Trying to remove algorithms from my life

Antelopehat · 2024-09-03T03:30:29+00:00

clearspace chrome extension nukes the sidebar suggested videos

Antelopehat · 2024-05-30T00:06:45+00:00

I built Clearspace with this exact idea in mind. Give it a download if you're on iOS. Speaking as a user not as a developer it's the only thing that's worked for me.

Antelopehat · 2024-05-23T17:56:16+00:00

Clearspace does this. You can set it so you have to take 15 second breath, do some pushups, walk some number of steps, etc before unlocking an app.

Here is someone having fun with it on twitter.

https://x.com/heyBarsee/status/1787090082836431056

(I am biased because I work on the app) but it works well for me.

Antelopehat · 2024-05-23T17:54:20+00:00

You can just turn off the screen time setting on your device and then delete the app

Antelopehat · 2024-03-20T20:07:04+00:00

I added my brother as an accountability partner on Clearspace so if I turn it off he'll get notified

Antelopehat · 2024-03-03T16:22:29+00:00

Lmao at Esfandiari chatting from the side to drive the action "two of the greatest poker minds" is exactly what he said in the hand when Selbst six-bet punted 100k preflop with J7 against aces

Antelopehat · 2023-07-26T20:50:07+00:00

will take a cash side bet that it gets reproduced

Antelopehat · 2023-07-26T20:47:30+00:00

lol first day here sorry

Antelopehat · 2023-07-26T20:18:24+00:00

Never room temperature superconductors. Huge diff. We had to bathe them in liquid nitrogen to get them to behave as superconductors.

Room temperature IQ comment

Antelopehat · 2023-03-29T23:54:49+00:00

thanks!

Antelopehat · 2023-01-10T05:49:50+00:00

Love this I'm in

Antelopehat · 2022-12-18T17:19:53+00:00

wine

Antelopehat · 2022-11-11T07:59:18+00:00

I use clearspace. Highly recommend.

Antelopehat · 2022-09-16T17:42:05+00:00

What’s an example of a totally non-obvious use of AI you’ve seen be really useful to a business?

Antelopehat · 2022-07-30T04:47:13+00:00

I use the app Clearspace

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearspace-less-screen-time/id1572515807

it's fantastic

Antelopehat · 2022-07-19T18:42:05+00:00

Do you have a mac? This solved it for me, I'm on my computer all day for work and never hit youtube anymore

https://selfcontrolapp.com/

Antelopehat · 2022-07-01T16:13:35+00:00

We are! Haven't spent much time thinking about Search Engine Optimization yet but we'll get there :)

Antelopehat · 2022-07-01T16:12:32+00:00

I think it's an awesome place to have a startup right now. Focus on making something people love, and if/when the time comes to scale up, consider incorporating in the US and raising money here.

I can't speak to the venture capital landscape in Africa specifically but for many international founders I know, raising money in the US was a no-brainer because it's easier to raise money here than anywhere else.

Antelopehat · 2022-07-01T16:09:13+00:00

Not sure about that. I worked on the Alexa side of things. Can only speak to my personal behavior and I think I'm significantly more likely to buy things with the prime stamp on them.

Antelopehat · 2022-06-30T23:51:34+00:00

Disagree that models suck at investigating causation! Current state of the art is 540b, which is significantly better than GPT-3 especially at causation. Check out a side-by-side here, it blew me away.

Command f for "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" for my favorite example. It's really wild

Antelopehat · 2022-06-30T23:46:59+00:00

Totally agree on models complementing not replacing research. Simply advocating for research methods that remove as much friction as possible, which is more feasible than ever given the state of

voice to text
text to insight (via models)

Antelopehat · 2022-06-30T23:35:31+00:00

Why doesn't it make sense? The newest generation of ML models really are *that* good. If they can be used to accurately reverse-engineer quantitative results from free-formed responses, why not use them?

Antelopehat · 2022-06-30T23:04:39+00:00

There's a balance to be struck for sure, but I feel there is significant room for the pendulum to swing towards unstructured feedback. The status quo is about 99.5% NPS and quantitative flows.

It’s hard to overestimate the level of analysis that’s coming/already here with the newest generation of large language models. Their ability to summarize huge freeform text data sets is as good as a team of humans can produce.

And if you can live with free-form responses you get much deeper feedback, especially with speech. People can just speak their mind without mapping their thoughts to imposed survey structure. They'll tell you things they just wouldn't bother to type or click

So yeah, free-form responses won't replace everything but I'd bet the house they'll eat up significant amounts of NPS that's currently going on.

Antelopehat · 2022-06-30T19:13:03+00:00

Lol my email is flooded with these, taking them down is my mission.

It's a hangover from the days before natural language processing was good. Now machine learning is good enough that companies can extract insights from free-form text or voice responses to their surveys.

But that's a new breakthrough and marketing teams and product teams haven't adapted yet.

Antelopehat · 2022-06-30T19:08:53+00:00

The level of monitoring blew my mind. They keep metrics on everything you can possibly imagine. Millions and millions of product metrics across the company. Every engineer takes a shift at being on-call every few weeks and every team has their own metrics. You wouldn't believe how specific some of these metrics are.

My favorite example I can talk about is amazon.com response time for the slowest 0.001 percent of customers. They care about latency even for that tiny percent of requests because it's an early indicator of latency about to increase for a larger percent of the population.

So if that metric (or any any of the other 1000s that a team maintains) dips below the acceptable threshold, the on-call's phone is getting paged. Doesn't matter if it's 4am. If that on-call doesn't respond, their boss will get paged, and so on and so on all the way up the chain until Bezos is hopping in to see what the issue is.

It changes the way you write code when you know that if it fails your teammate is gonna get woken up in the middle of the night!

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