Nathan Gilliatt

Good points being made here. An update on #smem practices for the late 2020s is overdue.

What does the tooth fairy have for puppies? And where should I put the tooth?

Thinks of taking the puppy to the park. Cue thunder (literally).

Thoughtful. www.youtube.com/watch?v=t84b...

What’s the technology equivalent of “the market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent”?

Asking an LLM about a less-discussed topic and recognizing particular phrasing from sources I know.

Very happy I don’t have to pay royalties on the songs that pop into my head

I only just read @scalzi.com’s Old Man’s War, and every post about being nice to a GPT makes me think about the characters’ rude names for their AI implants

Stumbled into the notion of Track III diplomacy today. Seems the elites could use our help.

Small idea for those leaving the bad place: Have you removed/changed the social links on your profiles, company/personal pages, etc? No need to keep promoting the site that no longer exists.

Waffle House isn’t closed but they’re down to coffee, grits and burger patties on toast. How does that rate on FEMA’s Waffle House index?

Added STEPIC to the PEST/PESTLE/STEEP/STEEPLE menagerie at a meetup last night. On our way to EPISTEMIC. Hm, M… Mythologies?

So X Spaces is Clubhouse?

The audacity of spellcheck to presume that it knows what people call their grandparents

Two trains in town blowing their horns. In different keys. Makes it easy to count the trains, I suppose.

@davekarpf.bsky.social Something meta about seeing a Wired article on reading old computer magazines. www.wired.com/story/i-love...

Songs that celebrate the day of the week:

Songs that celebrate the day of the week:

I'm researching for a book about markets in data, but between here and there, I plan to share a lot of what I figure out in the newsletter. The trial balloon flew last week, so here we go.

I guess it's not a secret once you start talking about it.

Following some folks from the other place. It's an interesting exercise.