Kinda sounds like a "linguistic manifold."

Thanks for the TIL, always just assumed it was some digital artifact

By what measure?

I wonder how much of design capability improvements is related to our collective ability to recognize AI design tropes.

If the task is so simple why use a model like Fable 5? Wrong tool for the job?

If the model is so smart why doesn’t it figure it out on its own

Submitted some pretty harsh feedback about this back in Jan after my old school technical father in law sent me a few AI generated “news” videos in a row about Trump and Venezuela. The AI label was technically on all of the videos but 3 taps away hidden in the video description, and not visible from the search results at all. So thankful YouTube is doing something about this.

The Prospect Park S is such a weird train. I love it.

18 years living 5 blocks from Prospect Park and today I learned the Prospect Park S train exists. I'm auto-revoking my NYC card.

Reminds me of Gall’s Law from his book Systemantics.

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)#Gall's_law

I find that the learning and iteration tends to lead to a simplified system, if you're willing to look hard enough at the shapes needed.

When there's a lot of complexity, it's often repetitive translation layers, and not something fundamental to the problem being solved.

Q: Who else had their first exposure to programming on a Ti-83/4 calculator?

Same for me, it was also my first time ever seeing code, and I still remember it well. While getting ready for swim practice in a locker room, my friend challenged me to beat his score on a button mashing game he programmed earlier that day in school on his TI-84. My 12 year old self was in awe of his BASIC skills.

It wasn't the first time I programmed but it was first time I encountered problem solving with code.

I'm not one those (very admirable) people who build just to build, who make their own version of frogger or something. I need a problem to solve.

But making a program that would take the parameters of a physics problem and spit out all the other quantities or that formatted output the way my stats teacher wanted it was a huge timesaver and that motivated me.

Fun fact: Axolotl have the largest animal genome ever sequenced with ~32b base pairs, 10x more than humans.