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padolsey
4,464karma·578submissions·June 29, 2011
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I'm James. Living between Beijing and London. I like coding. Also plants. Stroke survivor & disability advocate. My dog's a whippet/iggy cross and is called Ducky. He's a beautiful lunatic.
* website: [j11y.io](https://j11y.io) * building: [nope](https://nope.net) * bsky: [@j11y.io](https://bsky.app/profile/j11y.io) * contact: https://tally.so/r/waYPvE * twitter: [@padolsey](https://x.com/padolsey) * book recommendations: [ablf.io](https://ablf.io) * me = founding eng @ [collective intelligence project](https://cip.org)
My work email is my first name at cip dot org.
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recent activity (578 total)
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Agreed. Sometimes it's hard to pin down what's so annoying but I think I found the most annoying para ever (from fable fwiw): >The friend's comment sticks because it's true, and…
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Is this just to appease regulators? They surely know this won't work in the long run.
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> No thanks. How come? Is that not a more compassionate way to live?
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I have had bouts of strong desire to move to the US, but I can't get past the uncomfortable feeling that you need to constantly have your back up. Unless you're super-wealthy, it just seems …
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>We don’t care for our children, our elderly, or our communities This to me is the nub of it. Where is our humanity when people lie homeless and lifeless in stupor on the streets as Waymos glide by…
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I think the phenomenon you mention is definitely real, but equally it is true that there are simply places where there are higher proportions of happy to sad people, borne variously of climate, socioe…
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People seem so used to it now. I love them, I think they're probably one of the most exciting tech I've used in the last ten years. They're also like magical little rescue pods when soc…
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I wonder if telling (or somehow architecturally coaxing) the LLM it has 'skin in the game' will make it more risk-averse? I imagine it does. This makes me wonder too about the entire premise…
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>A user should be able to close an account, keep a session, and hand it to another model. The new model may disagree, ask questions, or perform worse. I think this is a fair contract. I also think …
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It means they haven't really thought it through and don't have a consolidated enough opinion to form a specific Ask.
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There's no going back on this. This is putting a very capable intelligence in the hands of the masses. Private companies in the US are aching for Trump's protectionism but it'll do noth…
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TL;DR: Glorified contract role for integrating your employer's APIs with enterprise customers. Like working with mckinsey vibe PMs and being sold on fat margins you'll see none of? Perfect!
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I love these! Highly relevant: "Why So Many Control Rooms Were Seafoam Green" Link: https://bethmathews.substack.com/p/why-so-many-control-rooms... Discussion: https:&…
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That's good. I wonder if it should be opt-in instead of opt-out. Disabled people are arguably less able to find random configuration options than non-disabled counterparts. I get a bit bothered w…
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The author suggests they want three clicks at any pace to always == the same functionality, so they can whiz through their photos and rotate each predictably. Fair. > And it would be so much more p…
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Rendered div soup with pictures of data isn't a web standard and shouldn't be professing to be built for a11y.
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This is just the 'LLM judge', very badly implemented without any scientific prudence. What a joke. To be terse: you cannot rely on LLMs to provide standardized scores against arbitrary crite…
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These vast multi-agentic systems with roles like 'Researcher', 'Writer' (with a review loop), 'Reflection agent', seem to ~feel~ mostly right but lack evals as to the mer…
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Chalkboard, pencil and paper are also technology. Ban them. Instead rely purely on the vocal chords to tell stories of old.
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Tbf this is what 'defence in depth' is and it kinda works.. until it doesn't.
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The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you&#x…
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>Where cash is stigmatized? I haven't seen such a place except PRC. I don't know about stigma, per se, but there are a few places where businesses have a pretty explicit legal right to re…
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>covering such lovely topics as the hardest day of my life, my biggest life challenges, and other similar “trauma-baiting” questions. And this was for a mental health startup!? Please name-and-sham…
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Does anyone know how this even happens inside the walls of google? Is it an automated process? How is such a (presumably) high revenue account just magically blocked without human intervention? I'…
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Nah the bounce is gorgeous
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My understanding was that strokes caused brain cell death, and that there was no coming back from that, but my neurologists would speak of 'bruised' brain cells, and that after weeks or mont…