Italy.

adriano_f

13 anni fadiscuss

I love overthinking things!

It's true that if every card had a title, then import and export while maintaining the tree structure would be easy.

But as it stands, if you have the following cards:

    A  A.1
       A.2
    B

this approach wouldn't be able to maintain the structure if the cards didn't have titles (it would just list all these as A, A.1, A.2, B).

It's for this reason alone that we've considered making titles required for at least the first card in a group.

Or am I overthinking again... ?

adriano_f

13 anni fadiscuss

> that sometimes, the tree is more like a graph

I agree, but I think it's better to start with a tree, and then add graph-like features, than to start with a graph and try to make a tree out of it. Mostly because I believe hierarchy is a more natural structure for our brains.

For reading non-fiction, yes the parallax can be distracting. But I think A) the interface can be improved. B) For non-fiction, it's outweighed by the benefit of having context & details available.

We do have plans for a distraction free mode, similar to "Zen mode" on Github. But offline & deeper trees are a priority for now.

I have studied Scrivener, but didn't know about Ulysses. Thanks for pointing it out.

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