Semantic search denotes search with meaning, as distinguished from lexical search where the search engine looks for literal matches of the query words or variants of them, without understanding the overall meaning of the query.[1] Semantic search seeks to improve search accuracy by understanding the searcher's intent and the contextual meaning of terms as they appear in the searchable dataspace, whether on the Web or within a closed system, to generate more relevant results. Some authors regard semantic search as a set of techniques for retrieving knowledge from richly structured data sources like ontologies and XML as found on the Semantic Web. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_search (more)

Cosma Rohilla Shalizi (born February 28, 1974) is an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosma_Shalizi (more)

MIT's book publishing arm https://mitpress.mit.edu/ (more)

Muriel Cooper (1925 – May 26, 1994) was a pioneering book designer, digital designer, researcher, and educator.[1] She was the first design director of the MIT Press, instilling a Bauhaus-influenced design style into its many publications. She moved on to become founder of MIT's Visible Language Workshop, and later became a co-founder of the MIT Media Lab.[1][2] In 2007, a New York Times article called her "the design heroine you've probably never heard of." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muriel_Cooper (more)

DevOps novel by Gene Kim (in the style of Eli Goldratt, and extending his thinking) (more)

Simon Willison: Options for accessing Llama 3 from the terminal using LLM. Llama 3 was released on Thursday. Early indications are that it’s now the best available openly licensed model (more)

Simon Willison: Running a Django and PostgreSQL development environment in GitHub Codespaces. Helping people setup development environments (and fix them when they break) can be incredibly frustrating. I'm really excited about cloud-based development environments such as GitHub Codespaces for exactly this reason - I love the idea that you can get a working environment by clicking a green button, and if it breaks you can throw it away and click the button again to get a brand new one. (more)

Simon Willison: Run Llama 2 on your own Mac using LLM and Homebrew. I just released a new plugin for my LLM utility that adds support for Llama 2 and many other llama-cpp compatible models (more)

Simon Willison: We need to tell people ChatGPT will lie to them, not debate linguistics. ...form of problems that Perez et al. (2022) call sycophancy, where a model answers subjective questions in a way that flatters their user’s stated beliefs, and sandbagging, where models are more likely to endorse common misconceptions when their user appears to be less educated. (more)

If I hadn't built Flux.Garden, and I didn't care about working in public, and I was a 25-45-yo time-shifted version of myself, what would I use as a note-taking app for my private digital garden? (more)

project management, collaborationware, task manager - https://quire.io/ (more)

DigitalGarden for TeamWork (more)

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Tyler Hogge: Whiplash and Extreme Greatness. I recently watched the movie ‘Whiplash’ after reading that Kobe Bryant called it one if his favorites and Kyrie Irving wrote the movie title on his game shoes. It’s an incredible movie about an aspiring drummer. (more)

(The book) Six Thinking Hats was written by Dr. Edward de Bono. "Six Thinking Hats" and the associated idea of parallel thinking provide a means for groups to plan thinking processes in a detailed and cohesive way, and in doing so to think together more effectively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Thinking_Hats (more)

Airbnb Wants to Feel Young Again. Booking Holdings and Airbnb have long resembled a father-son duo of the online travel industry. Airbnb has traditionally been the cool kid of the two... But, just as people often look (and behave) more like their parents as they age, Airbnb is increasingly starting to look more like Booking. The two companies are expected to grow revenue at roughly the same rates next year—about 11%... That’s the competitive backdrop for Airbnb’s significant executive shake-up today, an “inflection point” for the company, CEO Brian Chesky wrote. ((2023-11-14) Brian Chesky's New Playbook) (more)

Paul Graham on Founder Mode. At a YC event last week Brian Chesky gave a talk that everyone who was there will remember... The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could be optimistically summarized as "hire good people and give them room to do their jobs." He followed this advice and the results were disastrous. (more)

Melissa Perri: My thoughts on "Founder Mode" and why it's dangerous. I had dinner with a few Product Leaders in Berlin the other night that turned into a discussion on how they can work better with founder CEOs. This has always been a tense subject, and I’ve seen a lot of friction firsthand between these two groups. Now, I’m worried this article is going to make it worse. (more)

Bridgy Fed connects web sites, the fediverse, and Bluesky. You can use it to make your profile on one visible in another, follow people, see their posts, and reply and like and repost them. Interactions work in both directions as much as possible. https://fed.brid.gy/ Your website will have its own fediverse account. Its posts will show up in the fediverse automatically. People there can follow it directly. (more)

Bridgy is an open source project and proxy that implements backfeed and POSSE as a service. Bridgy sends webmentions for comments, likes, etc. on Flickr, GitHub, Mastodon, Reddit, and Bluesky, formerly Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. It can also POSSE posts, issues, comments/replies, retweets, RSVPs, and likes/favorites/stars to Flickr, GitHub, and Mastodon, formerly Facebook and Twitter. Finally, it adds webmention support to Blogger, Tumblr, WordPress.com, and Medium blogs. https://brid.gy/ (more)