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by musesum 7mo ago
What I hope to do with refactoring is to distill namespace and common patterns into a DSL. I am very curious about what tradeoffs you found.
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by musesum 7mo ago
Am waiting for the next Mac Studio to come out to experiment with the "AI for everything" approach. Most likely, the open source distilled models will lower quality. So, another "price vs quality" tradeoff. Still, will b
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by musesum 7mo ago
Good idea. Am still a bit shy around token budget spend.
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by musesum 7mo ago
I wrote something similar in a Claude Code instructions.md: "minimize cyclomatic complexity" What happened next? It generated an 8 line wrapper function called only once from a different file. So, I told it to inline that logic in
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by musesum 7mo ago
I wrote something similar in a Claude Code instructions.md: "minimize cyclomatic complexity" What happened next? It generated an 8 line wrapper function called only once from a different file. So, I told it to inline that logic in
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by musesum 8mo ago
I wonder. I follow @DamiLeeArch on YouTube. She talks about architecture in the built environment. Ostensibly, built for Humans. At least for now.
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by musesum 9mo ago
Has California Law changed, since 2015? My company was acquired by another company that had in-house lawyers. California Law states that you have rights to your own IP, when produced on your hardware and on your own time. So, I was careful
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by musesum 1y ago
Long ago, a proud moment for me was writing -20K lines of code in a month. A few years ago, I tried that again with a remote team of 20 coders. I failed; I couldn't keep up with the barrage of pull requests. Today, pair programming wit
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by musesum 1y ago
So, aside from trust the biggest barrier is lack of adaptability?
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by musesum 1y ago
My chain of thought: 1) Aaron Marcus - who found optimal menu count to be 5 +/- 2 2) Magic number 7 +/- 2 3) Fitt's Law selectivity (bigger is easier) 4) Shared layout for mobile + desktop 5) I hate short form 6) Is 5) a non-
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by musesum 1y ago
Personal context is tacit experience. Cultural context is aggregate. Wittgenstein stated that the differences between personal and cultural language makes it impossible to agree on anything foundational to philosophy. Godel did something si
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by musesum 2y ago
>> In 2023, the company said it pays out nearly 70% to the industry Does not stop there; there are tiers of middlemen: https://youtu.be/kVY7-Ti77UQ?si=2neBSw4yJL7qGdxX&t=441
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by musesum 2y ago
Apple also squandered maps ... until they didn't.
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by musesum 2y ago
I look forward to the James Hoffmann review, should it ever come about. Am tempted to buy as a piece of functional art that I can drink. Currently, the 9Barista serves that purpose. Every. Morning. Bought it after the Hoffmann review. Good
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by musesum 3y ago
I was going to submit the same link. Like Benn Jordan, I was an AutoPilot enthusiast. Was going to buy a Model Y with FSD, until a drive from CA to AZ nearly drove me off the road. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=317069
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by musesum 3y ago
Someone suggested that companies with a board of directors are the first AGI. Somehow OpenAI reminds me of a paper by Kenneth Colby, called "Artificial Paranoia" [*] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/artic
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by musesum 3y ago
ALS is a configuration. Blindness is a configuration. Conventional UIs are built for a different configuration. Accesible UI usually overloads the conventional. If you start from scatch, sometimes you find something new. If you're luck
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by musesum 3y ago
I've been working on the menuing side [1] based on crossing Fitt's Law with Huffman trees. But, don't know the constraints for ALS. Hopefully, whomever takes this on doesn't take the standard Accessibility approach, whic
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by musesum 3y ago
Was tested while attending an electronic music class. Professor displayed everyone's result, so we could compare. His chart was the worst, as a cautionary tale. Too many live performance in front of the PA.
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by musesum 3y ago
well, I used to have super hearing. Had a hard time being around CRT displays because the flyback transformers were really really loud. Now, with age, I get a phantom limb tone of 16KHz. [1] Coincidentally, the peak notch in the OP was the
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by musesum 3y ago
My old boss invested in Kiteship. The Oracle Americas Cup team deployed one for a day -- but, not during competition. I suspect it messed with the competition's head for a brief moment. He did mention container ships. Feel free to reac
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by musesum 3y ago
Would love to see a directed Graph generated from a LLM prompt. So, instead of a NoFlo source text, a NoFlo-style graph. Coincidentally, I'm writing a flow based patchbay for scalars, called "MuFlo"[1]. Kinda low level. I won
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by musesum 4y ago
Seems like a tradeoff between fixed assets versus variable assets. Writing code that doesn't change for years is a fixed asset. UX is a fixed asset. Somewhat like the construction cost of putting up a building. Maintaining the code and
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by musesum 4y ago
Let's see: spend x to train something that would cost .0001 x to copy. Tis a quandry. Plus: a new tool for state actors to spread disinformation in perfectly convincing English. What could go wrong?
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by musesum 4y ago
For a shaggy-dog-story from the previous century, check out The Silver Eggheads, by Fritz Leiber.
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by musesum 4y ago
To be honest, I wasn't smart enough to wrap my head around Schank's semantic graphs. However, was/am inspired by this: "best way to make a machine think is to first make it teach" [1] [1] https://www.wire
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by musesum 4y ago
Whaaa???!! I guess if you can think of it, it will probably exist at some point.
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by musesum 4y ago
Will Wright taught me about "turtleducks" Met him at the Computer History Museum, maybe around 2007. He had a branching storyboard-style presentation with 100's of slides. In the middle of the talk, he asked the audience abou
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by musesum 4y ago
A friend once owned Mike Markula's old home. He claimed that is where the Apple garage was. He sold the house for $1M, which was high for the time. The owners then razed the house (and the garage) to build something bigger. But, then c
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by musesum 4y ago
Extreme commitment makes sense if you believe in the mission. Such as saving the planet with EVs. Not sure what Twitter's altruistic mission is. Giving up family life to enable trolls may not seen like a good trade.

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