bill

heard an arthur russell song playing faintly in a cafe and for a second i thought it was dwight yoakam

things i’ve come to understand with age: - dessert cheese plates - the phrase “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast”

if we can do distracted driving, we should be able to implement a whole range of automated traffic and parking violations

started dabbling in are.na the Pinterest for Hipsters and the lack of feed ranking is already killing me

wake up babe, new andy matuschak talk just dropped

the rapid spread and abuse of 🙌 by tech startups should be studied

a watched A record update never propagates

comprehension debt

As I like to say, it isn’t clear that there is an AI bubble but there’s definitely an OpenAI bubble.

does walking to Trader Joe’s count as touching grass

any linguists got a word for a sentence that gives you whiplash from semantic surprise

tired: ai psychosis wired: ai hypomania

slop fork

slop cannon

broadcast spawning

puckered sacrificial barrier

Laufey is the Taylor Swift of Bossa Nova

mozart 4th violin concerto was kind of a dud

procedural crowds

latent romanization

even worse, engineers may soon be expected to have “taste” some notes on how we might do this here: brob.town/notes/2024-1...

scrollytelling

some of these new Sabrina Carpenter tracks were written by Chappell Roan, right?

to the fine folks @anthropic.com idk if you gather preference data for post training from consumer chat logs but if so may I suggest grepping for “You’re right, I was over-engineering it. Here’s the simplified version”

LLMs are currently bad at very basic questions involving standard musical notation and theory. Trying to convince @komaniecki.bsky.social to help build some evals for this

god move 78

“if our robot could give dobby vibes, that would be good…”

this thread articulates one of the most cogent explanations of the different senses of the term “agent” i’ve seen yet

how many dudes in the army know the word cadenza anyway

some friends and i are imagining what a pedagogically motivated IDE for nontechnical folks might look like and i will be updating my design doc to quote this skeet, ty @tedunderwood.me

halle berry neuron

spotify is missing ability to browse by record label

if you’re one of the 76.2k monthly buxtehude listeners on Spotify, dm me

“it was at that place in bushwick where everyone looked like mac demarco”

latency sensitive

buxtehude

let go of your darlings (the code that you actually know how to write but which Claude will generate much more quickly than you)

accidental tahdig

is deadlifting is protective against seasonal affective disorder? in this study (n=1) we find that the answer is yes, definitely

if you wanted to build an experience like TikTok on AT Proto, wouldn’t you need to include every user’s granular interactions (dwell time) with videos as a part of the data model? likes and comments are not going to cut it

til the british neologism sodcast: to play music on a portable device in public without regard for others from sod (contemptible person), not a word u hear much in American English and cast (broad-, pod-)

the lines between fiddling around, building something real, and doing Research and Development are so blurry these days