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AKA NickleDave
@nicholdav.bsky.social
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I'm interested in how animals communicate with sound and I try to make that easier for everyone to study: https://www.vocalpy.org/

Cat & dog dad, cold brew addict, video gamer, Florida boy, #altac, podcast fan, occasional espanglish. nicholdav.info
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ikr?!!
November 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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nicholdav.bsky.social
Nobody asked but since we're talking about Mexican covers of English language pop hits,

I'll never forget when I still worked retail, going in super early, sitting in the parking lot in the dark & this came on AM radio: a kickass banda cover of Shania Twain's Still the One
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Rogelio Martinez - Y Sigues Siendo Tu (Video Oficial)
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November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
nicholdav.bsky.social
Nobody asked but since we're talking about Mexican covers of English language pop hits,

I'll never forget when I still worked retail, going in super early, sitting in the parking lot in the dark & this came on AM radio: a kickass banda cover of Shania Twain's Still the One
youtu.be/AyT6XrBAXdI?...
Rogelio Martinez - Y Sigues Siendo Tu (Video Oficial)
YouTube video by SonicmaX
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 PM
nicholdav.bsky.social
Oh man that sounds like a really good way to jazz up pepperoni pizza, must try
November 22, 2025 at 9:09 PM
nicholdav.bsky.social
Looks life-changing. I don't think I've had pepperoni with basil like that 🤔 Have I been missing out?
November 22, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era

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self.agency daniel s. @self.agency · 1d
donald trump endorsed zohran mamdani before chuck schumer lmao
November 21, 2025 at 9:38 PM
nicholdav.bsky.social
Lapsed Taco Bell artisan here: you are correct that adding lettuce, tomato, and sour cream makes any item Supreme. Most scholars of the Taco Talmud interpret Gorditas ch.4 verse 11 to read "and the Lord sayeth unto Glenn, lo, the crunchwrap must only be Supreme, to bear witness to my Supreme Being"
November 22, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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Yeah reading this Nardi book that I'm quote-quote-posting has really made realize, "ohh, that's what they mean by 'agents'." The glory days of the 90s never died.

Extra annoying that it overloads the word used by scientists+ philosophers working on biological agency.

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moh-kohn.bsky.social Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 10d
I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993*

("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)
What interests me about these scenarios is not that they make fantastic, unrealistic promises (though I think they do), or that the instructions given by the user are couched in simple English (Tesler at least concedes that more structured languages may be needed), or that they embody such a grand vision (though the vision has much appeal). Rather, it is interesting that it is the programmer who is to control all of the computational magic. As Tesler says, programmers will endow computer-agents with their basic capabilities, even meeting such exciting challenges as pro gramming the computer to know what users will think before they think it! By comparison, notice the relationship of the end user to the computer; the end user is engaged in the most humdrum activities: making queries regarding a phone conversation, asking the computer to set up an appointment, requesting articles from the library (Tesler, 1991). Now contrast this vision of the computer-agent with what Alan Kay (in the same issue of Scientific American) envisions for educational software: children writing simulations of complex natural phenomena such as bi ological and physical systems to better understand how they function. Kay's colleagues have created a simulation construction kit for children so that they can build their own simulations. The construction kit lets children write simple scripts that model animal behavior. Using the kit they can change parameters to see how changing conditions affect the animal. This use of computers is an instance of what Tesler called the "personal implement": the children are doing nothing more or less than programming. With the kit, the children have tools that give them tremen dous scope for intellectual exploration and personal empowerment.
November 21, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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In place of good UI / DSLs, we are forced to interact with "agents" 🙄. Bad idea: Nardi knew this in 93 👇

Yet programmers claim they have the God-like power to endow agents w/reason, as if Hinton, LeCun, et al. gave birth to cog sci. Epistemologically bankrupt-ass field.
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moh-kohn.bsky.social Alistair Davidson @moh-kohn.bsky.social · 10d
I've been trying to express exactly this discomfort with modern interface design and especially LLM design and this lady nailed it back in *1993*

("A Small Matter of Programming", Bonnie A. Nardi)
What interests me about these scenarios is not that they make fantastic, unrealistic promises (though I think they do), or that the instructions given by the user are couched in simple English (Tesler at least concedes that more structured languages may be needed), or that they embody such a grand vision (though the vision has much appeal). Rather, it is interesting that it is the programmer who is to control all of the computational magic. As Tesler says, programmers will endow computer-agents with their basic capabilities, even meeting such exciting challenges as pro gramming the computer to know what users will think before they think it! By comparison, notice the relationship of the end user to the computer; the end user is engaged in the most humdrum activities: making queries regarding a phone conversation, asking the computer to set up an appointment, requesting articles from the library (Tesler, 1991). Now contrast this vision of the computer-agent with what Alan Kay (in the same issue of Scientific American) envisions for educational software: children writing simulations of complex natural phenomena such as bi ological and physical systems to better understand how they function. Kay's colleagues have created a simulation construction kit for children so that they can build their own simulations. The construction kit lets children write simple scripts that model animal behavior. Using the kit they can change parameters to see how changing conditions affect the animal. This use of computers is an instance of what Tesler called the "personal implement": the children are doing nothing more or less than programming. With the kit, the children have tools that give them tremen dous scope for intellectual exploration and personal empowerment.
November 21, 2025 at 5:51 PM