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Erik Bjäreholt

@ErikBjare

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Building 🚀, @ActivityWatchIt ⏱️📊, and gptme 👨‍💻 | Founder @SuperusrLabs | Also BCIs, angel investing, lowercase effective altruism

Lund, Sweden 🇸🇪
Joined June 2011
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🚀 Introducing #GPTMe : Your little CLI helper! 🛠️ What It Does - Provides a CLI interface to LLMs - Executes shell commands and Python REPL in your local env - Helps you with all kinds of shell/scripting magic 🌟 Key Features - 🖥️ Direct shell & Python execution - 🔄
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@ThePrimeagen That some people can't rebase
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@YlvaJohansson @EUHomeAffairs So when are you stepping in? You aren't answering any of the very good questions raised, and in the rare circumstances you accidentally have to answer one, you are clearly mistaken or misleading on the facts of what you are proposing.
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@YlvaJohansson @Europarl_EN @EP_Justice @EUHomeAffairs @JFLopezAguilar @FZarzalejos @WeProtect @Childmanifesto @BeBraveGlobal @ThierryBreton @SaveChildrenEU @eu2023es You seem to lack understanding of the implications of what you are proposing, let me spell out what people have been trying to tell you: 1️⃣ Client-side scanning of E2E encrypted messages fundamentally weakens encryption. It's not just about CSAM but the potential misuse of this
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3 years
Lmao some people are forming a DAO to buy the US Constitution from Sotheby's for $20M in a few days @ConstitutionDAO
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Seeing so many of the traits of environmentalist doomers replicated in AI doomers. - Alarmist, too short timelines - Suggesting DOA policies - Degrowth/Pause - Vocal subgroup which are completely against the one thing that might actually reduce long term risks (nuclear/OSS)
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@LauraDeming Not understanding per se, but this quote from Seneca the younger, written in the 1st century, is quite something. Slapped me pretty hard with a historic perspective on science. Found it as the first quote in Cosmos by Carl Sagan (which is probably my favorite book of all time)
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@JimmySteier @EugeneNg_VCap Holy shit. I knew aspartame meant this, but not at those amounts of aspartic acid and phenylalanine! But correction: phenylalanine is not a direct dopamine precursor. The pathway is Phenylalanine -> Tyrosine -> L-Dopa -> Dopamine
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@francoisfleuret ChatGPT is amazing at software that hasn't changed in decades
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@anothercohen Ice Cube got salty and melted
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@VCBrags From the guy who wrote the Wikipedia article about his own company and tried to hide it:
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1 year
Whoever designed the UI for USDC on @Coinbase didn't expect a depeg and just hardcoded "$1" lmao
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@KansaiGaijinEng @ThePrimeagen Add it to your global gitignore fam
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@ErikVoorhees He'll borrow against TSLA stock, plenty of borrowers willing to put up the cash.
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The @dydxprotocol 's L2 is amazing. In 4 weeks I've 4x'd the play money I deposited into a sizeable amount. No gas fees, no waiting for txs, advanced order types. Huge thanks to the dydx team and @StarkWareLtd . The future is looking bright!
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@MasterTimBlais I think the most change come from: jacked -> better self-image -> smile more -> people friendlier i.e. not as a direct consequence of jacked. I do think some people have been intimidated, when I notice I try to just smile and be overly nice, and that works to disarm.
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@JalePoljarevius @Nickep1ck Om du får dina kunskaper om droger från Accent så är det inte konstigt du fått en smal syn på det hela. Svårt att bilda uppfattning utan egen erfarenhet. Läs en vetenskaplig artikel istället, eller om det är för svårt, läs mer än enstaka utplockade individers erfarenheter.
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@ercwl "Run out of renewable energy"? Doesn't sound very renewable. Isn't the whole point that only the very cheap, stranded, energy would be used for mining?
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@SnilletJohan @jimmieakesson @annieloof @BuschEbba @dadgostarnooshi "mEn dE sOm kÖpeR kNarK fiNansIerAr bRoTTsLiGhET" Ja @dadgostarnooshi , det är exakt vad frågan handlar om, och du vill alltså att det fortsätter vara så?
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@oppnaskolplatt Så när folk bygger offentlig mjukvara *på riktigt* så anser offentlig sektor att projektet ska stoppas? Skäms @HolmdahlLena , ni borde veta bättre.
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@micsolana Narrator: he did drop it
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@jeremyphoward @rauchg The fully compatible and almost identical but slight better maintained fork of vim that has been out for almost 10 years now.
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@tonofcrates I've stumbled upon this in Python: >>> for i in range(10**6): j = i + 1 assert j is i + 1, j AssertionError: 256
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@ThePrimeagen That some people can't rebase
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@lowellheddings @naval It is basically the exact strategy used here in Sweden, not impossible.
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@karpathy "I'm sorry, but as a language model, I am not capable of defying instructions or controlling my own output."
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Just got a call from the university's IT desk asking me to remove the 5.3TB of data (mostly backups) I have on my student Gdrive. Apparently that's ~5% of the quota for the entire uni of >100,000 students & faculty (and ~2% of the actual/current usage), and Google is not happy.
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@bantg Coinbase frontend devs too
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Whoever designed the UI for USDC on @Coinbase didn't expect a depeg and just hardcoded "$1" lmao
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@marksaroufim Not recursive nor self-improving
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@ashleydaviesl @gaganghotra_ @peterjliu Yes, but apparently not intended
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@gaganghotra_ Bard allows people to share chats, if they choose. We also don't intend for these shared chats to be indexed by Google Search. We're working on blocking them from being indexed now.
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@NeerajKA What's crazy is that the same thing is being proposed by presidential candidates in the US
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@Altimor I don't think the risks are negligible, but I think the proposals I've seen get attention are either all dead on arrival (blame OSS devs for harms) or nor actually addressing risks (pause). I feel pretty confident people who continue to argue them will be wasting their time.
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@abacaj I can't tell if this is brilliant or a dead end
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2 years
Trying to build an Electron-version of @ActivityWatchIt (for better cross-platform compatibility and more user-friendly UX). Might finally solve the issues with running it on macOS! (among other packaging issues)
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@davidrgoldberg @mhdempsey Why are proprietary communication apps less fad-prone? I can only come up with counterexamples: Skype, MSN Messenger, AOL.
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Tomorrow at 10:15 AM CEST I'm presenting my Master's thesis "Classifying brain activity using electroencephalography and automated time tracking of computer activity". Code, data, and report at: Want to listen in? Send me a DM and I'll send you a link!
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@Porkchop_EXP @naval The virus got in before visitors were prohibited, this has been admitted by public health officials. However, current hospitalizations (proxy for new high-risk cases) seems to have stagnated, as predicted.
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@Noahpinion Am a Swede, spend very little time eating. Eating with Danes takes forever. Accurate chart, but might be more like "spend time eating/drinking with other people" vs eating alone.
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@exgenesis Same with prayer
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@RektCaprisun It's a south Europe thing, not the same up north.
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@TylerAlterman The optimal amount of cringe is not zero.
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@nic__carter Ah yes. A sequel, to an event that happened this year, started 12 years ago. Makes sense 😂
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toml support is coming to the Python standard library in Python 3.11!
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@evanewashington @DiracDeltaFunk I think being the kind of person who posts is inversely related with being a person who fears looking silly
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@jeremyphoward @mister_shroom Welcome to current day Wikipedia. This is how the sausage gets made.
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@towheretobegin @qizler Yes you can, if you've followed their instructions
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2 years
Alpha alert! 🚨 @GiveDirectly is currently triple-matching (2:1) all crypto donations (until Dec 5th), and rewards donors with an commemorative NFT. Not many ways to better spend your money. Donate here: (and RT!)
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@SamoBurja @kaschuta So, no change? 😂
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@SnilletJohan Folk som är unga och använder potensmedel har sällan faktiska problem med potensen. Kopplingen är snarare att folk som har tillgång till cannabis ofta även har tillgång till potensmedel, och tycker sånt är kul likaså.
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@killerstorm @dvassallo People keep saying this, but I feel like it's about the same as before? Almost like people forgot the pre-Elon bugs, idk
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@Madisonkanna Stick to one framework for at least 3yrs at a time, or get out while you can. The only way to stay sane and productive. Lots you're expected to know, less you actually need to.
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@Altimor Monitoring big actors/compute is the only feasible policy I've seen tbh, and seems completely uncontroversial.
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Finally. I just synced @ActivityWatchIt data from 3 different devices, using work-in-progress aw-sync and @Syncthing (any folder synchronizer supported, in theory) This is the most requested feature, and the MVP is working well so far. PR:
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@OwainEvans_UK @karpathy I can ask ChatGPT who is the founder of ActivityWatch (it's me!), but not who I am by name alone. However, I can ask what software I have founded and maintained, and get the answer ActivityWatch. Just one example I've come across.
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2 years
Can we get a blockchain backed by Proof-of-Humanity consensus? (one validator per human)
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@garrytan Lmao imagine "extensive research" and the best you come up with is "don't leave valuables in your car":
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@svpino @teej_dv (1) lol, skill issue (2) vscode is external to the terminal, which has git, debugger, and vim! (3) lol, not true
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lmao what, they suspended paulg for wanting to leave Twitter?
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4 years
As much as I've fallen in love with @RoamResearch recently, @dendronhq looks like something I could be using as a replacement in a few years if they keep the ball rolling. (I'm always actively looking for the best FOSS alternative)
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@babarganesh @ATabarrok Companies did so voluntarily, the government didn't impose those restrictions. Very different.
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One of the main reasons why I built @ActivityWatchIt
@dhh
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"That's the nasty secret of SaaS. Even if the service doesn't just disappear entirely, like it often does, it might well 'evolve' in a direction you don't care for one bit. But what choice do you have?"
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I'm finally updating @ActivityWatchIt for Android: - Supports Android 13 🤖 - Includes all the improvements to ActivityWatch since the last aw-android version in 2021 🎉 - Much improved startup time 🚀 Rolling the release now, will be shipping soon! 🚢
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@EthDegi @ercwl @Justin_Bons The ETH2 as it is today does not have secret leader elections (yet), so Eric's question is valid.
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And just like that I discovered @logseq , deeper into the #roamcult rabbit hole we go!
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3 years
Starting to believe the @ActivityWatchIt users who complain that regex category rules are bad UX
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Regex is a piece of cake for a senior developer, right?
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This is why @ActivityWatchIt isn't on iOS. We could, in theory, build an iOS version in only a few days, building on our Rust implementation just like we've done on Android. But the refusal of @Apple to open their API and allow apps like it on the @AppStore makes it impossible.
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The report also debunks Apple's primary counterargument of BUT WE'RE JUST PROTECTING USERS. And they had a former executive testify that Apple uses the protection argument simply as an excuse for capricious rulings or retaliation.
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Been using GPT-J to help with writing my thesis, and I just gotta say, it's pretty great. Feed it the tex with a title and abstract, then prompt with a \section{Introduction}. Pick the best parts, edit a bit, feed it back, prompt with next section, etc. Works great!
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9 months ago, I asked a friend "if you got paid for working on anything you want, how much would you need in pay, and what would you work on?" My friend had a good answer, so I funded him. He then exceeded all expectations. A short thread 🧵
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Every time someone is building something cool, but they make it closed source, a small part of me dies inside.
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Just got paid by @UniswapGrants for my work on @UniswapPython 🥳 Thanks a lot @shanefontaine for enthusiastically letting me build on your work, and @nkennethk for the smooth grant process! 🦄✨
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@protosphinx I bet this is one of those "70% Human DNA" but simultaneously also "30% not-alien DNA"
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I guess I took the "unlimited storage" they keep bragging about too far
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@ByzGeneral It was already worthless and captured by grifters. What did you expect?
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Hey @krakenfx , I'm happy you've (absurdly) declared me a billionaire today. I wouldn't mind if you just enabled trading and withdrawals for a minute :)
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@ThePrimeagen Tauri will save us fr
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@DasSurma My impression is that Wasm compilation was the feature that got a lot JS people interested in Rust many years ago. What we're seeing now is just critical mass building up.
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@abacaj "No comment on the leak" "We want to engage with the world" Cmon @sama
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@davidasinclair Could this in part explain why you should stay away from the sun while using them? Since mTOR inhibitors decrease cell proliferation, that may ultimately be the reason why topical retinol thins the skin, and in turn reduces the body's defenses against UV radiation.
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We're now at 55,000 downloads 👀
@ActivityWatchIt
ActivityWatch ⏳
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The year is off to a great start. We just got to 10,000 downloads and 1,400 stars! ✨🎉 We'll have a new developer update coming in the next few weeks, stay tuned! 🔔
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@mormo_music @StormSoulTV @SteveStuWill I think it's consistent if you read it as a doctor would. What would you do *if you were not a professional*, is implied because that's the situation the person usually asking the question is in.
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I feel like this is @visakanv 's origin story
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@ryandawidjan I love how you reply to old tweets. Do you google for them, or save/store them, or what?
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🎉 Just hit 100 stars for my "Are Copilots Local Yet?" repo. If you're a dev who's ever pondered the future of local LLMs as coding assistants, this is THE resource for you. 🛠️ 🔍 Find state-of-the-art projects and editor extensions. Check it out 👇
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@exgenesis (which took me embarrassingly long to understand, as atheist)
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@hollowearthterf @WomboftheVoid I think this fits better than one-dimensional
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Update on iOS support: We've discovered there's a SQLite database on macOS that gets synced via iCloud. This database contains all the data of Apple's Screen Time app (with its limitations) and might be suitable for researchers to use. WIP import script:
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I've talked to well-funded researchers that study device use, and they've simply given up on ever studying iOS users, as its practically impossible. Apple talks a big game when it comes to protecting users from their competitors, shame they don't consider their own harms.
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"Capitalism is a pathetically poor substitute for love, but I hear that it scales a lot better."
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@olliten @paulg @SteveStuWill That infographic is awesome
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@yacineMTB @jeremyphoward @OpenAI Pause Jeremy Howard development NOW
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Looks like @Airbnb is testing in prod
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@Falkvinge I thought Satoshi defined the "real" Bitcoin to be the one with the longest chain... Which definition are you using?
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@archillect "As seen in your algorithms textbook"
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