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dorian @doriantaylor.com · Sep 8

decided over the weekend to try out opening up a block of calls over the next few weeks: calendly.com/methodandstr...

if you're in leadership and have been following me long enough to know what I'm about, I invite you to book a 30-minute free consultation call to jam about whatever you working on.

The first one is free - Dorian Taylor

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 3h

right but five is a lot

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 4h

lol

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 5h

are the boobs all in a row or is it like udders or is it more of a radial pattern

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 6h

a baby finance bro on the train is trying to explain high-frequency trading to his bro, and every third word is bro

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 10h

oh i know that's why it was funny

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 10h

lol @ all marine biology

tanadrin @tanadrin.bsky.social · 10h

all scientists can be classified according to just two variables: whether they're more mad physics or mad biology, and whether their hubris is in calling up what cannot be put down, or seeking to understand what no man was meant to know

we were definitely not meant to know about that worm with a hundred buttholes, for instance

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 10h

wish i got a picture lol but those bastards really move

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 10h

if you've paired your stand-up e-scooter with a replica stahlhelm, that is a Choice™

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 13h

the dexterity with which the operators of these machines work is really something, like ever watch an excavator on a demolition site gingerly separate the different kinds of reusable/recyclable material

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 14h

so i've heard; that seems to be the general assessment

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 14h

what do you do with it?

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 14h

yeah i mean the solution (and what happens in the higher-end services) is to call out to an ordinary deterministic executable and then cross your fingers and hope it doesn't screw up transcribing the output, lol

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 14h

one wonders

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 15h

it also produced some absurdity in the negotiation from being operated in a pipe vs handed a file as an argument which i had to sort out manually

ie if i wasn't already an expert i would have gone "this is fine" and carried on, and maybe it would have been fine if instrumentality was the point…

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 15h

in the training corpus somewhere is a base64url representation of the string 'hello world', and it managed to faithfully surface some of it

but not all of it

an event that betrays the fact that these things are only ever incidentally correct

and the incidence could be high, but not 100%

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 15h

two things that turn me off about the chatbot experience:

• i do not like pretending the computer is a person
• i do not like how it weaves incorrect information into correct information

like stupid example from that experience is it got the hash wrong (because it didn't actually compute it)

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 15h

high up there on my list of "i wish i bookmarked that"; another is an article indicting open-source and linux and apache in particular for their role in facilitating platform monopolies which i don't know if i completely agree with but nevertheless found to be an interesting take

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 16h

arguably what you'd actually want are political outcomes that don't create unsafe conditions in the first place