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 · 20/03/2026what issues are you running into specifically? it’s still working for me with the anthropic API… 100
bill @brob.bsky.social · 18/03/2026and that, even given sufficient context, it’s correct or good at all! 000
bill @brob.bsky.social · 09/03/2026the technical term for this is “slop cannon,” eg so and so is a slop cannon, bill is loading up the slop cannon today, etc. sometimes I do this kind of thing but I always write my colleagues a lot of long notes that make it clear what parts of the slop i understand and which ones I don’t 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 11/02/2026been feeling rundown lately from oversubscribing myself. this balmy 40 Fahrenheit in bk today will save me 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 26/12/2025there’s a lot of weird Great Man shit happening in classical music that needs to get undone 010
bill @brob.bsky.social · 09/11/2025+1 I love doing all the dishes by hand while listening to foreign language podcasts that are just slightly outside my comfort zone 020
bill @brob.bsky.social · 09/10/2025do you find that WTF returns similar fonts to the query font even when it isn’t accurate? 120
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 · 07/09/2025Do you think its possible to make up for this by building wrappers on top of them that have access to knowledge graphs or skill dependency graphs and promoting or finetuning them to use these tools to get at theory of mind of user? 100
