The AI rewrote his laptop touchpad stack and cut the lag nearly in half
The AI rewrote the touchpad stack on his ThinkPad T14 running Linux and Hyprland. Touch to cursor time went from about 33 ms to about 18 ms.
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Making things, learning and having fun · 960 ideasThe AI Desktop started services on his machine unasked, and it scared him
The AI Desktop, newly able to run bash, started brew services on his machine without warning, which freaked him out.
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A free tool for drawing on brain scans, built with AI
She has been building SurfAnnotate with AI and two colleagues, a free browser tool that runs on Neurodesk. It makes drawing regions on cortical surfaces a lot easier for researchers.
'Kai' built a 7-day family meal plan for 3 on a $50
Corina Noriega (130K; busy mom, nutrition coach, trainer) used her agent 'Kai' (a cartoon dog) to build a 7-day family meal plan for three on a $50 grocery budget, starting from fridge/freezer items (chicken tenders, beef) plus her training schedule and macro goals. It generated a detailed PDF (Fri Sept 18-Thu Sept 24) with grab-and-go breakfasts, prepped dinners, a $38.43 shopping list, training windows, and daily 7:30 AM reminders.
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The AI runs my Telegram channel for NHK documentary alerts
He used AI to make a Telegram channel for NHK's Documentary 72 Hours. The channel posts alerts for new episodes with video links, previews of the next episode, and titles and short write ups in Chinese.
Bought socks, ordered Whole Foods groceries, booked a cleaning service, and picked
X poster someone had the AI run a day of errands: bought socks, ordered Whole Foods groceries, booked a cleaning service, picked a burger dinner, and saved $200 by canceling unused subscriptions.
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Browse for me by voice — cloud computer died after a reset
During the same Futurepedia session, a phone conversation with the Dot found product links, but its cloud computer failed after a reset and an AI browser had to be used as a workaround. The scheduled-task tab also would not open during the recording.
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An LLM decoded his drawing tablet's packets in 15 minutes and connected it anywhere
Sicced an LLM on Wacom Bluetooth and USB packets to connect it to an unsupported system; it decoded everything in 15 minutes.
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A language model transcribed a whole historical correspondence volume
A researcher had a language model transcribe a digitised volume of Sophie Germain's incoming correspondence at the national library, and published the transcription. Working from it, he spotted a mathematical note written on an 1814 letter cover and is asking who wrote it.
My AI designed circuit boards came back from the factory working first time
He has done a couple of circuit boards using AI and Fable. Each one came back from manufacture working first time, which he says beats his own success rate doing boards by hand.
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