Open Tabs
A digital garden: notes, quotes, and thinking-in-progress, tended over time rather than published once.
seedling
just planted
growing
taking shape
in bloom
fully formed, for now- Emily Bender seedling
- Stochastic parrots growing
- Amaltas growing
- Dijkstra's writing practice seedling
- Radia Perlman growing
- The limits of my language seedling
Open threads
- Emily Bender:
- How do we actually define “meaning” or “understanding”?
- What is she up to these days?
- Stochastic parrots: How much worse has it gotten since 2021, along all the stated axes? The paper was written before GPT-4, before the current scaling race. Integrate learnings from Empire of AI and other publications.
- Amaltas:
- Why is it more commonly seen in NCR, as opposed to the South, which is where I originally associated it with?
- I wonder what the lore is behind it being a staple among the other items kept for kani.
- Dijkstra's writing practice: The EWDs I enjoyed reading a few years ago. The ones that talk about his takes on the not so technical stuff, why we should call it computing science instead of computer science, for one.
- Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom: How does this connect to the paradox of choice? Barry Schwartz’s work on how more options lead to more anxiety and less satisfaction. Kierkegaard might say: yes, obviously.
- Radia Perlman: Find the articles/interviews where she referenced them + her experience of being one of the first women in tech at MIT.