an agent in every cup
collecting bits & bobs about building alliances with other intelligences
an agent in every cup
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!
Inescapable AI — TechTonic Justice
techtonicjustice.org
Picture this: You're a seventh-grade student who struggles to keep up in math. But now, you have an AI tutor like the one Sal describes by your side. As you work through a challenging set of fraction problems, it won’t just give you the answer—it breaks each problem down into digestible steps. When you get stuck, it gives you easy-to-understand... See more
Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education…again
The manifold images here are like what i was thinking about as gravity wells to explain the things that I keep coming back to. Or specific interest areas with my vision.
And the idea of stepwise manifold exploration and transformation reminds me of the morphospace article
2501.04682
arxiv.org
voyage-multimodal-3: all-in-one embedding model for interleaved text, images, and screenshots
Voyage AIblog.voyageai.com