I want to try and sort / rearrange / explore some of my thoughts on why I make creative tools. read on scrawl

Looking at samplers and drum machine patterns and thinking about how their primitives map to other media. read on scrawl

I've been thinking about prediction. Mostly in the context of M being almost 2 years old and asking/demanding more things. read on scrawl

Morning 10 minute freewrite scrawl. I want to return to the timer concept today. Build out the frontend with the iframe portals. Reduce data scope down to just startTime, duration, and label (leave calendar time blocks for later). I think the shuffle mechanism will be the real small proof of what shared data/structure could do for generated apps. read on scrawl

I've been thinking about what makes an app or program feel coherent. Like they have an underlying logic. read on scrawl

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I think I pinpointed a misgiving I have about general collaborative LLM use: that the LLM will never stop and say "I don't know" or "I don't have this mental model, can you help me understand it". That's the fundamental limitation of being trained to plausibly (not correctly) generate text. read on scrawl

One of my favorite pieces of writing is The Web's Grain by Frank Chimero https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/. Lately I've been trying to think about what the grain of LLM-related development could be. read on scrawl

I've been working on building rough shelves out of 2x4s in our basement. Partly for storage, partly to get more of a feel for how to frame things with 2x4s. The big improvement on the second set was using 3" deck screws. The process made me think about learning and how it feels different to have solved a problem versus avoiding having a problem. read on scrawl

I read (listened) to Nick Harkaway's Karla's Choice recently and then went back to the BBC audio versions of a bunch of the George Smiley novels. It's fascinating Harkaway can write Smiley so well when the tone of his own novels (which I also like) are so different. read on scrawl