sollewitt

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by sollewitt 22d ago
The guitar is also immaculate slowed down and that was her too. I always thought it was some hotshot Nashville session musician. One of the best guitar licks of all time.
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by sollewitt 2mo ago
Right: it’s just context, it’s not a contract. Same with “skills”.
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by sollewitt 2mo ago
Vint took what could have been a prestige emeritus position at Google and turned it into a platform to champion accessibility and “Greyglers”. The man has more class than his suits.
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by sollewitt 3mo ago
I just want to call out that the craft in the webpage is exactly the kind of thing AI cannot produce: it's quirky and tasteful and combines modern web influences with graphic print traditions - it is awesome.
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by sollewitt 4mo ago
I think we need to unionize, across companies. We need to be able to block stuff like this, and to be able to demand that you can’t lay off someone to replace them with AI (bringing US workers rights up to the bar set by China). We also nee
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by sollewitt 4mo ago
The write up is maybe out of date - they are for sale in the US: https://us.alessi.com/products/toru-electric-kettle (From inheriting an Alessi electric kettle in past life: if you are an aesthete go for it. If you are
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by sollewitt 4mo ago
That would have made a great a reboot of the 90s Fiat Coupé.
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by sollewitt 4mo ago
In an attention economy the thing that pays is capturing attention - a terrifyingly finite thing that determines our lived experiences. Rewarding people who are good that this is a compounding mistake.
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by sollewitt 5mo ago
The missing bit is a representation of knowledge, and a way to represent a learner’s comprehension. Even if you shortcut by synthesizing a textbook in every major topic - that’s just one arbitrary representation, and the way topics overlap
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by sollewitt 5mo ago
This is US centric, but you can show this to anyone in any major city in the western world and they will nod. The problem is global. Any time you are told the problem is immigrants in your country or that your local politicians didn’t build
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by sollewitt 5mo ago
<nods> I had that reaction when they mailed me an offer to join a recruitment event sometime around 2013. Not quite as creepy as recently when Anduril sent an email saying I was "on their radar".
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by sollewitt 5mo ago
From TFA: it was in port at the time.
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by sollewitt 5mo ago
Pine sap. You can get a schnapps of it, obviously.
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by sollewitt 6mo ago
Google is famously a slime mold.
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by sollewitt 6mo ago
I didn’t mean to be hyperbolic, for carbon footprint I’m looking at cumulative footprint since 1750 and not only recent annual footprint. I’m glad we agree, I take your notes.
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by sollewitt 6mo ago
In CA AB-435 is written to apply a 5-point fit test to anyone under 16.
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E-Bike for the Mind(djmurphy.net)
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by sollewitt 6mo ago
If you don't count the externalities, sure. Healthcare is a cost too. We need more holistic accounting, the financialising of everything into a tidy but ultimately false P&L column is literally killing us.
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by sollewitt 7mo ago
Government physical mail is pretty great, you just need the right regulations.
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by sollewitt 7mo ago
Thanks - that’s the maddening with flakes - is it the thing under test or the thing doing the testing? Hermeticity is a lie we tell ourselves :)
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by sollewitt 7mo ago
I would be very interested in reading about this kind of orchestration and filtering than data acquisition if you have the energy for another post :)
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by sollewitt 7mo ago
But does it work? I’ve used LLMs for log analysis and they have been prone to hallucinate reasons: depending on the logs the distance between cause and effects can be larger than context, usually we’re dealing with multiple failures at once
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The long tail of niche AI apps on demand(djmurphy.net)
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Don't use AI for randomness, use the atmosphere (Since 1998)(random.org)
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by sollewitt 7mo ago
They are both the legislature and the judiciary.
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by sollewitt 7mo ago
Society needs art. Artists produce art. There a pantheon of greats that had no commercial success in their lives but moved our culture, we’d be so much more culturally impoverished if we’d insisted they become shit plumbers.
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by sollewitt 8mo ago
The bigger issue: datacenters in space are disposable. All the extremely recyclable aluminum, silica - you extract it, manufacture it and instead of recycling it when it’s done you incinerate it in the atmosphere and scatter the ashes far a
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by sollewitt 8mo ago
Also Wired and weirdly People Magazine (and before they were all fired J17)
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by sollewitt 8mo ago
No, rockets landing themselves is just controlling the mechanism you use to have them take off, and builds on trust vectoring technology from 1970s jet fighters based on sound physics. Figuring out how to radiate a lot of waste heat into a
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by sollewitt 8mo ago
In 2026? Grift.

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