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notes from a UX Geek - blog of Emma Arbogast
2023-08-02 01:11
I recently started a Substack newsletter called Sparkly Dark. I created most of the visual brand in Midjourney. (The wordmark I created in Affinity Designer). Below are my tips on how I… Read More
2023-06-29 21:31
AI at this stage requires reams of data annotation and human feedback. “As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.&rdquo&hell…Read More
2023-05-31 04:15
It’s not a gradient that goes from “less autistic” to “more autistic”. That’s the entire wrong way to think about it. If you think about the visible color… Read More
2023-05-07 18:50
I don’t organize my experience around hope very much, because I can’t know how the future will unfold and I don’t need to know. I can accept that we might be headed towards… Read More
2023-04-06 19:09
In this video we learn that Sam Altman thinks inventing AGI, or at least staying at the leading edge of AI development, will allow OpenAI to suck up all the world’s wealth–… Read More
2023-03-28 18:47
After really getting into ChatGPT, I must admit that when I got an email today asking me to sign an open letter to pause AI development for 6 months for the safety of humanity…I didn… Read More
2023-03-25 06:11
I can’t say I understood all of this, but it was pretty fascinating nonetheless Read More
2023-01-28 20:56
As you can imagine, it’s a mess. Really interesting, though. Data scientists will have to sort it out Read More
2022-12-17 19:14
A different way to achieve nuclear fusion that avoids some of the pitfalls of Tokamak reactors (fuel cost, byproducts). Looks promising! Fusion is coming along, slowly Read More
2022-11-08 05:16
I’m glad Twitter exists and I find it fascinating, even though I don’t use it. Even though it has a small user base compared to things like Facebook, because many high profile pe… Read More
2022-10-09 22:24
I’ve have had so much mental noise my whole life around what is the right amount of “stuff” I should have. As in, I felt guilty when my life was not a minimalist ideal. Thi… Read More
2022-09-20 02:45
We’re getting closer to understanding the biology and biochemistry underneath trauma reactions. Here’s another article in a similar vein about the role of neurotensin Read More
2022-08-06 20:39
I love this: “Right now, people totally misunderstand what AI is. They see it as a tiger. A tiger is dangerous. It might eat me. It’s an adversary. And there’s danger in wa… Read More
2022-07-19 01:38
Interesting to see the number of privately funded fusion startups in the works Read More
2022-06-18 03:55
Apparently, doing things synchronistically to a beat makes you bond with strangers quickly, like singing, drumming, or marching. Music could have evolved earlier than language as a way to pr… Read More
2022-05-14 06:24
The debris from the 2011 tsunami in Japan went all around the world, carrying invasive species with it in a “mass rafting event”.
Even without the tsunami, the amount of plas… Read More
2022-05-11 05:39
I’ve always had a lot of potential-hobby clutter. I like to start new things. I get enamored of a new hobby and get so excited acquiring stuff for it and then I may or may not have a s… Read More
2022-05-11 02:27
I find this whole video extremely charming. A worldwide network of nerds (even a guy who collects vintage sardine cans!) put together clues that solved a mystery that a reddit user found whi… Read More
2022-05-08 19:51
Chris’s thesis is that attention is the addictive-drug version of recognition (someone seeing and acknowledging your humanness). I think the moral panic about corporations hijacking ou… Read More
2022-05-08 02:56
Enjoyably existential. The answer is to our problems is down and in, not up and out Read More
2022-05-06 05:35
This explains the hair modeling behind the animations of 3D Disney characters, which got a lot more complex in Encanto with more different hair types represented…fascinating! Read More
2022-04-27 18:30
Interesting game. Like Choose Your Own Adventure, but of an ordinary human life, starting at infancy. It gets tedious after awhile, but it does make you reflect on how many different interac… Read More
2022-04-23 18:39
Great info and good links in the description box to tools for protecting your privacy Read More
2022-04-22 18:43
This is a great illustration of just how un-intelligent “AI” is right now. It’s basically a sophisticated regurgitation algorithm…when you try to get it to write som… Read More
2022-04-20 18:52
The end goal isn’t to use less energy; everything about how we live is made better by more energy. The goal is to produce massive amounts of clean energy Read More
2022-04-20 17:56
“Clean” energy so far just means not fossil fuels. It doesn’t mean clean in any other way–fair societies, less environmental damage, etc. It’s up to us to make… Read More
2022-04-14 19:03
Good overview of the real history of slavery, before and after the Civil War, continuing through debt peonage and convict leasing Read More
2022-04-10 19:03
One of my favorite ACIM teachers. From the video: “We need a willingness to heal our mind. We need to be willing to see where we say no to peace. In fact, we only need willin… Read More
2022-04-10 19:00
Yes, I have 200 open tabs, and no, I don’t have ADHD. ENFPs don’t like to do things we aren’t interested in, but we can if we have to. Personality is about your preferences… Read More
2022-04-05 19:06
This did make me feel hopeful, even if, “We’ve averted the apocalyptic doom scenario and are now just headed for super duper terrible!” is only good news in the technical s… Read More
2022-04-01 19:12
Three part series going over all kinds of US accents from various regions, including different ethnic groups and historical reasons. Linguistics is fascinating! See also the Cot-caught merge… Read More
2022-03-30 18:33
I’m beyond thrilled about this article! This is the kind of social relationships I want: Pods. Small groups of people devoted to growing together.
The article covers different flavors… Read More
2022-03-29 07:20
The basic problem with capitalism is that “the poor get poorer and the rich get richer”. In other words, the two poles are linked through an inverse relationship–as the tot… Read More
2022-03-29 05:28
Apparently, Nacho Cheese Doritos are designed to have such a well-balanced set of flavors that you don’t reach “sensory specific satiety” and therefore want to keep eating… Read More
2022-03-27 05:34
Short answer: The one that works for you, that you can follow sincerely.
The question of “which path” is a little pointless, because Spirit will show up to help you or guide you… Read More
2022-03-25 16:16
Ostensibly about “Manifesting a Specific Person”, but it really goes over the entire technique and answers a lot of questions. Based on a mystical reading of the Bible-as-manifes… Read More
2022-03-25 01:55
It’s weird to write that, but it’s true. It would be contradictory to want to be wealthy and think it’s not OK to be wealthy. And I definitely want to be stinkin’ ric… Read More
2022-03-24 21:37
This is a great rebuke against consumers demanding someone create the content they want to watch instead of what the creator wants to create. It seems part of how he can be so strong in not… Read More
2022-03-24 20:41
Dwayne Johnson tells a beautiful story of learning how to manage his celebrity status from realizing the power he has to make a fan’s day or make them feel really terrible. I was looki… Read More
2022-03-24 19:44
The world is full of shitty power structures, and we can still change our lives. Both these things are true Read More
2022-03-24 19:30
I love Rhett & Link’s content on Mythical Mornings and I had no idea they had a deconstruction journey Read More
2022-03-23 09:40
I tried Lumenate last night and it was pretty cool. Nothing too mind-blowing happened, mostly just visual effects, but at one point I did feel a kind of internal emotional…something… Read More
2022-03-22 21:52
Vermont, apparently, is where we should all be moving to, if you’re in the USA. Oregon is OK, but the wildfire risk (and the Cascadia earthquake, which is unrelated to climate but stil… Read More
2022-03-22 21:48
Fascinating little video on how our entire existence is built around trying to not be dissolved in water. Our skin and our cells are the way they are so they can be waterproof, our houses ar… Read More
2022-03-22 20:56
The exact kind of fascist Putin is. Vlad has a few other videos linked in the description about Putin that I found valuable (and terrifying) for understanding Putin’s psychology Read More
2022-03-17 06:37
On a biological level, me and you and Putin share nearly 100% of our DNA.
We have created a social system that divides us into such different experiences that we fool ourselves into bel… Read More
2022-02-14 21:46
I never watched Happy Feet when it came out, and I just randomly decided to watch this 2006 film today. I thought it was about a penguin whose “heartsong” is actually d… Read More
2022-01-24 01:12
This rabbit hole started with a Heidi Priebe video What Does An Unhealthy (vs Healthy) ENFP Look Like?. She asks if the way you are living your life overall is to avoid pain or discomfort, o… Read More
2022-01-24 00:02
I am a big fan of YouTube for random learning, and I subscribe to a lot of educational channels. But sometimes I just stumble upon random pockets of fascinating information and whole communi… Read More
2022-01-23 10:54
If you think about all of the harm done in the world, and everything labelled as a “crime”, there is less overlap than you’d think.
For example, we know that chronic emotio… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I just finished the book Sex at Dawn. Amidst much fascinating data on the biological underpinnings of human sexuality was a discussion of a 2006 study by Meredith Chivers that involved show… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Holy cow, Batman. What do you say when your world changes overnight?
I took an Intro to Matrix workshop from the Matrix Leadership Institute this weekend. It is exactly what I’ve been… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
Look, ma, I’m programming
I’m taking an online classs through edX – a collaboration between Harvard and MIT to bring their classes to the public in a form that specifically… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
I grew up reading Tintin comics. Wikipedia has an interesting observation about how the “blandness” of his character lets the reader place himself in the adventures.
Readers and… Read More
2012-09-17 08:31
I just liked these shoes.
The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition lays out 5 stages:
Novice
Advanced Beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
Here’s the Wikipedia entry, and a summary of wh… Read More
2012-08-06 01:58
First, the metaphor:
Email is a bucket–things come into it, and you need to deal with all of them.
Facebook and Twitter are streams – you can dip in and out at your leisure, and… Read More
2012-08-04 02:35
I am currently building HealerPress, a website builder for healers (SaaS) build on WordPress MultiSite. Coming from Yii, developing in WordPress is a big shift. The structure and concepts ar… Read More
2012-08-01 08:49
Over the past year, I worked loosely within the Scrum model: choosing short sprints (one or two weeks) in which you can produce a meaningful goal. Anything unrelated to the sprint goes in th… Read More
2012-07-14 23:44
I signed up for the Community Leadership Summit hoping to get some insight into how to build online (and offline) community, which I want to do with HealersThrive and eventually wi… Read More
2012-05-18 18:32
Building HealerTree, I always wanted to have a free plan of some sort. But there are pros and cons – here is my research and analysis.
Pro
Con
Free users can be great evangelists. Wid… Read More
2012-05-02 11:25
Companies like Facebook make money off ads. Their real customers are the advertisers. Their users are not their customers, so their motivation with user experience is not to improve it for u… Read More
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