I used to love dark mode, but in the summer months, I came to feel that it's overly depressive, possibly affecting my mood.
In the winter months, it's slightly more usable because of association with lower lighting, darkness and even coziness. However, I think it can affect mood irrespective of the time of year.
Nowadays, I'm often experimenting with the idea of displays which are backlit with colours other than pure white or pure black.
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It's a really simple game.
You can use geneva:interface to play. Hopefully, it is the best chat-interface out there for winning (not just playing).
State-of-the-art, voice-first and very, very fast for computation, compared to chat LLMs.
Currently running Mistral.
Try your best. If you're doing really, really good, especially via geneva:interface or otherwise, feel free to email me via the winter delta dot com homepage, and I will create a leaderboard for the top performers.
Thanks! I use Athens as a personal voice-memo copilot. It’s much harder to use it for sharing ideas with others; e.g. for presentation…
It’s voice-first so you have to express what you’re trying to communicate solely via speech to text. I think that’s part of the challenge. ‘Thinking in voice’, for presenting ideas is quite hard for me.
The UX is exceptionally strong. It’s like you’re on a ‘real website’ — it’s quite enveloping in terms of its vibe, palette, ease of comprehension and the colour palette is so cool.
Definitely a tilt in favour of boldness with colour on web.
This is a really understated point — especially for western democratic societies.
I would argue that we should not be supportive of regimes (e.g. Israeli Likud) that are accused of violent hostility to war reporting and journalists.
Without open conflict-journalism, not only are war crimes harder to uncover (or easier to get away with) but sensitive voters and their democracies (everywhere) are threatened by a risk of subversion
I would posit that even the suspicion of collaboratively concealed war crimes disperses a planet-scale chilling effect throughout the ‘global social fabric’ of society
I would argue that the risk of extended damage to this fabric was the real motive for the Iraq War.
Maybe we should be challenging Israel much more deeply. We have not applied military pressure upon them, w.r.t. the current conflict…
Hey — working on Athens — it’s a messaging-interface primarily but it does fulfill a lot of these checkpoints — the interface is voice-first and VAD is handled pretty well! Open Banking connection is coming for advanced correlation between messaging and your fin. goals — awesome for the side hustler within!
My email in my profile is there; if you’re interested to call
I use Granola, I’m not affiliated with them. They create detailed meeting notes from whatever I type during the meeting, it uses the transcript and AI to flesh out my notes. It’s a great idea and their tiering is nice. 25 meetings free iirc. I sometimes chat with past meetings and find it useful to deep dive into the narratives.
The bigger issue I have is to do with messaging and clientele-communication itself. I’m building Athens to help me shift more things to voice ai. I think voice computing is the way forward. There are a lot of benefits, it’s essentially more ‘human’ and personal - things get resolved quicker, decisions are better and made faster. I am being asked about meeting integrations for it and that’s on the roadmap.
I have also used Rhodia notebooks in the past. I think they are manufactured in France. Which for me is a plus since one assumes the manufacturing process is kinder and to a high standard.
I’ve been a customer of Phind for a number of months now, so I’m familiar with the capabilities of all the models they offer.
I found even Phind-70B to often be preferable to Claude Sonnet and would commonly opt for it. I’ve been using the 405B today and it seems to be even better at answering.
I’ve found it does depend on the task. For instance, for formatting JSON in the past, GPT-4 was actually the best.
Because you can cycle through the models, you can check the output of each one, to get the best answer.
I'm an experienced front-end and full-stack developer, with AI (e.g. LLM) / ML experience. I have a keen eye for design and use tools such as Figma, and more recently Spline.
Voice interfaces and GPT-4 interfaces are some of my more recent commercial areas of focus. I seek to develop performant interfaces for users and stakeholders alike, which offer state-of-the-art functionality (as an example, features powered by GPTs) with 'off-the-shelf' reliability.
I'm happy to chat - either a greenfield (from scratch) project or something more established would be of major interest to me.
The Janissary were a part of the Ottoman Empire - which was on 'other end' of Europe, geographically. The Janissaries were not eunuchs.
Eunuchs were also an element of society in Ancient Rome. I'm pointing out that it was not considered in previous ages, as it is today. As an example Italians would castrate boys prepped for singing opera - castrati - until the 1800s, it seems.
Is the idealism of a successful society ever not of the elites and the rulers?
I have read somewhere that the monarchs of Al-Andalus often had Visigoth (i.e. Spanish) lineage. Arabic may have been their lingua franca, but their society may have been essentially Spanish in many ways, just not 'Christian Spanish'.
I think that the decline and fall of Al-Andalus may have been mostly a result of internal divisions, conflict and civil war. The Reconquista was however from without, the terror of the Spanish Inquisition was what followed, for the newly conquered.