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@brob.bsky.social

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dilettante with a vague mental map of vast territories brob.town

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

some 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

A Drake Hotline Bling meme; on the top reads the text "vibe coding" and on the bottom reads "being a dilettante with a vague mental map of vast territories"

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

if you’re one of the 76.2k monthly buxtehude listeners on Spotify, dm me

Screenshot of the Artist page for Dietrich Buxtehude, a baroque classical composer, on Spotify

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

wild that iOS lets apps deny users a screenshot. screenshotting feels like a sacred os-level operation, the control of which should not be delegated to an app

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

helped a friend meticulously destroy an old piano yesterday. the piano tuner himself recommended not paying to have it tuned.

a person standing next to the action board of a partly disassembled piano

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

wip art guessing game that uses LLMs to score free text descriptions of public domain art at metguessr.net

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

a lot of my llm eval work for clients starts in notebooks and then migrates into modules, scripts, tests, etc naming them like this has been good to me

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 17/11/2024

nakedly, pathetically tried this task with Claude on two blog drafts. blog post, prompt -> concepts, big papers, and lines of research across a bunch of disciplines. some of them I could qa given my knowledge of the lit; others I had to google a bit. all of them were good 🤷‍♀️

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 22/09/2024

New release from Johann Sebastian Bach

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 28/02/2024

New release from Ludwig van Beethoven

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 16/05/2023

blue bridge, blue sky

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 04/05/2023

name that bluesky

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 02/05/2023

forgot to attach the inspiration for this, from @visa.bsky.social on the bird app

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 01/05/2023

bsky over bk

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 29/04/2023

this is from this book btw, great read if you’re into Recsys or ML, or Soc/Anthro perspectives on tech

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

this anthropologist’s synthesis of years of qualitative research on music recommendation systems and the ppl who make them is great

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

an embedding is simply a creature plucked out of a “writhing, surging, insatiably expanding information-space-beast” of some domain

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 27/04/2023

the stoop gods of brooklyn have been good to me lately. just copped this collection of French tales w comprehension exercises and glosses in the margins for rare vocab. last week, a nice working monitor.

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bill @brob.bsky.social · 25/04/2023

japanese maple ✅

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