some friends and i are imagining what a pedagogically motivated IDE for nontechnical folks might look like and i will be updating my design doc to quote this skeet, ty @tedunderwood.me

if you’re one of the 76.2k monthly buxtehude listeners on Spotify, dm me

wild that iOS lets apps deny users a screenshot.

screenshotting feels like a sacred os-level operation, the control of which should not be delegated to an app

helped a friend meticulously destroy an old piano yesterday.

the piano tuner himself recommended not paying to have it tuned.

wip art guessing game that uses LLMs to score free text descriptions of public domain art at metguessr.net

a lot of my llm eval work for clients starts in notebooks and then migrates into modules, scripts, tests, etc

naming them like this has been good to me

nakedly, pathetically tried this task with Claude on two blog drafts.

blog post, prompt -> concepts, big papers, and lines of research across a bunch of disciplines.

some of them I could qa given my knowledge of the lit; others I had to google a bit.

all of them were good 🤷‍♀️

New release from Johann Sebastian Bach

New release from Ludwig van Beethoven

blue bridge, blue sky

name that bluesky

forgot to attach the inspiration for this, from @visa.bsky.social on the bird app

bsky over bk

this is from this book btw, great read if you’re into Recsys or ML, or Soc/Anthro perspectives on tech

this anthropologist’s synthesis of years of qualitative research on music recommendation systems and the ppl who make them is great

an embedding is simply a creature plucked out of a “writhing, surging, insatiably expanding information-space-beast” of some domain

the stoop gods of brooklyn have been good to me lately. just copped this collection of French tales w comprehension exercises and glosses in the margins for rare vocab. last week, a nice working monitor.

japanese maple ✅