Summary: focus on forward motion, don't get distracted/angry over small frictions. (more)

TheWife is using 2012 iMac running 10.15.7 (can't go more recent on that hardware) (more)

from OpenAI: We’ve trained a model called ChatGPT which interacts in a conversational way. The dialogue format makes it possible for ChatGPT to answer followup questions, admit its mistakes, challenge incorrect premises, and reject inappropriate requests. ChatGPT is a sibling model to InstructGPT, which is trained to follow an instruction in a prompt and provide a detailed response. https://openai.com/blog/chatgpt/

Who gets to be a Person? (more)

Generative Pre-trained Transformer 3 (GPT-3) is an autoregressive language model that uses deep learning to produce human-like text. It is the third-generation language prediction model in the GPT-n series created by OpenAI, a for-profit San Francisco-based artificial intelligence research laboratory.[2] GPT-3's full version has a capacity of 175 billion machine learning parameters, which is over two orders of magnitude greater than that of its predecessor, GPT-2.[1]:14 GPT-3, which was introduced in May 2020, and is in beta testing as of July 2020,[3] is part of a trend in natural language processing (NLP) systems of pre-trained language representations.[1] Prior to the release of GPT-3, the largest language model was Microsoft's Turing NLG, introduced in February 2020, with a capacity of 17 billion parameters or less than 10 percent compared to GPT-3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPT-3 (more)

Darius Kazemi: How to run a small social network site for your friends. Since August 2018 I have run a social network site called Friend Camp for about 50 of my friends. I think Friend Camp is a really nice place, and my friends seem to agree that it has enriched our lives. I'd like to see more places like Friend Camp on the internet, and this document is my attempt to provide some practical guidance as to how you might run a social network site like this. (more)

Lion Kimbro book in 2004 about keeping a NoteBook as a Reflective Thinker. (more)

InterWiki/CommunityWiki cult leader :) (more)

Lion Kimbro is revisiting his preference for a paper NoteBook (cf How To Make A Complete Map Of Every Thought You Think). Presently, I'm porting lessons learned from paper-based notekeeping to computerized notekeeping. I think the biggest idea is shifting from "capture" to "document reworking.".. I noticed that one of the great strengths of the notekeeping system I've been using since 2009-01-24, about 8 months now, is that it places thoughts in good sensible locations. (This system, by the way, is the subject of a chapter in RonHaleEvans' new book - MindPerformanceHacks 2, still in editing. I may just write a whole book on it, itself, at some point.)... But what we really need to be able to do, is to get from the "collection and capture" realm to the "SenseMaking" level. All those links in the given tag need to be structurable, either by writing text, or spatial positioning and iconography, or - ideally, both... Where one of the key strengths of computerized systems really comes to the fore: The ability to Delete. I don't mean "to delete" in terms of forgetting, but rather, in the sense of reshaping the clay, applying the eraser, remaking what was made before into an evolved form. History is nice, but secondary to the capacity to edit. It is very hard to delete on paper, and to edit by anything but addition on paper... Why did I (and others) make this mistake? I blame the ethic against deleting data. Since computers can store everything, we see it as practically immoral to destroy any data. Obscuring older data has a similar sensibility to it. So we get logs and logs of data. Yes, there are versioning systems, but somehow, we do not really use them in our notekeeping.

GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions[3] (GNU Guile) is the preferred extension language system for the GNU Project[4] and features an implementation of the programming language Scheme. Its first version was released in 1993.[1] In addition to large parts of Scheme standards, Guile Scheme includes modularized extensions for many different programming tasks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Guile

Racket is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language and a multi-platform distribution that includes the Racket language, compiler, large standard library, IDE, development tools, and a set of additional languages including Typed Racket (a sister language of Racket with a static type-checker), Swindle, FrTime, Lazy Racket, R5RS & R6RS Scheme, Scribble, Datalog, Racklog, Algol 60 and several teaching languages. The Racket language is a modern dialect of Lisp and a descendant of Scheme. It is designed as a platform for programming language design and implementation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racket_(programming_language)

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. It is known as the "Wizard Book" in hacker culture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs Originally based on Scheme; 2022 version is based on JavaScript. See WikiWikiWeb:StructureAndInterpretationOfComputerPrograms (more)

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This is the publicly-readable WikiLog Digital Garden (20k pages, starting from 2002) of Bill Seitz (a Product Manager and CTO). (You can get your own pair of garden/note-taking spaces from FluxGarden.)

My Calling: Reality Hacking to accelerate Evolution by increasing Freedom, Agency, and Leverage of Free Agents and smaller groups (SmallWorld) via D And D of Thinking Tools (software and Games To Play).

See Intro Page for space-related goals, status, etc.; or Wiki Node for more terse summary info.

Beware the War On The Net!

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Current:

My Coding for fun.

Past:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/billseitz/

Agile Product Development, Product Management from MVP to Product-Market Fit, Adding Product To Your Startup Team, Agility, Context, and Team Agency, (2022-10-12) Accidental Learnings of a Journeyman Product Manager

My Coding

Oligarchy; Big Levers, Theory of Change, Change the World, (2020-06-27) Ways To Nudge Future; Network Enlightenment, Optimistic Near Future Vision; Huge Invention; Alternatives To A College Degree; Credit Crisis 2008; Economic Transition; Network Economy; Making A Living; Varieties Of Info Technology Jobs; Generative Schooling; Product Oriented Unschooling; Reality Hacker; A 20th Century Economic Theory

FluxGarden; Network Enlightenment Ecosystem; ThinkingTools Interaction as Medium; Hypermedia Pattern Language; Everyone Needs Their Own ThinkingSpace; Digital Garden; Virtual ThinkingSpace; Thinking Tools Companies; Webs Of Thinkers And Thoughts; My CollaborationWare History; Wiki Proliferation; Portal Collaboration Roadmap; Wiki For GroupWare, Overlapping Scopes Of Collaboration, Email Discussion Beside Wiki, Wiki For CollaborationWare, Collaboration Roadmap; Sister Sites; Wiki Hack

Personal Cloud; 2018-11-29-NextOpenInfrastructure, 2018-11-15-BooksVsTweets; Stream/Flow Vs Garden/Stock

Social Warrens; Culture War; 2017-02-15-MindmapCultureWarSocialMediaEconomy; Cultural Pluralism

Fractally Generative Pattern Language, Small Tribe, SimplestThing, Becoming A Reality Hacker, Less-Bullshit Living, The Craft; Games To Play; Evolution, Hack Your Life With A Private Wiki Notebook, Getting Things Done, And Other Systems

Digital Therapeutics, (2021-05-26) Pondering a Mental Health space, CoachBot; Inside-Out Markov Chain

Book list, Greatest Books

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