Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social

Professing #hci #creativity #toolsforthought #metascience @INFOCollegeUMD & @hcil_umd | building @discoursegraphs

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[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

I think this is me!!

[Visa is doing marketing consults (see pinned!) @visakanv]

you can just decent enough at stuff and then be a switchboard for other people’s excellence and that can be a tremendous contribution

[Caden Li @cadenbuild]

pieced together 1,000+ videos of Knicks footage to recreate OG Anunoby's iconic tip-in

[Caden Li @cadenbuild]

And I made it a website, so you could re-create your own favorite moments: https://t.co/ghNQiMFk03

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@PaulLitvak @mbeisen We're working on this too with @discoursegraphs and others!

https://t.co/1I3RjPpshO

[Wendy’s @Wendys]

might change my name to Wemby’s and only serve french fries after last night’s game

[pete wolfendale @deontologistics]

This isn’t a new observation, but I think there really is a massive referential calibration problem in public discourse about ‘AI’ and its capabilities. There are at least two sides to this.

[Michael 英泉 Eisen @mbeisen]

ALSO WHY THE FUCK ARE WE STILL JUST CITING PAPERS INSTEAD OF SPECIFIC PIECES OF DATA OR CLAIMS?

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@littmath @mbeisen Yes, see https://t.co/exmBeQBxPV

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@pschofie79 This semester in my introductory programming class I learned that you get "ghost" AI suggestions in VSCode by default, even without a copilot subscription OR extension installed! Need to disable this obscure on-by-default feature:

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@rtk254 @LChoshen 🙌🙌🙌

[Kat ⊷ the Poet Engineer @poetengineer__]

been working on moonfish, an obsidian writing companion. i see it as a small experiment in ambient/calm computing:
keystrokes ripple a pond; sentences become fish; moons keep the weeks writing.

[Mike @Mikebeenhere]

Bron and Bronny rn

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@andy_matuschak @millsbaker @AREdotNA @shmu_h Yess and @tweet_phia !!!

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@andy_matuschak @millsbaker @AREdotNA cc @rtk254

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@andy_matuschak @millsbaker > But "ranking and feeds" is quite a large design space

Yes!!

Case(s) in point: @AREdotNA and Semble: https://t.co/ycIZRJhyIs

[Macrophysiological System🐀 @InVitroFuture]

I find LLMs very helpful for scientific writing. I do the legwork of planning out what to say, track down citations, sketch out the flow, feed all of this to the LLM to generate a draft, and the output is so awful it motivates me to write it out the right way in disgust

[Macrophysiological System🐀 @InVitroFuture]

I find LLMs very helpful for scientific writing. I do the legwork of planning out what to say, track down citations, sketch out the flow, feed all of this to the LLM to generate a draft, and the output is so awful it motivates me to write it out the right way in disgust

[Elliott Ash @ellliottt]

A deeper question: If they are not the source of truth, then what are papers for?

One idea:
→ Code defines what was done.
→ Paper explains why.

[Zain Shah @zan2434]

Imagine every pixel on your screen, streamed live directly from a model. No HTML, no layout engine, no code. Just exactly what you want to see.

@eddiejiao_obj, @drewocarr and I built a prototype to see how this could actually work, and set out to make it real. We're calling it Flipbook. (1/5)

[Angie Boggust @angie_boggust]

Check out our autointerp paper ✨Semantic Regexes ✨at ICLR on Friday April 24!

@MIT_CSAIL and @Apple with @donghaoren, @tafsiri, @domoritz, @arvindsatya1 & @fredhohman

📅 https://t.co/ZOth9TihQO
📄 https://t.co/xm0FyP2yJB
🖥️ https://t.co/NGwt3usysh
🔗 https://t.co/qXhFwqtHo9

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@andreivolt @WazzCrypto relevant: https://t.co/gPhtm9J2g0

+ work by @TuhinChakr e.g., https://t.co/lag9eoAx9D

[Joel Chan | 🦋: joelchan86.bsky.social @JoelChan86]

@andreivolt @WazzCrypto in case folks are curious, the source: https://t.co/rB0z0pLMqz