Maikel

I'm having such a weird day today. Started with energy (as sual) and considering lighting, temps, humidity and rest I though i'd be the day to take a 60mg Medikinet and get stuff done . All it's given me is major hyperacussia, I'm wearing my ANC headphones and can hear every sound on the street, despite the ANC being on. I just took a lorazepam+zolpidem to try to sleep it off.

Honorary mention to this quirky place on our way to the bar at the very far from the beach end of the lake

Had the perfect day to jumpstart and get stuff done, did nothing. Took 60mg medikinet and only for 2 hour helped me concentrate. We've reached peak. That means from here on the pills won't work for me. I should be trying the bridarcia pics instead and get some hard data on disautonomia. The weidest path of it all is how in a humid enviroment with a fan facing my belly goes away. AGAIN it feels like a rigid threshold. No fan = suffeirng. Ny computer desk ias a nightmare to sit comfortbaly. I don't blame the desk, I blame the chair

And the strangest looking lighthouse I've seen in Galicia so far.

The place was massively humongous.

From the chapel we saw a big fat sign with a "do not go in under any circumstances. Keep out" sign ahead of the ruins of an old fish farm, so what did we do: we went in and explored, of course.

From there we decided to randomly go to Valdoviño (I've never been) and I can say it definitely is the one beach worth going to spend the day. Fine-grain sand, very clean water, plenty of bars and toilets, a lake, a walk in the shade, lots of good looking German eye candy 💅

@owenblacker@dataare.cool it's like every town has its own weird-looking lighthouse, it's rather to see two with the same shape in Galicia

From the lighthouse to the chapel in nearby Meiras

From there to the light house

There's a whole insane market about this all, nomad project is one. At the end of the day they are all aiming at the same: self-sufficiency in a world that seems to be aiming at shrinkflation and ever growing inequality. There's this other thing, a bit more complex than Meshcore called Reticulum, it goes one step further by pretty much creating your own kind of walled community internet, without internet. I don't want to take it that far. Meshtastic is good, Meshcore is IMHO a lot simpler. Both are unfinished efforts but Meshcore feels more polished. Meshtastic feels like vi, while Meshcore is like NvChad. With Meshcore I get instant messaging, with Meshtastic there's a delay. Online info makes you think you need a third board to work as router with Meshcore but that's not true at all. #meshtastic #meshcore

Let me give you another example: real life. My partner and I have a notoriously different working-memory size. He thinks I'm more intelligent than him, I am very aware I am not. Whatever he has his focus onto he can solve that problem as fast as I can. The difference is angles. I can see many angles in parallel, he cannot. So when a problem requires many levels of detail I'm faster reaching a solution BUT when a problem is straightforward to solve, he's usually faster, my tree-like way of thinking gets in the way. I'm not overthinking, I just physically can't avoid branching into angles. So what's my solution to simpler problems: choose the first apparently viable solution and stop there. The same rule to avoid analysis paralysis works to avoid letting my brain branch out. Hence why "less is more" is in my right forearm tattooed as a reminder. Now with this background, what happens if I just take the first option: errors. Thousands of them per day.

Every iteration of it giving you the wrong feedback, makes you refine your prompting, add more detail, add more steps, YOU are building the abstraction in your mind with the help of a thing so dumb that forces you to go to the very last detail. Add QDrant to have some long-term memory past the 128 thousand tokens max, so it can keep up with YOUR reasoning and the result is: The LLM is actually training you, the roles have reversed. A smart LLM can do things on its own, a dumb LLM is just an inquisitive toddler. That is how I think it's possible to use them for a cognitive not even enhancement but improvement. Dumb models are making me think deeper and by doing so I'm connecting more information, learning quicker, using better my focus and attention, and ultimately hacking the shortcomings of having a brain that never stops and it's ever hungry for data. The End

Let me give a better working example, since I'm a heavy local AI user: choosing deliberately a dumber model. We all here know the term rubber ducking, don't we? If not, well, it is more or less when you talk to yourself aloud step by step about how to solve a problem. The exercise makes it easier to think and faster to reach the solution, because it is an active cognitive exercise. Enter the dumb but fast model, for example LFM2.5-8B. It is dumb as fuck, so you assume already ahead of prompting everything it says will be either wrong, inaccurate, a lie or stupid. Which means every problem, you try to solve with it would require far far more YOUR own knowledge than the model. The model just becomes a thing to keep your focus because it replies back very quick, more than 400 tokens per second on my PC (token generation). If you're the kind of person who reads the thinking blocks, with something that fast and yet that dumb, you'll think very carefully what you prompt.

So you're seeing live on this thread a small example of how my branching brain works, I started from a question, an ignorant assumption and real empirical data based on self-experimentation and awareness of my own differences. From there I work my way back the branch of the tree to realise how my assumption ("vast majority of people...") is an error, and branch from the new knowledge if "wait, I can't actually know" how a subset of that other group who happens to be the one noticing cognitive decline, also ends up getting bored about it in quitting (so, no decline, just wisdom). And then the branch of teenagers hating it which is quite a big chunk of the world population. So...I don't really know the answer, of what it'll do for certain to the vast amount of people, what I can maybe deduct (new branch of a branch) is that not only the hype may end soon but rejection will be so heavy and once it becomes mainstream the big 2 (Anthropic, OpenAI) will cease activities.

Now let's go back to the blanket statement at the beginning "I think for the vast majority of people it'll cause a cognitive decline" I wrote. An excellent question would be? How the fuck would I know when I can't think the way they do? So what I know for certain is only that for a subset of people it can definitely cause a cognitive improvement. While for the vast majority, it's at best: guessing. And that guessing is not far from the "videogames will dumb people down". It never happened, the opposite was true. The one thing I know is the human brain demands using itself, and when an activity becomes dull, it finds another one more stimulating or complex. And that's the same for everyone. People who used AI and noticed a cognitive decline, ends up STOPPING to use it. Boredom stopped the decline. So now we know For tree-way-like thinking people causes an improvement.For a subset of the vast majority it bores them.Teenagers seem to hate it 👇 https://fortune.com/2026/05/20/why-do-kids-hate-ai-gen-z-backlash/

So what do I do when I fall? I stand up quickly and try again. Brain has its own life, the moment it sees the error it'll branch out in multiple other "apparently" viable options, solving problems become a refinement of the previous iteration, what worked before is preserved, what caused the error is re-analysed in parallel, the apparently best solution chosen. My working memory size allows for this, solving daily life as the Travelling Salesman problem. His working memory size, as it is more linear, requires priorities. And when things require priority, there isn't enough bandwidth for errors so he tries to avoid them. So my partner, like most people, is error-adverse, while I love errors because I learn from them much faster than from being right. See again with this example, how a dumb LLM amplifies the natural way my brain works? And this tree-way of thinking is common to most people with high cognitive abilities so I'm not alone.

Such a joy to be able to use markdown, isn't it?

I've never felt more identified with anyone than with both Ramona and Annie from Sterling Point.

From Annie the sense of loss, of someone missing, of having to play the role of that missing person.

From Ramona the sense of opportunities I could have had since my forever stranged father is nowhere near poor. Let alone the entitlement of my siblings, their blindness to how much better they had it.

7/10 I cautiously recommend it. At times it is vomitively corny and puritan, other times it feels a bit like Heartstopper, just with a change of subject: instead of

what I would have loved my childhood to be if being gay was as boringly normal back then and not a nightmare

It becomes

what I would have loved my young adult years to have been after meeting my actual siblings and after being raised by a nice person and not an insane narcissistic and manipulative psychopath and her homophobic, violent and generally bigoted husband.

#whatToWatch

I've never felt more identified with anyone than with both Ramona and Annie from Sterling Point.

From Annie the sense of loss, of someone missing, of having to play the role of that missing person.

From Ramona the sense of opportunities I could have had since my forever stranged father is nowhere near poor. Let alone the entitlement of my siblings, their blindness to how much better they had it.

7/10 I cautiously recommend it. At times it is vomitively corny and puritan, other times it feels a bit like Heartstopper, just with a change of subject instead of:

what I would have loved my childhood to be if being gay was as boringly normal back then and not a nightmare

It becomes:

what I would have loved my young adult years to have been after meeting my actual siblings and after being raised by a nice person and not an insane narcissistic and manipulative psychopath and her homophobic, violent and generally bigoted husband.

#whatToWatch

Heatwaves go away

I'm falling in love with Meshcore. Allow me to explain: I didn't expect it to be any interesting, I was just curious about being able to text my partner without any mobile broadband signal AT ALL, because Galicia has far far too many places, especially here in Sada where this is actually true, starting from nearby Fragas do Eume or the nearby forest. But now, it feels like what I was seeking with XMPP or DeltaChat, total privacy without any third parties involved. It reminds me of BitChat, chat over Bluetooth except it isn't, he can go really really far and the conversation is still instant, over Lora. The app needs some polishing yet it is an open source effort, so contributing is a matter of investing time. And even what it can already do is quite awesome. #meshcore

There's one reasonable answer to unrequested messages of the type Why don't you just try instead software B And that answer is Oh, you're one of those. When they double down you just reply Yep

@owenblacker@dataare.cool small sample of them

@owenblacker@dataare.cool yes that's one of the oddities of this one. But I've seen more square ones. The one in Oleiros and the one in Santa Cristina are some examples