NickDouglas

That was the best explanation of litfic vs. commercial/genre fiction I've ever read.

A "human in the loop" isn't just necessary to manage AI's technical failures or in cases of human responsibility. This paper explores the case where AI provides the "correct" answer to the prompt, but the human realizes important factors that weren't even in the prompt. I interpret this as "rubber ducking," but from the POV of automation.

Thank you, this is the deepest comment in the thread (and lol at all the self-demonstrating sentences).

I'm annoyed that so many people limit their analysis to shallow things like em dashes and "delve," and don't seem to have the critical thinking necessary to analyze textual construction, let alone actual meaning. Instead it's all cutesy remarks about how Emily Dickinson must have been an AI.

Suit yourself, my family ended up with two used copies of "The Hobbit" and we kept the one that some kid had marked up.

I might have to explain spreadsheets to my mom first, but then it'll be smooth sailing.

How Cloudflare and Signal migrated to post-quantum cryptography

I knew Om when I was an ankle-biter writing for a Gawker blog. He was gracious and generous. Felt like everybody's favorite uncle. I hope I can be as kind to others as he was to me.

Exception that proves the rule. You know what context that specific recipient needs from you. GenAI usually doesn't.

Try "The Illustrated Man" by Ray Bradbury, but skip the terrible frame story. The actual short stories are beautiful literature and canonical sci-fi.

You have now. "Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash" is literally on the front of Hacker News.

I'm really glad I don't know the elephants upstairs.

Within the next generation or so too, since the first notices were sent by postal mail.

That reminds me of this post on how Craigslist's business is being eaten away, and why it's taking so long (because of the critical mass needed to compete against its network-effect benefit): http://www.quora.com/Why-hasnt-another-product-disrupted-and...

To only sort by date is simplicity.

To only sort by "relevance" as determined by friend-of-friend connections is needless complexity.

Tomorrow, the whole front page will be about feeling your face sting and going "Ow! Ow! Ow!" in front of your bathroom mirror.

And even we privileged techies sometimes have to take our phones into the subway or onto a plane.

Remember, you're talking about a magazine that misspelled "YouTube" on the cover of their last "Person of the Year" issue.

But if you're coming up with zero ideas, adding three a day is an improvement. What you call "forcing yourself," I call every writers' room and recording artist contract.

I didn't write much good material until Valleywag made me write twelve blog posts a day. Only three or four were really good -- but that's three or four more good posts a day than I was turning out before.

A new Reddit, not any existing one. Different name, different code, same principle.

I found a potential co-founder at a Justin.tv Sunday dinner.

Would you join a Reddit that charged $5 a year and was invite only? You'd get to invite five new users per year.

I just started a blog called "Bad Idea a Day" (it's at that .com, but I'm not trying to advertise it). I force myself to think of a product, story, lifehack, or any idea each morning.

It's just for fun and mental practice. But so far I like my ideas, and I'm already talking to a designer about possibly turning one idea into a product.

You could do the same with a blog, Tumblr, or Twitter account named "What people want." Every morning, think of something people want. Do it again at lunch. Do it again at dinner.

Make the account private if you want, but I recommend putting ideas up in public. You're more likely to find a partner and willing free advice than to get your idea stolen.

I live a block away from the Craigslist office (which is, yes, in a normal-looking house/storefront with a charmingly ugly sign above the door). I often walk past it during business hours, but the gate is always closed and locked.

I bumped into CEO Jim Buckmaster (a friend of mine) near the office, and I asked him about the locked gate. "We all work upstairs now," Jim said. "We had to keep the first floor locked up because people kept dropping in to say how much they love us."

Good point; that's what I learn from making judgments about other people's industries.

I won't back out of my bet, of course, but I can see how I might lose it.

It's pretty awesome that Google has invented a magical machine for determining an employee's worth.

"Every single idea is derivative. Many successful products are simply about taking something that exists and then changing its focus or its look."

Yyyyyyes...but understand that Truemors is rather more "derivative" than, say, the iPod or Windows 3.11.

Also, what he said.

If 500 people are willing to pay $10 for a piece of software, a developer has two options: 1. Make it on your site for $5000 (minus your cut) and feel good about themselves; 2. Make it themselves, sell it on the web for $10, and make much more money. So much for others' incentive to produce your product.

They're still small, right? Join 'em.

I like it, though I'll bet a hundred bucks it doesn't turn a profit in the first two years.