Ron Diamond

#AI #LLM #Chatbots #PromptEngineering 🚧 “No amount of prompt engineering will assure the behavior you want, consistently and reliably.“ 🛠 “Think of system prompts less like rules for the LLM, and more like … suggestions.“ Here's why: dev-ron.medium.com/dont-trust-you…

Agentic workflows handling stuff for you? Cool! But it's not a new idea — not by a long-shot. Here's a classic, though long-forgotten story that foretells the future by nearly 50 years. "Thank you, Beep!", from Hewlett-Packard Magazine(!), in 1979. 🤯 calc.fjk.ch/library/thank_…

👆@NASA @NASAArtemis

Go, #ArtemisII ! 🌍🚀🌙 Though "astro-speak" is a bit of a foreign language. 🤔 So here's my own handy Glossary of #NASA acronyms & terminology: rondiamond.net/artemis/ Enjoy! 🧑‍🚀

Full Medium article: rondiamond.medium.com/does-your-llm-…

3/ It worked! Feels like removing banner clutter from a web page -- I can breathe now. Recommended. #LLM #AI #ClickBait #BusyChatbot #CalmChatbot

1/ Does your LLM chatbot feel like it's "click-baiting" you? 🤔 > "If you want, I can also explain the 5 most important ideas from ..." > "If you’re interested, I can also show you the ..." > "If useful, I can also outline three more reasons ..." 🧵

“Overlooked” - NYT’s new series of amazing stories about forgotten women in history: nytimes.com/interactive/20… 🙏🏻 #HenriettaLacks #IdaBWells #QuiJin #MaryEwingOuterbridge … and more

In 1983, Steve Jobs predicted the next 50 years of technology. His predictions: • iPhone • Internet • Softwares • App stores • Artificial Intelligence

"Working with Anderson Cooper" (1994) One of Anderson's early TV reporting assignments ... and the beginnings of his journey toward healing. rondiamond.medium.com/working-with-a… #AndersonCooper #ChannelOne #ChannelOneNews #Rwanda #Trauma #Healing

Since 1980, the #USDietaryGuidelines have made millions of people sick. It’s time to change them to reflect #goodscience . More info: nutritioncoalition.us Please RT to help spread the word! @HHS @USDA_FNS @HHS_ASH @SecRollins @SecKennedy @calleymeans @bigfatsurprise

🎼 “It was ‘Pet Sounds’ that blew me out of the water,” Paul McCartney once said. “I figure no one is educated musically ’til they’ve heard that album.” #BrianWilson was one of the great musical geniuses of the twentieth century. 🎵 Thank you, Brian, for all you’ve given us. 🎶

@robertlufkinmd And correlation is not causation: tylervigen.com/spurious-corre…

➡️ “Seed oils [e.g., canola, corn, cottonseed, sunflower, soybean] weren’t originally considered fit for human consumption; they were largely developed as machine lubricants during the Industrial Revolution.” … #CardiovascularDisease #Cholesterol #Cancer washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/325908…

"Git Demystified" - How Git works (workflow & internals) One hour to truly "grokking" Git. A talk I gave at USC back in 2014. youtube.com/watch?v=exeeWN… #git #svn #versioncontrol

👉 "Democrats Are Awful At Messaging" 👈 Can they do better this time around? They need to. A tough-love primer on communications strategy -- if the party of JFK and FDR wants to prevail this fall: rondiamond.medium.com/democrats-mess… #Branding #BrandStrategy #DemocraticParty #Election2024

Wow. #CoryDoctorow does it again. "... Google’s enshittified search-results are a choice. ... Google makes more money out of shit than they would out of delivering a good product." #Enshittification doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralis…

“Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die. …” doctorow.medium.com/tiktoks-enshit…

On this date in 1937, the United States Navy finally gave up the search for Amelia Earhart. "Amelia Earhart meets Occam’s Razor: Is there a way to narrow down what happened to her?" rondiamond.medium.com/213e3699a47c #AmeliaEarhart #Aviation #AviationHistory #OccamsRazor #CriticalThinking

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#AlanTuring died seventy years ago today. In cracking the German military’s Enigma-encrypted communications, the work of his team at #BletchleyPark, north of London, is estimated to have saved at least ten million lives, and shortened World War II by at least two years.