things i looked at, did, thought, etc vol 8
lots of time spent on focussed work and meetings recently 😵
means lots of lofi hip hop radio 📚 beats to relax/study to 🎶
working on a new version of my AI Talk presentation which focuses just on the techy bits. going to present it at our team meeting next week. will upload a copy when its done
considering doing a 180 on the "stop talking about digital all the time" and going more technical. the AI talk got good feedback from senior mgmt, they said understanding how it works helped the issues and use cases make sense
- and I think making people feel clever always goes down well... 😜
working on setting up Newsblur for all my feeds and newsletters
Larry Ellison's AI-Powered Surveillance Dystopia Is Already Here no thanks
‘The best crumpets you’ll ever buy’: 19 of the best indie food products 😋
Goodhart's Law in Software Engineering
The strong version of the law is that even 100% honest pursuit of a metric, taken far enough, is harmful to your goals, and this is an inescapable consequence of the difference between metrics and values. We have metrics in the first place because what we actually care about is nonquantifiable. There's some thing we want more of, but we have no way of directly measuring that thing. We can measure something that looks like a rough approximation for our goal. But it's not our goal, and if we replace the metric with the goal, we start taking actions that favor the metric over the goal.
Demo: Predicting social science experimental results using LLMs (treatmenteffect.app)
Seems like there's finally some interest in using Manual of Me here which could be jokes