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Artificial intelligence, a marketing term that essentially refers to a computer that does the right thing in its situation without explicit programming. AI can be either deterministic, or statistical, or both. Machine learning, a family of techniques that use statistics derived from training data, which got popular over the last couple decades due to the internet and concomitant abundance of said data. Artificial neural networks, a particular strategy of machine learning that can turn a fuzzy input into a sharp output, at the risk of occasionally picking the wrong output. Language models, which are just neural nets that primarily operate over text. Large language models, which are just really expensive variants of the preceding, trained on data which was unscrupulously sourced. Chatbot-as-a-service, a specific category of commercial product furnished by the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

(i was on the hoof but now back at my desk; it's this)

Artificial intelligence, a marketing term that essentially refers to a computer that does the right thing in its situation without explicit programming. AI can be either deterministic, or statistical, or both. Machine learning, a family of techniques that use statistics derived from training data, which got popular over the last couple decades due to the internet and concomitant abundance of said data. Artificial neural networks, a particular strategy of machine learning that can turn a fuzzy input into a sharp output, at the risk of occasionally picking the wrong output. Language models, which are just neural nets that primarily operate over text. Large language models, which are just really expensive variants of the preceding, trained on data which was unscrupulously sourced. Chatbot-as-a-service, a specific category of commercial product furnished by the likes of OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google.

(i was on the hoof but now back at my desk; it's this)

i came up with a six-bullet stack to disambiguate it

2026-03-06 WORKING IN PUBLIC: the checkout continues YouTube video by dorian taylor

from this morning: going over Semantic REST, the lecture series, Sense Atlas, and using it to design the checkout flow: youtu.be/anMeXQlyjVM

(the voice channel i mean; assuming that's a general acl thing rather than me specifically)

it said i didn't have access to the channel btw

The Making of Making Sense So it basically goes like this: Assume my tweets skeets are shitposts. Assume my website is serious business. This newsletter is the interstitial fluid between the two.

in a forthcoming newsletter i coined the term P(DWIM), the probability of claude code doing what you mean, and the DWIMability field, which acts on the space of possible outcomes

(gonna try to get that out this weekend; you can subscribe here: buttondown.com/dorian)

and it appears that the sucking sound you're hearing is the vacuum of those higher-level decisions

i mean, sort of

the thing about that scene is that it's kinda contrived, like he could have stopped at the shelf and gone back to it later

aaand crash

well, hang

i think it might be time to put exwm out to pasture; it's just causing too much trouble

what seems to be happening is some kind of feedback loop that runs the system load up to like 283 and locks the entire thing out so i have to kill it from ssh on another machine

gonna do another planning session this morning on this checkout flow after working NINE HOURS last night to fix a bug in sense atlas so i can resume using it to do said planning

• stream.place/doriantaylor...
• twitch.tv/methodandstr...
• youtu.be/anMeXQlyjVM

gonna do another planning session this morning on this checkout flow after working NINE HOURS last night to fix a bug in sense atlas so i can resume using it to do said planning

• stream.place/doriantaylor...
• twitch.tv/methodandstr...
• youtu.be/anMeXQlyjVM

i swear "just gotta do this thing and then i can get back to what i was doing" but like recursive

make that nine hours jeeeeeesus

me at 3pm: i'll just fix some stuff quickly

wallace shawn should reprise his role

i am sure this is done to death but

"during his second, history-making, non-contiguous term in which he unambiguously won unlike the first time around"

love how i have been working on a pagination dereferencing bug for the last three(?) hours

mkay i am back from the pool and i have a full french press and i'm gonna get turbojacked while i work on this some moar; goal is to get the design for this thing sorted over the next few hours

• stream.place/doriantaylor...
• twitch.tv/methodandstr...
• youtu.be/GB24KI0kqpA

mkay i am back from the pool and i have a full french press and i'm gonna get turbojacked while i work on this some moar; goal is to get the design for this thing sorted over the next few hours

• stream.place/doriantaylor...
• twitch.tv/methodandstr...
• youtu.be/GB24KI0kqpA

i come from rdf land so i've been rolling that way on my own stuff for over a decade 😭

like those things where 3/4 of the script is logging into oauth and storing credentials but like every vendor has their own sdk and it's like do you reeeeaallly need and sdk tho??

eh yeah i could rig up some api client script thing i'm sure, just yet another project lol

s2g i need like a "dumb bullshit api client command line swiss army knife for all my random oneoff api needs"

ah hm

what i usually do is come up with a blurb and go fill it in on youtube and twitch and then i fill it in on streamplace and promptly forget to hit the button lol

side panel before refresh

side panel after refresh that shows the checkbox

oh, huh, looks like i needed to refresh the page lol

but uh "end livestream automatically" also announces automatically?

trudging home from the pool, gonna shower and get back on this

grunt

oh yeah and anon said the stream title could be more prominent

that said it's 1000x tighter than youtube and especially twitch