Boon Shin Ng
@boonshin
Boon Shin Ng
It’s a structured way to organize and describe your knowledge—a kind of ‘formal’ model of your own knowledge and information.
Personal Ontologies: The Future of Information Management
On ontology
Death by a thousand substacks
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This article reminded me of Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification isn't caused by venture capital – where we need federation of our content, followers so that we can move to other platforms when we need to.
It’s like the things you move into your rental home belongs to you, they don’t become part of the property after x years, and you are free to bring them with you when you decide to move.
If only we can build federation of all our data, not just social and the apps can focus on providing the best user experience.
This article is written by beehiiv’s founder which is another newsletter social platform so what is he doing that will be different when enshittification hits his company?
Substack doesn’t offer an API, webhooks, or integrations with any third party platform. That’s right — all of the incredible tools and platforms that make up the modern creator ecosystem are entirely shut off to those on Substack.
Death by a thousand substacks
Be suspicious of apps that don’t offer an API to get your data out of data jail.
The excitement we saw initially wasn't about the tech or the backend features; it was about the experience itself. That realization pushed us to rethink everything about Freeform, shifting our focus from yet another administrative control panel to creating an experience genuinely tuned to the end user.
Cassius Kiani • Article
Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze
Delicate robot hands know just how hard to squeeze
If this is scalable, it can potentially change the world of robotics as it was a big problem to solve before AI. Household cleaning, sorting garbage…
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something surprising: you can make AI perform better simply by giving it more time to think. OpenAI discovered that if you let a model spend more computing power working through a problem (what they call test-time or inference-time compute), it gets better results - kind of like giving a smart person a few extra minutes to solve a puzzle.
Ethan Mollick • A New Generation of AIs: Claude 3.7 and Grok 3
Giving clear directions, feedback as you iterate, and appropriate context to make a decision all help humans, and they also help AI. Previously, this was something you could only do with text, but now you can do it with images as well.
Ethan Mollick • No elephants: Breakthroughs in image generation
This is why my workflows do not differentiate tools from people. They all need the same kind of context to do their job well when starting out.
Unlike conventional software, which directs users down specific, learnable paths, AI is a wide open field. The onus is on users to define their own approach to using the technology. While this can be more rewarding, it’s also a fundamentally more challenging task. It requires a deep comfort with ambiguity and a commitment to relentless iteration.