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We're all drinking from an information firehose, because sending messages via computer is frictionless. But I believe we should be able to apply social media-style algorithms to help! My new research project:
frictionless firehose drinking
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19 September
British open-standards and open-source technologist, formerly of the UK Government Digital Service and the W3C Advisory Committee. Blogs at shkspr.mobi, where he posts a book review most weeks.
Average taste, but on 241 as they festival is starting to close. Drinking: Orchard Dry By: Snails Bank Cider Co At: Woolwich Works 🍺🍺🍺 https://untappd.com/user/edent/checkin/1602685606 #untappd Related
You know what? This *does* taste of Irn Bru. Whether that's a good thing or not depends on your tastebuds. Drinking: Iron Brew By: Vault City Brewing At: Woolwich Works 🍺🍺🍺 https://untappd.com/user/edent/checkin/1602652115 #untappd Related
Not oppressively sour but good flavour. Drinking: LB 701 Rhubarb City - Rhubarb Sour By: Lune Brew Co At: Woolwich Works 🍺🍺🍺 https://untappd.com/user/edent/checkin/1602620064 #untappd Related
+ 1 more A very small local beer festival 😄 Drinking: Raspberry Ripple By: Snails Bank Cider Co At: Woolwich Works 🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 https://untappd.com/user/edent/checkin/1602592820 #untappd Related
8 September
Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.
I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. This may seem unintuitive at first, since the set of possible problems one could ask is infinite. Perhaps the following analogy can help: a country or region can suffer a critical shortage of drinking water while simultaneously being surrounded by a massive ocean. One can easily generate any number of open problems in mathematics at will, such as working out the 10^10^10th digit of pi. But the vast majorit… Related
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24 July
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
Mastodon In my personal headcanon, Le Guin and Franklin are the *Ursulae*, and they are right at this moment resting in the shade of a great big tree, drinking tea (Franklin) and whiskey (UKLG) and talking about the end of the patriarchy—which for them has already happened. Related
Bluesky In my personal headcanon, Le Guin and Franklin are the *Ursulae*, and they are right at this moment resting in the shade of a great big tree, drinking tea (Franklin) and whiskey (UKLG) and talking about the end of the patriarchy—which for them has already happened. Related
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18 March
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11 March
American game designer and director, for nineteen years at Blizzard as a World of Warcraft quest designer and then game director of Overwatch; now runs the independent studio Kintsugiyama.
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12 February
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
Two weeks of real-world use on Firehose, my email triage prototype. • 572 emails automatically labeled • 77% coverage (confident labels) • 98.2% accuracy on confident ✨ Related
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23 January
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Can an algorithm learn your life priorities when sorting email? In the first phase of my “personal information firehose” reseach, I trained an embedding-based classifier: adamwiggins.com
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Personal information firehose My new research project asks whether a personal algorithm, inspired by social media, can help us filter our email, group chats, and other personal correspondence.
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British senior engineering manager at Netlify, previously a team lead at the BBC; writes about JavaScript testing, chatbots and serverless at marclittlemore.com.
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