💯 👉 "When you say "docs", you're careful to focus on the output, omitting the process. Perhaps you don't know how docs are produced. You've forgotten, or perhaps never knew, that docs are product truth; that without them, software becomes unusable, because software is never done, is never obvious, and is never simple. Producing those docs requires tech writers.

Tech writers go to great lengths to get the information they need. They write so that your audience can understand. They hunger for clarity and meaning and impact. They power through weeks full of deadlines, chasing product news, because without their reporting, most products wouldn't thrive; some wouldn't even exist. The documentation they produce is not a byproduct of development: it's the glue that ties the product together.

An LLM can't do all that, because it can't feel the pain of your users. It can't put itself into their shoes. It lacks the kind of empathy that's behind great help content. It does not, in fact, have any empathy at all, because it cannot care. You need folks who will care, because content is a hairy beast that can only be tamed by agents made of flesh and capable of emotions: humans." 👈 💯

https://passo.uno/reconsider/

#TechnicalWriting #AI #SoftwareDocumentation #TechnicalCommunication #GenerativeAI #LLMs #Docs #Documentation #SoftwareDevelopment

Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

Link: https://detective.wiki/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45617948

Here's a project for someone else to create: Rescue Flow Wiki

"Rescue Flows" are the offers you get before you cancel. You go to cancel your subscription and suddenly they can offer it to you for half the price for the next year.

Rescue Flow Wiki would be a site where people could share the deals they are getting by going through the cancel processes, and what steps they needed to follow.

Someone with more time and energy than me needs to make this so I can go in and lower my bills.

New paper, just out.

Often, in real-world situations, one does not know the full structure of a network. However, at the same time, one can often observe some interactions that take place on it, and may be interested in knowing its full structure. For example, one may be detecting some partial criminal activity and may want to determine the whole organization. We consider higher-order networks, which are structures with many-body interactions, and specifically simplicial complexes, and show that one can reconstruct a whole network almost perfectly simply by observing the transient of the dynamics that takes place on it. In fact, we give 3 different algorithms to do it, with different complexities and accuracies, so you can choose which one suits you best.

#physics #mathematics #networks #reconstruction #higherorder #simplicialcomplex #hypergraphs #evolutionarygames #transient #dynamics #algorithm

An article for Meta to use to train their AI

https://theneuroscienceofeverydaylife.substack.com/p/an-article-for-meta-to-use-to-train

It turns out Zuckerberg and Meta have used all my books to train their AI. So I wrote this, to show that there are no hard feelings.

#AI #Meta #Zuckerberg

Do you know JOPLIN? It's a nice European alternative to apps like Evernote, Google Keep, Notion, Microsoft OneNote.

Joplin is a free, open source note-taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. You can search your notes, copy them, tag them and modify them either from the app itself or from your own text editor. The notes are in Markdown format, which is great.

It was created by Laurent Cozic 🇫🇷 back in 2016 as an alternative to Evernote. It's cloud service is hosted in Paris, France. They focus on privacy, security and transparency.

It's open source and offline-first, so you can always access your data on the device, even when you're not connected to the internet.

It's got all the basics you'd expect, and you can also attach images, videos, audio files and PDFs to your notebooks.

There's a huge community of people who have made extra features possible with their plugins.

It's also super easy to export and import your files, which is great if you're worried about vendor lock-in.

The handy web clipper extension lets you save web pages or take screenshots in the browser and save them to your notes.

Check all the features in their website:
https://joplinapp.org

#notetaking #opensource #BuyFromEU #europeanalternatives

Follow them on Mastodon: @joplinapp

This past Monday, I attended @RuthMalan's latest Paper in Systems talk. The session was facilitated by Alex Ptakhin and covered Lisanne Bainbridge’s 1983 paper, Ironies of Automation.

I wrote up my impressions of paper, sprinkled in some @cote, and contrasted it against what's currently happening in Agentic #AI. In short, if you're still waiting for Google to ship that phone assistant they demoed in 2018 that books hair appointments, I've got some bad news for you. 🤖

https://matthewreinbold.com/2025/03/13/IroniesOfAgenticAI