Tim Hildred

I like to read and share at the intersection of community, technology, strategy, and sustainability.

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For the last couple of weeks I've been publishing a curated newsletter at the intersection of #AI and #opensource called "AI and Open Source Weekly News". It is for people who are interested in unlocking the best possible scifi future with AI and open source. Here as a thread:

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And adult me would have to respond, “No, it’s okay to solve the same problem twice. In fact virtually every problem you have in your life right now is a problem people have had to solve twice, ten times, a million times in their lives prior. https://t.co/Gp0jqskYmZ

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Now, just because you have a coordination problem, that doesn’t mean that you don’t need an individual to own driving the reliability improvements around it. In fact, that’s why technical project managers (known as TPMs) exist. https://t.co/g0e4eTYqd0

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I have always wondered | Dicing an Onion, the Mathematically Optimal Way https://t.co/nwpH9pYcKR

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Scaling used to be the point. Now, small can be the point. AI tools make it cheap to create software for an audience of one — and sometimes, that’s the best possible audience. https://t.co/3IRHUaGXke

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Societal downfalls loom large in history and popular culture but, for the 99 per cent, collapse often had its upsides https://t.co/YvTpIkhEtj

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The basic guide covers the core concepts of social interaction. It contains three sections made up of seventeen in-depth lessons, and it's 100% free. https://t.co/qA4whsNARU

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In the Who Cares Era, the most radical thing you can do is care. https://t.co/7Wc5kg52iE

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The Level Design Book gathers level design knowledge for 3D video games in an approachable, up-to-date, and critical way. It is for designers of all experience levels and game engines. https://t.co/4I9fo4481n

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There are many reasons these old games never die, and I’m going to explain why. https://t.co/jmrlheKPsn

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There’s a big difference between having ChatGPT compose your emails because you don’t want to do it yourself and having AI compose your emails because you can’t do it yourself. https://t.co/UjuWhXawA2

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My advice is: Think of the title as “classifier”. https://t.co/2iIYTwP93b

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This is the economy now. Not a distribution of opportunity. A redistribution of friction. But friction isn’t the enemy!!!! It’s information. It tells us where things are straining and where care is needed and where attention should go. https://t.co/kW6jXvnQgQ

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With just the right amount of constraints, creativity becomes almost an inevitability. This phenomenon is best seen in constraints where a specific format encourages a seemingly neverending list of solutions. https://t.co/yOSdxC2tl2

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A successful social organization is not a machine for keeping things the same, or for generating randomness, but a means of generating useful variety that can help to match the variety and changes in the environment that the organization lives in. https://t.co/7IfPi2VWmJ

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The unknowability of a future filled with the potential of giving birth to new ideas and projects is what makes life worth living. https://t.co/Z897qj57PH

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It is the ultimate ambiguity and indecision of the text that explains not only why Tolkien has endured but why so many on the left are still able to love him, despite all the many perfectly persuasive reasons why they shouldn’t. https://t.co/PIf96oMYve

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The hedgerow’s ability to provide a fascinating and unexpectedly accurate guide to English socio-economic history can be told through the medium of art, particularly sporting art. https://t.co/ZkArnXvpVr

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We are losing our optimism for the future, and I think that science fiction has a responsibility to help bring it back. We do not need to be trapped in feelings of hopelessness. Through science fiction we can escape. https://t.co/yvOUaeR39g

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As it turns out, intrinsic motivation looks to be an extremely delicate thing. Under the right conditions, it can be encouraged and drawn out of us; in the wrong conditions, it can be suffocated, stifled – maybe even killed. https://t.co/HSoHfL27HF

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The Worker as Futurist Project aims to support workers to tell their own stories, dream their own dreams, and reclaim the power to shape the future, in solidarity with the workers and communities around the world that are rising up to challenge Amazon. https://t.co/RoK7GFx2pL