Mark Tatum

@TheGreatB00ks Somerset Maugham

Who are some of your favorite short stories authors? 1. Robert E. Howard 2. Edgar Allan Poe 3. Ernest Hemingway 4. Flannery O'Connor 5. Guy de Maupassant Who are some of your favorites?☕️📚

@annielcrawford Please explain.

I am convinced this is a passage about AI. "Take care then how you hear, for to the one who has, more will be given, and from the one who has not, even what he thinks that he has will be taken away.” - Luke 8:18

@kalezelden It resulted in all kinds of music, experimentation and breaking boundaries. Music was the soundtrack of our lives, even if we weren’t musicians. Art was in the air like never before. It doesn’t feel like music is as important as it was then.

Something that drove the popularity of rock and roll in the 60’s though the mid 90’s was the sense that you too could pick up a guitar or drum kit, band together with the boys in the garage, and DO it. It was a radically democratic endeavor, from an opportunity standpoint. Now we fiddle our phones.

@DanielleMorrill Total game changer for me. No waiting to develop my ideas. I just try them out myself.

Laying here in bed learning about cache invalidation and testing a fix to a pain in the ass bug Claude is wrangling with me This isn’t just for UX and copy Hallucinations aren’t really a thing once you have a well developed set of markdown files Fast!

@annielcrawford @kalezelden I would love to hear it!

@kalezelden This would be a fun, larger conversation. :)

TLC will like this. A key theme in Paradise Lost is the importance of relational dialectic. The only people who soliloquize, who ponder and make decisions on their own, are Satan and then Eve when she chooses to eat the fruit.

@annielcrawford Wonder if the upcoming movie will convey this message.

The Odyssey is a book about how to recover a generation that has lost its fathers. The answer—Fight for them; Fight with them.

@kalezelden I love the smell of analog media. This is just a small part of my vintage book shoppe.

As someone who grew up amid the transition from records and tapes to CDs, and eventually into MP3s, I can attest to this fact: We really thought it was all upside. We really thought there was no downside.

@awoooouwuooooo “If you lift me up a couple of inches I can lift you and we can both fly fly above…” open.spotify.com/track/4mBsJ2yq…

I won't give up if you don't

@annielcrawford One of the few books that made me laugh out loud. Reading it when it was released at the height of modern monoculture hit a lot differently than reading it now when the world itself has become absurd.

Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy is the literary equivalent of a sci-fi absurdist painting. All disconnected facts and no moral vision. It’s funny but… eh.

@annielcrawford Well it’s my ideas, my requirements, my testing. The LLM is just helping me implement it (something I wouldn’t be able to do otherwise without hiring a developer). Whether it is innovative or scalable is on me.

@mark_tatum Apps are themselves digital, algorithmically based products so a digital, algorithmic tool is probably appropriate for that task. However, I would question what you mean by "good" software. Not sure you could create anything actually innovative or scalable this way.

Because I teach Media Ecology and write about issues related to technology, I usually try to play around with new tech to better understand its strengths, weaknesses, tendencies, and dangers. I've tried asking LLMs to do a variety of things for the past year and here is my current assessment: - It is helpful for summarizing and organizing large amounts of information. - It's good for finding quick answers to basic, factually oriented questions. It's results are much more user-friendly than Google and older forms of search engines, although these are still essential as a cross-reference search tool. - Because it is probabilistic, these search and summary results MUST be taken as tentative and simply as a starting point for further research. - It is TERRIBLE as a writing tool. Everything I ask it to write turns out very mediocre. It has no real relevance realization, which is the very heart, soul, and telos of good writing and thinking. - AI has ZERO place in K-12 education. It will sabotage intellectual development only to replace it with utter twaddle. - LLMs should NEVER be used in a way that treats them as people—asking it for advice, using it as a dialectical partner, seeking a source of companionship. It is a digital, algorithmic tool and the personal facade must be kept in mind and seen through at all times, lest we damage and distort our own souls. Many people will not be able to maintain that distinction and therefore should just stay away. What are your thoughts?

@awoooouwuooooo What about churches?

non-profits that refuse to hire people based on race, religion, or political ideology alone, so long as all other criteria make that person a good fit, should lose tax exempt status

@indole_gaines @stevemagness The more you do steps the easier they get. Specificity matters.

@stevemagness IYKYK

Every runner knows the opposite truth: The fitter you are, the more you question why going up stairs is so hard, when you are in peak mile or 5k shape. A truism among runners I know: the fitter you are the more the stairs hurt, the more you avoid them.

@awoooouwuooooo Circular logic.

I am still listening to my favorite album of 2024: Nebulous Nights by @royksopp which the YouTube algo recommended on the day it was released. It has become my constant background while working.

@awoooouwuooooo A real collaborator who is on your side. Thats the dream.

I want grok to preemptively message me

@CyrusShepard Did you put the link in the first comment like twitter recommends? Need more data on what you actually tested.

Will repeat this experiment in January and incorporate all the things I learned. But three big takeaways 1) Link suppression is a thing on Twitter 2) Engagement matters on every platform 3) Driving traffic from social media remains a viable strategy

Results from experiment posting the same link on 4 social media platforms: 1) Threads sent the most traffic per follower, followed by Bluesky and LinkedIn 2) Bluesky = highest engagement Will repeat experiment to better account for Direct traffic/bots + use a more engaging post

@richardrohlin @Joshisanalias @Hleowstede Seems like you might be projecting your frame onto this intro. While he was projecting a 1900 frame on classic faery tales.

@Joshisanalias @Hleowstede Exactly. Very hard for me to want to read a fairy tale written by this guy.

To be honest I got so angry with the preface to the first Oz book as a youngster that I have boycotted it ever since. Am I missing anything?

@GregGarner1 @SageCanaday Exactly my issue. Found some relief from more electrolytes and hydration prior to those shorter races. Lots of hill repeats and strides in training, thought I was fueling enough. But maybe not. I also have a high sweat rate which probably contributes.

@SageCanaday I often cramp during races but never during training even when at threshold. They are mysterious!

Runners - ever suffer from debilitating muscle cramps during a race? The worst cramps I’ve ever experienced were in a “short” mountain race (my first Sierre-Zinal 🏃🏻🏔️🙌)…not a long ultra! Often #runners think cramps are caused by dehydration or a lack of electrolytes or fuel (which it could be). But more often than not I’d say it’s caused by “sheer muscle failure”) ….aka a lack of specific training 💪and asking the body to do something it is not prepared for! Going out too fast in a race is also a likely cause.