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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 · 24m

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

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 45m

what do you do with it?

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 52m

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 · 57m

one wonders

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 1h

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 · 2h

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

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 8h

lol @ the michael bay music

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 8h

the focus of the article was about the "working rich" but yeah like as i said all attempts to find it have failed and of course i didn't bookmark it because "this will obviously be easy to find lol"

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 8h

it was definitely a woman and it was definitely in a banner outlet (like think the atlantic but not)

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 8h

Wow™

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 8h

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 9h

that said i do think the "i do things with it i never would have bothered trying" modality is absolutely a thing

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 9h

lol seriously

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 9h

the question for me over the last few months is "does this merit an economic relationship with $VENDOR in perpetuity" and my answer so far is mehhhhhh

dorian @doriantaylor.com · 9h

i just spent the last looks-like-hour fiddledicking with chatgpt to produce this bash script which will create an rfc6920 content address based on instructables you find kicking around on a typical linux distro; i'd say this is 80% me and 20% the bot (it did the convention for stdin vs a file)

$#!/bin/bash set -e if [[ ! -t 0 || "$1" == "-" ]]; then RAW=$(sha256sum) else RAW=$(sha256sum "$1") fi OUT=$(awk '{print $1}' <<< "$RAW" | xxd -r -p | base64 | sed 'y!+/!-_!; s/=//g') # RFC 6920 output echo "ni:///sha-256;$OUT"$