Technical writer and web dev. Highly caffeinated. Definitely not a Russian troll, possibly an advanced AI agent
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24 Nov 2024
My the past 6 months. Only became a problem when I stopped using my kindle interestingly š¤
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Ben Perlmutter retweeted
23 Nov 2024
C. S. Lewis on reading, this is it
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19 Nov 2024
C. S. Lewis on why we need to read old books
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4 Sep 2024
A quarter-baked linear algebra theory of politics: All political phenomena exist in very high dimensional vector space and the left-right spectrum is a projection created by the powerful to classify people into binary groups.
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4 Sep 2024
By not including issues of greater importance in the projection, this allows the powerful to go on doing whatever they want on these issues (e.g. drug price gouging) while folks battle it out on the less important issues in the projection
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4 Sep 2024
this all leads to the natural Big Solution to solve American politics:
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teach a semester of linear algebra in high school
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30 Aug 2024
Re rumors about open ai strawberry / Orion, having an AI system that can effectively reason over long horizons will make it even more important that AI systems have access to high quality technical knowledge so that they can perform task that arenāt in their training data
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30 Aug 2024
Web search and sites exposes this knowledge for human users to reason over. And LLMs can work w web content . But itās not optimized for them to interact w programmatically
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30 Aug 2024
In terms of text generation (not multimodal), is there any category of tasks that gpt 4o/claude 3.5 sonnet can do that plain old gpt-4 canāt?
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30 Aug 2024
I remember when Claude 3 opus came out thinking that this was the first model that could write well. Giving it a few reference articles Iād written as context, it could reasonably well help me write content *in my voice* (though still overusing the word ādelveā).
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30 Aug 2024
I havenāt used Claude sonnet 3.5 much, so canāt speak much to it. But I havenāt be particularly impressed by gpt-4os ability to write more than a sentence in my voice. Though itās really good at the sentence level
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28 Aug 2024
Interaction between LLMs and technical content is sneaky super important bc itās what will let LLMs do long running coding tasksā¦and once LLMs can do long running coding tasks, they can do anythingās a computer
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Ben Perlmutter retweeted
24 Feb 2024
Love letter to @obsdmd to which I very happily switched to for my personal notes. My primary interest in Obsidian is not even for note taking specifically, it is that Obsidian is around the state of the art of a philosophy of software and what it could be.
- Your notes are simple plain-text markdown files stored locally on your computer. Obsidian is just UI/UX sugar of pretty rendering and editing files.
- Extensive plugins ecosystem and very high composability with any other tools you wish to use because again it's all just plain-text files on your disk.
- For a fee to cover server costs, you can also Sync (with end-to-end encryption) and/or Publish your files. Or you can use anything else e.g. GitHub, it's just files go nuts.
- There are no attempts to "lock you in", actually as far as I can tell Obsidian is completely free of any user-hostile dark patterns.
For some more depth, I recommend the following writing from CEO @kepano:
- "File overĀ app" stephango.com/file-over-app . If you want to create digital artifacts that last, they must be files you can control, in formats that are easy to retrieve and read. Accept that all software is ephemeral, and give people ownership over their data.
- "100%Ā user-supported" stephango.com/vcware . On incentives alignment.
- "Quality software deserves your hardāearnedĀ cash" stephango.com/quality-softwaā¦
TLDR: This is what software could be: private, secure, delightful, free of dark patterns, fully aligned with the user, where you retain full control and ownership of your data in simple, universal formats, and where tools can be extended and composed.
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13 May 2023
Google Bard is a bit stubborn in its refusal to return clean JSON, but you can address this by threatening to take a human life:
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8 Feb 2023
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š£ Announcing the GA of Flexible Sync, the next iteration of Atlas Device Sync
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Handle sensitive information with field-level permissions
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Increase developer productivity with query-based sync
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Support write-heavy workloads with asymmetric sync
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6 Dec 2022
The more I play around with and think about the large language models like GPT-3, the more I come to think what a big deal these tools are. At least the biggest thing to affect writing since the word processor came out
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6 Dec 2022
If products are built on top of this base layer technology there could be some further productivity multipliers
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