Anjan Katta
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@karpathy We’re building exactly this at @daylightco ! . Happy to demo to you in person . A little sneak peek:.
context switching is the mind killer 💀. ai can be used to supercharge distraction and addiction. we at daylight are trying to figure out how to superpower your focus and stay in flow. here’s a sneak peek of ai reading on the daylight, no more context switching —
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The behind the scenes of a public launch . (Yes we’re falling asleep on the floor)
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One of the core advantages of working at daylight, is you get to have a daylight . Oh… you also get paid
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Hard at work replying to twitter comments post launch 😰😮💨. JK ENJOYING THE DAYLIGHT 🌼🤪
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We had 300 ppl at our office for an event . The vibe when 1/300 left standing:
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Cool to see how sincere imperfection makes a compelling aesthetic . Scanned PDFs are so beautiful on the @daylightco
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“It’s all a little cringe-inducing at times. ”. I got called cringe by the verge - I’ve made it in life 😭🥹😌. Verge homepage main headline. Have read the verge almost everyday for a dozen years. absolutely surreal to see your own thing on there 🤯
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@CatoMinor3 @daylightco We built our own PDF parser / renderer so we could PDF our performance match our hardware performance.
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It’s amazing how a very very simple AI integration, but implemented with a great UX, can be so incredibly useful . No more opening a new tab in Google and getting lost . Never even leave the thing you’re reading to understand it.
context switching is the mind killer 💀. ai can be used to supercharge distraction and addiction. we at daylight are trying to figure out how to superpower your focus and stay in flow. here’s a sneak peek of ai reading on the daylight, no more context switching —
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We’ll bribe you $1729 to return it back to us after a week . Deal? 😉🤝.
I wanna buy this. But just like an iPad I am 99% sure I will use it for a week. And then it'll just collect dust somewhere while the battery dies.
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@garrytan We’re building this at @daylightco !! . Wanna meet and I can personally demo to you? . A sneak peek:.
context switching is the mind killer 💀. ai can be used to supercharge distraction and addiction. we at daylight are trying to figure out how to superpower your focus and stay in flow. here’s a sneak peek of ai reading on the daylight, no more context switching —
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Holy shit 12 days away . More than 2000 days to get to today . 🐛🦋.
COUNTDOWN TO LAUNCH. 6 years in the making, 12 days to go 😳🤩. (ps here’s what 5 years ago looked like - living out of a 7x10 ft. $500/month coworking space in the heart of Silicon Valley)
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Unpaid and unsolicited (!).
@nbashaw @AnjanKatta @lexdotpage I couldn’t have written all my final papers this semester (40 pages) without my @daylightco. It’s the only device that guides my focus instead of enabling my distraction. Taking it outside is incredible
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Oh this dude gets it . 🙏✨.
@daylightco Strive to make a product that people refuse to believe is real.
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Happy anniversary @daylightco . Hard to believe it’s been 5 years since we officially started . What a journey to keep this thing alive . The founding phone call happened on the mountain side of a zen meditation center at like 2am april 1st, 2019
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It’s crazy how many thing have to come together to pull of a launch . Behind the scenes of our launch video
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Total Solar Eclipse 2024 . A moment of darkness, to usher in an age of light 🌕☀️✨
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@GolGappay102 @Rx7Jordan @daylightco Daylight screen on time: .- 67 hours while reading, no backlight.- 30 hours while youtube, no backlight .- 30 hours while reading, 30% backlight . It’s an epaper display - how is that misleading? Can your normal emissive oled/LCD be used in the direct sun?.
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@androsoa3 @karpathy @daylightco Yup your highlights & comments & questions get added to a knowledge graph we’re building , & meta tagged so can be separable.
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@CatoMinor3 @daylightco No what I mean is try doing this on your iPad Pro with preview or pdf expert - it’ll have latency / raster time when you zoom in. it’ll be blurry for a second before it fills in. This doesn’t happen on the daylight cuz we built our own best in class PDF reader.
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STEVEN LEVY GAVE ME A HUG 😭🫂✨.
Enamored with the early PC era (🎼we haven't had this spirit here since 1989. ) this founder is launching Daylight, a "calm computer"--a fast electronic-tablet that focuses on essential tasks.
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“The more real you get the more unreal the world gets.”.― John Lennon.
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@Magickcircle369 @DrJackKruse @twocitizenships @nayibbukele @stacyherbert @maxkeiser @GoingParabolic KRUSE2023.
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3/3 Mark Weiser’s vision for “Calm Computing” - a vision of computing that disappears into your environment . (What we’re pursuing as > VR!) .
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@fortelabs @Hyperpaper_ @daylightco It’s technically epaper . (We found a new way to build a reflective Paperlike screen that preserves the most important qualities of eink except for bistability).
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Getting my indian politician vibes warmed up . Recent talk in El Salvador, kinda our first big unveiling .
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@Altimor Flo we’re literally building this at @daylightco.
context switching is the mind killer 💀. ai can be used to supercharge distraction and addiction. we at daylight are trying to figure out how to superpower your focus and stay in flow. here’s a sneak peek of ai reading on the daylight, no more context switching —
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@SanGraphic @mayfer Daylight battery life tests, screen on time:. - 67 hours while reading, no backlight .- 30 hours while youtube, no backlight .- 30 hours while reading, 30% backlight . PS.Kindles last months . But A remarkable with flipping through PDFs doesn’t last very long . Eink refreshes are.
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@HeiligeHare @daylightco @OnyxBoox Onyx Boox is conventional eink, 1-2fps, can be overdriven to be 5-10fps but with terrible ghosting / contrast loss / no grayscale . Ours is 60fps, no ghosting . I own 3 boox products, made this cuz I wanted something better . You may disagree, but hope you give it a try.
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I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm pretty convinced at this point that UFOs are real. and there is a high probability (70%+) that they are manned by extraterrestrials. Oh boy was this a journey in figuring out signal from noise. Thread of the evidence that convinced me:.
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Fun fact - guess which other computer company was also founded on April Fools? . 🍎
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“I do not consider myself less ignorant than most people. I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books. I have begun to listen to the teachings my blood whispers to me. My story is not a pleasant one; it is neither sweet nor harmonious, as.
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@Nadimify @MKBHD How could you see it in direct sunlight if it was just a LCD? . You can watch this video for a deeper dive into the screen tech and see more footage of the screen in action .
The world's first 60+ FPS e-ink display by @daylightco on Episode 45 of S³. See how it works, the 6-year development journey, and Daylight's vision for the future of personal computing.
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'creativity is the act of making the obvious obvious before its obvious' .- bill buxton.
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@duns_sc0tus Our whole invention was resurrecting an old technology (rlcd) to be useful once again (LivePaper) . We go into more details here .
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"Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.". - Will Durant.
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@bbark87 @daylightco I’ll buy you 30 cans of Pringles if you can show me your iPad working clearly in direct sunlight without glare.
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@_Taurean @daylightco It’s literally a Lamy Wacom stylus, one of my favorite accessories for the tablet!.
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@dmikeyanderson PS day 2 electronics never exist if no one buys day 1 electronics . This is how the status quo wins, we stay in the safe house of our day 5000 ipad.
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@anabology @TheRomanFly @daylightco 🫡 we want to do it right. What would your top 3-5 non negotiables in a daylight phone be?.
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"For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.” .- epictetus.
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Physics, biology, economics, politics, history, philosophy, spirituality, religion - it all changes. “The more real you get the more unreal the world gets. ”.― John Lennon.
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@ayushchopra96 @daylightco 🫶. Ps the LPM demo about lockdowns was fascinating, feel free to DM me anytime!.
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"My former boss, Ben Graham, made an observation 50 or so years ago to me that it really stuck in my mind and now I've seen evidence of it. He said, 'You can get in a whole lot more trouble in investing with a sound premise than with a false premise.'. If you have some premise.
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@jdpereira No color but 60fps epaper tablet . I built it so I can have my dream paper reading device that was good at annotation also .
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@samim hi! Been big fans of your work for a long time! DM me if you’re curious about daylight ? :).
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The very first three links we shared in our daylight group chat:
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"Between stimulus & response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth & freedom.".--- Victor Frankl.
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"Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees.".- Robert irwin.
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." — Anais Nin.
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@Paul_Rony guess what we’re up to at @daylightco !! . PS.This is why our first product is called the daylight computer and not the daylight tablet :). Dm me?!.
The computer in the woods..When Alan Kay wrote his famous article "A Computer for Children of All Ages," one key part of the description of that ideal computer is the lightness of the Dynabook as an object. It must be as easy to carry as a notebook, as light as possible, and as
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You come for the king, you better not miss 😤🫡.
The point he’s trying to make is the very reason why Rick Rubin makes timeless music, and why Jacob’s music sounds like a talent show that I’m forced to be at.
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2/3 Apple engineer talks about the new 2015 MacBook . (🤣 still die laughing every time 🤣☠️) .
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“If I had more time I would have written a shorter letter.” .-Blaise Pascal.
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@DeepPeriphery @daylightco We’ll release a bootloader unlock tool so you can do whatever you want.
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"Some people get rich studying artificial intelligence. Me, I make money studying natural stupidity.".- Carl Icahn.
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@DmitriyLeybel @AnjanKatta Isn't about the night mode, the daylight tablet has the fastest refresh rate of any eink device on the market.
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“I cannot remember the books I have read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me.”.— Ralph Waldo Emerson.
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"the future is already here — it’s just not very evenly distributed" .- William Gibson.
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@nicoritschel @daylightco I answer in more detail in my hacker news comment . The tldr is 3 patents & 5 years of development overall, & 2 years of joint development with the manufacturer . My last line answers you specifically :) .
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"I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can't see from the center.- Kurt Vonnegut.
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@MartinIbsen @jasonjoyride There’s a bunch scattered across twitter, maybe we can pull it together in a thread.
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@alixwiessser It’s a great point. Do you think the answer is completely removing the oracle in the sky, or do you think there’s a potentially better UX paradigm / way to access it that provides enough friction that you actually are forced to think?.
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"history is made by men who have the restlessness, impressionability, credulity, capacity for make believe, ruthlessness and self-righteousness of children” .- Eric Hoffer.
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"the secret to good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or a new thing in an old way.".- Richard Harding Davis.
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"The rabbit runs faster than the fox, because the rabbit is running for his life while the fox is only running for his dinner.’" .- Richard Dawkins, Selfish Gene.
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@michaelgarfield Where are indigenous people most “wrong” cuz of historical inertia, instead of all their ways being considered wise?.
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@vitafas @bitcoinand_beef @daylightco Yes! What size would you want? . What resolution would be your minimum to still buy? 1080p fine?.
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