Ian Vanagas
@ianvanagas
Writing about internet communities, products, creation, and crypto.
Ian Vanagas
Thinking about inputs and outputs to the system in a method-agnostic way lets you take a step back from the algorithmic jargon and consider whether other fields have developed methods that might work here using different terminology.
Eric Jang • How to Understand ML Papers Quickly
All the mental energy that you use to elaborate your misery would be far better used trying to find the one, seemingly impossible way out of your current mess.
Ben Horowitz • Nobody Cares | Andreessen Horowitz
#361: Jim Collins — A Rare Interview with a Reclusive Polymath - The Tim Ferriss Show
pca.stCreativity and
LLMs are mid. It does a good job at getting the average and this is useful in many areas where this is tough. When you want "good", LLMs let you down. We underestimate the impact doing things to a "mid" level will have on the world.
Toggl: Time Tracking Software, Project Planning & Hiring Tools
toggl.com
What do people actually want from their interactive experiences? The first insight from the pandemic era is that most formal presentations should simply be abolished. The sad reality is that hardly anyone is listening, or for that matter should be.
Bloomberg • Bloomberg - Are you a robot?
The ballet is a stylized parade of myths from the distant past, but for Bangalter the project also has a kind of post-apocalyptic, back-to-basics optimism: “After everything, the violin will remain.”
Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter Reveals Himself: As a Composer
Nearly every big platform hits escape velocity by helping people make more money.
D'arcy Coolican • The ____ Economy
DOOM embraced the idea of shared creativity. Rather than requiring the user to start from a blank slate, DOOM provided the structure and tools which allowed people to re-combine and add things to an existing system. This lowered the barrier to entry, not only in terms of the required technical skill (since it was not necessary to learn to write... See more