@fronx

Freelance engineering leader. Food & shelter ought to be free. I tweet more on @fronxer

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Joined May 2008
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer5 Nov 2024
The other night, I did some spontaneous DJing, no preparation, and tried out everything that came to my mind in the moment. Here are my notes on what I learned:
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What is even going on with my LinkedIn 😂
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Is it even work if it's so much fun that I'd do it for free? (And in fact I am doing it for free?) Or is it play? Should all work be play? Maybe. Maybe it should. (Illustration: Example program in a DSL I'm developing with a friend. Yes, it's embedded in Scheme.)
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer20 Mar 2024
Thoughts on meaning and lucidity on a Wednesday morning. havealittlethink.com/2024/03…
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer4 Feb 2024
Where do you all keep your big* datasets when training on rented cloud GPUs? Ideally I'd want to mount them (streaming). Any tips? *100GB .. 1TB
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How do you effectively deal with critical stakeholders? How do you create a foundation for motivation? How do you say no to your team? It's all related to a powerful and versatile skill that's rarely talked about in the tech leadership world. (12 min) open.substack.com/pub/fronx/…
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer28 Dec 2023
This project is now live. An LLM-generated semantic map of all my tweets (@fronx & @fronxer). Read more about it here and look around for yourself: fronx.de/#cybird
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer13 Nov 2023
I'm looking for methods of dimensionality reduction that are generative, i.e. where the reduced-dimensional space can be expanded to index parameters for generating potentially novel example data points. What do you recommend?
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer31 Oct 2023
"Are we just atoms?," child me asked. I understand a bit better now why that was a hard question, and what it means to have answers, and what limits the use of answers in general. Let me know what you think: havealittlethink.com/2023/10…
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer31 May 2023
And now there's multi-account support. E.g. @fronx and @fronxer can be analyzed together in the same semantic space. You can choose which account to put in the background (dark grey dots), which makes it easier to make comparisons.
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer19 May 2023
Here's the same for my @fronx account. See that cluster in the top left? German tweeting!
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer3 Apr 2023
Yesterday I felt like making a website with a background that felt "alive", which led to my first pair programming session with ChatGPT. Here's the result. (The vines react to mouse movements.) fronx.de
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer2 Apr 2023
Reading code is a skill we don't talk about enough. How do you do it effectively, efficiently? Here's a metaphor youtu.be/B7lx2fATFtM

What a Lot of Programmers Don't Realize About the Skill of Reading...

Reading code fast, effectively, efficiently is an essential skill f...

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My intuition about the tech job market is that there will be a devaluing of basic to intermediate coding skills over the next few years. What will increase in value is the ability to justify technical investments and predict their success.
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Narrator: It all sounded so promising. However, it was not an interview. There was no job. It was just the idea of an intern.
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Joscha Bach
@Plinz17 Nov 2022
Generative AI is incredibly useful and valuable, but it will force us to change our practices in science, journalism and social media. Blind review is no longer possible, everything needs to be backed by the reputation of the source and a chain of trust.
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer14 Nov 2022
I'm thinking about creating an interactive musical space that allows for easy participation, altering parameters of a dynamic composition via phone-based interfaces (camera, touch). Are you aware of similar projects by other people that might be worth checking out?
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Is it that busy people (paradoxically) have the most time or that effective people utilize momentum?
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fronx 🐙✨@fronxer23 Oct 2022
A story of thought and being The pencil waits for the breath to finish and touches the page. The soft roughness of the surface confirms that contact was made. In sliding motions its journey gives rise to a trace, a space made of folds and waves and … havealittlethink.com/2022/10…
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I had no part in making this app, but it's nice to see people being creative with it ☺️
Peder Mannerfelt@PederMannerfelt18 Oct 2022
Yeah this app kicks ass!
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