an agent in every cup

collecting bits & bobs about building alliances with other intelligences

Programming is hard — it's hard for beginners to create and understand programs which makes programming as an expressive medium inaccessible. It's hard for experts — even I (the library's maintainer!) had difficulty understanding Fuzzyset, fixing bugs, and adding features. Programming is not just hard, but in my opinion it's needlessly hard,... See more

Fuzzyset

Ultimately, I think programming models and UIs have to change to accomodate human cognition and social processes for dealing with complexity — once it does, programming will be a lot easier for experts and a lot more accessible to beginners. Until then!

QwQ: Reflect Deeply on the Boundaries of the Unknown

Simon Willison simonwillison.net

“Who is the right homeless client?”: Values in Algorithmic Homelessness Service Provision and Machine Learning Research | Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Angela D. R. Smith dl.acm.org

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If you've carefully analyzed a situation but something still feels wrong, that discomfort deserves attention. It might signal that your unconscious mind has recognized a pattern your conscious analysis missed. This is particularly true in uncertain and dynamic situations where, as Gigerenzer points out, logical analysis often falls short.

However—an... See more