@Colin M. Ford
ohno, tm '11
Relays (1)
- wss://relay.ditto.pub – read & write
Recent Notes
A while ago I had the idea to basically make an "open workbook", a website that would have all the notes and experience I had gained as a type engineer, to provide a consolidated reference for those trying to learn to do what I do.
Up until recently I still had plans to make it, but I realized that if I had done that as planned in ~2023, instead of training young designers, I mostly would have just wound up training various LLMs how to do my job, which is a sad realization.
Now it feels like if you want to share a part of your experience with the internet, you're not sharing it with people directly, but to LLM companies that sell it back to users, just with your name scratched out and "Sam Altman" written over it.
I want to pay it forward, but not to Altman et al
Up until recently I still had plans to make it, but I realized that if I had done that as planned in ~2023, instead of training young designers, I mostly would have just wound up training various LLMs how to do my job, which is a sad realization.
Now it feels like if you want to share a part of your experience with the internet, you're not sharing it with people directly, but to LLM companies that sell it back to users, just with your name scratched out and "Sam Altman" written over it.
I want to pay it forward, but not to Altman et al
A friend of mine just got a email from a recruiter looking for designers to make brand and deck designs for https://tastelabs.com/... essentially making stuff to feed into the hopper for their AI to generate slop from.
This definitely feels like scab work. (He obviously turned it down)
This definitely feels like scab work. (He obviously turned it down)
Never forget the unspeakable tragedy that occurred 25 years ago today, to families all over the NYC area, and the world.
Never forget the selflessness of emergency responders and average people alike that saved lives on that day, some giving their own lives.
Never forget it was the inept conservative men in charge that both allowed that day to occur, and sealed us in this broken world that has existed since.
Never forget the selflessness of emergency responders and average people alike that saved lives on that day, some giving their own lives.
Never forget it was the inept conservative men in charge that both allowed that day to occur, and sealed us in this broken world that has existed since.
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Just going to put this out there, Teenage Engineering, probably one of the coolest companies on the planet, is looking for a graphic designer https://careers.teenage.engineering/jobs/7819659-graphic-designer/
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“One approach, proposed by Google Research, is what you might call a “token auction.” In this model, advertisers don’t buy ad slots on a page. Instead, they bid, token by token, on the actual text the model generates. Each advertiser brings their own LLM, and an auction mechanism decides whose model gets to influence the next word. The output is a weighted blend of competing interests, shaped by who’s willing to pay more.”
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