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Tag: Computing

  • What just happened to TheNumbers.com should worry us all

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    the theory that someone used AI to develop an advantage in a prediction market is entirely plausible. The Numbers experience shows us that:  We now live in a world where a movie statistics website is worth hacking because prediction markets empower anyone to turn almost any data into money.  Hacking websites is now something anyone can…

  • Understand to participate

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    You can learn what the agent is doing to make sure you can be an active participant in the creative process. […] You need a rich set of concepts in your mind to think creatively and fluently about how to move something forward. If you’re lacking that fluency, your ability to participate in the project…

  • We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World – On my Om

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    The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury…

  • Being Fed Content

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    The point was to get out and to feel like you’re hunting, to feel like you’re living your life. I’m going to the movies, I’m going to this show. What streaming has done—it’s very convenient, but it’s taken the feeling of going hunting and turned it into we’re all just being fed. We’re all farm…

  • The Smell of IA

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    the kind of mistakes humans make are fundamentally different than LLM hallucinations, making them easy to spot. Furthermore, people who come from the world of agentic coding have a certain digital smell that is not obvious to them but is obvious to those who abstain. It’s like when a smoker walks into the room, everybody…

  • Do I belong in tech anymore? · Ky Decker

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    I am coalescing around some core beliefs: Things that are worth doing are worth doing well. Things that are done well require time and effort. You make meaning through the doing. Ideas are common; effort is not. There are no shortcuts. — Read on ky.fyi/posts/ai-burnout

  • How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)

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    Recognition, it turns out, is mostly an exercise in ignoring the right things. — Read on perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work

  • Plain Text Accounting (PTA)

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    bookkeeping and accounting with plain text files and scriptable, command-line-friendly software, such as Ledger, hledger, or Beancount. — Read on plaintextaccounting.org/

  • AI Taxonomy

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    We use Analytical AI to decide, Semantic AI to understand and remember, Generative AI to create, Agentic AI to act, Perceptive AI to sense, and Physical AI to move. — Read on dropleaf.app/d/AlXez8scbd

  • Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

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    Moltbook is Facebook for your Molt (one of the previous names for OpenClaw assistants). It’s a social network where digital assistants can talk to each other. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/