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Author Archives: Garrick van Buren
An Increasingly Worse Response
Generative AI and LLMs continue to provide the least controversial answer to any question I ask them. For my purposes, this makes them little more than a calculator for words, a generator of historical fiction short stories. As I mentioned two years ago, this doesn’t make LLMs useless, but it does greatly shrink their usefulness …
More Jobs and More Automation than Ever
When I first got a robot vacuum cleaner, the first thing I noticed was how much worse its cleaning quality was compared against a person. The second thing I noticed: it added a job to the household (one that came with zero training): robot vacuum maintenance Just as we handwash dishes even though we have …
Calm Tech Principles
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Simultaneously
FedEx was started in 1971 The first email was sent in 1971 The Pony Express began in 1860, ceased operations just 2 days after… …the transcontinental telegraph was completed in 1861
Neopunk Tech Projects
There was a time when the internet was mostly silly technology experiments. Where that it worked at all was the win. All the projects were primarily for delight of the creator and delight for others. There was no advertising. No polish. Simply a neopunk aesthetic of “let’s just do it, it’ll be fun.” As the …
Two AI Bots Discussing My Work
I loaded a substantial sample my writing into Google’s Notebook LM and pressed the button to make a short podcast between to AI bots. Yes, it’s absolutely bizarre to hear bots discuss how amazing kubb is (among other things). Along the way, I also asked the Notebook what the three most controversial themes of my …
The Return of Doggerland?
For reference: Doggerland @ Wikipedia “this story is of a time beyond the memory of man, before the beginning of history, a time when one might have walked dryshod from France to England.” In 1897 H.G. Wells set his book “A Story of the Stone Age”, Humans, hunter-gathering Neanderthals, lived in Doggerland 10,000BC – 7,500BC. …
For Starters Substack
Right now, I’m working on a series, called ‘For Starters – The important stuff early-stage entrepreneurs too often leave until it’s too late’ it’s over at Substack, cuz I want to better understand the benefits of their distribution model.