This is a short story about AI, which I would usually write and share on my second blog linus.coffee. But I liked this one enough, and thought it was interesting enough, that I’ve opted to publish it here, instead.| thesephist.com
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This March, I spent a couple of days traveling through western Iceland.| thesephist.com
As I’ve written more often, writing has become more than just a way for me to communicate. To me these days, writing is the creative by-product of my learning and thinking process. If I learn something new, it begins life as just an idea, thrown somewhere into the distant orbit in my mental solar system of ideas. Over time, as this speck of an idea develops through conversations and readings, it starts growing and colliding into other ideas. Asteroids of ideas agglomerate in my mental orbit...| thesephist.com
Last March, when the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted my travels and threw a wrench into my general life plans, I took a couple of months of break from work to recollect and work on my own projects full-time. Many of the projects I ended up building were about growing a personal universe of tools that augmented my workflows, the way I wanted my thoughts and ideas to flow around me. I learned that I enjoyed building tools at many different levels, from thinking about how we should design better c...| thesephist.com
I spent the last couple of months delving deeper into how I could integrate elements of modern machine learning with my love of building personal knowledge tools. This is a space brimming with untapped ideas and experiments to come. One open question for me is how exactly human users should interact with AI integrated into knowledge tools and creative tools.| thesephist.com
Monocle is a full text search engine indexed on my personal data, like my blog posts and essays, nearly a decade of journal entries, notes, contacts, Tweets, and hopefully more in the future, like emails and web browsing history. It lets me query this entire dataset to look for anything I’ve seen or written about before, and acts as a true “extended memory” for my entire life.| thesephist.com