John Backus @john.bsky.social · 17/02/2023in Miami there are two season: summer double summer bsky.app/profile/mandel.bsky.social…bsky.appPost by Manuel de la PeñaNew England 080
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 09/02/2023the shame of downloading the bing app on iOS just so I can get on a waiting list to try out GPT-4 😖 1190
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 09/02/2023Just spent 4 hours deepfaking friends voices using beta.elevenlabs.io/speech-synthesis Insanely fun. Highly recommendbeta.elevenlabs.ioElevenLabs || Prime Voice AI 080
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023One funny aspect of Mastodon's federation model is that the most confusing and user hostile part is front loaded: picking a server. Like once you're on it feels like Twitter but it's a weird big hurdle for normal people. Curious what the Blue Sky take is 370
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023I took a quick look at the networking under the hood of the app and it I'm impressed by how formalized everything is! Seems like everything goes through the spec'd out ATP XRPC? Was able to make a node.js API client and fetch my feed which is cool. 291
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Today I spent the day learning more about neural nets (via Andrej Karpathy's amazing YouTube bit.ly/3Hw9qOF). Whenever I had questions I would talk to Anthropic's chatbot. Most futuristic experience I've had in a long time. AI tutoring is amazing. 130
John Backus @john.bsky.social · 05/02/2023Reddit famously bootstrapped their site by creating tons of fake users (all comments actually from founders) to make it look alive. BlueSky timing could be perfect for doing this but w GPT. Bonus points with Elon randomly kicking the good bots off twitter 581
