It spoke a human language, with phonemes made of birdsong.
Jan 15 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Claude and I have possibly discovered a historical supernova from Roman sources
In De Natura Deorum, Cicero writes that two suns were observed in the sky during the consulship of Tuditanus and Aquilius, in the year when Publius Africanus was killed:
Sep 5, 2022 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
After building like eight personal wikis/information management systems/hypertext databases (and becoming exceedingly efficient at it) I'll say the problem is that 99% of their uses decompose into three disjoint usecases:
1. Todo list+journal 2. Learning 3. Reference archive
Roam-style things let you write simple todo lists (just a list with checkboxes) to organize your day. But todo list apps can provide more domain-specific functionality, like scheduling, reminders, habits, etc.
Jun 10, 2022 • 76 tweets • 33 min read
“A Persian miniature of the cosmic microwave background, from Herat circa 1600, trending on ArtStation”
“A universe made of Wang tiles in the style of M. C. Escher, trending on ArtStation”