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Like this site layout: https://breckyunits.com

https://open.substack.com/pub/nabeelqu/p/reading-notes-lost-time?selection=251bed00-96a2-4106-9d95-0dd22cc7d12d&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web

We still have some ways to go, but LLMs will make Terry Gilliam’s advice to Quentin Tarantino so much more accessible:

“You just need to understand your vision and you need to articulate it. If you hire the right people who get what you’re trying to do and then you just explain it to them.”

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/terry-gilliam-helped-quentin-tarantino/

Related: https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/llms-as-a-tool-for-thought

The Critic and Her Publics hosted by Merve Emre was one of my favorite 2024 podcasts. Great to see it’s been extended for two more seasons.

I’d love to see this being used for code / technical design reviews! Coders at Work and Beautiful Work are in a similar space but putting an unfamiliar piece of work in front of an expert provides an interesting insight into how they approach a problem.

Was thinking of this tweet in the context of a maxim used in functional / typed languages to make illegal states impossible by designing types appropriately. In some ways the types approach is like algebra and units conversion in a formula.

An example of how what you hear in your social circles may not be indicative of reality. Quite a few people in my network mention using Claude, but it’s still lagging way behind ChatGPT

https://bsky.app/profile/ianbicking.bsky.social/post/3lc6vggpqlc2n

Found this via @vgr. GenAI is leading to a new wave of verifiable digital artifacts.

https://roc.camera/

“assume that people are smart and leverage that to figure out what you don’t know about the decisions they make.”

Ben Thompson about the maxim that drives Byrne Hobart’s work, such as The Diff

“In reality, “groupthink” is how many things get approved as quickly as they do.”

“Groupthink stems from incentives…”

https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2024/11/blind-spots-when-medicine-gets-it-wrong-and-what-it-means-for-our-health.html

“An event happens on a date, at a time. The precise details of that time are very important: if you tell people to show up to your event at 7pm and it turns out they should have arrived at 6pm they’ll miss an hour of the event!”

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/storing-times-for-human-events/

A nice tip on learning programming languages. Limit the variables!

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/27/storing-times-for-human-events/

https://sporto.github.io/elm-patterns/index.html

How to store date & time in backends