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"I should say, going to Perplexity here, Sebastian Raschka is a machine learning researcher and author known for several influential books."
"my search bar was literally just hooking up WhatsApp to cloud code"
"And switch to Spotify. Switch to streaming, and basically, rebuild the stash of playlists and all this kind of stuff."
"Why do I need my Eight Sleep app to control my bed when I can tell the agent to... The agent already knows where I am, so he can turn off what I don't use."
"I use basically half-and-half Cursor and Claude Code, because they're fundamentally different experiences and both are useful."
"And somebody sent a pull request for Discord support"
"As a general purpose model, Opus is the best. For OpenClaw, Opus is extremely good in terms of role play."
"And I just typed, 'Convert this and this part to Zig,' and then let Codex run off"
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"On Mastodon and Bluesky, I don't... I also use it less because oftentimes I got attacked for my blog posts."
"On Mastodon and Bluesky, I don't... I also use it less because oftentimes I got attacked for my blog posts."
"If you use SwiftUI, like the latest and greatest at Apple, and took them forever to build something to show an image from the web. Now we have async image, but some images would just not show up or be very slow."
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Clear filters"And now, let me leave you with some words from the Volsunga Saga, a 13th century Icelandic prose epic that tells the story of the Volsunga clan, a legendary Norse dynasty of heroes and dragon slayers."
"There's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song, full song from a text prompt."
"I'll mention to you offline, so the whole iZotope RX group of software that does a lot of the de-noising, all the removing the wind, all the, they integrate machine learning extremely effectively for working with audio in different kinds of ways."
"There's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song, full song from a text prompt."
"There's these, I would say, incredible apps like Suno, Udio. ElevenLabs Music is also great. They can generate basically text to song, full song from a text prompt."
"talks to you through Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage"
"I mocked myself here, so just added... using GROQ to add more screens."
"you're able to talk to it using WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord"
"creator of OpenClaw, formerly known as MoldBot"
"Mitchell Hashimoto builds Ghostly, the terminal, and he has a really good community where there's so many other projects."
"Why do you need MyFitnessPal when the agent already knows where I am? So it can assume that I make bad decisions when I'm at Waffle House."
"I wanted to change it to Rust and... I mean, I can do it"
"So I checked out the header of the file and it found that it was, like, opus so I used ffmpeg to convert it"
"and then I wanted to use whisper but it didn't had it installed"
"You can be creative and think of the Cerebras deal and how that would translate into speed."
"It felt like Factorio times infinite"
"talks to you through Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal, iMessage"
"For most of my life I've been a Linux, Windows and WSL1, WSL2 person"
"But then I found the OpenAI key and just used Curl to send the file to OpenAI to translate"
"Many people are calling this one of the biggest moments in the recent history of AI, since the launch of ChatGPT in November 2022"