An LLM conversation is like handling clay. When I don't grok an answer I mold the LLM's approach to fit my level of mastery of the subject. It's one of the few interactions you can have in life where you can tell…
> Or we ship a feature and never circle back to check whether it's used the way we intended, so we keep shipping more on the same untested assumptions. It's not on you to track the whole lifecycle of a feature, that…
For you, the day General Electric graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me? It was Taco Tuesday.
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize,…
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at…
There are Black Mirror episodes for people in all sorts of careers who find themselves with too much power, poorly handled; the show's narratives depend on the fact that the technology is the axe but not the executioner.
Optimistically, perhaps the thread is undersubscribed because people with good ideas to change the world are using them for their startups.
Private black ops that does stuff that state-level actors find awkward to do, like retiring former KGB members from their executive roles in a kinetic fashion, trying out at least a dozen different low-to-medium cost…
This captures readers with high willingness to pay. They might only be one reader per 20,000 readers, but without the button there would be no way to capture it. I often reflect that as a normal consumer of commercial…
The opposite is the case; this is understatement, and the term "quite insane" should be interpreted for the neutral reader as "undeniably and irredeemably insane." (Because James Barrie is an author whose works are in…
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." ("I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.") Blaise Pascal
Their efforts at AI have been really sad to see. They tried making an Everything Bagel and seem to have hit a wall, hard. It's a shame because if they'd taken an iterative approach of automating various parts of a…
Strangely, New York is not listed.
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier ('staircase wit')
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
Not a Cannes film: 'Given the breathless way this news has reverberated through Silicon Valley, it feels important for me to set the record straight: This is, at best, wildly misleading language. You see, I checked…
I realised this in 2006 when I committed the faux pas of wearing a cerulean blue sweater to a screening of The Devil Wears Prada.
I think it was in these forums where I first read that you can gauge AI progress by the velocity at which people move the goalposts.
> You complain if it does not work, but nobody writes a review about how perfect the aircon was. This one is more often called a 'hygiene factor'.
tl;dr - describe your product/service in terms of the User Benefits. A lot of website homepages don't do this very well because the creator is too close to the detailed work of building it and can't see the forest for…
You can't subtract cats, you have to concatenate then truncate.
The left-hand side of the customer base bell curve gets more attention because they call and email the most. If you design for the most competent users, there's no metric for that. If you design for the least competent…
The Energy Minister was, until recently, Simon Watts.
In the first project, it seems that the old dashboard is intended for a manager doing reporting while the new dashboard is intended for a staff member actually handling the tickets. Did you have anything at all in the…
An LLM conversation is like handling clay. When I don't grok an answer I mold the LLM's approach to fit my level of mastery of the subject. It's one of the few interactions you can have in life where you can tell…
> Or we ship a feature and never circle back to check whether it's used the way we intended, so we keep shipping more on the same untested assumptions. It's not on you to track the whole lifecycle of a feature, that…
For you, the day General Electric graced your village was the most important day of your life. But for me? It was Taco Tuesday.
"The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize,…
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at…
There are Black Mirror episodes for people in all sorts of careers who find themselves with too much power, poorly handled; the show's narratives depend on the fact that the technology is the axe but not the executioner.
Optimistically, perhaps the thread is undersubscribed because people with good ideas to change the world are using them for their startups.
Private black ops that does stuff that state-level actors find awkward to do, like retiring former KGB members from their executive roles in a kinetic fashion, trying out at least a dozen different low-to-medium cost…
This captures readers with high willingness to pay. They might only be one reader per 20,000 readers, but without the button there would be no way to capture it. I often reflect that as a normal consumer of commercial…
The opposite is the case; this is understatement, and the term "quite insane" should be interpreted for the neutral reader as "undeniably and irredeemably insane." (Because James Barrie is an author whose works are in…
"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." ("I have made this longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.") Blaise Pascal
Their efforts at AI have been really sad to see. They tried making an Everything Bagel and seem to have hit a wall, hard. It's a shame because if they'd taken an iterative approach of automating various parts of a…
Strangely, New York is not listed.
AKA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27esprit_de_l%27escalier ('staircase wit')
When elephants fight, it's the grass that suffers.
Not a Cannes film: 'Given the breathless way this news has reverberated through Silicon Valley, it feels important for me to set the record straight: This is, at best, wildly misleading language. You see, I checked…
I realised this in 2006 when I committed the faux pas of wearing a cerulean blue sweater to a screening of The Devil Wears Prada.
I think it was in these forums where I first read that you can gauge AI progress by the velocity at which people move the goalposts.
> You complain if it does not work, but nobody writes a review about how perfect the aircon was. This one is more often called a 'hygiene factor'.
tl;dr - describe your product/service in terms of the User Benefits. A lot of website homepages don't do this very well because the creator is too close to the detailed work of building it and can't see the forest for…
You can't subtract cats, you have to concatenate then truncate.
The left-hand side of the customer base bell curve gets more attention because they call and email the most. If you design for the most competent users, there's no metric for that. If you design for the least competent…
The Energy Minister was, until recently, Simon Watts.
In the first project, it seems that the old dashboard is intended for a manager doing reporting while the new dashboard is intended for a staff member actually handling the tickets. Did you have anything at all in the…