Heather Stark

Ex-Montrealer. Keen on discovery-driven design. People and product insight. Own opinions.

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

Places to find me

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@ericprhodes @aljaparis dangerously snorfled my coffee there...

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@teropa sounds right - (synchronisation of bodily experience also important to communal experience I think... intersubjective field)

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

Too bad there doesn't seem to be a reasonableness test.

[Anton Osika @antonosika]

figma says we can't use the word "dev mode" in lovable 😄

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@Tesco why can't I re-review an item - if, for instance, the quality has changed? seems silly. ok to speed bump it but you should allow updates to reviews. (if you do do that, this message would be the ideal place to put a link in to the updating process.)

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@HughesMichi wow. (also: eugh - been abstaining from twitter, mostly happily, but big downside is I have been missing this!)

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@artnome AFD promos in Germany used entirely synthetic blondes under potential (gracefully unspecified) threat - but it's not just the hair colour that was faked up, after all that's natural in blondes of a certain vintage... , but the entire entity https://t.co/WocUIJeSX3

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@mattdesl are you training the net? if so, what is the reward function in this use case? tx

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

I hope @airtable is feeling ok. It's a cool quick builder. But... the Troubleshooting page 404s. https://t.co/Ah7UKq14ga The Quick Steps guide in the community contains links to resources which don't exist. https://t.co/JdB4INWH3F

[Grant Sanderson @3blue1brown]

I learned yesterday the video I made in 2017 explaining how Bitcoin works was taken down, and my channel received a copyright strike (despite it being 100% my own content).

The request seems to have been issued by a company chainpatrol, on behalf of Arbitrum, whose website says they "makes use of advanced LLM scanning" for "Brand Protection for Leading Web3 Companies"

I could be wrong, but it sounds like there's a decent chance this means some bot managed to convince YouTube's bots that some re-upload of that video (of which there has been an incessant onslaught) was the original, and successfully issue the takedown and copyright strike request.

It's naturally a little worrying that it should be possible to use these tools to issue fake takedown requests, considering that it only takes 3 to delete an entire channel.

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

The cobuilder from @airtable is impressive . It made great guesses about my (simple) app based on a single sentence and drafted it in under a minute. Perhaps I'll need to undo it if there are hard baked assumptions that don't suit. But my first impression is super positive.

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@jules_rawlinson - the book by @Dr_Weez you recommended is looking good... (!!) thanks

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@phoenixperry my feed is still interesting, polite, and on topic. although most have fled they have fled to too many places to follow. which is a pita. my 'strategy' is to only peek now and then. which I am not saying makes sense.

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

oh my oh my

[Amanda Ghassaei @amandaghassaei]

I’ve recently released gpu-io –– a WebGL computing library for real-time physics simulations, particle/agent-based systems, cellular automata, image processing, and general purpose GPU computations.

Examples: https://t.co/ricQ98ci8K
Code: https://t.co/Q97eyb1xKT

More info in 🧵

[Peter Yang @petergyang]

Here's Raiza (NotebookLM PM) on how her tiny team delivered Google's breakout AI product:

"I wanted a Discord community for NotebookLM. People in Google responded, 'What's Discord? Why not a Google Group?' But I persisted, and now we have 60,000+ users giving us feedback.”

"We're focused relentlessly on shipping quickly. It's easier not to ship than to do it, especially at a large company. We create "fake" deadlines to drive urgency, which has worked well."

“In Labs, we move fast and are thoughtful about when to formalize processes. Our meetings are just PMs, designers, and engineers sitting together to work on PRDs, mocks, and code.”

For my new post, I collaborated with @raiza_abubakar on:

• The inside story of NotebookLM’s success
• 6 lessons for small teams to make an impact
• 7 ways to get the most out of NotebookLM

📌 Read now: https://t.co/zOhafSh8dj

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@erik_davis If you are mates with Bill Porter -whom I just learned about about ten minutes ago, looking for a Dao Te Ching translation - he might be amused by this listing for a book of his - is Six Sigma actually The Way? [ I think we should be told.... as they say at @PrivateEyeNews ]

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

I accept defeat. My Samsung SCX-4623 printer is just not going to talk nice to my Sonoma M1. My 2015 MacBook running Big Sur was persuaded to. Eventually. But this is the end. (Don't want to ethernet +generic postscript meh.) #tech #obsolescence https://t.co/VSckN1ZM0t

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

@MrPrudence early 1970's colour vibe!

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

This is why I like data analysis. Meaning can flip when you pull focus for a bit of context. It's not the whole story, but it's a story worth telling and understanding.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Wherever you may be, the folk cocooned in a giant SUV or pickup truck are likelier to survive a collision with another vehicle. But the weight of their machines has a cost.

America has a killer-car problem—here’s what to do about it https://t.co/wB3d2wKk7Z 👇

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

My first "Revolution Slider Error".

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

In other news... I have been informed that the 7th dial is the pillar itself. (I thought of this but rejected it as didn't see how it would work. And I still don't, tbh. But it's a good 'gotcha'. )

[Heather Stark @HAStark]

There are only six sundials at Seven Dials. Amazing what you can learn by simply looking. (Though I do wonder if we missed one!) #London #coventgarden #sevendials #sixdials #whatever