u/Mescallan

I want to preface this with: I completely respect people's opinions on AI and I'm not trying to convince you to change your opinion, the goal of this post is just to advocate for some decorum in the community.

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Yesterday, a post here about the Embody framework came up, and the discourse in the comments was pretty emblematic of a subset of users in this sub and I just want to address it and hopefully have a discussion for the betterment of the sub and community.

For context, it's a framework to externalize TD project settings so they are programmatically addressable , which includes by AI (1/3 of the framework seems to be AI focused).

This is a member of the TD community, who clearly cares dearly for the art form and community, this post and framework was not released by OpenAI, it just happened to take advantage of LLMs. The comments were very vitriolic against anything related to AI, as if the poster was committing some sin by releasing a free tool for the community.

This is like going into a post about a free photoshop plugin, and berating the author for the ethical practices of Adobe. Like it's fine to have an opinion on AI, it's fine to express your opinion on AI, but you need to realize that someone releasing a free frame work is not taking your job, is not subjugating creatives, is not burning the oceans. They are just someone trying to make a tool, that we all love, more accessible to more people.

The people using AI with TD are also not doing any of those things either, the people using these tools are trying to express themself just like you and I are. They are only choosing a different layer of abstraction, arguably a different medium. No one is getting rich off of TD, and the people who are using this as a source of income are realistically taking advantage of any tool they have access to.

Ok I'm going to stop there, I could go on, but I feel like it needs to be addressed that it's fine to voice your opinion on AI, but please be respectful to others and realize virtually everyone in this community is here as a form of self expression first and foremost.

Last week I made a meta post and got very little input, so I can only go off what was the highest upvoted or most agreed upon comment as a mandate for the sub. I do admit this does align with my personal beliefs for what is best for the sub as well, and if there is enough community backlash, of course I will always be open to reversing the decision.

My thinking is that we can incentive these app makers to make rich, and valuable contributions to this sub, in exchange for visibility for their app.

The format that will be allowed is to have the flair [Ad] in the title, but in exchange they must present some novel research, data aggregation, or otherwise valuable contribution to the sub. App name can be posted throughout the post body, app photos can be shared if directly relevant to the research, I will delete posts without comment if app photos are shown without being directly related to the post.

This cannot be "I tracked x personal data for y days", it must be substantive outside of their personal experience.

If they are using data tracked from their app their users must be explicitly aware that their data is being used for research and displayed either individually or in aggregate. This will be an immediate ban, and I will recommend a ban to our sister subs if we find out you are sharing user data without their understanding.

I have to admit this will increase my workload significantly as I will have to read and evaluate each one of these posts manually, whereas now I can just skim for app names or links and delete.

As usual I am open to changing this policy if it becomes clear the community is not getting value from these posts.

Hey everyone,

We had an incident yesterday where a branded account ( literally "u/___App") made a rather well researched and high effort post about sleep trackers, aggregating data that is not otherwise available in a single location outside of their research.

There was references to their app, and discussion in the comments about the app, these are two things in which the community has been pretty clear, from my perspective, as crossing a red line. I do my best to enforce the rules as representative of community sentiment in these contexts. The post got reported, and I had mod mail asking why it was allowed to stay up, while others were taken down, so I took the post down.

What do you think I should have done in this situation?

I can rewrite the rules to allow references to monetized apps in substantive posts, but that would also open them up to a judgement call on my part. We can keep our strict "no references to apps or monetization" rule or loosen it up in favor of community engagement.

Also if you have any feedback on the way the subreddit is being moderated please contact me directly or drop a comment here. I am currently 10 time zones away from US time, and I am the only active mod as far as I know, so I admit that a few things slip through the cracks sometimes.

It's a bit light on details relative to this subreddit standards, but feel free to AMA about NLP on apple devices, or low resource computers.

Hey,

I'm not going to post the app here, but I've been developing an on-device NLP (natural language processing) stack for about 2 years, focused on turning journal entries into a lifestyle dataset. In its current form, users record 10-second voice notes throughout the day that get automatically categorized and saved (100% locally) into a rich lifestyle dataset.

I'm struggling to get traction because I'm competing with 10,000 low-effort, vibe-coded, cloud-processing, narrow tracking apps. I'm very confident this project solves a real pain point in a way those other apps don't handle well.

The people in this community are exactly who I built the app for. I use it to quantify changes from my supplement stack, dial in my weekly exercise volume against energy levels, and so on.

I've posted here a few times with mixed reviews, but I'd like to step back and ask directly: what are you looking for in a lifestyle logging app? What would a killer feature be for you? Any advice from a past project of your own?

I'd love to hear your thoughts.

The inputs are 4x geiger tubes that produce 20-40 "chirps" per minute each, then each tube pair will filter for muons (when a pair chirp within a specified time span it's almost certainly a sub atomic particle passing through both, with muons being the overwhelmingly most common), which gives me six pairs. Each pair is at a different angle, so it's sampling a different direction of the sky. Muons are also essentially a chirp. I can use any of these 10 channels with a modulo counter to generate numbers based on the detection time, or sample the time between detections or any combination of tubes and such. (I also have a temp/humid/pressure air sensor that I'm using temp as a mod wheel)

I have been producing music for a long time, so my first instinct was to make some ambient/procedural music/sound scapes, which was fun, but honestly not anything I would listen to without the context of the universe playing the instrument. I feel like there are a lot of interesting things I could do with Touch Designer and stuff like that, but i'm not even sure where to start. Any advice is appriciated.