Who voted for Donald Trump? Why? (more)

John Gall (September 18, 1925 – December 15, 2014) was an American author, scholar, and pediatrician.[1][2] Gall is known for his 1975 book General Systemantics: an essay on how systems work, and especially how they fail..., a critique of systems theory. One of the statements from this book has become known as Gall's law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author) (more)

Print-to-disk format used by Adobe Acrobat. Sometimes used for EBook publishing. Just horrible, pls use epub. (more)

aka large language model... A language model is a probability distribution over sequences of words.[1] Given any sequence of words of length m, a language model assigns a probability... to the whole sequence. Several modelling approaches have been designed to surmount this problem, such as applying the Markov assumption or using neural architectures such as recurrent neural networks or transformers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language_model (see GPT) (more)

book by Jason Pargin (David Wong), ISBN:9781250285959 (more)

Dan Shipper: Linus Lee Is Living With AI. Linus is an independent researcher focused on building better interfaces for people to interact with generative AI models. (more)

Semantic search denotes search with meaning, as distinguished from lexical search where the search engine looks for literal matches of the query words or variants of them, without understanding the overall meaning of the query.[1] Semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding the searcher's intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the searchable dataspace, whether on the Web or within a closed system, to generate more relevant results. Some authors regard semantic search as a set of techniques for retrieving knowledge from richly structured data sources like ontologies and XML as found on the Semantic Web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search (more)

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (born February 28, 1974) is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosma_Shalizi (more)

MIT's book publishing arm https://mitpress.mit.edu/ (more)

Muriel Cooper (1925 – May 26, 1994) was a pioneering book designer, digital designer, researcher, and educator.[1] She was the first design director of the MIT Press, instilling a Bauhaus-influenced design style into its many publications. She moved on to become founder of MIT's Visible Language Workshop, and later became a co-founder of the MIT Media Lab.[1][2] In 2007, a New York Times article called her "the design heroine you've probably never heard of." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Cooper (more)

DevOps novel by Gene Kim (in the style of Eli Goldratt, and extending his thinking) (more)

Simon Willison: Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew. I just released a new plugin for my LLM utility that adds support for Llama 2 and many other llama-cpp compatible models (more)

Simon Willison: Running a Django and PostgreSQL development environment in GitHub Codespaces. Helping people setup development environments (and fix them when they break) can be incredibly frustrating. I'm really excited about cloud-based development environments such as GitHub Codespaces for exactly this reason - I love the idea that you can get a working environment by clicking a green button, and if it breaks you can throw it away and click the button again to get a brand new one. (more)

Simon Willison: Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM. Llama 3 was released on Thursday. Early indications are that it’s now the best available openly licensed model (more)

Simon Willison: We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics. ...form of problems that Perez et al. (2022) call sycophancy, where a model answers subjective questions in a way that flatters their user’s stated beliefs, and sandbagging, where models are more likely to endorse common misconceptions when their user appears to be less educated. (more)

If I hadn't built Flux.Garden, and I didn't care about working in public, and I was a 25-45-yo time-shifted version of myself, what would I use as a note-taking app for my private digital garden? (more)

project management, collaborationware, task manager - https://quire.io/ (more)

DigitalGarden for TeamWork (more)

Triggered by Mike Caulfield's Jul'2015 posts (emphasis on curating, connecting, annotations) plus others' responding/riffing, want to start over without even assuming wiki. (more)

beyond 10x, a-list, expert