Tikitu

@tikitu
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Programmer & musician & parent. He/him. Enthusiasms: beetles, macro photography, mandolins, books, programming. I live in Greece, work in Amsterdam, and my roots are in New Zealand. As of 2022 migrating my social media addiction away from Twitter.
Website and occasional bloghttps://www.logophile.org
Infrequent macro photoshttps://www.flickr.com/photos/tikitu/
Softwarehttps://github.com/tikitu
Ex-Twitterhttps://twitter.com/tTikitu
Show threadTikitu8h ago
(Mostly posting this because of the hashtag, which I thought of All By Myself.)
Tikitu8h ago
Evening dishes are getting harder as my wife creates more beautiful ceramic objects that need washing by hand #grumblebrag
Tikitu1d ago

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116350870063793276

This stuff is so fascinating as a glimpse of what happens when you remove human oversight completely and just let an agent-loop completely run wild. Also fascinating because doing this significantly better feels totally attainable while still getting a lot of benefit from the tools: this mess is a CHOICE.

Tikitu1d ago
Scything is slow, but oh so satisfying
Tikitu2d ago
I mean this has to be a good sign right? (More from The Order of Time.)
Tikitu2d ago
I’m about 1/4 in and already pretty confident in recommending /The Order of Time/ (Carlo Rovelli), on the physics of time. It’s non-mathematical but by a specialist, treats the history intelligently (less interested in sequence, more interested in how the ideas contrast and influence each other), and apart from the occasional florid gesture it’s nicely written. “Aristotle, always top of the class, wants to be precise: he does not say that the glass is empty; he says that it is full of air.”
Show threadTikitu2d ago
(Endnote in /The Order of Time/ by Carlo Rovelli, which I’m enjoying so far.)
Tikitu2d ago
You don’t say!
Tikitu3d ago
Christopher Neugebauer3d ago

RE: https://wandering.shop/@offby1/116341713293151884

the linked piece is excellent: tl;dr, better argued than I can: the risk of agents in "intellectual" fields is giving you freedom to choose which of the steps in work you want to skip doing yourself. Knowing what you can personally skip (given the option) is what you earn from a career of learning and re-learning.

Tikitu3d ago
Emily Nakashima4d ago

My greatest professional accomplishment of the year: I got my exec & manager teammates saying "point positive," a term from whitewater rafting and kayaking.

Meaning: when facing hazards, point people toward where to go/what to do, rather than drawing attention to everything to avoid.