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From one piece Politics and emotion at Local-First Conf 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Mainstream software will largely continue to be created by big tech companies, and that is acceptable.Their words
We acknowledge that mainstream software will largely be the creation of big tech companies, and that's ok.
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Technologies from our community - CRDTs, sync engines, universal version control, and good old-fashioned open protocols and file formats - can give a nation more independence and control over its own critical software infrastructure.
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From one piece A Bluesky feed for one 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Explicit signals like follows and subscriptions are as brittle and hard to maintain as manually tuned filter rules.Their words
Following and subscribing are heavyweight signals, and thus suffer from the same problem of manually tuning rules and filters.
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A user's own behavior over time is a more reliable signal of what they want to see than who they explicitly follow.Their words
A user's behavior, especially as it changes over time, is a better signal for what the user wants to see.
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From one piece Firehose authentic use 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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building a third-party client to read and route messages is a gray area in their terms of service, and perhaps only partially supported in their API surfaces.
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The "homework problem" described above might be much worse in practice for end users who aren't motivated to invest in their email triage systems, even if it will save them time in the medium term.
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From one piece Email triage with an embedding-based classifier 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A personalized classifier needs several hundred labeled examples before its predictions become reliable.Their words
Predictions were poor until I got to over 250 samples in the training set.
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Open-source text embedding models run well enough on consumer hardware to be practical for real tasks.Their words
Local / open text embedding models work fine on consumer hardware.
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It's a good example of how user preferences are much more subtle than broad heuristics like "all receipts go to FYI."
Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com
13 January
From one piece Personal information firehose 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Explicit filtering rules (e.g. rules features in many email clients): mostly a failure. It's too much work to set up and then manage these, especially since a given person's preferences will change over time.
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Social media recommendation algorithms are only partially designed to serve the people using them.Their words
The weak point of social media algorithms for end users is that they are only partially designed to serve us.
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From one piece Why sync 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Local-first sync architectures are a natural fit for AI agents, since both are inherently multiplayer.Their words
Agentic and sync are natural complements because local-first is multiplayer by default, and agents are another sort of "player" in addition to human collaborators.
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The baseline of user expectation quality and craft keeps rising.
17 February 2024
From one piece Muse retrospective 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A business succeeds through a small number of highly effective distribution channels, not many mediocre ones.Their words
any given business will find a small number of highly-effective channels, and the rest don't matter.
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After that, I think you have to be left with software that serves a deep and hard-to-replace purpose in people's lives.
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Prosumer software needs tens or hundreds of thousands of users for its development costs to be sustainable.Their words
You need tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, to make the cost of development sustainable.
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From one piece making computers better 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The tech industry's economic and intellectual energy is directed away from human flourishing rather than toward itTheir words
The economic and intellectual horsepower in Silicon Valley and the wider tech world seems to be pointed away from these goals.
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The Information Age could be a species-level shift comparable to the Industrial RevolutionTheir words
I find it plausible that the Information Age will be a species-level shift on par with the Industrial Revolution.
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