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karlhigley

@karlhigley@recsys.social

I build recommender systems that work for actual people. Aspirational cyclist. Actual dog person. Not even remotely neurotypical.

I run RecSys.social. I don’t accept follow requests from accounts without a bio or profile picture.

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@cs @Cassandra Somehow I kinda doubt this is a joke about worldwide lithium production (but it could be and I’d be lying if I said it didn’t make me laugh)

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I am now going to attempt to watch Drag Me To Hell! I remember everyone being very excited about this, hence the exclamation mark, but TBD if it's too scary or gruesome for me.

karlhigley,
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@Cassandra I can’t say whether it will be or not, but our neurodivergent household found it very watchable (as spooky movies go)

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    @lzg Planning to liberate a snack from the pantry without the dog noticing later if you want in

    karlhigley, to random
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    When people deride stand-ups as useless status report sessions, all I hear is “I have no idea how to identify or communicate useful information to my colleagues, and I also don’t collaborate well.”

    It’s apparently a very sneaky way of telling on oneself, because not realizing that’s what they’re doing seems quite common.

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    On some level, I’m just a turntable for the plates our dog wants to clean

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    Yes, the enthusiasm for NFTs has cratered, but we shouldn't use junk analysis to make that point. Too many news outlets uncritically reprinted a bad "study", and the resulting eye-catching headline was widely shared.

    https://newsletter.mollywhite.net/p/news-flash-95-of-nfts-have-always

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    @molly0xfff Agree with your points here, and also: I would genuinely buy a print of that drawing if such a thing were available on Etsy or wherever. It looks just like our dog!!

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    Let me remind you this is a list of instructions for how to sabotage organizations, not for how to participate in them effectively

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    I sent a photographic print to someone as a gift and the person at the post office was like ‘I hope you charged at least a hundred dollars for that!’ (I didn’t have an envelope and needed help with packing materials so we got to talking)

    So did I just get real life pricing information? My wife thinks I should sell prints for the ‘geriatric pets and immigration legal fund!

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    @skinnylatte I’d buy one sight unseen based on that reaction, the photos you post, and the cause I’d be supporting, so…yes?

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    It’s amazing and mind-boggling to me the amount of faith that people have in embeddings and nearest neighbor search. It’s useful and fascinating stuff, but I will never understand why people think there are magical points in space that represent exactly the right thing and none of the various wrong things. Querying with a single embedding is bonkers, and it’s been interesting to watch (parts of) multiple fields figure that out lately.

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    ADHD people: switching between things very quickly.

    also ADHD people: tasks must be challenging enough to be engaging, but not so challenging that it triggers frustration intolerance.

    ... this is literally impedance matching.

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    @gsuberland you’d sell a lot of these if you were so inclined

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    @lzg becoming increasingly unhinged on main to avoid getting boosted into the mastosphere (again)

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    “The hardest part of building software is not coding, it’s requirements”

    "The problems have become bigger, harder to fix, and more costly, but the source of the problem is usually the same: The requirements were unclear, inconsistent, or wrong." https://www.cio.com/article/648023/the-hardest-part-of-building-software-is-not-coding-its-requirements.html

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    @baldur Me when I hear that changing wishlists of unclear requirements are the problem:

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    @recursive @lzg We went to see Lindsey Stirling live, sat in the back of the balcony on sofas with the (other) old people, and loved the show but left early in order to get home for bedtime. I think I’m now officially too old for that though? TBD.

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    Spent a significant amount of time this week chasing down a really weird bug, which turns out to originate with three lines of code in an open source library that look like they do something but are actually a no-op. So I found the PR that introduced it, and lo and behold: a reviewer pointed out the issue before it was merged but got blown off.

    Reader, the reviewer was a woman, and today I am feeling even more Death To The Patriarchy than usual.

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    first time someone has stopped me on the street to ask me to open their vodka

    karlhigley, to random
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    I’m pretty sure you’re supposed to put honey in your tea when you’re not feeling well, but now that we live so far north we just use maple syrup

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    Me: “So I started watching this bad TV show and—“

    C: “Is it worse than the last one?”

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    So first order cybernetics was about feedback in systems, second was about systems self-regulating by being aware of feedbacks, what's the third order cybernetics about?

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    @impactology @RuthMalan It’s feedbacks all the way down? 🙃

    karlhigley,
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    @impactology @cornazano @RuthMalan I was joking but also serious: being aware of reflexivity allows taking actions based on that awareness, which is a higher order form of feedback. We may aptly call it “autonomy” because that’s how we qualitatively experience it, but it doesn’t stop being feedback or being a loop because we experience it differently.

    So, hot take but serious: It really “is” feedback loops all the way down (or up/sideways/outward/through as the case may be.)

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    Ugh!

    I sang "1135809" to the tune of "867-5309" making a silly joke an hour ago, and just now realized that I still remember the number. I've accidentally memorized his prisoner number! And now you have too*. Sorry!

    The human brain works in weird ways.

    (*Your only hope is if you don't sing it. Sing it even once and you're doomed! We still know Mike Jones' Sprint mobile number.)

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    @mekkaokereke Remember how the music video ended with the mugshot of prisoner 8675309? Because it did

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    Would really appreciate it if y’all could stick to lambasting public figures for the important stuff (like being fascists) instead of their awkward facial expressions, alien/robotic demeanor, or difficulty remembering to make eye contact.

    (You know your autistic acquaintances—and you have more than you may realize—can hear you when you say this stuff, right?)

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    The dog is sleeping in the bed again and we’re trying to express to each other how thrilled we are very quietly so as not to disturb her

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    @lzg This is why our front porch has giant bronze octopus tentacles (so our neighbors know we celebrate World Octopus Day each October 8th.)

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    @lzg Oddly, this has the potential to up-end the age old media spectacle of voting for yourself in front of the news cameras you’ve brought along to share the moment. What do you do if you can be elected but can’t vote for yourself?

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    “AI” enthusiast: i have made a chatbot that answers your questions

    Software developers: you fucked up a perfectly good search engine is what you did. look at it. it's got hallucinations

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