David Hwang

MTS @ Periodic Labs, formerly Anthropic

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

I wrote up the rules to "Wine Balderdash", a game I co-invented https://t.co/wYfKIH14YW.

It's a variant of the game Balderdash where instead of words and their definitions, the game is played with wines and their descriptions.

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@cHHillee Bitter lesson said another way? But as an infra person I like things centered on me :).

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

This week, we showed how altering internal "features" in our AI, Claude, could change its behavior.

We found a feature that can make Claude focus intensely on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Now, for a limited time, you can chat with Golden Gate Claude: https://t.co/uLbS2JNczH

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@jeanqasaur Lore

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@ArtirKel is this dinner at a big fat greek wedding?

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@r00k have you've seen Tuple used outside of the programming context? Is there something about programming in particular that makes it useful to synchronously pair using a tool like Tuple? One guess: IDEs are still largely offline single-player tools, unlike GSuite/Figma.

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@bernhardsson I got Nagled this quarter too. Reading blogs is p0.

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@madcampb We finally decided upon a kettle and broke it in today, so we’ll soon be the same.

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@tszzl @replyallguy @bernhardsson Not sure what old-job was for you, but one citation: https://t.co/KcTGmW08l9

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@qone_qurl I had a similar though recently. Entanglement.

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@fulhack This has been on my reading list, that I think should answer the question RE “underlying problem”: https://t.co/5mVrospFt6

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@katie_brigham @JasonReginato For the fans: timestamp is at 1:01

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@madcampb @CaucasianJames when I was young my fish didn't have a tank. RIP :(. honestly irresponsible and sad.

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@asjedh @andy_matuschak Cool! Roam by contrast has every link (or edge) be bidirectional and unlabeled. Affordances for directionality and labels makes sense taking “note taking as graph theory” POV.

[Patrick McKenzie @patio11]

A month ago, the pseudonymous Working Group did an independent research project on the coronavirus outbreak in Japan. Our result was novel and concerning. We quietly circulated it to accelerate the response effort.

Here's the research and the backstory:

https://t.co/CE9pC8eVU7

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

found one!

https://t.co/TrhqgJZboo

[Visakan Veerasamy @visakanv]

Twitter is the fucking coolest note-taking app. It’s like Evernote with a slot machine attached. Sometimes you get incredible feedback or a response that gives you 10x more value than you expected, and sometimes you get people discussing your genitalia! So exciting

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@visakanv I remember reading a tweet by you on how you use Twitter but can no longer find it. Any chance you'd could dig out your tweets for me on that subject?

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

...though I would be happy to learn if that connection is much greater than simply "observing from afar"!

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

I've only recently started using Roam Research in the past couple months, but I'm so happy that the Fedwiki <-> Roam Research connection exists, even if it's only in the capacity of "observing from afar".

[Conor @Conaw]

@andy_matuschak @KrisAbdelmessih @RoamResearch Reminded of @WardCunningham's Federated Wiki, which had a nice horizontal scroll component

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@gwern I write in the morning, which loads my brain for topics/questions to stew on for the rest of the day. Those topics help frame what I observe throughout the day, or what I bring up in conversation.

Similar-ish thoughts here: https://t.co/7MMy8UYMbo. @paulg

[David Hwang @hwangmoretime]

@gwern "fiction writers emphasizing the morning as the best time to write, and avoiding afternoons/evenings except as continuations of morning writing afternoons/evenings were useful for secondary tasks (e.g. ...background research...), while nonfiction writers can write at any time."