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korrents.com
Academic publishing functions mainly to sort people for jobs rather than to produce useful knowledge.Their words
The purpose of the academic output is to sort people out for jobs.
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Any piece of software that depends on open source (which is almost every piece of software) has a network of human beings who are potential attack vectors - everyone with publishing rights to any of the packages in the dependency network for that software.
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Publishing industry claims to predict how trends will play out, but such predictions are unreliable.Their words
Publishers want to have people believe they know exactly how and when things will shake out, but you just never know.
Processing: How Nicholas Russell Wrote Observercountercraft.substack.com
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31 August
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the best teacher you had, like everybody remembers the one or two teachers who changed their life. It wasn't because they marked up your paper really well. That wasn't what did it for them. It was because you had some block. They saw you and they convinced you you could do so much more.
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Usesrcmnd.app
ObsidianTheir words
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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Usesrcmnd.app
GhosttyTheir words
I pasted the result into the terminal (I use Ghostty), and before too long I had created a new folder of Markdown files in Obsidian.
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korrents.com
HTML's built-in structure gives it advantages over markdown as a format for LLM interactions.Their words
HTML is the default format of the Internet, and for that reason comes with a number of built-in advantages that are also useful for LLMs
12 August
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korrents.com
An account of an AI win is not worth publishing unless it is coupled with what that win cost.Their words
It's like we need to hear the wins. We need to hear what's We need to hear about what's possible. We need to hear what's exciting. But you got to couple it with the costs.
10 August
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And most of them really sent reports that their agent produced without actually even testing it. I would I would take a stronger sense of explaining what are the parts that we guarantee and what are the parts that will not be fixed because that that's not our security boundary.
9 August
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The ethical failure in using AI to write is publishing unread, unowned work, not using the tool itself.Their words
The transgression isn't using the machine. It's hitting a button, not reading what comes back, and publishing it under your name.
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we we kind of have coarse level uh recursive self-improvement already. And the fact that every time you use it, it improves the markdown files. Uh every time you use it, it updates its uh long-term memory.
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When an AI agent runs out of forward progress, throw the project away and start over rather than trying to tweak it.Their words
the genie runs out of g runs itself out of options it can't make further forward progress and so I'll wipe it away start over I won't try and tweak I'll start over and say all right well if I implement things in a different order. If I implement with this markdown file or if I implement it with this commit hook, we collectively need to try absolutely everything.
9 June
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korrents.com
Publishing what you know about a field draws the people working in it toward you, so writing becomes a calling card.Their words
in the venture world, for the founder that doesn't know you, when they see your knowledge on a subject or they see what you're talking about in their own business, they reach out to you. So, it becomes a calling card.
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I'm watching people write these huge markdown files to give the agent context. How about you write documentation to give me context so I can have fully working examples.
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You know, there's open source and there's open development. And and and we were technically open source in the beginning, but it was not open development. We would sort of lob the source code out in this repository and scrape the issues off of that and put it into our internal issue tracker.
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It used to be that you have documentation for other people who are going to use your library, but like you shouldn't do that anymore. Like you should have instead of HTML documents for humans, you have markdown documents for agents.
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korrents.com
Publishing only on your own site, and making people come to it, is the considerate way to share your work.On changing their mind
I was acting like the record producer in New Jersey, making everyone come to my website. It was inconsiderate.
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my attitude was was always I will only put out stuff if if it's the best that I can do. It's up to the reader to decide if it's good or useful. Um, and if so, if I don't have that, I'm just not going to publish.
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korrents.com
If every element in an interface is marked as distinct, none of them actually stand out.Their words
To stand out, things need to be different. But if everything has an icon, nothing stands out.
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From one piece POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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I think federation is the long-term solution to these problems. Eventually, I dream we will be able to seamlessly interact with people across platforms.
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Next to proper ownership of your own work, my favorite thing about POSSE is that it massively expands what you can publish, far beyond the limitations imposed by most social media (and especially microblogging) platforms that try to enforce some uniformity in post style, length, and appearance.
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Just dumping the code on GitHub is not open source. Open source is a culture. Open source means that your issues are not all one year old, stale issues. Open source means developing in public.
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korrents.com
Publishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.Their words
I make mistakes, and acknowledging and correcting them is an important part of how I grow.
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22 December 2020
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Likedrcmnd.app
Markdown MonsterTheir words
While I love VSCode, Markdown Monster does one thing incredibly well. Markdown.
28 October 2020
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Own the Room: Business Presentations that Persuade, Engage, and Get ResultsTheir words
If you want one book to teach you everything you need to know about giving great presentations, this is the book. A film director, a psychologist, and an actor share their combined experiences to help improve your content, the design, your movements, and just about every other detail of being a great speaker. It was a slow start, but by the end, I had dog-eared dozens of pages and marked up many more which I was able to directly apply to a major talk I was working on.
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The Ultimate Sales MachineTheir words
When Brian Balfour wrote, "I have never ear marked a book so much in my life. My recommendation is to just get it," I knew I had to check this out. I need to put more of the ideas into action (at which point the rating may rise), but it feels like this book is a playbook for building a monster sales machine and frankly, an amazing company all around. I wrote all over this book and filled the front and back covers with ideas from it.
13 September 2020
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Recommendsrcmnd.app
MacDownTheir words
For a free Markdown editor (on Mac), I can't recommend MacDown highly enough. It has a simple interface with an editor and preview pane and it just works.
12 August 2020
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NotionTheir words
my current favorite notes app. Can grow and get as complex as you need it to be, but for simple notes, the markdown and code highlight support is fantastic.
23 January 2020
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Usesrcmnd.app
BearTheir words
Bear for notes/Markdown writing.
15 October 2019
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Likedrcmnd.app
BywordTheir words
For writing articles for my website, I compose in Byword, which is a Markdown text editor. (I like it because it syncs between my Apple devices.
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ReedsyTheir words
Reedsy - after trying iBooks Author and Pressbooks to write my books, I've finally settled on Reedsy for writing, layout, and publishing of ebooks.
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29 January 2015
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Usesrcmnd.app
Sublime TextTheir words
I write all of my prose in Sublime Text, usually in Markdown, even my book.
12 May 2014
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