Ex-Montrealer. Keen on discovery-driven design. People and product insight. Own opinions. https://xitter.cf/t.co/SfqIvyg3o9
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I hope @airtable is feeling ok. It's a cool quick builder. But... the Troubleshooting page 404s. support.airtable.com/docs/tr… The Quick Steps guide in the community contains links to resources which don't exist. community.airtable.com/t5/ge…
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I learned yesterday the video I made in 2017 explaining how Bitcoin works was taken down, and my channel received a copyright strike (despite it being 100% my own content).
The request seems to have been issued by a company chainpatrol, on behalf of Arbitrum, whose website says they "makes use of advanced LLM scanning" for "Brand Protection for Leading Web3 Companies"
I could be wrong, but it sounds like there's a decent chance this means some bot managed to convince YouTube's bots that some re-upload of that video (of which there has been an incessant onslaught) was the original, and successfully issue the takedown and copyright strike request.
It's naturally a little worrying that it should be possible to use these tools to issue fake takedown requests, considering that it only takes 3 to delete an entire channel.
The cobuilder from @airtable is impressive . It made great guesses about my (simple) app based on a single sentence and drafted it in under a minute. Perhaps I'll need to undo it if there are hard baked assumptions that don't suit. But my first impression is super positive.
oh my oh my
I’ve recently released gpu-io –– a WebGL computing library for real-time physics simulations, particle/agent-based systems, cellular automata, image processing, and general purpose GPU computations.
Examples: apps.amandaghassaei.com/gpu-…
Code: github.com/amandaghassaei/gp…
More info in 🧵
Heather Stark retweeted
Here's Raiza (NotebookLM PM) on how her tiny team delivered Google's breakout AI product:
"I wanted a Discord community for NotebookLM. People in Google responded, 'What's Discord? Why not a Google Group?' But I persisted, and now we have 60,000+ users giving us feedback.”
"We're focused relentlessly on shipping quickly. It's easier not to ship than to do it, especially at a large company. We create "fake" deadlines to drive urgency, which has worked well."
“In Labs, we move fast and are thoughtful about when to formalize processes. Our meetings are just PMs, designers, and engineers sitting together to work on PRDs, mocks, and code.”
For my new post, I collaborated with @raiza_abubakar on:
• The inside story of NotebookLM’s success
• 6 lessons for small teams to make an impact
• 7 ways to get the most out of NotebookLM
📌 Read now: creatoreconomy.so/p/notebook…
I accept defeat. My Samsung SCX-4623 printer is just not going to talk nice to my Sonoma M1. My 2015 MacBook running Big Sur was persuaded to. Eventually. But this is the end. (Don't want to ethernet +generic postscript meh.) #tech #obsolescence forums.macrumors.com/threads…
This is why I like data analysis. Meaning can flip when you pull focus for a bit of context. It's not the whole story, but it's a story worth telling and understanding.
Wherever you may be, the folk cocooned in a giant SUV or pickup truck are likelier to survive a collision with another vehicle. But the weight of their machines has a cost.
America has a killer-car problem—here’s what to do about it econ.st/4eepKSD 👇
There are only six sundials at Seven Dials. Amazing what you can learn by simply looking. (Though I do wonder if we missed one!) #London #coventgarden #sevendials #sixdials #whatever
Aesthetics of audiovisual composition: independent study sources insightanalysis.wordpress.co…
What are the core aesthetic principles of audiovisual composition? I've been looking at this from a variety of perspectives, most recently through the lens of John Whitneys "Digital Harmony - on the complementarity of music and visual art". goodreads.com/review/show/67…
How much does Tesco spend on IT?!? Mind you, it's human error at the end of the day. Of process, probably, just as much as of logic. Which is why developer experience design is so important. @Tesco
Anti-fraud, what's not to like? When I make a grocery order within normal parameters, from my usual store, as in *usual the last 30 years*, and my bank asks me "could this be a scam?" As if being helpful. It just makes me feel like they are not paying attention. @LloydsBank
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The amazing and improbable Stochastic Labs (in Berkeley) invites applications to their summer residency for innovators developing AI/ML tools for creative expression! First call deadline is April 28th, 11:59pm PST: stochasticlabs.org/ai-toolma…
Only two more days to catch the @RefikAnadol at the Serpentine. It's beautiful but it made me melancholy. Here's why: wordpress.com/post/insightan…. #genart #experiencedesign #london