read on scrawl

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