Good, brief explanation of how vector searches work. And it’s in the art history and criticism domain.
🔗 The Index and the Vector
Posts in "links"
Plot Unfolding Machine v9
For solo role playing people. After Mythic, PUM is the most fleshed out system. It has a different style and philosophy of play that I can never put my finger on.
🔗 Plot Unfolding Machine PDF V9 Release!
It's the people
A little too ad hominem, but feels right from a critical stance: ”All my misgivings about AI really are to do with the fact that it’s owned by a group of people that I don’t trust at all. I don’t trust their taste, I don’t trust their morals, and I don’t trust their politics, and that’s a problem for me—that the whole technology is in the hands of the wrong people.
Make the users awesome
“I would summarize her thesis as such: Your best marketing and communication should talk about how you make your users awesome, not how you’re awesome.”
🔗 Make the user awesome
Where's the good AI stuff?
“If these tools are so great, where is the explosion of AI created stuff in the world?” // Followed by a yes-and style rebuttal.
🔗 Mike Judge asks good questions about AI shovelware
"rust out," the new "burn out"
The never ending quest to keep doing what you’re good at and get better at it…rather than making another PowerPoint about what you worked on last week. // “One of the biggest contributors to rust out is spending your energy in places that don’t align with your unique talents and skills. In my own experience, and in working with my clients, a simple way to uncover your unique talents is to notice your energy.
What the kids are saying
🔗 Study Reveals America’s Most Searched Slang Words 2025 / OHIO; mayonnaise
Ever Elusive AI ROI
“for every $1 spent on model development, firms should expect to have to spend $3 on change management, which means user training and performance monitoring.” // How it started “AI-enabling the entire customer service stack of a typical business could lead to a 60 to 80 percent price increase, McKinsey says.” How it’s going: “while quoting an HR executive at a Fortune 100 company griping: ‘All of these copilots are supposed to make work more efficient with fewer people, but my business leaders are also saying they can’t reduce head count yet.
do you hug or hand-shake?
All I really need to know about socio-political culture I learned from 80s high school movies.
🔗 Performing Gender, Left and Right
tech-culture sayings
“Laws can be opinions on inevitabilities in the world of software engineering, or wry observations on unavoidable realities.” // A round-up of all those laws and bromides tech world people use.
🔗 Hacker Laws