James Porter (@complexview) 's Twitter Profile
James Porter

@complexview

Software developer and data scientist. Expect Tweets about tech, productivity and education. See my website for more.

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linkhttps://www.amimetic.co.uk calendar_today26-03-2009 08:39:04

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Noah Giansiracusa (@profnoahgian) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I’m once again reminded that if “alignment” really is a thing, then we probably need to solve it for capitalism before we have a chance of solving it for AI.

kishimisu (@kishimisu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I found a copy of my work labelled as « impressive AI generation » and without any attribution… I created this animation for my shader coding tutorial a year ago: youtu.be/f4s1h2YETNY

Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

google's emissions are 13% higher this year due to AI investments. i really want to take this seriously, but then i remember that bitcoin is still doing at least 3x more damage 😩😩😩 theguardian.com/technology/art…

google's emissions are 13% higher this year due to AI investments. i really want to take this seriously, but then i remember that bitcoin is still doing at least 3x more damage 😩😩😩 theguardian.com/technology/art…
Kyle McDonald (@kcimc) 's Twitter Profile Photo

it's just absurd that, for a few years, there was this thing called ethereum that did as much environmental damage as ALL OF GOOGLE and then it got quietly converted into using almost zero energy. and we still have another system doing far more damage that refuses to change.

David J Carr (@djc1805) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others: 'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’

Microsoft says meeting time has TRIPLED since 2020: typical workers are spending 57% of their time communicating [meetings, calls] with others:  'Today, knowledge work is, quantitatively speaking, less about creating new things than it is about talking about those things.’
Matt DesLauriers (@mattdesl) 's Twitter Profile Photo

First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨 Features: - extremely fast - extremely compact - oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more - gamut mapping + wide gamut support Repo → github.com/texel-org/color

First release of @texel/color—a minimal and modern color library for JavaScript. 🎨

Features:
- extremely fast
- extremely compact 
- oklab, p3, rec2020, a98rgb, prophoto, srgb + more
- gamut mapping + wide gamut support

Repo → github.com/texel-org/color
Kent C. Dodds ⚡ (@kentcdodds) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Also of note, there are studies which suggest that people are very bad at understanding whether a particular teaching style is contributing to their learning and retention. Learners typically prefer learning which feels easy. Unfortunately true learning is not easy.

Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The notion Trump is a dangerous authoritarian isn't partisan. It's been expressed at unprecedented levels by his own former staff. nymag.com/intelligencer/…

The notion Trump is a dangerous authoritarian isn't partisan. It's been expressed at unprecedented levels by his own former staff. nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Tiago Forte (@fortelabs) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Fascinating data from an IMF economist on the lasting, mostly positive effects of the explosion in remote work during the pandemic: • Preliminary data shows that US couples who both work from home at least one day a week have 0.3 to 0.5 more children (!!!) due to greater