toddmorey

The design is fun and gave me a lot of nostalgia, but I admit they overdid it. They could have made that piece feel the same without so much distraction. And please people, support reader mode. It…

"Prompt artist" makes me sigh out loud

I worry more about the human behavior predictions than the artificial intelligence predictions: "OpenBrain’s alignment team26 is careful enough to wonder whether these victories are deep or shall…

My theory is that it actually has nothing to do with trade at all--why else would the story changes so much when they are asked to describe the methodology or rationale? This is how they cut taxes wit…

This is really well articulated. It's like how a company uses fiduciary responsibility to shareholders to justify a pivot away from some kind of principled stance.

I could totally see how you'd arrive there. Backstory: create-react was a starter boilerplate for React built and maintained by Facebook. This was when webpack was the standard and just getting a…

That actually doesn’t counter the argument

Yes Sesame Street was a blend of care and craftsmanship along with research & testing.

It's still bullshit. For example, the last cited study ($3 million of their claimed $8 million) aimed to find out why asthma is so much more prevalent in women than men and learn more about gende…

They are very hand-wavy in the privacy & security section.

I think it's a smart starting point as it's compatible with all IDEs. Iterate and learn and then later wrap the functionality up into IDE plugins.

I wonder about the inline air fragrance systems used by pretty much every hotel these days to produce a "signature scent".

I’ve tried a lot of tiling window managers & Spaces replacements and it’s hard to take over that central piece of the OS reliably. There’s always at least one of my critical apps that freaks out. …

Hear me out: the web / oss community could absolutely band together and rebrand JavaScript. Could be: LiveScript, WebScript, etc. There would be good support and we could do it fairly swiftly. To…

using surplus cinema lighting equipment is genius.

I remember standing up on office chairs to twist the florescent tube bulbs above my desk just enough to turn them off. That light was just awful. It helped a lot until maintenance would come in at nig…

In the history of LED lighting, it took quite a bit of work (hybrid phosphor technology, etc) to get them to emit warm color temperatures. The exact color temp can be a personal preference, but I thin…

Reminds me of the old Rackspace days! Boy we had some war stories: - Some EMC guys came to install a storage device for us to test... and tripped over each other and knocked out an entire Rack of…

I feel like they were really headed the product promo / integrated shopping route.

This is a really good writeup. Thanks for posting it.

I've heard the algorithms for YouTube shorts are much worse. Most people have said the best thing about TikTok is how well it learns the content you want to see.

Anyone here who's not a TikTok content creator reasonably upset about losing access to the platform? Can you tell me why it will sting for you? I was really surprised that my daughters (avid teen…

In my experience when existing laws allow an outcome that causes enough significant harm to groups with influence, the laws gets changed.

For clarity, I do agree that synthetic data is huge for training AI to do certain tasks or skills. But I don’t think creative work generation is powered by synthetic data and may not be for a quite wh…

I don’t entirely agree. For example, it’s a very popular scheme on Etsy right now to use LLMs to generate posters in the style of popular artists. Any artist should be able to say hey I don’t want my …

No way OpenAI will ever “good citizen” this. Tools to opt out of training sets will only come if they are legally compelled. Governments will have to make respecting some sort of training preference h…

What Paul Graham misses is the "aggressively performative moralism" that appeared in response to wokeism. For those hungry for attention, it was a very useful enemy. In many ways, the narrat…

The best line of the article: "Pretending that typing a text prompt into Suno makes one a musician inflates the worth of that output and the company." You are basically sharing fused search …

AI is a neutral primitive; a new type of compute. It will be applied in both positive & negative ways. Man I’m still deciding if the internet, as a whole, has been a net benefit to society & c…