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Embrace first world anarchy, fight back with humor
I wonder if part of what LinkedIn is doing is not just generating free “content” to be read by humans, but an evaluation or benchmark dataset to score human written content, similar to how captcha is used to get image classifications?
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Hug, Helped or Heard
Who should handle the customer’s issues? We’ve all experienced a time when we just wanted to rant and release our frustration in the company of someone else only to have them propose “solutions”. When I read Kerem Kocer, blog on “how founders should address Customer Support” I was reminded of this NYTimes article I read…
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The Alignment Problem
What gets measured gets done This reminds me of when I first graduated from college and had health insurance that covered $25 of my gym membership if I went 12/month. I was already on a rowing team and I only used the gym for the pool to train for Tris so sometimes I would go…
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Nonsense language | Real meaning
I’ve been playing with Storied, a voice to text writing tool, both on my own and recently with my daughter. My writing process consists of:1) consuming way too much information2) trying to blurt it all out in one go3) trying to make connections more explicit between topics and ideas I intuitively associated One of the features…
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Team Creamsicle 2024
My search for a basic daily checklist app I went looking for a tracker app and I found Google Forms is the easiest option. Like so many others, I’ve hit a point where it’s imperative to make some changes to my daily routine to improve my health and the new year is a great time…
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Data in Chief | Focus & Specialization
Over the past 18 months Ethan Aaron has become a friend of mine and many many others. He and Portable are building thousands of data connectors between the long tail of SaaS applications. They are enabling just the “E” and “L” part of the ExtractTransformLoad process. My first thought knowing they could populate data into standard schemas from SaaS…
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Google is eliminating 300 daycare spots
In the news for those laid off in the last round of Bay Area cuts was a notification that Google is closing a childcare facility in Mountain View which served 300 children. While I don’t know how many employees will be forced to find new daycare providers or if the childcare was subsidized or market…
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Giftig
Are LLMs a gift or poison? In English a gift is a present 🎁In German Gift is Poison ⚰️ Giftig meaning poisonous is my favorite false cognate because it’s like a Trojan Horse. The word sneaks in looking like a present prepared to kill. The overnight ubiquity of LLMs in our lives leaves us vulnerable…
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The compounding impact of Wonder & Awe
I’m doing an admittedly haphazard job trying to become informed about AI implications for my life and work. This non-linear approach is a good thing! I’ve been binge listening to Morgan Housel for a few months and synthesizing his ideas with other thinkers and life lessons. Housel primarily writes about investing and personal finance, but almost always…
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Hype or minting money?
The return on ML projects can be monumental, but many of them have negative returns. Yesterday I read Rob Litterst‘s post about the immense increase in Adobe’s valuation since they announced their intention to acquire Figma. My first thought was it sounds like the rise of crypto-currency or any other asset bubble in the last 200…
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