Fabian

Can I add myself to the club of people talking a lot with their hands?

Designing interfaces for HomeView-like devices is so much fun (speech to text is highly delayed, ignore that)

AI helps a lot with this, at times almost too much so you stop thinking about the argument yourself, and just let it be explained in 10 different ways. This non-understanding and thinking hard to grasp a problem is indispensable for learning, and I miss it often

Go through any scientific document ... in its original layout (many of you wanted that, i personally like a reader view as shown at the end)

Since so many of you loved this concept, let me answer some questions — many of you wanted to keep the original PDF layout, and that's totally possible (post follows) — GPT 6.1 Sol Ultrafast makes this a near instant (albeit expensive) experience. It also works with normal models, you just get to see a skeleton at times — open source is coming, and my app is too! I had posted this as an interaction concept, but since many got inspired, I'll share it (I know it's been a week, I've been busy, sorry)

What if you could go through any scientific document like this? Pinching in/out = longer/shorter explanation Swiping left/right = easier/more technical explanation I currently keep yelling “explain simpler, shorter, etc.” to AI when studying

One of these is actually a brilliant idea with cool demos and use cases. The other one shows playing a vertical piano?

"I’m probably not the only manager trying to figure out how to interview for people who build well with AI. I haven’t quite figured it out — but I’m scanning resumes and portfolios for little prototypes that exhibit taste, empathy, and principled thinking." So exciting to be alive and coming into the industry during these times. This article by @felixrieseberg is an interesting read, can recommend

I am biased, but isn't she pretty? Now I can use the app to study for my numerical methods lecture, right?

Designers should make bolder interaction bets. Some examples in my note taking app: 1. automatic detection if you want a pen or a marker based on if you're drawing on top of text or not, and the angle of your Apple Pencil 2. every note can be an infinite canvas, if you want it to. there is no toggle, you see the border of the A4 page, but if you choose to ignore it, they fade away 3. all the interactions you have with AI show up in a Arc-style sidebar, grouped by conversations (showing soon)

The disproof of ETH is HUGE. To me, it feels even bigger than the 700 previously solved problems because it's directly connected to what I study every day. I spent the last year with graph and complexity theory, both are impacted by this. There's not many points in time where lectures of foundational theory like complexity have to be adapted. This is most likely one of those. I don't know anything about harmonic analysis or quantum field theory, but if those are of a similar magnitude, chapeau

Are we supposed to expect something soon?

We're at this weird point where it's often easier to vibe-code your software than to find an existing solution that fits. Just had this experience. Wanted to use an old Android tablet as a 2nd monitor for my MacBook so I connected it to my Mac, told Opus 5.5 to code, install and start that. Works insanely good now, even when wireless

During high school, I've had 2 maths teachers; one who explained the easiest path to solve every kind of exercise, and one who only explained the intuition behind the topics. People got better grades with the first approach, but they got used to maths just being pattern matching to a routine they learned by heart that tells them what to do with the numbers on the paper. But maths is so much more. And I only started really liking maths once I understood what I was actually doing. I agree with @gabriel1. Exercises are the most important tool that helps get to that understanding and intuition, though. It's practically impossible to get there by only watching explainers; you have to do it yourself to get a feeling for what's actually going on.

People hate change. It's a designer's job to see past the criticism and push forward into a future where, one day, people look back at the old version and can't believe they defended it. I remember people complaining when we got the red bg in the first place. I like the new version better. It feels modern and versatile. Didn't want to comment on this right away so that I could get accustomed to the new version. Turns out I did.

Everyone now “debloating” their TVs to me clearly points to a future where every screen is just a display controlled by your central AI

A little macOS tool I created and use all the time when at home – say the name of an app and it opens that app, without keyboard shortcuts. Sounds stupidly simple but is tremendously useful and removes the friction of the cmd+tab+tab hassle to find the right app when in flowstate. I was told I should share more of my little experiments so here we go ;)

Went to bed thinking we would get a car that can hover centimeters above ground. Woke up and I have literally flying cars all over my feed. We truly live in the future, it’s insane

Sometimes I dream about a desktop operating system without a mouse pointer where i control everything with gestures on a trackpad