Josh Hadro

Congrats! Really grateful to have worked with you. This one of my favorite things I ever wrote, based on an invitation from you! www.nypl.org/blog/2017/11...

Another idea: one model coding, another set of models criticising/critique-ing with how they would have done it or how it can be improved and feeding back. Get them to document/log to a file all actions and comments. Interesting for model interaction.

Yes, I like that as an added evaluation layer, and would be interesting to compare what an LLM chooses to do from the outset versus what the same model claims it would do in the critique mode. You'd have to structure the problem domain carefully, but I think this would be fascinating!

Among other questions, does the same model arrive at more or less the same suggested solution, regardless of the viber?
Do different models substantially alter the solution, architecture, base assumptions, etc.?

Are there people in digital scholarship/digital humanities looking at something like "adversarial vibe coding"?

I'm thinking 2 or 3 folks trying to tackle the same core problem, using LLM assisted tools, and then a post-hoc assessment not just of effectiveness, but comparative strategies, etc.

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This reminds me of the bit in Vonnegut’s Player Piano regarding the barber who gets so anxious about the prospect of being replaced by barber-like robots that he teaches himself robotics and invents the barber-replacing robot

The bottom left corner of the Saturday Feb 28 NYTimes front page that reads “Iranians Cite Progress in Talks, p.A9”

“I wonder if it made the deadline for the print edition…”

“Oh.”

Hell yeah 🙌

18 Photographs to Rekindle Your Love of Massive NYC Snowstorms

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Someone pointed out that the spaceship car has had out of state plates for years, and thus is almost certainly insurance fraud, and the spaceship car got milkshake ducked

Don’t threaten me with a good time

Oh ha different spatial awareness, on rereading, but the interpersonal awareness is likewise fascinating, kiddo gets the sidewalk etiquette intuitively and is groking bike etiquette now also

It’s soooo fascinating! My 5yo navigates to school using bodegas as landmarks/waypoints, recognizes neighborhoods by their playgrounds, and understands the boros of MAN and WNS by the bridges crossed to get there (and like many people, gets disoriented crossing boro boundaries underground)

But still, if I was still using out of the box Tesseract in a workflow, I would be looking closely at that for sure.

Of course, that’s just the raw economic side of the equation, *lots and lots* of factors that make it a more complicated calculus than that.

The question of whether to re-OCR old digitization outputs has been a hard question for libraries to answer many years, but the combination of lower costs and substantially improved outputs is probably tipping the scales in favor of reprocessing soon for many digitized collections, IMO.

As any article about antisocial neighbors who refuse to pick up their dog feces must obviously do, this article ends with a discussion of Kant’s categorical imperative

Easily feeds 2 people, it's luxurious if you get a decent avocado, and it's cheap!

I would like to add an entry here I like to call "bodega dinner": make box mac & cheese as directed (Kraft or Annie's, or whatever).
Slice an avocado, add it to your mac & cheese.
Get a can of those La Morena pickled jalapeños. Put a ton of those on top.
Eat, and enjoy the $$ you saved!

Let a thousand @hellgatenyc.com s bloom.

Just wait until they hear about Morphine!

I’m imaging something like the Citibike Bike Angels program, like give 4 free MTA rides for every intersection cleared of snow, free subway ride for every storm drains cleared, etc.

Or whatever the right incentive might be!

I bet folks would do this.

Question for urban planner/policy people: are there any examples of cities quasi-formally marshaling volunteer efforts for things like clearing snow from curb cuts, clearing storm drains in downpours, etc.?

There is a finely choreographed ballet of industrial machinery and infrastructure that, against all apparent odds, keeps this city from descending into chaos

“Contrary to widespread fears, there is no evidence that drivers seeking to avoid the toll have slowed journeys in places like Staten Island or the Bronx.”

“While Manhattan has been in the spotlight, local trips taken by people in outer boroughs and suburbs — places home to many of congestion pricing’s most vociferous critics — have reclaimed the most travel time.”

It’s all so dumb! It’s a bike lane! It’s not like the studio people weren’t gonna park in the bike lane all day everyday anyway!

Can you imagine being so mad about a bike lane that you bribe a mayor’s deputy to stop the bike lane, but the administration you bribed is so ineptly corrupt that your bribery is incrementally covered by excellent local journalism for years after you first got mad about the bike lane?