Software engineer, person with many interests, and actual mad scientist living in Amsterdam
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Last Notes npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp Eating a balanced diet is hard. Getting enough fibre of a wide variety is even harder. That's why I scarf down 30 capsules a day containing ground chia seeds, dried berries, and pure cellulose. Join my newsletter for more fibremaxxing tips npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp My brain wants to read it as Forg Jo, but then that raises the question: What is Joseph doing when he forgs? npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp That's actually a good description for addictive spyware which you don't pay for where you are the product: free as in 'free base' npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp I love how the Wikipedia article for "free base" includes instructions on how to make crack. ChatGPT would never npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp The body of water currently making world headlines is the subject of a naming dispute. The historical name Persian Gulf has fallen out of favour among Arab nations, and the compromise name The Gulf is seen by Iran as erasing their heritage. I have a proposal which should make everyone equally unhappy and thus be a perfect resolution to the conflict npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp I thought it was well-established that Banksy was a pseudonym of the elusive programmer Satoshi Nakamoto npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp As a third point, consider the old IBM maxim: A computer cannot be held accountable, therefore a computer cannot make a management decision. The fact that people anthropomorphise the AI and give it way more authority than it deserves makes me very wary that we're heading towards a future where nobody takes responsibility for anything because AI npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp On top of this, vibe-coding and the whole idea of churning out code as quickly as possible is antithetical to how software should be developed, where the less code you can use, the better. Modern enterprise software is complicated and irritating enough as it is. Putting a large language model on top of it will only make it worse npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp Part of the issue, for me at least, is in the way that LLMs are being sold. The people working for the AI companies are true believers that they're on the path towards artificial general intelligence, and that's part of what's fuelling the current frenzy npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp I love Wiki's because anybody can edit them npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp I imagine that a jellyfish sting tastes like licking a fishy kiwi peel covered in potassium permanganate npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp That theme, the Days of our Lives theme, and the fashion saxophone from Bold and the Beautiful are etched in my memory npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp I just realised: There's an alternate universe in which the US didn't build out the Interstate Highway system and the most convenient way to travel to small remote towns is with light aircraft npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp Conventional wisdom dictates that when you sell your house, the walls should be white, the floors an inoffensive wood or laminate, and the furniture should be as normal as possible. But when I eventually sell my place, I want everything in it to be blue and I want to have an ambient piano arrangement of Eiffel 65's Blue (da ba dee) playing in the background when people come to view it npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp South Africa, which still possesses its stockpile of weapons-grade uranium from the apartheid days: 😶 npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp BAE Systems is when your girlfriend is an arms dealer npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp I don't think enough people appreciate that the Eucharist being the literal body and blood of Christ is so fundamental to Catholicism that wars have been fought over it. npub159e5wd7cdfyljj3nfv9cddfytdwrjs8d80syrh69u37k45kw88zqykfl8u ·J Mopp Forget about S.M.A.R.T. goals; focus on V.O.L.U.M.E. — Vague, Open-ended, Lofty, Unmeasurable, Minimal, Ephemeral
