Hmmm. Now it's 2022 and my Karma is still 417. At this rate maybe I'll make 500 for my 10 year anniversary!
Update 2023: looks like the Karma hit 500 a few years early of my prediction—LOL
- > "What's the benefit..."
A laugh? Hotdog/Not Hotdog apps for a laugh?
- Reminds me of this lecture: “Don’t talk to Police”, Law Professor James Duane.
The argument goes, there are a lot of laws and there are virtually an infinite variety of possible circumstances which could trigger a possible violation making it impossible for anyone to know if their statements might appear relevant to a prosecutor.
https://youtu.be/d-7o9xYp7eE?si=9ZYuVSlPsfEgQyc9
Of course, if you don’t have time to watch that excellent presentation, just crib this one: National Lawyer’s Guild of Detroit, MI: “When the cops come calling, what do you do? SHUT THE FUCK UP!”
- Apple isn’t the darling “it” product it’s been in years past.
Apps are addictive but not enriching our lives like we once thought.
Now you want to add advertising?
If a new product comes along and hits the right notes—maybe the e-ink variety, or Cat’s Android with thermal camera. I have the four previous, so I don’t imagine it as a trauma to step off the merry-go-round for my next phone.
- > “…regurgitates previous human thinking.”
I was thinking about this after watching YouTube short verticals for about 2 hours last night: ~2min clips from different TV series, movies, SNL skits, music insider clips (Robert Trujillo auditions for Metallica, 2003. LOL). My friends and I often relate in regurgitated human sound bites. Which is fine when I’m sitting with friends driving to a concert. Just wasting time.
I’m thinking about this time suck, and my continual return/revisiting to my favorite hard topics in philosophy over and over. It’s certainly what we humans do. If I think deeply and critically about something, it’s from the perspective of a foundation I made for myself from reading and writing, or it was initialized by a professor and coursework.
Isn’t it all regurgitated thinking all the way down?
- > “…agents getting stuck in loops, apologizing, and wasting time. We tried to manage this … So we built Zenflow…Cross-Model Verification, Parallel Execution, Dynamic Workflows”
So you got me with the hook, and you bullet three features, but where’s the resolution of the hook issue? You left me with the hook?? What am I missing?
- > “I'd be wary of using AI to summarize like this and expecting accurate insights.”
Sure, but when do you have accurate results when using an iterative process? It can happen at the beginning or at the end when you’re bored, or have exhausted your powers of interrogation. Nevertheless, your reasoning will tell you if the AI result is good, great, acceptable, or trash.
For example, you can ask Chat—Summarize all 50 with names, dates and 2-3 sentence summaries and 2-3 pull quotes. Which can be sufficient to jog your memory, and therefore validate or invalidate the Chat conclusion.
That’s the tool, and its accuracy is still TBD. I for one am not ready to blindly trust our AI overlords, but darn if a talking dog isn’t worth my time if it can make an argument with me.
- Doesn’t have to be a commercial solution to change the game. There’s a lot of room between the commercial product and ‘Our end users… current "system" is Excel.’ Especially if the market moves towards making useful APIs at the ERP and vendors endpoints.
- Interesting.
I recently investigated text based adventure games in Python as a possible tool to teach and evaluate outdoor wilderness safety knowledge and awareness (backpacking and overnight camping) for wilderness therapy.
While doing the research I recalled a friend showing me a text adventure game on his i386 PC. I could not understand the appeal. The possibilities the game suggested were vast, but the effective actions were unattainable--I was not able to see even the most basic level of progress before I became bored.
Now, outlining the wilderness safety "game", its obvious to me some understanding of software and programming would have made the game accessible. Then maybe a key in a room would be better understood as a metaphor of the code. In other words, a game at text level can be an attempt to model a complicated problem in an interactive program. If you can write a game where the final product is convincing (suspend disbelief), then maybe the game's model can be useful for other things. In my case instruction and evaluation of basic domain knowledge. And this level of programming awareness is useful in not getting bored (or experiencing cognitive gap between what a text implies and what the game can deliver).
- Brief aside.
> “…his YouTube content is fire.”
I’ve been living under a rock and am thrilled to read an unironic example of our living language.
My context: https://youtu.be/ID1jre5kmUI?si=xb8I818WNPp8fUiJ&t=75
- I want a character chart, social graph.
I can also imagine a character interaction graph, animated by chapter.
Oh, and pronunciation. The Sun Eater series is eloquent, but the names are inscrutable without having heard a few of the audio books.
- Nightmare.
The stories of online-only service failures are legion. And yet if you can get face to face support, even one person can do so much. The gap is infuriating.
I didn’t notice, do you have a Brick and Mortar Apple Store you can visit? I can’t help thinking this as I read the post.
Of course this is not a physical hardware issue. Where a store employee could just hand you, say, a new phone. This is on the level of getting a slot on Tim Cook’s day planner, though I imagine the person with the ability to fix this is an underling many levels down Cook on the org chart.
- Yeah. I have a dis-a-bility. It’s now 2200 and I’ve been working since 0830. My eyes are tired and these 8’s look like 0’s, 5’s look like 6’s. What a tool.
Now! Everything in Fraktur! HH.
- MiniDisk! I loved that format. Great physical size. I suspect my love is all about nostalgia for the future, because when they came out they were foreign (at least in the US) and fly.
- > “…uncomfortable: the more integrated a tool becomes, the harder it is for people to form a mental model.”
Some of this sounds like reinventing the wheel. This conclusion, for example seems obvious, other than the uncomfortable part, which is what users might use to describe their experience with an unfamiliar model and no clues from the software. How is this insight different than, say, how a programmer feels about an unfamiliar API or custom classes?
If there is a design to the software then some explanation might be needed to give users the keystone idea. After that I would argue it’s UI and UX design working to communicate to the user what is possible, and how you go about doing it.
With that in mind, this conclusion:
> “People rely heavily on familiar UI metaphors (tabs, inboxes, folders).”
Speaks to me same as, programmers rely heavily on documentation and pattern (not anti-pattern. lol…people rely heavily on words and syntax to communicate).
The story of the 1990s web with the introduction of Macromedia Flash, saw a world of fantastical UIs. Some were brilliant, some were obvious, others were inscrutable puzzles. The backlash with Web 2.0 washed all that away, and it all became _familiar UI metaphors (tabs, …)_.
Knowing what I know today, I wonder if the key to an advanced workflow isn’t a hybrid of scripting and UI. Most great ideas arrive ahead of their time.
- > “…are they not capable of buying seeds from reputable sources…”
I don’t know the answer, but the op’s answer does point to corruption. This reminds me of early 20th century reforms in the meat industry in the United States a hundred years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upton_Sinclair
- “There's an immediacy to a spreadsheet…”
The immediacy is you are looking at the data. What you’re going to do with it may not yet be known Is it the right data? What are the values? What are the features?
I write scripts at work and tell colleagues if they want my help they should first work it out in Excel and write an outline of the details. If they can’t do that, then the problem may not be a candidate for _script automation_.
Our pipeline is not fully automated, but that’s how I describe it. The rest is Excel Carpentry.
- Don’t forget the repeal of the ACA healthcare mandate: “The federal individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, which required people to pay a tax penalty if they did not have health insurance, was repealed in 2019.”
- > “…long championed democracy…”
Just occurred to me, before the free internet both dissemination of opinions and access was restricted. Now we have unprecedented access, and there are obvious strains and regression. Makes you wonder what we missed from the times before the internet.
To be sure, this legislation sounds draconian: “This expansive framing blurs the line between political dissent and subversive threat. Intent becomes a political judgement, inferred from beliefs, causes and associations rather than conduct.”
- Just a small digression on the singular notion of “emotional reasons”.
One can be dispassionate and distant from one’s beliefs and still difficult to convince, because we all harbor some forms of _private reasoning_ about how the world works. If I have strong personal beliefs, they may be gathered from experience of decades. Not going to easily change my world view.
Add maybe a few _false beliefs_ for the xtra complication? (Not even considering the paradox of lying).
Finally, the emotional spin appears as _cynical reasoning_, that toxic mix of anger and resentment. The logic-warrior who ventures here is brave indeed.
There are pockets of resume sites. Coroflot has been around for over 25 years. https://www.coroflot.com/
GitHub is its own kind of resume.
What is it you want to see from a LinkedIn competitor?