Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are.
I first started thinking about this during the debate over what would become the ACA. The …
In Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages Of Politics he argues that we don’t all exist along some set of objective political axes, left and right, or even the classic two-dimensional spectrum (or even three dimensions). Instead different groups use different axes, or different dichotomies, to look at the …
I’ve been working on the Consumer Voice Products team in Mozilla for about a year now. My primary project has been Firefox Voice, but our mandate is larger.
I still feel like a beginner in the area of voice, but I have developed some opinions. Many observations are the …
I’ve had a lot of projects, and at this moment of reflection I thought I’d look back through those that felt most meaningful, and which despite my excitement I’ve also let go of. If there’s a thread that connects them maybe I’ll find it, or …
While I’m conflicted with the need to find a …
There are many concerns about Mozilla right now, and reason to be concerned. While I am no longer with Mozilla, it’s still a place that supported me for many years; I believe in Mozilla and want the project to succeed.
It’s not always clear …
making new string and list classes that call gpt3 under the hood so you can access elements beyond the final one. no more index errors!
— shb (@himbodhisattva) December 24, 2022
Some ideas are dumb enough you just have to try them, so I introduce to you the Python library: Infinite …
Over two years ago I wrote Thoughts On Voice Interfaces, a scattering of ideas about voice interactions. Time has passed, I’ve been working more on voice interfaces, and though products in the market have barely changed, I still have NEW THOUGHTS.
I’ve only been exploring …
I’ve been doing lots of experiments with GPT, though I’ve only written about one until now… the more serious something is the harder it is to call it finished or identify the outcomes. Here I’ll describe something a bit lighter: world building, or specifically city building, with …
In my last post I described a city builder using GPT. I was planning on putting a pin in that work with the post, but the heart wants what the heart wants and I found myself returning to that work.
In this post I’ll talk about generating images from …
