SwiftOnSecurityIt's unfortunate how many random questions LLMs can answer, I was essentially raised on tech forum posts I'd never think to ask or how to refine them to an answer through inquiry.
I hope my own model for learning is subsumed by leveraging the infinite patience of an LLM for another. But I worry there's just a certain kind of competency you don't get to from here. We'll see.
Fi 🏳️⚧️Back in the card catalogue days, seeing neighboring cards often led to finding new things to research.
Wikisurfing's -kinda- like that with the adjacency of the links, but rather misses the more random-walk encounters encyclopedias gave.
Amazon et al. have had to implement 'recommendations' to make up for not traversing the aisles of a store.
Discovery of unexpected things is a joy and I am disappointed at the inability of modern tech to match the analog versions.
Also gods know everything 'novel' or 'interesting' I've ever come up with has been due to my weird brain doing cross-context associations.
Graham Sutherland / Polynomial@munin @SwiftOnSecurity the only reason I ended up pivoting into learning a bunch of signal integrity stuff, which then led to me more seriously picking electronics back up, is because I was searching for something about a server motherboard and stumbled onto a Robert Feranec video where he analysed various high speed features on the OCP Project Olympus dual-Xeon motherboard. a random keyword match, unrelated to the intent of the query, resulting in a profound impact on my life's trajectory.
@munin @SwiftOnSecurity it makes me sad to see every tech company trying to "optimise" information discovery processes away from this kind of accidental outcome.