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You missed one particular class of typo.

- Three physicist were there

- Six dentist agree

- All the specialist are here

Specifically, plural words ending in -ist, if you say them quickly, it’s easy to drop the final -s.

Why in the world would you leave it off when typing? Because you’re typing what you hear as you “say” it in your head.

I find it fascinating and super annoying. It’s jarring every time I read it.

Kings has dozens or hundreds of people who did all those things for them, and more, at their command.

“Is evolving into” is code for “marketing made all this up.”

TIL Claris still exists.

I saw in a public library once, a grocery card swap box. You were supposed to register for a grocery discount card, and then every so often swap it for someone else’s, so your buying patterns couldn’t be accurately tracked.

We need to do that with cars. Every so often swap your car with someone else. Then your “driving pattern” will be all over the place so nothing comes up suspicious.

Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

I think the title undersells the accomplishment.

He made an animated button gif that scrolls the entire text of Moby Dick.

4.2 Mb, 19 hours long.

Top quality useless proof of concept. 10/10.

People have such trouble with dichotomies.

Musk is highly accomplished and has also over-hyped his plans many times.

He’s delivered things years late that were also years ahead of others.

The actual work of SpaceX and Tesla are done by his employees, but the company wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for him.

He’s expressed some laudable goals around green tech and space exploration and also done things designed to enrich himself immensely.

Tesla’s done some cool things and also had problems.

SpaceX is awesome and Musk is also a terrible human being.

Dichotomies are uncomfortable but they’re everywhere.

So would you want a genius figuring out how to do everything you ask it to from scratch, or do you want to train someone how you want something done, so they do it the same way every time and you don’t have to explain yourself over and over?

Nondeterminism is actually a bug in many cases, and training, process and procedure, is how we mitigate it in humans.

I’d argue programming is much less accessible now. For starters “programming” means a thousand different things and where do you even start?

My Apple //e came with one language, BASIC, it was built in, nothing to buy, and came with a book on how to get started writing it.

But yeah I didn’t start at 8.

We didn’t get that Apple until I was 10, so that’s then I started.

The harness that connects to a chatbot, API or voice interaction is the place to route requests to different systems. If you remember the early days of ChatGPT it explicitly said it was routing image generation to Dall-E after embellishing your request itself first.

Determining which tool to use should be a lightweight operation but I’m not expert enough to understand exactly how much lighter than a full LLM call just to recognize it needs a different tool or model.

Woah dude I took a nap and woke up in 1995.

Heh. Link is wrong but here’s the text:

Then the Lord said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land.

Not to be this way but can you not go to a local jeweler and buy a ring with a lab-grown diamond in it, no assembly required?

AI coughed up a bunch of references that put their stockpile estimate at around a year. Might have been more at one time but nothing close to 100.

Everything you said is why I don’t agree with the idea that “everyone will be writing their own apps.”

Can’t wait for a world full of apps as janky as most spreadsheets (or Access or FileMaker databases)