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Pi-durable is so much fun. The primitives and architecture are so robust and simple to use, extend, and combine. Built a self-extensible agent harness that can hotswap & hotreload even the server runtime while continuing to build itself. The core of this is about ~3,000 LOC and about 35k...

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Own your personal agent, folks. Just built my own little personal agent with Pi's Pi Durable. I wanted to see how quickly I could build an OpenAI dots clone with open-source tools. I am amazed at how quickly I got this off the ground. It's proactive. It keeps working when you're not watching. It remembers you, runs jobs on a schedule, waits for your approval, and uses its own computer. Pi Durable makes that possible. Every step is checkpointed. I can kill the process mid-task, and My Pi picks up right where it left off. Memory lives in durable documents. What My Pi learns about me in one Space survives a crash and carries over to every other Space. Approvals are durable too. It also has its own computer. Each Space gets a full Linux desktop that My Pi controls with screenshots, mouse, and keyboard. The model runs through OpenRouter, so I can swap models without changing anything else. That's all configurable however you like it. If you've been wanting your own personal agent, now is a great time to build one. I am building this as an experimental ground where I can test new ideas and experiment deeply with proactive personal agents. But I plan to open-source it after testing it a bit and adding more interesting primitives. The goal is to make it customizable and easy to build on, so others can experiment with their own personal agent functionalities.
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Own your personal agent, folks. Just built my own little personal agent with Pi's Pi Durable. I wanted to see how quickly I could build an OpenAI dots clone with open-source tools. I am amazed at how quickly I got this off the ground. It's proactive. It keeps working when you're not watching. It remembers you, runs jobs on a schedule, waits for your approval, and uses its own computer. Pi Durable makes that possible. Every step is checkpointed. I can kill the process mid-task, and My Pi picks up right where it left off. Memory lives in durable documents. What My Pi learns about me in one Space survives a crash and carries over to every other Space. Approvals are durable too. It also has its own computer. Each Space gets a full Linux desktop that My Pi controls with screenshots, mouse, and keyboard. The model runs through OpenRouter, so I can swap models without changing anything else. That's all configurable however you like it. If you've been wanting your own personal agent, now is a great time to build one. I am building this as an experimental ground where I can test new ideas and experiment deeply with proactive personal agents. But I plan to open-source it after testing it a bit and adding more interesting primitives. The goal is to make it customizable and easy to build on, so others can experiment with their own personal agent functionalities.

elvis

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HTML Artifacts are a big part of how I work with agents now. Artifacts can be more than just static files. When combined with agents, they can take action or help you take action. This unlocks all kinds of interesting ways to work with agents. This is clearly the future. Check out this writing and scheduler artifact I built in a few minutes. It uses a bit of HTML and JS. All the data is in markdown (Obsidian vaults), so the agent can access and modify it at any time. No DB needed. No sophisticated functionalities. The agent decides all that for me based on the skills, context, and memory it has access to. The best part about this simple stack is that all the important information stays with me. This has allowed me to build a recursive self-improving system and automations that can better tap into coding agents like Codex or Claude Code. I could have paid or built an entire app for scheduling posts, and there are so many of them out there. But I don't need to. I've realized a simple artifact does the job. And the simplicity of it is actually an advantage. Very little maintenance for very high returns on personalization, time, and efficiency. The other benefit of this is that I can add features as I please. That level of personalization feels magical, and we should all be pursuing more of it. All of this just keeps compounding. Of course, this example is just about writing. But I have similar artifacts for research, design, experimentation, evaluation, and so much more. And no, I didn't actually publish the post example I shared in the clip. It was just for demonstration purposes. I actually spend more time than this when writing together with agents. Lastly, having built my own agent orchestrator tool has made me realize that simplifying the tool stack is a superpower. If you are curious about how all this works, I will do a live session next week:
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HTML Artifacts are a big part of how I work with agents now. Artifacts can be more than just static files. When combined with agents, they can take action or help you take action. This unlocks all kinds of interesting ways to work with agents. This is clearly the future. Check out this writing and scheduler artifact I built in a few minutes. It uses a bit of HTML and JS. All the data is in markdown (Obsidian vaults), so the agent can access and modify it at any time. No DB needed. No sophisticated functionalities. The agent decides all that for me based on the skills, context, and memory it has access to. The best part about this simple stack is that all the important information stays with me. This has allowed me to build a recursive self-improving system and automations that can better tap into coding agents like Codex or Claude Code. I could have paid or built an entire app for scheduling posts, and there are so many of them out there. But I don't need to. I've realized a simple artifact does the job. And the simplicity of it is actually an advantage. Very little maintenance for very high returns on personalization, time, and efficiency. The other benefit of this is that I can add features as I please. That level of personalization feels magical, and we should all be pursuing more of it. All of this just keeps compounding. Of course, this example is just about writing. But I have similar artifacts for research, design, experimentation, evaluation, and so much more. And no, I didn't actually publish the post example I shared in the clip. It was just for demonstration purposes. I actually spend more time than this when writing together with agents. Lastly, having built my own agent orchestrator tool has made me realize that simplifying the tool stack is a superpower. If you are curious about how all this works, I will do a live session next week:

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“The Weight of the Woods” North American tour!! I was having a conversation with somebody the other day about my touring, particularly in the US. And they were kinda saying “you’ve never had a huge radio hit in America, and you’re not really famous over there, how do you play these venues?”, and I didn’t have a decent response... But having thought about it now, I feel so so lucky for the way my touring has played out in America. It feels like a secret, right until I get inside these venues and can’t believe the size of them. So here I am again, announcing a tour that I’m stunned by, and trusting in whatever it is that we’ve built. Free from radio play or the pursuit of viral moments. We know that something powerful happens when we all get together, and that’s precious. And trust me, this album and this music is going to make it the most beautiful tour yet. All of this is just to say how grateful I am. It didn’t happen this way by accident. From the first time I played shows in the US, I felt such love for songs like After Rain and An Evening. I still do. So I’m coming to show my gratitude for all these years of support, and to give you the shows that you deserve, with the music that you deserve. Thank you so much for making this possible ♥️ Register for pre-sale access at the link in my bio. Tickets are on sale Friday 3rd of April.
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“The Weight of the Woods” North American tour!! I was having a conversation with somebody the other day about my touring, particularly in the US. And they were kinda saying “you’ve never had a huge radio hit in America, and you’re not really famous over there, how do you play these venues?”, and I didn’t have a decent response... But having thought about it now, I feel so so lucky for the way my touring has played out in America. It feels like a secret, right until I get inside these venues and can’t believe the size of them. So here I am again, announcing a tour that I’m stunned by, and trusting in whatever it is that we’ve built. Free from radio play or the pursuit of viral moments. We know that something powerful happens when we all get together, and that’s precious. And trust me, this album and this music is going to make it the most beautiful tour yet. All of this is just to say how grateful I am. It didn’t happen this way by accident. From the first time I played shows in the US, I felt such love for songs like After Rain and An Evening. I still do. So I’m coming to show my gratitude for all these years of support, and to give you the shows that you deserve, with the music that you deserve. Thank you so much for making this possible ♥️ Register for pre-sale access at the link in my bio. Tickets are on sale Friday 3rd of April.

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Folks have asked me for a side by side comparison the Apple eMate 300 and the AlohaSmart 3000. Well you can see they were conceived by some of the same team at Apple. They are remarkably alike. In public I get a lot of “in the know” folks ask if that is the eMate. The build quality is better of course in the eMate. But it is also 2.5 time heaver and it is hard on my hacked battery. I do carry around the eMate and use it regularly but it is mostly in my Library for contemporaneous notes. The AlphaSmart 3000 I carry a lot. Mostly in the woods. It is lighter, only 3 AA batteries and easier screen in almost all settings. The 3000 has a slightly bigger keyboard but slightly worse travel. The AlphaSmart Neo2 has a better keyboard than both. So here is the comparison…

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Many of us in Silicon Valley, especially those active on platforms like X/Twitter, might think that everyone knows about ChatGPT and has used it at least once. But, this is not true. In my travels and online discussions, I've seen that most people still don't know about things like ChatGPT. There's a real need to close this gap in knowledge. My own kids, who are 6 and 9 years old, are using AI with me all the time. They are having a lot of fun, and learning a lot from it. At the same time, many people around the world don't even know it exists or what it can do. This is not just surprising; it shows we need to do something. To help with this, my colleague Kalkidan Betre and I started an Applied AI course at ALX Africa. The first project in this course is about making deep fakes and video refacing. The video you see here has been made by one of our student James. This project is more than just for learning; it opens the door to seeing how easy and accessible AI is. You don't have to be great at math or know anything about programming to get into AI. It's really as easy as clicking a mouse, showing how simple it is to make deep fakes today. This project also deals with important ethical questions. Some people who haven't tried the project were surprised we started with something so controversial. But that's exactly why it works well. The project highlights being responsible and ethical, which helps students understand the big impact and responsibility of using AI. It's a good way to start a deeper conversation about AI, a conversation that's needed for people to think critically and be aware, especially when digital media and fake news are everywhere. Using AI tools hands-on is key. Without this, you can't understand how powerful and accessible these AI tools are. Students who have done the first project are now starting to get it. They're learning to think more about and question the media they see online. Growing this kind of thinking and awareness is crucial. To really get how powerful and fast-changing AI is, you have to use it yourself. It's a strong, amazing tool that keeps evolving. I hope to quickly grow our program, as I feel we have a big responsibility in this new industrial revolution. It's important that everyone understands AI, its potential for good, and all the questions it creates for us. If we don't share this knowledge widely, the gap between those who have and those who don't will get much bigger. AI is starting a new revolution, and it's very important that we include everyone.

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I got $15k right now and I want to use all of it to buy pi coins. Tag anyone to this post that wants to sell his pi coins. If pi no launch this year, the rate go drop wetin no good. This is how it has been over the years. So I am just been careful because I buy and keep, I don’t resell like other vendors cus I am not a vendor! You get the point now? Note: I do not buy pi accounts, only pi coins. My rate is 800 Naira/Pi. If you no like my rate, try another vendor no be fight.
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I got $15k right now and I want to use all of it to buy pi coins. Tag anyone to this post that wants to sell his pi coins. If pi no launch this year, the rate go drop wetin no good. This is how it has been over the years. So I am just been careful because I buy and keep, I don’t resell like other vendors cus I am not a vendor! You get the point now? Note: I do not buy pi accounts, only pi coins. My rate is 800 Naira/Pi. If you no like my rate, try another vendor no be fight.

Marjid Cryptonite

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Sitting here watching my Cybertruck charge with the mountains of Utah in the background, it hit me again… I really believe this is the most beautiful Tesla ever made. Every angle is different. It looks futuristic without trying too hard, and it fits just as well in the middle of a city as it does surrounded by nature like this. What makes this truck special is so much more than just the stainless steel or design. For me it’s how capable and practical it is. Long road trips, hauling gear, camping, tough weather, and FSD… it feels like THE one vehicle built to do almost everything. I’ve owned and driven many Teslas over the years, and every one has been amazing in their own unique way, but the Cybertruck is the first one that genuinely makes me stop and look back every time I park it. Driving across the U.S. in this beast has only reinforced that feeling. And to me, the Cybertruck is the best vehicle Tesla has ever built.

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Paint reveal in a cute and fun way!! 🎨🌸🍵 the transition is not the smoothest but this was my best attempt ☠️ This is a big colored pencil drawing i made a while ago that is 100% original so i‘m pretty proud of it :) i worked on it every time i wanted to relax a bit. I had this idea for the cats and the fruits and sketched that part out but the rest i made up as i went. The pencils are also the super duper cheap kind - so nothing special. This proves that you can make some awesome art without crazy art supplies and a bunch of money and something like this (using materials you don‘t normally use, just drawing as you go without a sketch) helps so much with artblock. I love this drawing for so many reason and i hope you like it too <3 #whimsy #hopecore #paintingreveal #coloredpencil #whimsicalart
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Paint reveal in a cute and fun way!! 🎨🌸🍵 the transition is not the smoothest but this was my best attempt ☠️ This is a big colored pencil drawing i made a while ago that is 100% original so i‘m pretty proud of it :) i worked on it every time i wanted to relax a bit. I had this idea for the cats and the fruits and sketched that part out but the rest i made up as i went. The pencils are also the super duper cheap kind - so nothing special. This proves that you can make some awesome art without crazy art supplies and a bunch of money and something like this (using materials you don‘t normally use, just drawing as you go without a sketch) helps so much with artblock. I love this drawing for so many reason and i hope you like it too <3 #whimsy #hopecore #paintingreveal #coloredpencil #whimsicalart

suhnowflake

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Building a personal knowledge base for my agents is increasingly where I spend my time these days. Like Andrej Karpathy, I also use Obsidian for my MD vaults. What's different in my approach is that I curate research papers on a daily basis and have actually tuned a Skill for months to find high-signal, relevant papers. I was reviewing and curating papers manually for some time, but now it's all automated as it has gotten so good at capturing what I consider the best of the best. There are so many papers these days, so this is a big deal. You all get to benefit from that with the papers I feature in my timeline and on DAIR.AI. The papers are indexed using tobi lutke qmd cli tool (all of it in markdown files along with useful metadata). So good for semantic search and surfacing insights, unlike anything out there. I am a visual person, so I then started to experiment with how to leverage this personal knowledge base of research papers inside my new interactive artifact generator (mcp tools inside my agent orchestrator system). The result is what you see in the clip. 100s of papers with all sorts of insights visualized. I keep track of research papers daily, so believe me when I tell you that this system is absolutely insane at surfacing insights. This is the result of months of tinkering on how to index research and leverage agent automations for wikification and robust documentation. But this is just the beginning. The visual artifact (which is interactive too) can be changed dynamically as I please. I can prompt my agent to throw any data at it. I can add different views to the data. Different interactions. I feel like this is the most personalized research system I have ever built and used, and it's not even close. The knowledge that the agents are able to surface from this basic setup is already extremely useful as I experiment with new agentic engineering concepts. I feel like this knowledge layer and the higher-level ones I am working on will allow me to maximize other automation tools like autoresearch. The research is only as good as the research questions. And the research questions are only as good as the insights the agents have access to. Where I am spending time now is on how to make this more actionable. I am obsessed about the search problem here. The automations, autoresearch, ralph research loop (I built one months ago) are easier to build but are only as good as what you feed them. Work in progress. More updates soon. Back to building.

elvis

468,772 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

I just built my own wiki generator plugin for my agents. My agents can now generate wikis for anything I ask. One of my favorite wikis is called PaperWiki. This is a great example of what Andrej Karpathy describes. It uses obsidian vaults to organize papers, retrieve LLM-generated summaries, diagrams, and other advanced views for paper exploration. When Obsidian UI is not enough, I use my own artifact generator inside my agent orchestrator (see clip for example). This allows my agents to build any kind of view or exploration feature that I need. The papers are all curated with automations and several rules/patterns I have manually built over the years. On the surface, this looks basic. But behind the scenes, there are advanced search capabilities, connections, metadata, derived data, and other interesting bits of information that are extremely useful for my research agents. This is mostly built for agents. The artifact preview is just a high-level way to validate and quickly assess the quality of the wiki, suggest improvements, and it's also great for research. I use tobi lutke's qmd for all search capabilities. Everything is markdown. The summaries and even the diagrams. The wiki updates on its own based on several automations I have optimized over the past couple of weeks. The wiki grows and self-improves based on several requirements important for my research use cases. This is as personalized as it gets. There is nothing like it out there. And I use my research expertise to continue improving it over time. This is a vanilla wiki. There are so many things I want to build on top of this. Different aggregations, views, artifacts, etc. All to help automate more of my research work and accelerate productivity. I think the biggest leverage here is how powerful this could be for discovery and experimentation. One of my goals is to use it to find deeper connections and insights that would otherwise elude the top human researchers and use those to generate interesting new hypotheses and research experiments. That way, my agents can use autoresearch to explore research ideas at the frontier. Stay tuned for more.
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I just built my own wiki generator plugin for my agents. My agents can now generate wikis for anything I ask. One of my favorite wikis is called PaperWiki. This is a great example of what Andrej Karpathy describes. It uses obsidian vaults to organize papers, retrieve LLM-generated summaries, diagrams, and other advanced views for paper exploration. When Obsidian UI is not enough, I use my own artifact generator inside my agent orchestrator (see clip for example). This allows my agents to build any kind of view or exploration feature that I need. The papers are all curated with automations and several rules/patterns I have manually built over the years. On the surface, this looks basic. But behind the scenes, there are advanced search capabilities, connections, metadata, derived data, and other interesting bits of information that are extremely useful for my research agents. This is mostly built for agents. The artifact preview is just a high-level way to validate and quickly assess the quality of the wiki, suggest improvements, and it's also great for research. I use tobi lutke's qmd for all search capabilities. Everything is markdown. The summaries and even the diagrams. The wiki updates on its own based on several automations I have optimized over the past couple of weeks. The wiki grows and self-improves based on several requirements important for my research use cases. This is as personalized as it gets. There is nothing like it out there. And I use my research expertise to continue improving it over time. This is a vanilla wiki. There are so many things I want to build on top of this. Different aggregations, views, artifacts, etc. All to help automate more of my research work and accelerate productivity. I think the biggest leverage here is how powerful this could be for discovery and experimentation. One of my goals is to use it to find deeper connections and insights that would otherwise elude the top human researchers and use those to generate interesting new hypotheses and research experiments. That way, my agents can use autoresearch to explore research ideas at the frontier. Stay tuned for more.

elvis

67,308 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

I heard this beautiful filling station in World Bank, Owerri, Imo Stateis owned by an Anambra man from Aguata. Now, I have a question….if this Anambra man can display this level of taste and creativity in another South Eastern state, why is it so difficult for them to replicate this kind of modern architecture in Anambra? Why is it so hard? Is it because there is already an established building pattern in Anambra that everyone is expected to follow or is it simply that people are unwilling to try something different? He came to Owerri…saw the modern building pattern here, and adapted to it. So if they decide to build something different and more modern in Anambra, what exactly will happen? Beautiful filling station I must say. The supermarket is also really nice. I love it. ❤️
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I heard this beautiful filling station in World Bank, Owerri, Imo Stateis owned by an Anambra man from Aguata. Now, I have a question….if this Anambra man can display this level of taste and creativity in another South Eastern state, why is it so difficult for them to replicate this kind of modern architecture in Anambra? Why is it so hard? Is it because there is already an established building pattern in Anambra that everyone is expected to follow or is it simply that people are unwilling to try something different? He came to Owerri…saw the modern building pattern here, and adapted to it. So if they decide to build something different and more modern in Anambra, what exactly will happen? Beautiful filling station I must say. The supermarket is also really nice. I love it. ❤️

Ifeanyichukwv Michael🤍

51,632 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Reading the comments on this post told me everything I need to know about art. So many of you wrote to say you felt the exact same thing I did standing in front of the Starry Night. That strange pull, the sense that the painting is somehow alive... It turns out the feeling is completely universal. I am not someone who gets emotional easily. But every so often a piece of art really gets to me. And that is exactly what happened the first time i walked up to Van Gogh's magnum opus. I know how that sounds, it is one of the most famous paintings on earth, almost a cliché to be moved by it. But maybe it is that famous for a reason... It genuinely looks like it is moving while you stand there, shifting in a way I cannot explain and have never seen in any of the thousands of paintings I have looked at in my life. The same day I took the photo below, I also filmed this short video. It still comes nowhere near the real thing, but you can at least catch a little more of it here, the thick ridges of paint, the way the stars and swirls lift right off the canvas. This technique is called "impasto", from the Italian for mixture. It means paint laid on so thickly that every brushstroke and ridge stays visible on the surface. Van Gogh piled it on with a loaded brush, building the stars up thick so they would blaze as bright as possible against the dark. But no video and no explanation of technique can really convey what it feels like to stand in front of it. And the fact that so many of you felt the very same thing says something true about what art is really for. Tolstoy said it best: "The receiver of a true artistic impression is so united to the artist that he feels as if the work were his own and not someone else’s, as if what it expresses were just what he had long been wishing to express. A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. In this uniting of it with others lies the great attractive force of art."
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Reading the comments on this post told me everything I need to know about art. So many of you wrote to say you felt the exact same thing I did standing in front of the Starry Night. That strange pull, the sense that the painting is somehow alive... It turns out the feeling is completely universal. I am not someone who gets emotional easily. But every so often a piece of art really gets to me. And that is exactly what happened the first time i walked up to Van Gogh's magnum opus. I know how that sounds, it is one of the most famous paintings on earth, almost a cliché to be moved by it. But maybe it is that famous for a reason... It genuinely looks like it is moving while you stand there, shifting in a way I cannot explain and have never seen in any of the thousands of paintings I have looked at in my life. The same day I took the photo below, I also filmed this short video. It still comes nowhere near the real thing, but you can at least catch a little more of it here, the thick ridges of paint, the way the stars and swirls lift right off the canvas. This technique is called "impasto", from the Italian for mixture. It means paint laid on so thickly that every brushstroke and ridge stays visible on the surface. Van Gogh piled it on with a loaded brush, building the stars up thick so they would blaze as bright as possible against the dark. But no video and no explanation of technique can really convey what it feels like to stand in front of it. And the fact that so many of you felt the very same thing says something true about what art is really for. Tolstoy said it best: "The receiver of a true artistic impression is so united to the artist that he feels as if the work were his own and not someone else’s, as if what it expresses were just what he had long been wishing to express. A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist. In this uniting of it with others lies the great attractive force of art."

James Lucas

57,859 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Kitten update #8: The kitties are back home! Everyone is getting very strong and active now. I forgot to take their weights this morning so I'll have to do it before the next feeding, but I'm confident everyone is continuing to gain. We started adding in some wet food today. I mixed up a slurry with some of the formula and stuck it in a syringe with a nipple on it. Nobody took to it right away except gray tuxedo, who loved it, but everyone else got some squirted in while they were chewing on the milk nipple and then they loved it. Well, except for dark tortie, which is a little ironic since she is by far the biggest little monster of the litter, but I guess she's done so well on the formula she's not interested in making a change yet. Butts are all looking SO much better now that I stopped using the wet wipes. However, we have now started to have some concerns about little to no pooping. Dark tortie hasn't pooped for 24 hours so I eliminated the yogurt from the formula and am crossing my fingers for some action before the end of the day or back to the vet she goes. I don't know how long they'll let me play with their tummies like this but it sure is fun for now!
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Kitten update #8: The kitties are back home! Everyone is getting very strong and active now. I forgot to take their weights this morning so I'll have to do it before the next feeding, but I'm confident everyone is continuing to gain. We started adding in some wet food today. I mixed up a slurry with some of the formula and stuck it in a syringe with a nipple on it. Nobody took to it right away except gray tuxedo, who loved it, but everyone else got some squirted in while they were chewing on the milk nipple and then they loved it. Well, except for dark tortie, which is a little ironic since she is by far the biggest little monster of the litter, but I guess she's done so well on the formula she's not interested in making a change yet. Butts are all looking SO much better now that I stopped using the wet wipes. However, we have now started to have some concerns about little to no pooping. Dark tortie hasn't pooped for 24 hours so I eliminated the yogurt from the formula and am crossing my fingers for some action before the end of the day or back to the vet she goes. I don't know how long they'll let me play with their tummies like this but it sure is fun for now!

Andrea Burkhart 🐟🐟🐟🐟🏴‍☠️

27,241 просмотров • 1 год назад

Made this commercial demo entirely with Seedance 2.0 via Yapper Everything you see here is done by one single prompt shot, from the cuts, edits, graphic effects, to the voice over. Basically within the prompt I gave detailed instructions on how many shots I wanted, the timestamps, the copywriting, visual and graphic effects, etc. The full prompt sample is available for my subscribers only in the comment section below ⏬ + + + There are so many use cases for Seedance 2.0 instead of just recreating existing IP. I think for me as a copywriter, what I like about it is that I can create a pre-visualization of an ad we're about to make, with its specific tone and style. Like I said before, the AI generated content here wasn't meant to be the final product, but rather a starting point for our creative direction regarding the potential style that will go into our ads. It's just that it's now so much faster to iterate ideas, and to test many different concepts with Gen-AI. Like I've always said, the technology is here, and it's up to you how you want to use it.
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Made this commercial demo entirely with Seedance 2.0 via Yapper Everything you see here is done by one single prompt shot, from the cuts, edits, graphic effects, to the voice over. Basically within the prompt I gave detailed instructions on how many shots I wanted, the timestamps, the copywriting, visual and graphic effects, etc. The full prompt sample is available for my subscribers only in the comment section below ⏬ + + + There are so many use cases for Seedance 2.0 instead of just recreating existing IP. I think for me as a copywriter, what I like about it is that I can create a pre-visualization of an ad we're about to make, with its specific tone and style. Like I said before, the AI generated content here wasn't meant to be the final product, but rather a starting point for our creative direction regarding the potential style that will go into our ads. It's just that it's now so much faster to iterate ideas, and to test many different concepts with Gen-AI. Like I've always said, the technology is here, and it's up to you how you want to use it.

MXVDXN // DAN

17,791 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

So many times in anime and movies, someone jumped in the air for an attack and the guy dodged the attack while he was in the air, so he redirected the hit of the attack, he definetly would have not landed like a braindead bot without trying to turn and hit the enemy, so it totally makes sense. The AI looks more dynamic, it's looks alive and that's cool. So that attack is totally so natural in my book. As I said, we could discuss about other attacks and the tracking of them in Ninja Gaiden 4, but that one ? I would die on a hill to say that attack is totally legit and I'm so glad that it is exactly like this. Like I absolutely defend NG2 Alexei, Volf, Liz and other bosses attacks. I could mention also NG2, NG3RE, Nioh , Wo Long and Stranger of Paradise, because in so many years, I NEVER saw anybody complaining about the SAME KIND of thing and attack like in those games, but when it comes into NG4, people will find any EXCUSES to hate it and find issues, even when there are not. But some people that are just happy to find something to bring on their NG4 hater agenda. Here some quick examples and most of those people that are complaining about that attack in NG4, are the same that praise those games, only because there no Ninja Gaiden name on it, so there is no hate agenda to bring on vs them 😅
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So many times in anime and movies, someone jumped in the air for an attack and the guy dodged the attack while he was in the air, so he redirected the hit of the attack, he definetly would have not landed like a braindead bot without trying to turn and hit the enemy, so it totally makes sense. The AI looks more dynamic, it's looks alive and that's cool. So that attack is totally so natural in my book. As I said, we could discuss about other attacks and the tracking of them in Ninja Gaiden 4, but that one ? I would die on a hill to say that attack is totally legit and I'm so glad that it is exactly like this. Like I absolutely defend NG2 Alexei, Volf, Liz and other bosses attacks. I could mention also NG2, NG3RE, Nioh , Wo Long and Stranger of Paradise, because in so many years, I NEVER saw anybody complaining about the SAME KIND of thing and attack like in those games, but when it comes into NG4, people will find any EXCUSES to hate it and find issues, even when there are not. But some people that are just happy to find something to bring on their NG4 hater agenda. Here some quick examples and most of those people that are complaining about that attack in NG4, are the same that praise those games, only because there no Ninja Gaiden name on it, so there is no hate agenda to bring on vs them 😅

MasterNinjaRyu

44,477 просмотров • 11 месяцев назад

I've been working in silence for quite a while now. Tbh, I don't really even know where to start, so cue the rambling and ranting. Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, no one can argue the past few years haven't been politically and economically wild. For crypto as a whole it feels like a never ending game of tug of war. A lot of X content has become toxic, so I just largely am not interacting these days. But I read, I read a lot of it. I think we like to forget history a bit in this community. $PLS launched off the highs, and the SEC swooped in right after. Very few people want to admit it, but it shook confidence immediately. I mean no other crypto project has survived such a thing at the time. But #PLS $PLSX and $HEX did. However, winning doesn't unshake that confidence. And RH during and after that event took social precautions to protect himself and his creations. Thing is, the guy isn't stupid. Someone once asked me if I thought certain aspects of the launch we rushed because he knew it was coming? And honestly, maybe. I'd attribute at least a non-zero probability to it. And If that were the case, im glad it was rushed. That case may have gone differently otherwise. Do I still think #PulseChain, #HEX, etc... all have futures? Yes. RH has had the opportunity to just straight up bounce from all of this. Why hasn't he? You could point to exhibit A, B, C, D, etc... of how he's likely got the funds to do that and we all could relatively do nothing about it. So why is he still around? I think it's pretty simple. The usual answer, he wants to win. It's in his twitter handle for Christs sakes. I'll go a step further and say he likely also wants us to win by extension, arguably not as much as he wins, but I mean that's pretty locked in at the moment 🤣 That's not to say he hasn't long been encumbered. And in that state, at lot has gone on without him. Much of which is / was bad. $pDAI guys... I pointed out from day one how building all this around a protocol in a dangerous state was a risky move. And I was right about that.... on multiple occasions... But does that matter now? I suppose not as much. In its current state, it's seemingly no longer exploitable. No different than a meme token now. (presumably, not like I have deep dove on any further risks since ESM). So I guess just whale risk mainly now? Now a lot of people here are in the anti-pdai camp. Me too for what it's worth. But I don't care as much about it's negative anymore in its current state. A lot of people are still in the #pDAI camp strongly. We view this as tribalism, but it's important to note that makes all of us in the #PulseChain camp universally. So these day I find myself relatively pDAI neutral. If you guys want to send it to $1 do it. Only whales can stop you, they run out eventually. (insert super strong this is NOT financial advice). Hell you can maybe even use Sigma to help? Or maybe it wont help, idk. Depends on how people use the software. Conversely, when looking at chain state overall... Why is there nearly $50M in stables sitting on the sidelines. Why not just bridge it out if you want out of what you think is a dead chain. Surely leaving it there exposes you to bridge risk? Why all these yield movements, why the $HEX dusts.... Something is happening. People are seemingly waiting to see what that something is. Or I am reading into things, NFA as always. This whole post is just ramblings of someone trying to do the best they can and certainly not any kind of advice. When I look at other ecosystems, I see a level of polish we don't have. I see tooling we don't have, I see a fostered developer environment we don't have. So I've just been building it, painstakingly.... Because someone has to if we want to be taken seriously. And what I've been building has allowed me to get Sigma to where it is. Sigma is so close... Really just in UI mode, performance optimization, going through nice to haves. I don't believe in launching in a non-finished immutable state. So yeah, I take my time. As with everything. But my point with all of this, and the "why" #Sigma question.... It's unifying, anyone can participate. Which tribe you're in doesn't matter. And if you don't like it, don't use it. It's just software you can use or not use. As it should be. The years of tooling work to deliver this has been a lot of work for one guy in silence. In that time AI has appeared. My take, every dev should be using it. Given the right direction and context. It will make you better. If you blindly trust it, it will make you worse. GPT 5.4 audits smart contracts better than most auditing services. Especially if you give it the context of what you are trying to do. Anyways I digress, testnet is soon. Soon more meaning a feeling of near completion not always reality. That how software is. I do think Sigma stands to unify the chain in a common goal, and shift liquidity into more meaningful places, but ultimately it up to the people the decide to use the software or not use it. And after these frameworks I've built will be applied to what I am tentatively calling the universal hex UI. More or less something aggregative of every derivative I can reasonably support. With data and analytics we since lost. So not just $HEX, $HDRN, and $ICSA, but others as well. However, that depends on some aspect of $Sigma to exist first, so sigma first, chain unity first. And last but not least, take care of yourselves and strive to do cool things. If we aren't doing cool things then what's the point? Hope you think my UI looks good, I spent a while on it. /rant
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I've been working in silence for quite a while now. Tbh, I don't really even know where to start, so cue the rambling and ranting. Regardless of which side of the fence you sit on, no one can argue the past few years haven't been politically and economically wild. For crypto as a whole it feels like a never ending game of tug of war. A lot of X content has become toxic, so I just largely am not interacting these days. But I read, I read a lot of it. I think we like to forget history a bit in this community. $PLS launched off the highs, and the SEC swooped in right after. Very few people want to admit it, but it shook confidence immediately. I mean no other crypto project has survived such a thing at the time. But #PLS $PLSX and $HEX did. However, winning doesn't unshake that confidence. And RH during and after that event took social precautions to protect himself and his creations. Thing is, the guy isn't stupid. Someone once asked me if I thought certain aspects of the launch we rushed because he knew it was coming? And honestly, maybe. I'd attribute at least a non-zero probability to it. And If that were the case, im glad it was rushed. That case may have gone differently otherwise. Do I still think #PulseChain, #HEX, etc... all have futures? Yes. RH has had the opportunity to just straight up bounce from all of this. Why hasn't he? You could point to exhibit A, B, C, D, etc... of how he's likely got the funds to do that and we all could relatively do nothing about it. So why is he still around? I think it's pretty simple. The usual answer, he wants to win. It's in his twitter handle for Christs sakes. I'll go a step further and say he likely also wants us to win by extension, arguably not as much as he wins, but I mean that's pretty locked in at the moment 🤣 That's not to say he hasn't long been encumbered. And in that state, at lot has gone on without him. Much of which is / was bad. $pDAI guys... I pointed out from day one how building all this around a protocol in a dangerous state was a risky move. And I was right about that.... on multiple occasions... But does that matter now? I suppose not as much. In its current state, it's seemingly no longer exploitable. No different than a meme token now. (presumably, not like I have deep dove on any further risks since ESM). So I guess just whale risk mainly now? Now a lot of people here are in the anti-pdai camp. Me too for what it's worth. But I don't care as much about it's negative anymore in its current state. A lot of people are still in the #pDAI camp strongly. We view this as tribalism, but it's important to note that makes all of us in the #PulseChain camp universally. So these day I find myself relatively pDAI neutral. If you guys want to send it to $1 do it. Only whales can stop you, they run out eventually. (insert super strong this is NOT financial advice). Hell you can maybe even use Sigma to help? Or maybe it wont help, idk. Depends on how people use the software. Conversely, when looking at chain state overall... Why is there nearly $50M in stables sitting on the sidelines. Why not just bridge it out if you want out of what you think is a dead chain. Surely leaving it there exposes you to bridge risk? Why all these yield movements, why the $HEX dusts.... Something is happening. People are seemingly waiting to see what that something is. Or I am reading into things, NFA as always. This whole post is just ramblings of someone trying to do the best they can and certainly not any kind of advice. When I look at other ecosystems, I see a level of polish we don't have. I see tooling we don't have, I see a fostered developer environment we don't have. So I've just been building it, painstakingly.... Because someone has to if we want to be taken seriously. And what I've been building has allowed me to get Sigma to where it is. Sigma is so close... Really just in UI mode, performance optimization, going through nice to haves. I don't believe in launching in a non-finished immutable state. So yeah, I take my time. As with everything. But my point with all of this, and the "why" #Sigma question.... It's unifying, anyone can participate. Which tribe you're in doesn't matter. And if you don't like it, don't use it. It's just software you can use or not use. As it should be. The years of tooling work to deliver this has been a lot of work for one guy in silence. In that time AI has appeared. My take, every dev should be using it. Given the right direction and context. It will make you better. If you blindly trust it, it will make you worse. GPT 5.4 audits smart contracts better than most auditing services. Especially if you give it the context of what you are trying to do. Anyways I digress, testnet is soon. Soon more meaning a feeling of near completion not always reality. That how software is. I do think Sigma stands to unify the chain in a common goal, and shift liquidity into more meaningful places, but ultimately it up to the people the decide to use the software or not use it. And after these frameworks I've built will be applied to what I am tentatively calling the universal hex UI. More or less something aggregative of every derivative I can reasonably support. With data and analytics we since lost. So not just $HEX, $HDRN, and $ICSA, but others as well. However, that depends on some aspect of $Sigma to exist first, so sigma first, chain unity first. And last but not least, take care of yourselves and strive to do cool things. If we aren't doing cool things then what's the point? Hope you think my UI looks good, I spent a while on it. /rant

Alex McWhirter

42,577 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад