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Giving a talk on AI/ML for Designers, a la @Wattenberger’s “hard and soft” essay, so not “how to use AI tools to help with design” but instead “how to reason about AI as a design solution.”
I’m struggling with a title because “AI/ML in UX” is too vague. Ideas?
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Ed “I’m Actually Mexican” White retweeted
The most annoying problem for Zero's launch was what bug tracker to use.
GitHub is way too slow, and Linear doesn't have public bugs or permissions – both required for OSS projects.
This was driving me nuts, until I realized the only possible solution… ⏩
(link in reply)
“We ought to only read books that bite and sting us. If the book we are reading doesn’t shake us awake like a blow to the skull, why bother reading it in the first place?” - Franz Kafka
Mouthwashing lived up to the hype.
“Mouthwashing” is a message. Writer Johanna Kasurinen tells me:
“I hope certain people in the gaming industry play this game. I hope they see themselves. And I hope it hurts. I hope it hurts, hurts, hurts.”
My review on my 2nd best game of the year.
washingtonpost.com/entertain…
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Ed “I’m Actually Mexican” White retweeted
I think programming GPUs is too hard. Part of the problem is sprawling, scattered documentation & best practices.
Over the past few months, we’ve been working to solve that problem, putting together a “Rosetta Stone” GPU Glossary.
And now it’s live!
My take-aways in thread.
Ed “I’m Actually Mexican” White retweeted
“The state of most social platforms right now is that users are locked in and developers are locked out. We want to build something that makes sure users have the freedom to move and developers have the freedom to build.”
— Jay Graber, CEO
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Ed “I’m Actually Mexican” White retweeted
reminder that the bcrypt hash function ignores input above a certain length! so if you do bcrypt(username || password) for some reason, a sufficiently long username will make it accept any password. to fix this you can sha256 the input first.
Okta allowing login bypass for any usernames with 52+ characters is insane
Official Security Advisory: trust.okta.com/security-advi…
Ed “I’m Actually Mexican” White retweeted
"does bacon work with bun? when I try to run chai in fish my gerkin is complaining"
This is what we sound like, friends
You know, I feel impostor syndrome as a an engineer *a lot* but then I put together full stack dev environment complete with a reverse proxy and hot reload using docker/vite+react/fastapi from scratch in a few hours and realize I have learned something after all.
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Damn, honestly if Jane can be impacted, no one is safe 😱
Still trying to process this but my role at Meta has been impacted. Thank you to everyone for my wild journey at Meta
If anyone is interested in working together on software/security, please reach out via my email / LinkedIn noted on my website
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Trying to clear out my old phone browser tabs from stuff I meant to read, and stumbled on this article about how 80% of winning is not blundering, then listing a ton of classic startup blunders. Truly excellent! longform.asmartbear.com/avoi…
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Finished @aarondfrancis’ High Performance SQLite to learn more about my favorite included-in-Python prototyping database. Enjoyed the concise, crisp videos and got some ideas about multi-tenancy and getting multiple writers that had never occurred to me!
highperformancesqlite.com/
The good thing is that this doesn’t just apply to LLMs, this is probably foundational to design using any AI system—and to some degree, even managing humans. As vagueness and scope of a problem increases, the less likely it is a neural network of any type can solve it.
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Re: scope management for “organic neural nets” success, I’m reminded about @SlexAxton’s talk about design systems and Robin Rendle’s essay on hyperobjects, which is worth a read in this context. “Division of cognitive labor” is just as important for AI. robinrendle.com/essays/syste…
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