Readit Newslquist commented on Claude Skills anthropic.com/news/skills... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
lol how is this not optimized for mobile
FWIW, I used to use a light and sound machine (Mindplace Procyon) and was able to induce these states with minimal effort. And I had a couple dozen experiences w/ psilocybin in my college years, so I'm well versed in what they should be like.
The goggles w/ binaural beats create some weird sort of state where I don't feel any connection to my environment. After only a couple minutes my body turns to total mush and my brain comes alive with phosphene visuals. By about 15 minutes in, my stomach usually gurgles a bit, not unlike the indigestion that often accompanies psychedelic trips.
Interestingly enough, these machines are marketed as brainwave entrainment, but the literature on that says the visual component doesn't really have much impact. Yet auditory entrainment on its own doesn't seem to do much for me either, or at least, not convincing enough beyond placebo.
There is an app for the iPhone called Lumenate that uses the LED flash and it seems to work, though it's not as strong for me as the multi-LED goggles I used to use. Still, it's a great gateway for those who are curious.
Are there any apps to experience this on a VR headset?
How does this compare to what Physical Intelligence is up to?
lquist commented on Ask HN: What is the best method for turning a scanned book as a PDF into text? · Posted by u/resource_waste
My understanding is that Gemini OCR is now considered state of the art and a material step forward in OCR accuracy
My email admired by a billionaire? Bliss.
Hoping this is satire
lquist commented on Starship Flight 5: Launch and booster catch [video] twitter.com/SpaceX/status... · Posted by u/alecco
What does Starship reusability mean for $/kg to LEO? I know there are longer term targets of $10/kg but that supposes efficiencies that aren’t here yet. Would be helpful to understand before Starship reusability where the state of the art was in terms of $/kg to LEO and where we would be with impending Starship reusability.
Please provide references for the term "scary" and "not for the uninitiated."
lquist commented on Threads users down by more than a half bbc.com/news/technology-6... · Posted by u/KingOfCoders
I can’t see how threads can be “launched” without a desktop client.
That’s not even an MVP, it’s non existent.
Some of these supposed genius tech leaders are really showing themselves to have very questionable decision making capability.
It was also extremely off putting that it was so tightly linked to instagram.
They also made a mistake by not leveraging peoples desire to get their own Twitter handle on threads.
Failing also to launch is Europe.
Honestly it doesn’t seem that hard, if you weird the resources that Zuckerberg does. You say to them “clone Twitter”. It’s not like Twitter is the biggest technical challenge in the world to clone… why couldn’t Meta do that?
The outcome looks like what you’d expect - the Meta equivalent of a Musk Starship launch.
Meta has a history of churning out MVPs and doubling down on what works. Launching with a desktop client, EU, etc are in direct opposition to a lean MVP. Meta definitely has some missteps but not sure this is one.
Tying in to Instagram was what made it resonate with such a large audience vs all the other Twitter clones. Carrying over the social graph was a wise decision imho.
The Starship analogy makes little sense as well. Starship is not an MVP and well on track to continue to push forward the state of the art of rocket engineering.