My oldest kid and I heard this on the radio a few weeks ago and it became very replayed, very quickly

Been thinking about this @coreyhaines.bsky.social post from >10 years ago lately: articles.coreyhaines.com/posts/short-...

Seems ripe for revisiting given agentic AI's effect on what you can learn / accomplish in a single day

Yep. See also: Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face.

You can design by theory or imagination, but it's constrained to _what you've thought of_ -- and reality always has more that you haven't (higher fidelity, etc.) Building for actual use forces us to see the mess that exists.

Though maybe I'm also outdated on expertise reversal, given doi.org/10.1016/j.ce... 🤔

we also need to worry about the expertise reversal effect and discourage more-expert practitioners from the AI-draft mode?

be surprised if that were a common behavior (and even then, I don't know that the reasoning steps the model took would be the ones the human would want to take. That's likely an empirical question)

Even granting that this is a good analogy in at least some cases, though, would

I might have some faulty assumptions about the AI-draft case, but it feels distinct from a worked example to me because: in a WE, you see the steps to get to the outcome. With a draft, you're presented primarily with the outcome. Someone _could_ read through the thinking trace, but I'd

36: C. Thi Nguyen - Measurement, Meaning, and Play | Notion Description

Nguyen's appearance on the Dialectic podcast is also a pretty good overview of the book: www.dialectic.fm?p=2e346137d5...

Might be worth pointing them to A Short Stay in Hell by Peck

The High King

Thanks! Yeah, I half-remembered that the other two were better (a half-dozen or so of the works in this project will be rereads for me, but it's been quite a while since my first read of any of them).

create ones that did good (and hey, even so, check out the lovely craftsmanship on those torture and execution machines. A bit more than shades of modern tech culture, there)

Still, it's Calvino's first novella-length foray into the fantastic, and I'm here for it.

Really enjoying my Year of Calvino (calvino.benscofield.com) so far - just finished _The Cloven Viscount_. It feels like it wants to be deeper than it is, with the possible exception of Pietrochiodo's brief self-reflection on how much easier he found it to create devices for evil than it was to...

@kellyjeanne.bsky.social this seems like it's up your alley

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

This reminds me of the Law of Requisite Variety -- controlling a situation (that is, reducing its variability) doesn't _eliminate_ the variability, it moves it elsewhere in the (larger) system.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts.

Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

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Are you thinking of Serial Box?

- mostly-externally-sourced stable identifiers for objects involved in those events -- so ISBNs for books, commit hashes for code changes, etc. Keep the details about those objects in external DBs and reference them as needed. (Some objects would be internal to this store, though -- my notes, etc.)

- a store of my intents -- I want to learn X, I want to run a 10k -- tracked over time, to help interpret the event stream. These should be at least explicitly specifiable, but they should also be inferable from activity (with oversight from the person)

- event sourcing, capturing relatively unstructured descriptions of events as they happen and making them available for later processing (and re-processing as use cases change).

This is a hard question, because the shape of a data store _should_ vary based on how you want to use it -- and a data lake for a life could serve a wide variety of both known-upfront and unforeseen uses. Ignoring a whole raft of tradeoffs, I'd want to start from:

I love it as well! Though I was surprised by how much less I liked the back half of AUs2 after what seems like it should be a minor change to the flow of the show (vague to avoid spoilers)

Also, I'm strongly reminded of Lindley Darden's work on mechanisms in science (especially biology); it's been a very long time since I was in her class in grad school, so it's probably time for some reading to refresh my memory.

Finally getting around to reading The Mind in the Wheel from @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social, and boy howdy does the prologue do double duty as an exploration of both superficial science and overblown claims about LLMs. Statistics ≠ understanding, even when useful for, e.g., prediction.

Zen View (134) Problem The archetypal zen view occurs in a famous Japanese house, which gives this pattern its name. Solution If there is a beautiful view, don’t spoil it by building huge windows that gape incessant...

@tenderlove.dev We were talking about views (landscape, not page) earlier, right? This is the Christopher Alexander pattern I mentioned: patternlanguage.cc/Patterns/Zen...

Reminiscing about the Rails Rumble and wondering if it’d be fun to run a Context Quarrel: teams submit prompts plus context, judging consists of handing it off to a model to vibe code

I'm in Philadelphia for the last RailsConf. The Ruby community has been pivotal in my life -- friends, work, inspiration -- for almost as long as RailsConf has existed. I'm grateful that I was able to contribute in whatever small ways I could. This is the end of an era, and I already miss it.

Oh man, I think I need to reboot Moodprint ASAP