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jackthetab commented on Alterego: Thought to Text   alterego.io/... · Posted by u/oldfuture
pedalpete · 3 months ago
I'd love to get a better understanding of the technology this is built with (without sitting through an exceedingly long video).

I suspect it's EMG though muscles in the ear and jaw bone, but that seems too rudimentary.

The TED talk describes a system which includes sensors on the chin across the jaw bone, but the demo obviously has removed that sensor.

jackthetab · 3 months ago
Thirteen minutes is an "exceedingly long video"?! Man, I thought I was jaded complaining about 20 minute videos! :-)

I want to know is what are the connected to? A laptop? A AS400? An old Cray they have lying around? I'd think doing the demo while walking would have been de riguer.

Anyway, tres cool!

jackthetab commented on OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart   theregister.com/2025/09/0... · Posted by u/rntn
ai-christianson · 4 months ago
Yeah we spawned an agent, his name is Jeremy, that runs 24/7 and coordinates work within the team. He reaches out to individuals on the team (via email) and we interact with him, things like:

    - "Hey Jeremy, I completed <X>, what should I look at next?"
    - "Jeremy, who's currently working on <Y>"
He's backed by db so it ends up being way more powerful than something like trello or Jira.

This is one of our agents we use internally to dogfood our product (gobii dot ai). We spun up the agent, told it that its job was helping coordinate and prioritize work within the team, and authorized it to contact the relevant team members. Now we all just email to/from the agent (would love Discord or Slack, but we don't have that quite yet.)

jackthetab · 4 months ago
Tres cool! Can you point me in the direction of how to do that? We're a small, bootstrapped company and could use a manager like that.
jackthetab commented on AI models need a virtual machine   blog.sigplan.org/2025/08/... · Posted by u/azhenley
liveoneggs · 4 months ago
If only we had examples of lightweight, embeddable, portable, simple-bytecode-driven virtual machines.

It's just too bad tcl, lua, forth, js, wasm, etc just aren't AI-scale.

jackthetab · 4 months ago
Since I'm interested in local, small-use [1] cases of AI, what about the byte code VMs is not AI-scale? And what is AI-scale?

[1] I'm looking at single-person/small office LLMs to do simple jobs: summarize these pdfs, structure this data, help drafting a document, that sort of thing, not a be-all end-all monster. Think of a bunch of highly intelligent Python scripts as opposed to Microsoft Office.

jackthetab commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org   giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
nine_k · 4 months ago
Can you use GrapheneOS with your bank app? With a digital wallet for NFC cards? With Uber or Lyft? (Asking seriously, not rhetorically.)
jackthetab · 4 months ago
This is a question that I rarely see answered but would love to know as well.
jackthetab commented on I'm tired of talking about AI   paddy.carvers.com/posts/2... · Posted by u/elza_1111
burny_tech · 5 months ago
I'm personally interested about the intersection of AI and physics
jackthetab · 5 months ago
Do you follow Steve Brunton's YT channel[1]? His physics stuff is mostly fluid dynamics but still pretty cool.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/@Eigensteve

jackthetab commented on Ask HN: What are you actually using LLMs for in production?    · Posted by u/Satam
jackthetab · 6 months ago
Which LLMs and plans are you guys using for all of these cool ideas?

ATM I use ChatGPT Plus for everything except coding inside my Jetbrains IDEs.

I'm starting to look around at other LLMs for non-coding purposes (brainstorming, docs, being a project manager, summarizing, learning new subjects, etc.).

jackthetab commented on Jane Street Boss Says He Was Duped into Funding AK-47s for Coup   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/ironyman
dsq · 6 months ago
Aren't they supposed to be the smartest of all quant firms?
jackthetab · 6 months ago
So I hear. And we all know smart/rich people can never be duped or make a mistake outside their areas of expertise. /s
jackthetab commented on Show HN: Weather Watching   walzr.com/weather-watchin... · Posted by u/walz
jackthetab · 6 months ago
Cool. Do you have write-up of the technical details or a tutorial on how you did this? I'm not familiar with the tech you mentioned but it'd be interesting to see how it's done and so...easily? cheaply? by non-mega-organizations?
jackthetab commented on How Close to Black Mirror Are We?   howclosetoblackmirror.com... · Posted by u/beatthatflight
lostlogin · 6 months ago
Metalhead is amazing.
jackthetab · 6 months ago
That one really is "too close to reality" as in, it's now a reality, at least on the battlefield, IIUC.
jackthetab commented on How Close to Black Mirror Are We?   howclosetoblackmirror.com... · Posted by u/beatthatflight
b3lvedere · 6 months ago
I get 'too close to reality' vibes whenever i hear or read something about Black Mirror. Can't really explain it clearly. Maybe i should just try it. It's not high on my list though :) I do love the Love, Death and Robots series though.
jackthetab · 6 months ago
No, I get the "too close to reality" vibes. I actually like that.

LD&R ROCKED! At least the first season; I still watch it regularly (well, I did before Netflix EOLed my TV). Season 2 was forgettable. Season 3 kinda made up for Season 2.

u/jackthetab

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