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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"Reading Meditations is also just an insight into the mind of a man who's to himself, 'cause Meditations is not supposed to be work that's published. It's just a diary."
"You don't need a Mac Mini to install OpenClaw. There's ways. But it really does not need to be a Mac. Use the opportunity to get yourself a new MacBook or whatever computer you use and use the old one as your server instead of buying a standalone Mac Mini."
"First is Build a Large Language Model from Scratch and Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch. I truly believe in the machine learning world, the best way to learn and understand something is to build it yourself from scratch."
"First is Build a Large Language Model from Scratch and Build a Reasoning Model from Scratch. I truly believe in the machine learning world, the best way to learn and understand something is to build it yourself from scratch."
"checking out the gala that Paul is hosting in New York on January 22nd in a few days."
"And everybody, go pre-order The Jungle Keeper, the book, available everywhere."
"He has a new book coming out in a few days titled Jungle Keeper that you should definitely go pre-order now."
"You should follow him on Instagram, Life with Dan. He's an incredible wildlife photographer."
"If you would like to support Paul and his team in their mission to protect the jungle, go to junglekeepers.org."