emma // eibhleag

a necessary precursor to a good old fashioned drafts amnesty

the foley for audiobook clown shoes must at least be fascinating

Yes, and: this is what "data driven" means everywhere it is used, because determining how "data" is generated is a political decision

applause

I guess setup / teardown cost also matters. if it's cheap to open and close incredibly rapidly, isolation is asymptotically negligible

depends on how the seal works. assuming it's entirely isolated once closed, a cubic meter isn't a lot of space to fit a long-running fuel source

slow down is super useful for medium term media archival and storage of anything organic (e.g. donor organs, medicines, and food)

If you're targeting a single platform and not concerned about portability of either the artefact or the learning, Flutter (w/ Dart) or Swift might also fit the bill. I've not used either in anger, but they seem to import fewer Modern Web assumptions

the way this tweet just drove a truck through my skull like some zen koan

Learning at least a bit of something browser-adjacent is probably the entry price. Dioxus is pretty good for being able to write _everything_ in Rust if you want to avoid an additional language, but I couldn't swear to how much I'm leaning on my past React / DOM experience there.

You're absolutely right – this actually *isn't* a place of honor.
* I thought esteemed deeds were commemorated here, but that was wrong.
* The message wasn't about treasure, it was about danger. That's on me.
* I won't sugarcoat it – the danger is still present, and now it's in your body.

occasionally clicking through PhD postings and being sad that rigorous criteria intended to eliminate bias shake out as "made specific life choices from a comparatively stable position at twenty one"

Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

We've written to the UK Govt, urging them to fully investigate Lord Mandelson's links with US tech giant Palantir.

Palantir was a client of Mandelson's lobbying firm, and has been winning a growing number of contracts with the UK public sector.

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

tired: years of daily meditation and retreat practice

wired: nirodha samāpatti through gear acquisition

Meeting the Universe Halfway next :-)

do feel like a bit of a rube for even boosting this, but come on

plenty to pick over here, but from my own perspective: "no going operational or maintenance needs"?

people really think the second law doesn't apply to them

reading about organisms that aren’t your specialty is like

margins of the quorbus eplungulate, ploobular processes bent posteriorly towards the foobulum

define term “eplungulate”
- lacking plungae. synonym: thubulous

When it was first taking off, I got jumpy when anything cult-adjacent was posted in Slack. By the time I left that role I'd given up. Sorely hoping this all ages like the Information Super Highway

others will have a stronger grasp of the art historical trend here, but I don't believe large generative models are the starting point. and there are definite echoes of the retvrn lens on classical architecture.

a model that generates scrappy text and images which succeeded in communicating something meaningful is infinitely more desirable than one which gives the appearance of some quality but has none of its essence.

something that concerns me immensely about large generative models (arguments about utility and desirability aside) is the conflation of technical precision with quality.

meaning matters. more.

I understand the sentiment that this is the least capable that a tool will ever be, *if* you own the tool.

if it's remotely deployed, you own neither pricing, nor decisions on capability tradeoffs.

oh my timeline isn't very sunny, apologies.

I'm working on some genuinely interesting and optimistic things but they're Not Ready Yet.

if the clean sweep of first year courses adopting java because "employers demand it" was anything to go by, probably not.

(there may well have been worthwhile HCI work going on; what was presented to us as students had sun bleached O-Level electronics textbook vibes)

human computer interaction was looking a bit weary as a discipline when I was at university (on the cusp of obama era "design will save us" optimism) and I have no idea if it's recovered as an in house concern in computer science departments

the most striking thing about this for me is how much of this pain was avoidable if PwC had spent some of their £4.1M on precisely the skills and considerations that STEM is constantly prioritised above.

(source: mahadk.com/posts/ai-ski...)

information communication technology, software packages, and the information super highway

I wish government tech policy and research didn't read like my A Level textbooks from the mid-2000s

of course they can't funnel you to a "not sure? start here!" option because the whole thing is a patchwork of commercial competitors

this might seem petty, but to get here I've navigated a massive wall of text, a static list of competing providers, and a sign-in wall.

stop making me think, I'm trying to do a twenty minute accenture prompting course on my simulated coffee break