things i looked at, did, thought, etc vol 12

30 Oct, 2024

• Introducing computer use, a new Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku \ Anthropic

• spending a lot of time writing to the computer telling it what i've done even though i was doing the work on the computer.
  and on the flipside: looking at how much time i spend being asked about things where the information exists in the computer but its less effort for someone to manually ask me than look it up themselves 😐
  it would be cool if AI can help solve this, but then we get into mad privacy issues

these 2 have weird sounding titles but they are worth a look:

• The Most Powerful Method For Personal Growth | The Circles of Life

• Affirmations for bloggers | nicole@web

• Nick Kapur on X: ""Mundane Halloween" returns! It's that time of year again, when Japanese website @dailyportalz holds its annual contest to dress up as something super ordinary. Here's a thread of some of my favorites from the 2024 contest!" / X 🎃👻

• Apple study exposes deep cracks in LLMs’ “reasoning” capabilities - Ars Technica

• Mind Mapping vs Concept Mapping.... how to explain? : r/mindmapping

• Microsoft Excel’s bloopers reel: 40 years of spreadsheet errors | Microsoft | The Guardian

• School is Not Enough - by Simon Sarris I like this one so much I saved a PDF of it in case it ever goes away!

• The inside story of the Transport for London cyberattack

• Bicycle – Bartosz Ciechanowski if you would like to learn every detail of how a bike functions with cool interactive diagrams that explain the physics, or if you just want to be amazed at the effort and knowledge in this blog 🤯

• thinking about how to encourage a mindset of prioritising work based on the ROI of the time spent on it, without coming across all 💹 TIME IS MONEY 👨‍💼
  we lean towards prioritising just based on the end result. and usually, its urgency dressed up as importance or importance dressed up as impact

• and I went down a rabbit hole of government memes and political shitposting

  • Policy memes (and where to find them) - REFORM
  • Was it the memes wot won it? – POLITICO
  • The Memeification Of The UK’s Political Parties
  • LONG READ: What comms techniques of the 2019 General Election can teach us – Dan Slee if you read one of these, make it this one
  • "They're doing this badly on purpose": Why the Tories' latest online ads look so ugly

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