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A friend and I built a browser prototype that answers questions about whatever’s on your screen using getDisplayMedia, client-side wake-word detection, and server-side multimodal inference. Hard parts: – Getting the…

I was just using ChatGPT to help me pick an SDK library. It mentions a few options by name (e.g. Baileys, whatsapp-web.js), but when I click those names rather than opening a browser with the source page like it used…

What are the most futuristic computing interfaces you can think of, that just aren’t widespread yet? (In line with Gibson’s famous quote that, "The future is already here—it's just not evenly distributed.")

Is there a good reason why the UI we see in sci-fi don't make it into actual products? Maybe there is some true limitation inherent in this style UI which causes them to stay as mere experiments / novelty? I'm thinking…

I built a demo of a voice AI task manager. You speak naturally and it updates your visible task list in real time. Try it here, no sign up: https://taskmaster.keithschacht.com I find it useful to talk aloud to figure…

Recently, I’ve been diving deep into Lisp. I re-read all of Paul Graham’s old writing about Lisp to understand his arguments. I want to reconcile for myself: if Lisp really is the most powerful language, why isn’t it…

I would like to my javascript app to have local access to a basic LLM. In the next version of Chrome Google says that Gemini Nano will be included, thanks to the advances in WebAssembly. But it's surely going to be…

Ack, there was a big enough issue with this that I'm going to fix it and repost it when it's working properly!

How can I identify the kid-friendly topic of a sentence? Google NLP API and Stanford NLP are helpful for finding nouns & verbs, but I need to identify the subset of these that are meaningful “topics”, from a kids…