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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 ✨
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18 September
Creator of Flask and Jinja. Writes about software at lucumr.pocoo.org.
12 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
every model provider should learn from meta's pricing model for muse spark, with fully transparent subsidization labeled for the contributor tier stop doing "in order to use our model at a good price, you must use our harness which secretly collects your data and/or upload your codebase" meta clearly proved there's a way to collect training data without relying on a harness. just be transparent about when you collect data vs not, clearly communicate how much the data is worth, and give the choice to the user and i really don't need your harness. i already have SO MANY state of the art harness… Related
Sociologist at Duke University writing on markets, exchange and moral order, and on plain-text and data-visualisation tools for social science.
@RecDiffs @siracusa @hotdogsladies That Italian guy pronounced “Samhain" and “Siobhán” really quite well. If you want some cheap entertainment, try a perfectly normal Irish word such as “tábhachtach”, which means "important”. Like your Northern and Southern Italians, the dictionary link provides three pronunciations labeled “C”, “M”, “U”, for Connacht, Munster, and Ulster Irish, the three main provincial accents/dialects. (I'm from Munster so I pronounce it properly.) focloir.ie
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8 September
Software engineer, Wikipedia editor and crypto critic; writes Citation Needed and runs Web3 is Going Just Great.
made some tiny stamps out of lino scraps to make labels for my jam jars #printmaking #linocut Related
7 September
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
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People who act and speak in public as right-wing extremists and are labeled as such, establish a claim to authenticity.
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2 September
Usability pioneer; co-founder of Nielsen Norman Group and founder of UX Tigers; author of the ten usability heuristics and of Jakob's Law.
22 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
20 August
Founder and editor-in-chief of MacStories, writing about Apple software, iPad workflows and automation since 2009. He co-hosts the AppStories podcast.
Apple Music to Launch Labels on AI “Songs” Ethan Millman, writing for The Hollywood Reporter: Apple Music will soon launch labels on songs created with artificial intelligence, the company said in an email sent out to industry partners on Thursday. In the email,…
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14 August
Interactive fiction author and hacker; wrote Spider and Web and Hadean Lands, and designed the Glulx virtual machine.
NecronomiCon now labels itself as “The International Conference and Festival of Weird Fiction, Art, and Academia”, no longer a Lovecraft con specifically. And that is fair; the next panel I’m going to is “weird Appalachiana.” But Lovecraft sure does seem to be still the anchor and common thread. Related
12 August
Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.
9 June
Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.
One of the most common naming issues I tend to see are generic placeholder names like Utils, Misc, or Helper. Names aren’t just passive labels. Names influence future behavior and perspective. A vague and imprecise name — like Utils — will attract code of those same qualities. Related
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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Now part of the skillset is being able to weather like a fire hose of criticism like the world has never seen.
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10 February
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
23 January
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
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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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
13 January
Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.
x.com 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: adamwiggins.com
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Site 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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19 September 2025
German writer and historian; wrote Blitzed, on drug use in Nazi Germany, and Tripped.
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They make beer. They labeled the beer, and the temple that would make the beer, the beer would be attributed to that temple. It would be sold, so that temple rises in status, makes money. That's how hierarchies started up.
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20 February 2022
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
5 December 2021
Machine-learning researcher; has written the Lil'Log survey posts on how a model technique works since 2017, and worked at OpenAI from 2018 to 2024, latterly leading its safety systems team.
8 January 2021
Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.
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Americana traces the history of American-style Capitalism, reminding us the political economy is far more complex than the simple labels we tend to use. Reality is far messier, filled with externalities, complications and comprises then is predicted by academic theories.
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27 February 2019
General partner at Benchmark Capital for over two decades; was the lead analyst on Amazon's IPO before moving into venture capital. Writes Above the Crowd on tech and marketplace economics.
29 July 2014
Danish Mac developer; author of the TextMate text editor and founder of MacroMates.
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sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
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article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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