Remembering Jeffrey D. Gordon
https://peginc.com/remembering-jeffrey-d-gordon/
R.I.P. @…
1972—2024
@… 😅 I was going to ask how you remember these ten year old talks but I remember some of yours too! barcamp at slowdown!!
Far cry from the Uptown I remember from the 90s.
If I were one of the remaining small business owners, I’d be working like hell to get the weird back. Where there’s weird, there’s life.
As someone who even used Anki to remember using certain new commands (and failed), I’ve jumped on @…’s approach immediately. Having the suggestion right there in the terminal is just more useful than doing flash cards on a train.
Since, unlike him, I’m young, vivacious, and dynamic, I’ve went for lolcrab instead of some ancient parchment, of course.
Not to brag but I just remembered why I went upstairs yesterday.
#oldFolksOfMastodon
While skipping through the opening credits of this anime episode, l thought, wait, I don’t remember that shot…
Sure enough, this series has (mildly) evolving credits.
I only noticed because I happen to be on an airplane watching a downloaded episode, which for some reason disables the Crunchyroll app’s “skip credits” button, so I had to skip manually.
That’s the problem with evolving credits: if you’re not paying attention you won’t notice they’ve changed!
The skit is: you arrive in Venice and remember you forgot a wedding gift... you log on to the wedding registry and...
Setting aside copyright/commercial/other aspects, a thought about writing blog posts that LLMs train on. When people write posts, they (a) feel good about helping others, and (b) hope to get some credit and visibility for doing so.
When mediated through LLMs, no longer the satisfaction that your consumer is a human (who might comment, thank, share, etc.); nor the cred that comes from people remembering the author, posting on HN, etc.
That is, it totally destroys the incentive str…