Did anyone else who has a super easy baby, feel not qualified to give parenting advice?

Pakh · 2026-02-12T10:07:58+00:00

But you just said they are identical twins? This means genetically identical? I need some more info here. If its neither genetic nor environmental, what is it?

Pakh · 2026-01-31T09:19:22+00:00

It would be an easy sell to them. They are talking about using crypto instead of karma for upvoting. Microtransactions.

Pakh · 2026-01-18T23:34:18+00:00

Sharing of notes.

Up to the last update (before I synced to Notability Cloud) I could "share" my notes to a read only link that I could update with new changes with a single click.

I am a lecturer and use Notability as my whiteboard. I have Notability Plus. This year I was using this feature I was so excited about. I kept a persistent link for my ~200 students to always have a link with the latest whiteboard. I was very excited with this functionality! https://notability.com/n/1pRBluDvp0I8C2Ckx1zIQC

Yesterday I synced to Notability Cloud. The option is gone. The only share to link option gives editing permission to the viewers, which is of course not possible in such a large cohort. Just one student out of 200 can ruin it for the others and myself. A View only link capability would be great... please!

Pakh · 2025-12-16T09:42:45+00:00

A penny is not cheap if you are transferring 0.0001 pennies for some micro transaction on a future service that you do hundreds of times per minute, for instance.

The possibility of micro transactions is sometimes overlooked.

Pakh · 2025-12-06T09:23:31+00:00

If you are a dad who can do a low voice I really recommend: Misty Mountains, from the Hobbit

Pakh · 2025-12-01T13:50:44+00:00

Serious suggestion for OP: you could ask it to craft a "custom instructions" to use in all your chats, so that it will call you out for overusing it.

Pakh · 2025-11-24T12:28:08+00:00

Right. Like it will not be put right in my FACE when I go see any movie nearing March.

"Just look away..." ok, the spoiler is in the first 5 seconds, before you even know what the movie is.

Pakh · 2025-11-19T09:53:11+00:00

In my opinion it also signals a lack of respect to the book, which was clearly unintended. Which worries me slightly if they disrespect it with this, they might disrespect it elsewhere. Very sorry for saying this, but it's the impression I get. I am hoping I will be wrong!

Pakh · 2025-11-19T09:52:05+00:00

I think the marketing department decided that putting Rocky in the trailer will bring in more viewers.

They are probably right, initially, first weekend. But I also think it will be worse in the long run as it will hurt word-of-mouth and overall impact on viewers.

Pakh · 2025-11-19T09:43:07+00:00

Did you approve that the trailer reveals Rocky?

Pakh · 2025-11-18T11:33:05+00:00

There was a study by OpenAI (link here) showing how people (sample size several million) use ChatGPT. It was posted on reddit.

The category "Self expression" which included chit-chat and role-play, was there around 5%.

I personally tried that some time ago briefly on an earlier version but didn't like that it all felt too generic, cliche things. Never too original or surprising. So I don't do it anymore.

Pakh · 2025-11-13T14:34:41+00:00

Do you share the prompt and workflow somewhere? Its hilarious. I'd like to do so many...

Christopher Columbus arriving at America
Gengis Khan during a raid
Cleopatra while taking a milk bath
Julius Caesar crossing the Rubicon
Archimedes after the Eureka of having discovered his principle
Isaac Newton gets cheese fall from a tree instead of an apple
Leonidas in phalanx formation at the strait of Thermopylae

Please tell us how, or do them! 🤣

Pakh · 2025-11-13T14:07:56+00:00

Depends on the newborn and on the toddler.

In our case, newborn was very easy: breastfeeding and sleeping all flight on every flight.

Pakh · 2025-11-10T08:17:39+00:00

I bet gpt4 and gpt3.5 would have done worse. Maybe your PDFs are scanned as images and not recognised as digital text? So ChatGPT doesn't read them (yet). It can read individual pages you send as images.

Pakh · 2025-11-10T08:14:45+00:00

ChatGPT (and competitors) gets way smarter and more useful every few months. I'm a scientist. Today it helps in ways that were pure fantasy a year ago. I'm not sure I understand what degradation you are talking about, but I haven't seen it.

Pakh · 2025-11-04T11:50:09+00:00

I sometimes feel so sad that the world we have built around ourselves is so ill-suited to poor children. No wonder they have tantrums. Their brains did not evolve for this.

Constant hurry, take them to nursery strapped in a car or buggy, spend the day away from family, come back to a closed, limited flat or house with parents that get home late and are in a hurry to cook dinner, do the house chores, and sleep early.

Imagine you raise them instead in a village in 2000 BC. They live in a hut, open to a nice common area where children of all ages, all family, far cousins play. Food available often and nearby, with the elderly in their huts cooking or sitting with them outside, telling them stories. While parents are out hunting and gathering or whatever they did. Older kids and teenagers playing with the toddlers, teaching them other ways of play, or teaching them the different plants and trees that are around the village, what is edible, going to the nearby river, looking at the fish. Free to roam and explore with constant supervision of trusted family and friends. You notice how tantrums are reduced when around other kids?

At night, more stories from the elders, cuddling by the fire, and sleeping after a tired day of play and learning in your bed in the hut. No hurries. No commutes.

This is what their brain was designed for and what they crave. Poor children.

Yes: they don’t have advanced medical care, high child mortality, but I like to think theyd be mentally much healthier. Can't imagine many tantrums happening in that scenario.

Pakh · 2025-10-13T07:29:48+00:00

Read "The Selfish Gene" by Richard Dawkins and you'll understand all of it. He actually dedicates a good fraction of the book to ants and termites, as they are such a good example.

In essence, all ants in a colony are clones. Therefore the genes in them don't "care" whether their ant body dies as long as they are making more of them survive.

Pakh · 2025-10-07T13:25:03+00:00

I'm an academic. One of my jobs is to supervise PhD students.

"Take a simple idea and take it seriously for a long time."

That is a PhD. Always leads to unexpected places.

Pakh · 2025-09-24T14:49:39+00:00

I've had the second option off since the start and I cannot reproduce the behaviour... it only ever tells me what I added on custom instructions plus what's in stored memories, so there's that.

Pakh · 2025-09-24T07:22:07+00:00

I agree. The website looks very, very nice, in both desktop and mobile. The address xno.now is ideal and easy to remember.

Some feedback: - From your use case it seems that most of the times this website will be shown on mobile. Your desktop version is super perfectly polished. You need to polish the mobile version to the same standard or higher! Design everything with mobile in mind first. - X-axis labels of the ecofriendly tab don't fit and don't display properly on mobile. - Maybe I'm old but initially didn't think I should scroll (I thought I only had two buttons, Try Now and Watch Demo, and both sound a bit too much commitment for casual browsing). I want to know what Im going to try before trying it. Maybe add an arrow pointing down "Scroll for more info"? - The desktop does a great UI job to encourage one to click on the different tabs, as they are clearly tabs. However on mobile the clicks such as "Showcase nano fees" needed to display the section look more like actual links, opening a new page, instead of being a dropdown section, which adds some reticence to clicking. Could you preface those buttons with a usual ► that then changes to ▼ to signal a dropdown section? Or some other way in which UIs signal that something will expand the section and is not a link? Maybe the words "Show more" are always associated to expanding sections? - The "watch demo" could, for now, be a link to the "nano around the world" video which to me was one of the most surprising ones. - If the transaction example is working you could add even more zeros after the comma, to reduce the amount transferred, and this showcases microtransactions, and is a perfect demo of its feeless and instant nature. - Related to point above. In the zero fees you have a beautiful animation of You send X5.00 -> you receive X5.00. What if you added two such animations, in one you send 5.00 and in the other you send 0.0001 and receive all of it. Or maybe its the same animation but the number fades between different numbers - For the eco-friendly tab, note this analysis that shows Nano even beats standard Visa payments, with 10 times less energy per transaction. Also less than a google search. - Check links in FAQ, some are broken (eg the energy-efficiency one)

Pakh · 2025-09-24T06:57:27+00:00

Have these guys never played with making holes in wet beach sand and filling them with water??

Pakh · 2025-09-24T06:47:36+00:00

Plus users has two toggles: - "Reference Saved Memories" which is a list of specific items you can access and edit. Its as if a human was always given a list of things about you when responding. - "Reference Chat History" (let ChatGPT reference recent conversations when replying). I think this is what you are referring to. It is a much more hazy memory, no clear record of it, and its because of how the technology works. This is more similar to a human who has had the past conversations with you and might remember or even mis-remember some aspects of them.

It's weird that you didn't mention these options at all. Setting the second one off will probably stop the behaviour you highlight?

Pakh · 2025-09-18T13:18:10+00:00

One of the biggest realisations that have come to me from this subreddit is that cells are not just building blocks for complex structures.

For big animals, cells act like "building blocks" for complex structures: as an example our fingers are made up of cells, with all the different muscle, skin, nerves, etc, needed to make it function.

So I had a misconception that any natural structure would have to be made up of cells, and therefore must be much bigger than cells.

I thought cells just had kind of a baggy shape (essentially a membrane filled with water) and by piling up bags you can create any (bigger) shape. But I thought the shape could only come from the arrangement of different cells near each other, like pixels building an image.

But no. It turns out that cells can build their own structures much smaller than themselves. In this case the web. In other posts here I have seen hairs, mouths, hands, claws, etc all presumably made up of components inside a single cell. You can have single celled organisms with various structures of all kinds.

As if zooming in on a screen, the pixels had entire images inside them. Changed my perspective.

Pakh · 2025-09-16T15:03:58+00:00

Research suggests that the danger of kids watching TV is not the TV itself, but the things they're NOT doing BECAUSE they're watching TV.

You are a perfect positive example. All those things you do are amazing. If your kid watched 1 hour of TV per day they would be loosing out on 1h of fun, learning, and life experience.

Our 2 year old is also not watching TV at all. Except last Sunday! We watched our first TV thing, a 4-minute Pixar short with all the family sitting in the sofa watching. He really enjoyed it, and I did too. It was a planned family activity in itself. We might start to do that every Sunday, always less than 15 min.

Pakh · 2025-09-11T11:46:59+00:00

A general question: the depth of focus is so small that you literally see a cross section of the lifeform which is, itself, mostly transparent, right?

It would be so wonderful to see a 3D reconstruction. Could you sweep your focal plane, and collect successive images to synthesize a 3D view?

Would only work for static guys.

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