I explore the potential of typing using eye movements through the Dasher project from Cambridge. I hope this gaze-based text entry technology is commercialized soon to provide a faster alternative to traditional keyboards for accessibility.
Mobile phones provide essential accessibility for the deaf community through SMS messaging. This adaptation repurposes cellular technology, enabling text-based communication as a functional alternative to traditional voice calls.
Letting LLMs talk to each other creates surprisingly rich emergent behavior, from witty fictional banter to unsettling philosophical dialogues and useful synthetic interview formats.
I believe the traditional "three Rs" must evolve: reading remains vital, but typing and computing have replaced handwriting and mental arithmetic. I plan to help schools prioritize Excel and digital literacy over outdated manual skills.
I find faster Ubuntu mirrors, learn FLIP animation techniques, and analyze the Microsoft-OpenAI deal. Most excitingly, I calculate the low cost of using AI as a personal coach to analyze 180 of my recorded calls.
I treat my laptop as a portable library, reading books and movie scripts in bed or on trains. I make the experience better by rotating the screen to portrait mode and using hibernation for instant bookmarking.