I made a plugin for helping claude / AI agents do any kind of numerical analysis: a workflow to improve input provenance, calculation auditability and observability, and templates for final narrative reports. github.com/bestdan/anal... @paulgp.com @jdlong.cerebralmastication.com

I'm now the caretaker of a pond. Which has been revelatory in odd ways. For example, the lilypad question in the Cognitive Reflection Test is wrong- in interesting ways. - lilypads are shore-bound, they'd never cover a lake - they grow spatially, not exponentially www.dpegan.com/blog/the-duc...

Days later I'm still chewing on this banger from @gestaltu.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/thechoic...

It's funny how distance from problems makes it easier to handle them, whether you're an expert or not. Triggered by this from @davenadig.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/davenadi...

Check out the Meet Your Mayor quiz from @thecity.nyc and @gothamist.com! projects.thecity.nyc/meet-your-ma...

Reflecting on GhibliGate: If the "meaning" we value is devalued by an abundance of it, perhaps what was valuable wasn't the quality itself, but rather its scarcity? Is arts value it's evocation, or that it's singular? NFTs etc - catalyzed by @davenadig.bsky.social and @gestaltu.bsky.social

Great discussion from @aptshadow.bsky.social and Sam Arbesman on all things scif, speculative evolution and our short track record in the cosmos. Love the idea of "cathedral values" where you work on sometime you know won't be finished in your lifetime. open.spotify.com/episode/1PmU...

WFH increases productivity by 12% in the public sector. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Me, to the three year old hitting his mom on Christmas Eve: "It's time for some game theory."

Quite happy with this.

Every time I see a post ranting about CI I'm not sure if it's Confidence Intervals or Continuous Integration. Either way, I click.

He ButterFi/BlueFin folks: Let's have an impromptu meetup on Tuesday/3rd at CELON in NYC on Bryant Park at 5:15. I will be there. I'm pretty sure @dpegan.com @ritholtz.bsky.social and @tomowenmorgan.bsky.social will be there at least. Come have a drink and say hi! Please spread the word!

"BlueFi" c'mon

As a person with all notifications on silent, it's insane when I'm on a call with a person with all notifications on. How do they think with all that noise?

A "feature" i always wanted at the old place was topic filters: i have nothing against {your sport team, your political takes}, but they are noise I'd like to filter out. I wonder if this would be possible here/ on-proto: have an AI classifier filter my feeds to just the interesting stuff.

Computer, remove all the nuance from this detailed report

👋 @vickiboykis.com do you have a recommended book reading list for software engineering stuff? Like Street Coder or Clean Architecture and ....

On a golden fall hike the kiddo took 10 minutes to herself. It was one of those great "we're alone, together" moments.

Wife: I'm not really into sci-fi. (Show about woman who travels back in time to have two husbands) Wife: Ok, that's interesting.

It's time to build.

@mattcolville.bsky.social I just finished Priest and Thief. Great work, thank you for writing them.

- Why are we training AI to be like us? They should be complementary (different)? - How do humans learn concepts with so much less data? - Why would you invest in education when AI seems competent? Some good questions from this convo: https://youtu.be/1sx7CIX2j4k

I think mudskippers may actually be the funniest animals in the world

Ok @faineg.bsky.social I've watched some Zipline hype videos and I'm interested. Worth getting excited about for civvy US clients?

Chatbot: I'm sorry, could you rephrase that? Me: Narfal the Garthok. Chatbot: could I speak to an AI please? Me: Narfal. The. Garthok. Chatbot: AI please. A. I.

The list of sci-fi stuff I was *sure* I'd never seen in my lifetime is dwindling at an alarming rate: ✅Done: - Star Trek communicators (smartphones) - Star Trek computer voice interfaces 🔜 Soon - Skynet - Androids ❔Remaining: - Aliens - FTL travel - Star Trek replicators - Transporters