After covid I forgot the names of coworkers, I'm really bad at remembering them. Having something that could just show me peoples names would be nice. Maybe I'm just a bad person for not remembering them and it could be a nice challenge to my existing social behaviors to ask again. I wouldn't trust meta enough to use these glasses, I dont even use instragram.
I use a list in the Reminders app on iOS just for keeping track of people's names. Each reminder is titled after the name of a business, and its notes contain a list of people I've met along with brief descriptions of them and important events going on in their life.
Each reminder is geofenced to the business it's attached to. Thus, when I get within the vicinity of any of the businesses in that list, it shows me the reminder. Kind of like a Rolodex. It doubles as a flash card of sorts when I don't patron the business that day.
I don't depend on it as much these days as this simply existing helped me get better at name recall, but it was immensely helpful when I created it.
As somebody who is also terrible at remembering names, I also used to think this but ever since I saw this idea taken to its logical extreme by some students a few years ago I've become significantly more resistant to it: https://x.com/AnhPhuNguyen1/status/1840786336992682409
I feel you - I've always had a blackspot in my brain for names; I once was showing a new hire around, and about halfway through introducing my colleagues, my brain gave up and I couldn't remember anyone any more. Just awful.
Extend hand for a handshake. Hey, I'm [name]. We've met before but it's been a while.
First, it lets the other person off the hook, because they're almost certainly experiencing the same momentary anxiousness. Second, literally every time I've done this, they've replied like "Hi, nice to talk to you again! And I'm [name]."
It does work 100% of the time, but about maybe 5% of the time people are very very slightly annoyed that I’ve assumed they don’t remember my name. So it’s not totally fool proof but agreed it is a great strategy
As someone who just recently was re-diagnosed for active major depression after a major back surgery this article hits very hard. I recently discussed inpatient treatments with my psychiatrist too. I can understand what the husband was feeling... that the nothing of death was greater than the feelings of life. It's difficult to work with healthcare in general - add a mental issue on top of that and it feels impossible. You have to constantly advocate for yourself since each doctor will only do what is required for their subspecialty and you also have to fight insurance on the other side.
Specifically regarding mental related items are treated as lesser than physical issues. I have Kaiser who has actively been punished by the US Department of Labor [1](2026) [2](2021) for delays in behavioral health care and pushing for out of network therapist. They tried to push these therapist on me twice, both through RULA and it was really a terrible experience. The therapist literally ended my meeting 10 minutes into our discussion when I told him I hadn't finished reading the book he recommended. I am now with an in-house kaiser therapist that is working well. I worry about the psychiatric side of the house as well, they set me up to only meet with my psychiatrist once every three months. That doesn't feel frequent enough to get my medication tuned right.
I don't see this getting better in the future with the current leadership in the US advocating for a "return control to the patients" by reducing SSRI prescriptions. [3]
My only advice for people out there is to take their mental health seriously, if you are having suicidal thoughts talk to your doctor. It may end up being a difficult journey but its better than being alone.
I recommend if you're looking into inpatient treatment and you're not an acute danger to yourself or others, look into partial hospitalization programs and intensive outpatient programs instead. I know Kaiser covers some at least in Virginia.
In my experience with family members, inpatient hospital stays at many hospitals in the US are one of the least therapeutic environments possible, and once you've gone through an ER or psych ER (which most of them make you do), you have no control over which hospital you end up at. In the end your stay is unlikely to be any more than 7 days.
PHP programs on the other hand tend to fill the role that work had previously taken in someone's life for a few to several weeks. They're typically 9-3, held in office parks, and are mostly quality group therapy with a daily or weekly psych visit.
I think there will eventually be pushback from companies that want to keep their IP secrets. The current standard of "we dont train on your data"
but we summarize all your input and output, meaning its not your data anymore and we can train on that.
NIH funded gain-of-function research into coronaviruses in Wuhan via grants issued to EcoHealth Alliance. Which, even if you do not think lab leak theory is likely, is extremely reckless and incompetent.
So, at best, they're funding illegal research. At worst, their research inadvertently led to millions of deaths and trillions in economic damage.
Exactly how many grants are necessary to make up for that, and why would you trust the agency issuing grants for illegal research to manage such a program?
Disputed by the person who approved the funding and has a major conflict of interest? The research clearly qualifies as gain-of-function, as natural viruses' functions were modified.
>Richard Ebright, a professor of chemistry and chemical biology at Rutgers University and a critic of gain-of-function research, told the Washington Post that the EcoHealth/Wuhan lab research “was — unequivocally — gain-of-function research.” He said it “met the definition for gain-of-function research of concern under the 2014 Pause.”.
Very nice and appreciate the effort you put into making this.
Some Improvements that could help:
the location search could be an actual map with pins which would be easier to use
some kind of tags for the different appareal items would help clarify which one, currently i have to click and search each vendor for things im looking for. Specifically autistic friendly / sensory clothing items.
Seconding location based lookups. I might not be looking for something specific, but if I know of businesses nearby worth patronizing, when I need that good/service, I'll visit them then.
I'm new to using more than one agent in a flow so forgive my ignorance here but I have a few questions.
Do you review all the files that are generated to ensure there's no hallucinations? Do you just review the last file of concise findings instead?
Is the intent here that the hallucinations will be countered by running through multiple agents that you end up with only the truth? Have you seen anything in the last version that was egregiously wrong?
I was worried about the cost but if you are using local hosted models, then I suppose you don't need to deal with that as much. Locally hosted models still have issues running commands locally and reaching out to the internet right? So this is all just them running with the context of the file, without reference tot he rest of the project?
> Do you review all the files that are generated to ensure there's no hallucinations? Do you just review the last file of concise findings instead?
Sometimes, yes. Typically I'll read the final fusion doc, and then trace backwards if there is something that looks relevant. Sometimes I'll read all the abstracts as they come through.
> Is the intent here that the hallucinations will be countered by running through multiple agents that you end up with only the truth? Have you seen anything in the last version that was egregiously wrong?
The intent isn't so much avoiding hallucinations, rather I was attempting to acquire unique, domain specific insight. My read-through of the final doc is a 'pick and choose', where I weed out what isn't relevant, and keep what is. I haven't seen anything way out of whack, as agents will typically check each other and call each other out in the review/rebuttal stage.
> So this is all just them running with the context of the file, without reference tot he rest of the project?
This is run in an agent harness locally, so each reviewer has access to the whole project. The review rebuttal stage rarely sees agents re-read files, though, unless one of them is particularly aggressive and is going deep on something (GPT 5 series will do this to make a point, sometimes).
> Thanks for any responses to this.
No worries. This is pretty easy to try, even with something you don't own. You can run it in any harness that allows spawning sub-agents.
If there's a lot of interest, I could spin up a simple web app that does this just so folks can see it churn on a target git repo or project files or whatever.
Some regulation that limited the operators to work in the city they supervise would be an easy job win for some politicians. Create some jobs and look like you’re standing up to big tech.
