
Martin (חיים) Berlove
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
@MartinBerlove
Technology and the philosophy of progress.
Katılım Haziran 2011
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Preserving direction in #automation requires friction, conscious thought above the process. Delegate the messy details (transparent but ignored 99% of the time), and keep the decisions upfront and visible. Catastrophe comes from invisible decisions.
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@johnhboyer This is exciting to see. I have hoped for something like this for a while. Contextualization helps so much.
Minor bug: When you click a word to bring up the dictionary / grammar, and then click another word without closing, it doesn't swap over (at least in my browser).
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Please check this out. I build a Landmark-style version of the Iliad and Odyssey with Greek and English, maps, genealogies, dictionaries. It puts Perseus to shame.




John H. Boyer@johnhboyer
there’s an Odyssey movie. Love it or hate it, the poem is still better. I built a free reader for it — Greek with facing English, tap any word for the grammar, every place mapped, the route animated, Flaxman’s engravings. Share and enjoy. johnhboyer-sys.github.io/homer-reader/
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@WritesCole A good reminder.
"Ars longa, vita brevis" and yet “It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.”
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@EricLMitchell Decentralized regulation might help develop organically, over time (this area demands nuance imho)...but the push is usually for the big hammer of federal law.
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The meta-skill of adaptation matters as much as any tool we teach. We see hard skills, especially in STEM -- reasonably -- and teach to them, and often miss the forest for the trees.
#stem #education
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@LukeW A sounding board, not a brain replacement. All too easy to forget in the bustle of getting things done with AI.
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#Automation speeds the cycle of creation, and renders impermanent everything from a word document to a skyscraper. In transience, impermanent artifacts can enable permanent ideas.
Full video here: youtu.be/zdw4llInDMQ

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Frameworks for teaching coding now are incomparable to previous decades. You can build real things in simple ways, and learn logic and math as you go.
Yet -- ground-up teaches too. There was something gained in that struggle just to understand screen refresh in Basic.
#STEM
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@joncphillips 80/20 strikes again. Prototyping is just so much faster than edge cases (and more satisfying). The struggle continues!
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@davidburkus Do you suggest a good substitute? It is an overused term and diffuses with use, but in principle it provides a terse "getting one thing to correspond to another."
(There's "parity" but that has the same problem as alignment).
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@davidburkus Always easier to brag about finishing X number of books than to make a single change in practice (sadly).
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@CompSciFact From the same article: "You want A.I. to be able to combine components to get a good answer based on the data. But you have to decide what those components are."
The need never changes...automation is only as good as its premise. If the algorithm leads, stagnation follows.
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Repetitive #AI content often gets called "slop" -- I get it. It becomes tacky. That is a choice of mass production, like pulp novels, or lawn flamingos (no insult to those specifically).
But the free expression to create every story, video, media of your dreams -- it transcends.
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@Lawalsegun_ The first resources I remember having were a secondhand book on web development from a bookstore (out of date even then), and a site called Dave's HTML Guide (or something similar). Those and notepad turned imagination into reality.
I think many coders had similar beginnings.
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@ComputerLove_ While you wouldn't replicate this exactly, we'd benefit from having this kind of organization online more commonly again. Algorithmic data is applied magic, but categories and lists are more digestible.
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#automation is most freeing when it influences the mutable. Materials and processes not subject to change increase in danger. This has been in evidence through long periods of movement and it is a problem easily forgotten on its face, but not in its impacts.
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@circuits24x7 It's amazing how consistently it turns out that successful technology is not the idea, but the execution. Inventors, writers, and thinkers have often predicted the future, or maybe began it...once the ball is rolling, it's often only a matter of time.
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Insight from Seneca two millenia ago continues to offer relevant wisdom for using our time in a busy and automated world.
Full video here: youtu.be/5vlIgtakvI8

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