Martin (חיים) Berlove

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Martin (חיים) Berlove

Martin (חיים) Berlove

@MartinBerlove

Technology and the philosophy of progress.

Katılım Haziran 2011
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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ColeSmithWrites
ColeSmithWrites@WritesCole·
You know you’re meant to write a book.
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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Eric Mitchell
Eric Mitchell@EricLMitchell·
OpenAI, Anthropic and Google now agree frontier AI needs regulation. That may be true. It is also useful when the companies large enough to absorb the rules help write rules their smaller competitors cannot afford. Safety can become a moat.
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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Luke Wroblewski
Luke Wroblewski@LukeW·
increasingly find myself saying... "use AI to help you think not to have it think for you."
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
#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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@joncphillips 80/20 strikes again. Prototyping is just so much faster than edge cases (and more satisfying). The struggle continues!
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Jon C. Phillips
Jon C. Phillips@joncphillips·
"How long did that take to build?" "A weekend." "Oh, so it's done?" "That was 4 months ago."
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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Dr. David Burkus
Dr. David Burkus@davidburkus·
The word "alignment" gets used so often in leadership settings it has lost all meaning. What most leaders mean when they say they want alignment: "I want people to agree with me without me having to explain myself."
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Dr. David Burkus
Dr. David Burkus@davidburkus·
The number of leaders who have read a book about psychological safety and then gone back to punishing bad news is staggeringly high. Reading about leadership and practicing it are genuinely different skills.
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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Computer Science
Computer Science@CompSciFact·
“I am worried that algorithms are getting too prominent in the world.' -- Donald Knuth
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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LAWALSEGUN | Product Designer
Back in those days, when there is nothing like youtube or sites like Web3School. How did they even learn codes? I'm really curious.
LAWALSEGUN | Product Designer tweet media
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
Technology that lets you forget technology. Society hasn't reached that point, but it is a laudable goal -- the reasonable endpoint for almost all technology. Invisible, almost unconscious help.
Blaze@browomo

Someone ran Claude Code on a beach where any device overheats and that spot suddenly turned out to be the best home for the most powerful AI in the world. This is the reMarkable Paper Pro. A paper tablet for notes with no browser and no social media and not a single app. He sat down right on the sand in the open sun and brought up Claude Code on Opus 4.6 over the Claude API on the paper screen and opened his project ~/repos/webs while the waves broke a few steps away. For years every device had the same trouble outside. In direct sun the screen glares and washes out and heats up and instead of your work you see your own reflection. But e-ink does not blast its own light into your face. It reflects the sunlight like the page of a book. And here is what came out of it. The very thing that kills any normal screen outside turned into fuel for this one. The brighter the sun the sharper the picture because it has nothing to glare with and nothing to wash out. And then comes the thing no laptop on a beach will give you. Your eyes do not get tired. You can watch Opus think on max effort for an hour and it reads like a book in the sun and not a backlight you squint into. The picture only comes alive. In bright light it does not fade but turns sharper and higher in contrast than it ever was in a room. The charge lasts for days. E-ink barely touches the battery so there is no outlet anywhere on the sand and the tablet does not care. It weighs as much as a notebook. The whole setup folds into a beach bag like a pad with a pen on top. Everything on the screen is for real. Claude Code v2.1.110 and Opus 4.6 on the Claude API and the project ~/repos/webs open right on the e-ink in the middle of the sand. In my opinion this is the most unexpected home for an AI this year. Not an office with the blinds drawn and not a monitor cranked to full brightness but a quiet sheet of paper on the sand that open sun only makes better and on it the most powerful Claude writes code right on the page like a pen.

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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
Every practical paper, article, book, video, consumable can be digested as praxis, or as pattern. No material exists in isolation, but when digested as though it is, we lose flexibility and context, and a gain becomes, sometimes, an impending loss. At least that's what I see.
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
#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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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
@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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Circuits 24x7
Circuits 24x7@circuits24x7·
An article from a 1981 computer book on what future computers might look like. They weren't that far off.
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Martin (חיים) Berlove
Martin (חיים) Berlove@MartinBerlove·
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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