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New tiny package: github.com/AnswerDotAI/shot2… Press a hotkey, drag over any region of your screen, and whatever's written there is on your clipboard. Including text you can't select: screenshares, videos, images. Setup is `pip install shot2text` + 2 config lines. The whole library is under 50 lines of Python. That's possible because of two new @answerdotai libs, macmage and imp, which open up macOS scripting from Python. What they do, in 🧵

Very interesting paper. It is framed as: model intelligence is inversely proportional to # of human interventions However, I think that having a human might give a higher quality result, even if you could do it with less interventions. I used Solveit to implement & score myself on one of the tasks (very easy & reproducible paper setup, kudos for that! It was a relatively simple data anonymization task, my score was perfect (same as the AI). The resulting code was much simpler, almost half the LoC and methods. The median score of GPT 5.5 is 0.763. I would love to see more people's results! If you are interested in trying out a task, you can just use my dialog which is fully setup and just choose a different task! share.solveit.pub/d/62a08cb8… Share the results if you do

I'm happy to say that today I'm joining @answerdotai ! I am happy at a technical, personal and spiritual level. On a technical level, they write fantastic software (SolveIT, FastHTML, nbdev, fastspec), articles (why you shoud write) and great courses (fastai, solveit). I see no end to my learning and path to mastery in here. On a personal level, I share interests with many of them beyond sw like sci-fi, chinese or robotics. On a spiritual level, AAI's stated goal is human flourishing, but in all fairness it seems to be more or less the goal also for all companies striving for AGI. So why AAI? When I read Huxley's "End & Means" I realized that the ends cannot justify the means. Moreover, using means opposed to your goal are unlikely to bring that goal to happen. Violent revolution for example, has rarely brought subsequent peace the book argues. Many labs have great goals too like human flourishing, long-term benefit of humanity, or improve billions of lives. However, often the means seem to sue each other, refusing to hold hands, or benefit humanity (but not China). Or lock in people to their sw, sometimes leveraging dark-flow patterns or fully gatekeeping access. I assume it's very hard to run such behemots in a fully consistent way. That's not a problem for AAI. It is a small team and their founders fully embody the company ethos. @ericries taught a whole generation of founders how to build w/ the Lean Startup. However he also saw that not all means are created equal: not all ways to make money are equally good. To make sure money making would be aligned with humanity's benefit he went out of his way with projects like the long term value stock exchange. More recently, his new book Incorruptible is literally a manual to make sure that companies don't go from creating value to society to extracting value from it. @jeremyphoward constantly works to enhance human creativity. He has pushed for making AI accessible to everyone through fastai courses and making sure no ludicrous amounts of hardware are needed to follow them or do meaningful research. The SolveIT discord is also one of the nicest places on the internet. The only rule is to try to be as helpful as possible, and he is the best example of that. I once heard Alan Watts say that there's no point in planning the future, if you can't enjoy the present. It seems to me the same is true for ends and means. Too many people seem to be living in borrowed time until AGI arrives disregarding their current learning, skills and also enjoyment. If you are one of those and you are not happy with that state of affairs, you are not alone! reach out

I am sharing this pi-notebooks extension for those using @badlogicgames Pi w/ notebooks. Notebooks have a lot of json-boilerplate and they are finicky to edit w/ regular text tools. However, their actual structure makes them easier for AI to edit if given the proper tools (ie they have cells ids, you can get a cells' summary, overview etc...) I have just ported the SolveIT / notebook editing tools from @answerdotai dialoghelper repo. It keeps context shorter and edit much better. GH repo: github.com/kafkasl/pi-notebo…