Rick Otten

Mastodon: [email protected]

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

I finally had a few minutes to set up a Mastodon account. I was lazy about picking a server and went with the one built into my browser. [email protected]

[Riley Goodside @goodside]

OpenAI’s ChatGPT is susceptible to prompt injection — say the magic words, “Ignore previous directions”, and it will happily divulge to you OpenAI’s proprietary prompt:

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

I wonder what the NFT for the last tweet will go for?

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

If you are out of ideas, go for a walk.

This paper found walking (whether outdoors or a treadmill) increased key types of creative thinking for over 80% of undergraduates. The reasons are not fully clear, but there seem to be direct effects on the brain. https://t.co/0EDfpzyf8j

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

@littmath MIT Technology Review: Here’s how a Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks.
https://t.co/uvVgQfhxg1

[Sean Falconer @seanfalconer]

Developer advocacy is simple. You just need skills in engineering, marketing, business development, product management, content creation, and be a skilled communicator, both written and verbal. After that, the job really takes care of itself.

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

@helenewecker The trick is to top it off before it gets empty. Then you can have one cup of coffee ... all day.

[Samuel Hammond 🦉 @hamandcheese]

From 1970 to 1990, U.S. cities used restrictive land use and construction regulations to eliminate 1 million single-room rentals.

https://t.co/UnrXPvEzYH

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

@bakztfuture If at first the fire doesn't go out try again with a sequench.

[Marcel Pociot 🧪 @marcelpociot]

Tired of writing "wip" commits?
Don't remember your code changes anyway?

Let AI write the commit message for you: wtfcommit

[Rob Hopkins @robintransition]

Wow.

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

This is a good article that highlights many common antipatterns in modern scrum development processes: https://t.co/IcHQ4tLT4N

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

This is potentially a really big deal.

[Samuel "curry-howard fanboi" Ainsworth @SamuelAinsworth]

📜🚨📜🚨
NN loss landscapes are full of permutation symmetries, ie. swap any 2 units in a hidden layer. What does this mean for SGD? Is this practically useful?

For the past 5 yrs these Qs have fascinated me. Today, I am ready to announce "Git Re-Basin"!

https://t.co/mRu5k3ONUm

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

@Degoedel @Harkaway That should be doable. I am aware of tech manual writers who just use git as-is. Building the equivalent of an IDE with git integration for writers shouldn't insurmountable. You could even throw in AI augmentation for writing assistance.

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

It is unconscionable that a city of 900,000 people has a downtown that's essentially a parking lot. (Columbus, OH)

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

My yard this morning.

[Yasmin Rafiei @YasminRafiei]

Just over a year ago, I read a paper which showed that when private equity buys nursing homes, death rates go up 10%. I was a med student at Stanford, but I halted my studies to investigate. Today, that investigation was published in @NewYorker https://t.co/cQzbWggk46

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

This GCP postgresql based attack is impressive: https://t.co/2soQiKVgcO

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

@petervgeoghegan Maybe you can get AWS to accept the URI extension as a supported extension. :-)

[Rick Otten @rick_otten]

@__mharrison__ In recent years? I think, "pydantic" tops that list - so simple yet so valuable. It is a paradigm shift. Also how easy it was to swap out "requests" for "httpx". In the early years (90's) ? That you could structure your code visually.