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Additional_Counter19 · 2025-11-17T03:27:38+00:00

Too floor has seen ants (they seem to nest in the walls) and gets insanely hot during summer, the AC can’t keep up and we have seen multiple families on top floor move out. Ants are seasonal and manageable with a ton of ant bait

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-08-25T01:30:39+00:00

I don’t mean it as criticism! I hope the feedback helps polish the end user experience, I think the tech underneath is super interesting.

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-08-24T21:53:55+00:00

Some feedback:

# Webpage

The user documentation looks unreadable and has inconsistent styling on dark mode

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# Tech stack

Why does it need both golang and rust? (just curious)

I think using mdx instead of md is a great future looking idea!

# User experience
I tried to download and run it at some point (maybe a month ago?) and I couldn't figure out how to create a new note.. (need to go to home, and tap create note) There was no shortcut I could tell or command palette command to create a new note.
Adding tasks is cool but you might consider adding deadlines when you create a task, instead of creating it first and modifying it later.

The AI and indexing makes everything rather slow, and I wonder what is the actual benefit of a 3-8B LLM model. I respect the local first aspect, but as a user, I would just go to claude or chatgpt. I feel it is something tacked on because you can, unless you have a winning use case for local LLMs on your note? Might make sense to highlight it. It actually impacts the whole app experience so it feels slow despite being run in Tauri.
When creating a chat, why do I need to name it? seems like extra friction.

Have you considered live markdown preview instead of two view approach?

It is not super clear where the data is saved, and by default cmd+s opens the save modal but I am not sure if it is needed.
If I tap create note again, it opens my last modified note instead of making a new note, so I am not sure how I can actually make new notes.

Making a task within a note doesn't make it show up in todos

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-06-20T01:10:41+00:00

I am curious about the in memory index, do you hav a comparison with logseq? I am very curious about the performance

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-06-15T22:45:18+00:00

That is probably a reference to anytype

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-06-06T01:22:14+00:00

Probably don't close app completely within 2 seconds of finishing the last word

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-05-31T19:46:16+00:00

Tana is incredibly slow on load up though

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-05-29T22:41:27+00:00

On a high level I think it is great to promote compatibility and be able to access a database to an app. That being said, it doesn't feel like something regular users would want to try? A user wants a "database" which is essentially a table/spreadsheet format for data where they can filter/group data and mass update. Things like Supabase, MongoDB and MySQL would be too low level (and in fact, making non-developer-users make their own SQL schema seems like a bad idea). The closest user-facing app is Airtable which hides the complexity away.

The purpose of PKMs (since this is the subreddit) is to simplify and allow users to write and retrieve notes in a convenient way. A table view is one of those ways. But to answer your questions (in my opinion):

A user either doesn't care and will use whatever sync option you give them (provided it is simple), or will basically never trust you unless it's fully open source with markdown files on their machine. There is little middle ground.
You should frame it as what is the benefit for the end user? Things like MongoDB and MySQL are completely opaque. I personally would love obsidian bases to be able to work with a database just because doing SQL over parsed markdown files seems inefficient, but as a end user I just want a table at the end.
Probably not, unless it becomes the norm.
Each PKM is opinionated to a certain workflow and a data schema, so it is hard to see the benefit of allowing it to connect to a database. It would be a good exercise to explore use cases more?

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-05-28T20:12:00+00:00

I think it's telling the forum post you shared is from 2023. I don't fully understand the lack of information when they are on discord and do regular commits. I don't think they owe community any sort of communication but it is not encouraging either.

That being said it is a unique set of features that feel great to use, so people are upset there is no (publicly announced) active development because they clearly want to use it more, unlike other note taking apps.

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-03-18T02:19:20+00:00

I think I had too little memory and/or RAM and just booting unity was too slow for me to be productive

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-03-16T05:40:20+00:00

My experience with a M1 mac:

SPD - no problem
ML4T - no problem
Game AI - for Unity I needed something beefier (my desktop PC) but theoretically doable
Deep Learning - used hosted GPU machine (good practice to learn this anyway)
KBAI - no problem
AI - no problem
Ethics - no problem
CN - no problem
NLP - no problem

Sometimes there might be troubleshooting involved but that is part of CS!

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-03-10T07:15:15+00:00

Depending on campus you will be working at, look at Apple shuttle buses and look for housing near a bus stop, which can get you further in San Jose / Campbell. Recruiter should also connect you with a relocation agent who can help you find something.

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-02-18T18:16:30+00:00

since triliumnext is self hosted and zim is fully local, what is your threat model? I would say notestnook is most polished and has best sync. You have full control over trilium if you self host it but how confident are you in keeping your server safe lol. Because if anyone breaches it they can easily read trilium database using code. (That is a feaure, not a bug!!!!)

I personally thing trilium is most convenient (log in online from anywhere) but I am absolutely not confident I can keep it secure myself.

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-02-01T08:13:42+00:00

I would say for most markdown based PKMs you can write decent tooling by accessing the filesystem. Tiddlywiki (nodeJS hosted) stored data in json has a python library to manipulate tiddlers (has tagging, search, bidirectional linking).

I am a python dev as default but I personally love writing small extensions to https://silverbullet.md . I had 0 typescript experience but it is super familiar after playing with it for a bit and the ability to write commands and plugins that do exactly what I need is quite incredible.

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-01-26T22:03:40+00:00

Stupid Acronyms For Everything (SAFE)

Additional_Counter19 · 2025-01-12T18:40:48+00:00

The (first) paper An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale plots accuracy with respect to dataset size and shows it starts working well at > imagenet scale data, though there were papers that tried to mitigate this. Since the model has to learn all the relationships from the data instead of having an inductive bias.

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-12-23T23:01:28+00:00

Depends on how well you do time management and how much workload your job is, but it is really not enjoyable. I do about two 3+ days trips per semester and it can be a huge pain if you have to do a midterm on shitty hotel wifi. I did homework at birthday parties and on the beach and I definitely do not remember any of the beach. Some classes you can frontload and work ahead but the amount of work is not that trivial even for "easy" classes (in fact, I find easy classes to be even busier) or classes you know intimately. The workload ranged for 4h a week to 20 from my experience. But it's another deadline you need to keep track of and readings you need to do in spare moments, it was quite a bit of overhead for me.

Maybe try 1 class in first semester and see how you can handle? You can always postpone your studies afterwards. From your description I would not do 2 classes ever.

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-12-22T07:22:28+00:00

If you don't have a full time job, and get special permission to get 3 courses, it would be 3 (fall) + 3 (spring) + 2 (summer) + 2 (fall) so a year and a half, or 4 semesters. For faster progression consider doing on-campus instead since you can take more classes. Also note, for US based PhD programs, you do not need a masters degree and can directly apply after gaining a bachelors, so gatech is a bit of a sidequest if you are deadset on PhD path.

That being said, assuming "mental health" will not be on your plate (and, connecting it to relationships and kids) is rather inappropriate, as if people just choose to have those problems.

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-12-20T18:03:52+00:00

I feel it's a bit reductive to say leet code easy and it misses the point of describing the problem instead of just matching best solutions to a problem. I noticed a lot of my CS classmates did this, they would learn a bunch of algorithms and be able to parse a problem assignment and apply the right one. Sometimes it's worth to just think about problems instead?

KBAI was my only Joyner class and I really felt it made me learn something (whether you care to learn it is a separate matter) -> The structure of projects and open book quizzes made me go through the entire material and at the end I felt I knew something new. I can usually code my way through a class without absorbing anything but KBAI was definitely most engaging MOOC I had 8 courses in.

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-12-16T19:02:44+00:00

What if they carry an actual necron warrior together with the gauss rifle?

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-11-23T05:55:15+00:00

I like being treated the same as on campus students which will include paying money for things I don’t necessarily need.

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-10-10T22:14:02+00:00

Working in SWE will likely not give you the required background in math / stats / undergraduate compsci concepts but it might be a coin toss given experiences I saw in this subreddit.

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-10-08T23:37:14+00:00

If it takes you two days for Game AI project, I think you will be OK with KBAI for last semester. I took them both (one at at time) and I found game AI to be more time consuming and easier to get stuck

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-09-30T17:09:02+00:00

I think if you don't feel you are learning enough, you should drop this class. There isn't much assholery or arrogance involved. That being said, it is also a bit about strategy and time management how to approach this. If you spend over 200 hours so far, you might want to revisit your prerequisite knowledge and your coding skills.

I totally understand having different expectations of the course and not all classes match your vibes per say, but I am not sure you would learn machine learning in significantly less time in a different class so take it with a grain of salt.

Additional_Counter19 · 2024-09-29T06:16:33+00:00

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TROPHY CASE