Mnemonic images with Grok 3
The Major mnemonic system makes numbers easier to memorize by encoding them as words. Each digit corresponds to one or more consonant sounds, and you can fill in vowels as you wish. In August 2022 I tried creating a few images using DALL-E 2. The results were disappointing and sometimes
Read moreStanding with Intellectual Giants
Is it possible to come up with truly innovative ideas when you’re not part of the institutions where the expertise resides? According to one study, the answer would seem to be “No.” The book, The Sociology of Philosophies by Randall Collins, makes a case for how great ideas through
Read moreRich Sutton’s bitter lesson of AI
This morning I read Alberto Romeo’s article Grok 3: Another Win For The Bitter Lesson. I wasn’t clear on what exactly the bitter lesson was, so I followed the link to Romeo’s previous article GPT-4: The Bitterer Lesson, which lead to Rich Sutton’s original article The Bitter Lesson. Sutton opens
Read moreResearch roadmap update, February 2025
An update to the research that the User Experience team is running over the next quarter.
Read moreMultiplication tables and Latin squares
The multiplication table of a finite group forms a Latin square. You form the multiplication table of a finite group just as you would the multiplication tables from your childhood: list the elements along the top and side of a grid and fill in each square with the products. In
Read moreWBIT #4: Using GIS to understand the rivers and the lakes that you’re used to
How a theater major became a fullstack engineer building software to manage climate change.
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