Gregory's Server
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the neverending quest for some way to explain "what i've been working on lately" that doesn't amount to a memoir of my entire career to date  one of the few “good endings” i can imagine for the future of LLMs is that they get people to see the value of information retrieval, indexing, and archival — i.e., library sciences — and we start funding that community to translate their work to similar applications, but with proper attribution and dataset transparency.
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 @chrisamaphone I think Larry Page and Sergey Brin closed the door on that when they transformed a breakthrough in information retrieval into an advertising channel so many years ago.  @chrisamaphone man, I hope you're right. I'm a librarian and a big portion of my work in the next year is going to be exactly this. @chrisamaphone this is one aspect of the world that Neal Stephenson explores in "Anathem". All people who work directly with "syntactic devices" (see: computer) are almost entirely dedicated to sorting bad information from good. this video is making a lot of things about how conversation work click into place for me for the first time also, why responding to long emails is hard ...also it makes computer science brain happy because the explanation is that if you have a tree with infinite breadth but every branch is finite, depth first search is gonna be a better strategy than BFS i'm coining the term "attention gauntlets" to explain why my email inbox and similar digital environments are so unmanageable for me. https://docs.google.com/document/d/18hQIzl2aeolAVJiuaNXDtOZhQPZQ_wU-p6cb4Id6Uxw/edit?usp=sharing relatedly: i feel like people who can ignore the little badges with a number on them (that look like they're saying "you have this many notifications", whether or not they are lies) have actual magic powers. it feels like a law of physics that i click on those if i see them. there's no conscious choice involved. |
@chrisamaphone this game reminds me of the time I was doing work experience at a primary school (I was in Y9 at the time, so about 13/14 years old) and one of the teachers asked me to make her a cup of tea, and I had never made a cup of tea before. I had no clue what I was doing and also the milk was empty so I ended up having to use one of the milk cartons that they give to the kids at lunch... her face when she had a sip of this concoction was a real picture and she never asked me to make her tea again, which I considered to be a success
@chrisamaphone this game reminds me of the time I was doing work experience at a primary school (I was in Y9 at the time, so about 13/14 years old) and one of the teachers asked me to make her a cup of tea, and I had never made a cup of tea before. I had no clue what I was doing and also the milk was empty so I ended up having to use one of the milk cartons that they give to the kids at lunch... her face when she had a sip of this concoction was a real picture and she never asked me to make her tea...
@chrisamaphone This is delightful!
@chrisamaphone @terry I am laughing with tears coming out of my eyes, what a delightful treat on Friday afternoon.