Ben

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Polymath by education, amateur by nature, professional by choice.

Background: #Mathematics, #Physics, #Psychology
Interest: #Photography, #Music, #Doublebass, #Art, #Philosophy, #Books, #Movies, #Writing, #AI
Politics: (green classic) liberal
Places: 🇹🇼🇪🇺🇩🇪🌐

I am mostly here to chat about art and the open society. I will also share photos at times.

Websitehttp://bensahlmueller.com
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Show threadBenFeb 23
@jcape @glyph It seems the important difference is between labeling a „lie“ and a „liar.“ A single lie doesn’t make a liar and while the latter might be correct, it’s also correct that most efforts don’t achieve more than to argue/prove the former. If the argument about the argument is in good faith (and why have it otherwise), I think it’s a show of respect to no discredit more than maybe necessary - or to at least be open that instead of debating the issue you want to debate a person‘s vices.
BenJan 9
Asta [AMP]Jan 9
I just, like, how much more fucking cartoonishly villainous can you be? "The nazi salute giving half-trillionaire who cut aid programs for the poor runs a child porn site that is powered by poisoning a Black neighborhood"
Show threadBenDec 18
@interfluidity “How strange what happened to this little boy”
Show threadBenDec 18

@kepano Integration of csv files, maybe even through bases? I have many cases where a whole note feels too much for a data entry but a line in a markdown file too unstructured, e.g. logs, people, places. Csv plays well with many apps that export to csv and would be a foundation for more data analysis directed features and plugins.

Not sure about the implementation, if eg a base could query md files in the canvas plus csvs and how to chose whether new entries are rows in a csv or new md files.

Show threadBenDec 3
@adamgreenfield That insight extends to the whole systems theory nexus in a way. Actors, relationships, levels of abstractions can be applied to almost any situation or problem and so complexity feels like an inherent attribute. But there are other ways to look at the world that might be much more simple. Complexity then too might say more about a preferred frame than the thing it describes.
Show threadBenSep 19, 2025
@glyph Positively surprised, feels like Apple took a risk making things more weird and alive than they needed to be and for me that’s laudable. It does serve the function if making the navigation clearer in many cases too.
Show threadBenAug 6, 2025
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Show threadBenJul 29, 2025
@glyph @mttaggart Whenever I do this I realize how nice it is that this isn’t shoveled into my timeline by an algorithm that „just wants to help.“
Show threadBenJul 29, 2025

@glyph

Last but not least: Last gen LLMs are actually quite good to get you started - just as a way to map the parameter space of the relevant terms and how they are related in the scientific and general discourse. I use them after getting a head start via wikipedia that helps me understand the basic lay of the land to figure out what to search for in scholar. Often, asking for the seminal papers, reviews, and researchers is also a good start.

And youtube lectures can be surprisingly helpful.

Show threadBenJul 29, 2025

@glyph

To finally also answer the actual question (-ish) instead of doing the reply guy thing of giving unsolicited advice: I remember this video by Andy Matuschak as one of the few I have found. I’d be super happy to learn about more!

https://youtu.be/DGcs4tyey18

2020-05-04 Note-writing livestream

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