Very surprising results!

This resonates- my engineering workflow has started shifting from highly focused, long periods of building out a feature to one that has much more context switching, review, and testing.

You can test the functionality at https://go.votecandidly.com/ if you want to skip the marketing page

Bizarre- the repos I looked at all had obvious signs of being GPT-generated.

Some examples

1) https://github.com/Jrbiltmore/Quantum-Transformers/blob/root... - notice the ChatGPT-reminiscent "Example usage" and "Placeholder for _ implementation" which is common across the repos

2) https://github.com/Jrbiltmore/QuantumOS/blob/root/ai-framewo... - "Example ___" and "Assume the model has _"

In case this sparked anybody's interest, I went through the tweet's author's course on RL [1] recently and it was extremely insightful. I heartily recommend it (slides, lectures, assignments are all public)

[1] https://rail.eecs.berkeley.edu/deeprlcourse/

Do you know how does it compare the coursera RL course?

Hey! I happen to be building something very similar in my free time- started off as a hackathon project. Feel free to reach out! Only spent around 10 hours on the current deployed iteration but you can check the idea out here- https://www.withtal.com/

I ran into the same issue out of nowhere with my Spotify app a few months ago- after hitting around 300 users. Apparently, Spotify has a limit [0] on their API quota for auth (around 25 users or so in theory), but don't feature the limit very prominently in their documentation.

Have you requested and obtained a quota extension? I gave up on my app altogether after a couple of weeks and seeing in their documentation "[this] review process can take up to six weeks."

0. https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/concepts...

Oh no, I didn't know about this. It looks like Spotify hasn't authorized anybody but me and I would have to add every user I want to add individually. I don't think that anybody has been able to use this app. If anybody really wants to try it out you can DM me on X https://twitter.com/thelukew3 or follow me there and I'll post an update when it's fixed. Maybe I'll relaunch next year. Thanks for the help.

Don't hold your breath, despite the usual fanfare their review process is as poorly implemented as the rest of their API/developer support https://community.spotify.com/t5/Spotify-for-Developers/Impo...

This seems like a great practical framework- I've noticed that establishing habits like the ones you mention are the only reliable first step to long projects in my life.

Very curious about what you would do on a daily bases that would qualify as "interesting"? Any particularly rewarding "interesting" activities? I'd love to inject some routine variety in my life.

I defined "interesting" as I should be able to list 7 things of note when I call my parents on the weekend. This generally ended up being one of a few different actives:

* Read in a cafe / the park

* Try a new restaurant with a friend

* Go see a movie in theaters

* Go to a concert

* Check out a local art show

* Try an art project at home

The gist of it was that I ended up putting more effort into planning my week by asking myself "what's the cool thing I'm doing today". From there you end up finding venues and actives that have an event that you want to attend (eg a concert) and on slower days you find an excuse to hang out with a friend / do a hobby you find relaxing.

I like all of these things. Kudos.

Agree on relatively strict self-selection being a necessary component for any thriving community. Also, most (dare I say all?) of my friendships have been formed not because I stumbled across an interesting person I decided to bond with, but because some external circumstance (living situation, hobbies) made it so that we were in close contact over an extended period of time.

That is what I was thinking in that you can only join a community after going to an event with it, the goal is to not turn communities into another subreddit but a place where people are truly connecting.

That last line is also completely true for me and the thought is events would lead to an increased amount of those chance encounters especially because people are meeting over things that they like.

Good point; unfortunately I sort of missed clarifying that (it's implicit in the school/kindergarten part).

Forced, especially childhood, interaction may yet be the strongest connector of all.

In a way that's what one sets out to do by becoming involved in a club after all, although it's not really the same as it was...

I've thought a bit about this issue and technology's potential role in fixing it. A generalized app that promises community isn't going to reach mass adoption outside of an extremely viral built-in mechanism. Mostly because the required user density is inevitably so high (also why most new dating apps fail). If you (or any other entrepreneur) is focused on tackling this issue, I'd do it incrementally, by fixing a clear problem in one very specific segment of your potential audience's life, and expanding from there.

Look at an website like https://www.lu.ma which is in some sense accomplishing a similar mission.

Thanks a lot for the feedback, I too was facing the same problem, as with a community-related app the key thing is getting to a critical mass to where it becomes useful.

Interesting, you said about a specific problem, can you expand on what you mean by that?