bill @brob.bsky.social · 05/06/2026heard an arthur russell song playing faintly in a cafe and for a second i thought it was dwight yoakam 020
bill @brob.bsky.social · 27/05/2026things i’ve come to understand with age: - dessert cheese plates - the phrase “slow is smooth, and smooth is fast” 030
bill @brob.bsky.social · 26/04/2026if we can do distracted driving, we should be able to implement a whole range of automated traffic and parking violations 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 24/04/2026started dabbling in are.na the Pinterest for Hipsters and the lack of feed ranking is already killing me 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 07/04/2026the rapid spread and abuse of 🙌 by tech startups should be studied 000
Reposted by billDare Obasanjo @carnage4life.bsky.social · 24/03/2026As I like to say, it isn’t clear that there is an AI bubble but there’s definitely an OpenAI bubble. 4777
bill @brob.bsky.social · 21/03/2026any linguists got a word for a sentence that gives you whiplash from semantic surprise 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 22/09/2025even worse, engineers may soon be expected to have “taste” some notes on how we might do this here: brob.town/notes/2024-1...brob.townA naive model of discursive tasteI'm a technologist based in Brooklyn, NY. 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 29/08/2025some of these new Sabrina Carpenter tracks were written by Chappell Roan, right? 020
bill @brob.bsky.social · 25/08/2025to the fine folks @anthropic.com idk if you gather preference data for post training from consumer chat logs but if so may I suggest grepping for “You’re right, I was over-engineering it. Here’s the simplified version” 160
bill @brob.bsky.social · 18/08/2025LLMs are currently bad at very basic questions involving standard musical notation and theory. Trying to convince @komaniecki.bsky.social to help build some evals for this 020
bill @brob.bsky.social · 16/03/2025this thread articulates one of the most cogent explanations of the different senses of the term “agent” i’ve seen yet 020
bill @brob.bsky.social · 18/02/2025some friends and i are imagining what a pedagogically motivated IDE for nontechnical folks might look like and i will be updating my design doc to quote this skeet, ty @tedunderwood.me 080
bill @brob.bsky.social · 10/02/2025if you’re one of the 76.2k monthly buxtehude listeners on Spotify, dm me 000
bill @brob.bsky.social · 09/02/2025“it was at that place in bushwick where everyone looked like mac demarco” 041
bill @brob.bsky.social · 29/01/2025let go of your darlings (the code that you actually know how to write but which Claude will generate much more quickly than you) 030
bill @brob.bsky.social · 23/01/2025is deadlifting is protective against seasonal affective disorder? in this study (n=1) we find that the answer is yes, definitely 130
bill @brob.bsky.social · 19/01/2025if you wanted to build an experience like TikTok on AT Proto, wouldn’t you need to include every user’s granular interactions (dwell time) with videos as a part of the data model? likes and comments are not going to cut it 140
bill @brob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025the client is open source. so one might dig through that to understand what signals the Discover algo might be using beyond the core interaction data (likes, follows, graph structure) to make recs… 120
bill @brob.bsky.social · 11/01/2025til the british neologism sodcast: to play music on a portable device in public without regard for others from sod (contemptible person), not a word u hear much in American English and cast (broad-, pod-) 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 06/01/2025the lines between fiddling around, building something real, and doing Research and Development are so blurry these days 010
Reposted by billChaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Echo chamber or just a lounge wyth reallye goode acoustics? 1684981
bill @brob.bsky.social · 10/12/2024i wish Spotify would expose track-level popularity metrics in the album view just give me a little mini histogram next to each song or something 010
Reposted by billWilliam Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 09/12/2024Starting to understand friends’ enthusiasm for blsky. 1152641120
bill @brob.bsky.social · 08/12/2024every LLM task needs a curated, iteratively developed quant eval. everyone who deploys a single prompt is a data scientist now, whether they realize it or not. there is a lot of money to be made in helping orgs internalize this. 000
