Mastodawn

Regarding the “ My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nuts” article¹. No strong opinion about the article, but I was struck by it as an example of a certain rhetorical style that seems very effective with programmers. Some elements:

* What I think of as “pugnacious pragmatism.” “Other people are concerned with airy-fairy things; I care about getting the job done.” I confess I’ve used this myself. (1/6)

Oriel Jutty

1h ago

Nash Oct 21, 2023

honey came in and she caught me red-handed
evolving toward a crablike form
picture this: we become crustaceans
walking on the ocean floor

"Holz (alles aus)"

> Romantasy: Why it's happily ever after for romance books

Because people would giggle if you'd talked about a happy ending.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c75r6kq2pdwo

Romantasy: Why it's happily ever after for romance books

Despite being mocked by book critics for years, the romantasy genre is booming - and that means big business for publishers and bookshops.

BBC News

@festal This is a fractally powerful tweet because it lets me experience what's described to happen to the LLM: By reading this tweet alone I feel dumber than before - which is precisely what will happen to the model reading the "corpus of human knowledge" (whatever that is) after "missing information" (whatever that is) was added. This is inadvertently very poetic.

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Oriel Jutty

18h ago

@creachadair "A cache with a bad policy is another name for a memory leak."
https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20060502-07/?p=31333

A cache with a bad policy is another name for a memory leak - The Old New Thing

A common performance trick is to reduce time spent in the heap manager by caching the last item freed (or maybe the last few) so that a subsequent allocation can just re-use the item rather than having to go make a new one. But you need to be careful how you do this or you […]

The Old New Thing

Oriel Jutty

18h ago