ChatGPT is, in technical terms, a ‘bullshit generator’. If a generated sentence makes sense to you, the reader, it means the mathematical model has made sufficiently good guess to pass your sense-making filter.
We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it by Dan McQuillan
📝 New blog post: Effective Remote Work by James Stanier (2022)
📝 New blog post: Engineering Management for the Rest of Us by Sarah Drasner (2022)
Table tennis
I’m preparing a job posting at the moment and I’m going to replace every instance of “Frontend” with “Web” and change the ordering of skills to HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (previously it was JavaScript, HTML, and CSS).
Finished reading: High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove 📚
However influential and innovative this book has once been, it seems outdated now. Instead you should read a more modern management book that took its good ideas and brought them into the 21st century.
📝 New blog post: My Favorite Albums of 2022
Trash
Your personal website is a place that provides immense creative freedom and control. It’s a place to write, create, and share whatever you like, without the need to ask for anyone’s permission.
The Year of the Personal Website by Matthias Ott
Finished reading: RCE by Sibylle Berg 📚
A foggy day at Lainzer Tiergarten, Vienna
Nibelungenbrücke, Linz
Exactly five years ago. There was still snow back then.
📸 New blog post: Budapest in December
Sometimes you discover a band through the news of their breakup. Today that would be For Tracy Hyde.
Inner City, Vienna
And lastly my top track of 2022 was Cellophane (Brain) by Middle Kids, followed by Working for the Knife (Mitski), Be Sweet (Japanese Breakfast), Woman (Angel Olsen), and Hardline (Julien Baker)
The top album was Laurel Hell (Mitski), followed by Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You (Big Thief), MY WOMAN, Big Time (both Angel Olsen), and Thirstier (TORRES).
In 2022 the artist I listened most to was Angel Olsen. Followed by Mitski, TORRES, Japanese Breakfast, and Big Thief.
Before you continue, pause and consider: How would you prove you’re not a language model generating predictive text? What special human tricks can you do that a language model can’t?
The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI by Maggie Appleton
Altes AKH, Vienna
📝 Book Report 2022
Towards the mountains…
A quick walk before midnight to get my steps in
No surprises here:
