Notices by Eaton (eaton@phire.place), page 5

@dachary So! I’ve been doing a buuunch of classification and categorization tests with LLMs lately and that’s really one of the best matches IME!

Would love to compare notes!

@SwiftOnSecurity Remembering the latter bit saved me from more than a few quixotic “reinvent the world” autodidact adhd adventures…

@SwiftOnSecurity it’s an absolutely insufferably “podcast guy” kind of narrative but Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is so closely related to these themes for me; curious if you’ve read it.

It touches on both the pursuit of “quality” as an inherent elegant match between the tool and the task, and the poisonous “freshman’s disease” of learning enough to be frustrated and stalking off to change the world without studying the insights of those who’ve gone before.

Beauty is the grain of the wood.
https://infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecurity/113479590384144360

@GhostOnTheHalfShell A strong case can be made that the entire appeal of the postwar neoliberal consensus was that moral arguments were unneeded. Everyone would pretend everyone supported the same goal, everyone would agree to use slightly different ratios of the same tools, and everyone could just get to prosperin’.

The refusal to acknowledge the end of that tenuous agreement — and the insistence on pretending violations of it will be punished by the electorate — characterizes the modern DNC.

A final data visualization sneak peek from the webinar Karen and I have been putting together. For each of the classification approaches (and each of the models used) we're generating to/from sankey diagrams to quickly gut-check the way documents are being recategorized.

Fun stuff.

@beep @zachleat FOIL COVER

@zachleat I'm down with that time slot if you are. Looking forward to it! Hopefully there'll be a bit of time to trash-talk Gutenberg components along the way.

@zachleat I’m jeff@autogram.is, fwiw!

@zachleat LMK if you’d like to jump onto Zoom or something else. Would love to see a nice inflection point for “easy eleventy” onboarding!

@zachleat absolutely. i’m heading to. Conf on thursday, but sometime before then or starting next week would work well!

@zachleat @scottjenson @Meyerweb @brad_frost LMK if you’re interested in comparing notes, I’ve been neck deep in a WP project and my own 11ty site simultaneously, so I’ve got… some thoughts :D

@mhoye what the hell? “You can bet that…” can I? CAN I?

@davidgerard 2017, when the “hot dog recognizer app” debuted on Silicon Valley

@danhon BLOCKCHAIN BUT FOR DEMOCRACY etc

It's the little things, like writing your own custom progress bar renderer that uses UTF8 characters to show more accurate fractional completion on the command line, that really makes life sweet.

@timbrown Thanks so much for putting it out there. It's a great book, and I've still got my print copy!

If you're interested in putting it up on the web, LMK; @Wilto and I put together a (relatively) turnkey tool that turns the ABA epubs into @eleventy sites automatically.

Consider two examples of legal responsibility that the American right has argued for in recent years.

Torture of prisoners: “It might be necessary, for special circumstances, and having laws that prevent it would discourage brave souls from risking legal consequences.”

Abortion: “Punish doctors and pregnant women with the full force of law, and make interstate travel illegal. If there’s a medical need for an abortion, it’s hardly our fault doctors won’t risk it.”
https://newsie.social/@ProPublica/113407542468070347

But the trick (because there's always a trick) is that I still end up enjoying Blades a lot because I rather shamelessly am happy to *plan anyway*.

So what makes it work? Well, there are player answers and GM answers, s let's start from the player side with the two most critical bits - Pacing and generosity.

@emmadavidson *perfection*