thesephist

computers should work in service of human creativity and curiosity, not the other way around.

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Posts

• Build tools around workflows, not workflows around tools (2020)
  by thesephiston 5/10/2025, 8:50 PMwith 0 comments
• Libsearch: Simple index-free full-text search for JavaScript
  by thesephiston 12/29/2024, 5:04 AMwith 19 comments
• Cora email – Your inbox as a story, delivered twice a day
  by thesephiston 12/17/2024, 4:07 PMwith 0 comments
• Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn't Work yet (2018)
  by thesephiston 12/14/2024, 6:48 AMwith 0 comments
• Thoughts on the software industry (2022)
  by thesephiston 11/30/2024, 7:16 AMwith 83 comments
• AI Is the New Plastic
  by thesephiston 10/16/2024, 8:35 PMwith 0 comments
• Introducing OpenAI (2015)
  by thesephiston 9/9/2024, 2:19 AMwith 0 comments
• A Beginner's Guide to Exploration
  by thesephiston 8/4/2024, 6:53 AMwith 0 comments
• Attention Bubbles
  by thesephiston 7/22/2024, 3:59 AMwith 0 comments
• Epistemic calibration and searching the space of truth
  by thesephiston 7/9/2024, 4:07 PMwith 0 comments
• An Opinionated Guide to ML Research
  by thesephiston 7/5/2024, 4:47 PMwith 0 comments
• Principles of Effective Research
  by thesephiston 7/5/2024, 4:45 PMwith 0 comments
• Mapping interpretable concepts and features in a latent space of language
  by thesephiston 6/22/2024, 7:16 AMwith 1 comments
• Digital sidekick for essential pocket computing
  by thesephiston 6/14/2024, 12:23 AMwith 0 comments
• Simulating Tree Growth Through Cellular Automata Digital Evolution
  by thesephiston 5/29/2024, 4:18 PMwith 0 comments
• Claude's Constitution
  by thesephiston 5/8/2024, 7:17 PMwith 0 comments
• Explaining the SDXL Latent Space
  by thesephiston 2/5/2024, 10:04 PMwith 33 comments
• Notion AI Q&A
  by thesephiston 11/14/2023, 7:56 PMwith 0 comments
• Backpropagating Through Reasoning
  by thesephiston 10/24/2023, 8:09 PMwith 0 comments
• Show HN: Fully client-side GPT2 prediction visualizer
  by thesephiston 9/5/2023, 10:42 PMwith 11 comments
• Knowledge Tools, Finite and Infinite
  by thesephiston 7/25/2023, 3:41 PMwith 0 comments
• Netscape and Sun announce JavaScript (1995)
  by thesephiston 7/6/2023, 7:30 PMwith 1 comments
• Hmm – capture fleeting thoughts from the terminal
  by thesephiston 6/14/2023, 7:02 PMwith 0 comments