Who tf is this?
"How Batman Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record" by Penguin's Henchman #37, like dude, I spend way too much time sneering on yall and I've still never heard of mr Turdgrains or whatever.
In any case, whoever this is, @dgerard, you should start charging him rent for the priviledge of having you live in his head.
Texas counties can’t pass their own ordinances, only cities can
We hate central big government so we have eliminated all the local small governments as a precaution.
non-scam crypto twitter
Mythical Places and How to Find Them
It's called a function plot for a reason!
Also, speaking from experience trying to do any database work for large corporate clients, no data house is in order. It's basically saying "assume a spherical cow, then AI works".
Google Cloud Chief Evangelist
That cannot be an official title someone has, can it?
FML I just caught it on the screenshot of the "iOS Development" course offered by Lambda
BLOCKCHAIN! Those bozos had to squeeze 4yrs of CS education into 6-12 months but they found ample room to teach about BLOCKCHAIN! There's literally nothing in that curricullum about datrabases, but they somehow fit BLOCKCHAIN.
Also "Hash Tables and Blockchain" is like having a physics module called "Gravity and Juiceros"
"Nah" is a great reaction to any wall of text by this bozo, really.
I'm not even going to engage in this thread cause it's a tar pit, but I do think I have the appropriate analogy.
When taking certain exams in my CS programme you were allowed to have notes but with two restrictions:
The idea was that you needed to actually put a lot of work into making it, since the entire material was obviously the size of a fucking book and not an A4 page, and you couldn't just print/copy it from somewhere. So you really needed to distill the information and make a thought map or an index for yourself.
Compare that to an ML model that is allowed to train on data however long it wants, as long as the result is a fixed-dimension matrix with parameters that helps it answer questions with high reliability.
It's not the same as an open book, but it's definitely not closed book either. And the LLMs have billions of parameters in the matrix, literal gigabytes of data on their notes. The entire text of War and Peace is ~3MB for comparison. An LLM is a library of trained notes.
Browse the web sites of Notion, Figma, or Slack
I did out of curiosity, especially since I've never heard about the first two and "Figma" sounds like a bad attempt at a Ligma joke.
Tagline:
Write, plan, organize, play Turn ideas into action with Notion’s AI-powered workspace.
Plus this gem
"Your AI everything app." ~ Forbes
Wait I thought X was the everything app.
I scrolled through and I have no idea why anyone would pay for this. It doesn't seem to be able to do anything that a GitLab instance can't and "AI" here just looks like a hook to ChatGPT.
balls! haha
How you design, align, and build matters. Do it together with Figma.
What the hell does "align" mean here? Align like a div to be centered? It seems to be a design tool so that's what I assume, but it's a weird thing to focus on.
Co-create in one space Work together in real time and empower designers to create in new ways.
Okay, this at least gives me a product pitch - design tool with real-time sharing like in Google Docs. That sounds actually useful.
Keep workflows efficient with tools that give every team visibility throughout the process.
... aaand this is just word salad, you lost me.
The rest looks like a regular pitch for a prototype tool for UX, which I think is a pretty specific and useful tool though, so I'm not 100% sure why it'd fit with the theme of the blogpost. Maybe I'm missing something, I never actually dealt with serious UX design.
This one was I surprised by since I thought I knew what the entire Slack product is - it's a chat. You have channels, direct messages, and pings. That's about it, right?
Move faster with your tools in one place Automate away routine tasks with the power of generative AI and simplify your workflow with all your favourite apps ready to go in Slack.
God what.
The rest is a normal pitch, flexible communications, remote work, channels, etc. But why would you start with AI? Again, Slack is a chat app why would you want gen AI in a chat app?
After @daphnelawless.com on bsky
Nice morning chuckle