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padolsey
4,466karma·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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Biased,.. but I've been building a site that does this for a few years now and reckon it's not bad. It's more of a passion project. Lets you type in books you like and then will find th…
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What upsets me most is how much of a treasure trove of data that amazon/goodreads are sitting on and yet their recommendations are still pitiful. A basic collaborative-filtering algorithm would b…
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AFAIK his paintings were never intended to be 'realistic' in the sense we may value, but instead: symbolic. He played with color, intensity, and perspective, expressing vast emotion, and in …
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> I haven't seen or heard of anyone that seriously uses ChatGPT to generate code and uses it in prod I have. And I'm sure others have too. I dare say there are many who probably _shouldn&…
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> The TLDR here is that PMs should not be running all project meetings. Engineering managers, IC project leads, or tech leads need to be managing engineering execution, not PMs. I think this is a b…
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A startup still needs capital, even in the era of increasingly cheap LLMs. And the bar of innovation is now higher. The playing field has changed; if everyone now has access to increasingly competent …
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Once the temporal fixes are applied, the residual morphing and flickering actually quite appeals to me. Reminds me of the animation style in A Scanner Darkly.
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Looks really good - pleasant UX and seems nicely semantic/accessible! Also seems to allow slight mispellings which I really like. I tried building my own autocomplete thing for ablf.io and it was…
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I think, for me, it is not a product. It is a creation. There inlies the crux i suppose...
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I wrote a book, and remember reading the first review. It was a one-star rating complaining that the book had been published late. I was in hospital at the time recovering from a brain injury. My brot…
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I have always taken feedback poorly, and my brain has been very unkind to me during performance reviews. I don't really trust people who claim to "love feedback" or find it "good f…
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It's very cool, and uses the same principles as lots of other neurorehab electrical devices out there. I used an FES ('Functional Electrical Stimulation') device for a while that has a …
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For me the most awesome thing here is the 100MB file upload function. May sound like nothing, but this is groundbreaking when we've been so far constrained by token limits. This means we don'…
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I usually ask it to write me a nextjs app and deploy it to vercel. It gives me a few commands and files to plop in the right directories. E.g. `npx create-next-app foo; cd foo; ...; vercel --prod;`. O…
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OpenAI disagrees :p https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-... …
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We've come a long way from `progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.BasicImage(rotation=2)`. It's really wonderful to see.
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Hi HN. This is a small experiment using GPT atop a recommendation graph I've been developing for a few years. While GPT is broadly aware of books and their topic areas (dependent on its existing …
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Super! And thank you. I love this granularity of tooling now. it’s overwhelming, if anything. To my original comment, I think I’m just naturally very wary of people losing themselves in the weeds with…
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> DevTools now gives you the list of all the CSS selectors that got calculated by the browser engine during this recalculation operation. This is cool. The rest of the article IMHO is just an examp…
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Outside of AI models, copy/pasting snippets from the likes of StackOverflow is already on unsteady ground. The threshold to bother with (and win) legal fights is pretty high. AI is catalyzing som…
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Right under the chart you reference, the study states that these figures are confounded: > [...] this crude observation was confounded. Adjusted for age, sex, comorbid illness, and socioeconomic st…
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Probably good for rehab after injuries.
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I've just started a new role as an EM and because of disability have been able to reduce my hours (and proportionally my pay) down to 20hrs per week. I work only 9am-3pm [minus 1hr for lunch] on …
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Did you all pay $185k for these?
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Why comment then?
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It's just some dude's blog. You chose to read it. Entering into someone's personal newsletter and expecting them to NOT write about themselves is a weird thing. Maybe the egocentrism is…
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Very true. FWIW I’m not an academic by nature so wretchedly practical perhaps and probably impatient with what I see as narrowly applicable studies.
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Ah thanks that makes it a bit clearer. I guess I (falsely) see mathematics as the “purer” manifestation of a thing and thus hold it to account to abstract the complete substance of a thing and its pro…