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Welp. Glad to see Li Shen's using the last fifteen years of my work to automate away my job. :-/ -- edit -- I've seen clients and some colleagues working on things like this, and I…

Yup. The only major changes here are fonts and twocolumn. https://gist.github.com/aphyr/6f0cd6910ccfe2cd7828d1ade2eac5...

I've put considerable time into this, including speaking with Ofcom directly. The guidance Ofcom issued for small site operators last year was that they did intend to target "one-m…

I would! I grew up in a low-density suburb near Portland, then lived in small-town Minnesota, Madison, SF, Chicago, and Cincinnati. I didn't own a car until my 30s, and I currently…

I talked about this in the colophon of the piece, but perhaps you'd like an example? This is Pandoc Markdown--basically Markdown, a little bit of YAML front matter, a smattering of…

If you enjoyed reading these and would like more, very few folks read sections 2, 4, or 6. They might be up your alley: 2. Dynamics - https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-ever…

Thank you for this--I remember reading this paper when it came out, but forgot it by the time I wrote this section. Will add a citation.

> I think you can combine 'Incanters' and 'Process Engineers' into one - 'Users' I wanted to talk about this more but couldn't quite figure out how to phrase it, so I cut a fair bi…

Thank you <3

I have not read Hamming yet, thank you!

I put... I'd guess around 60 hours into editing this piece, and had review from a dozen-odd friends, and I am still finding and fixing errors. I imagine that asking an LLM for a co…

Thank you for this! I really wanted to go deeper on human factors, and I think there's a lot to be said about CRM and sociotechnical systems design, especially when ML gets used fo…

> It personifies the tool as a colleague with agency, Er, just to be clear, I am not personifying these tools. This entire section is a critique of the attempt to frame LLMs as "co…

There's a copy of Das Kapital on the shelf behind me right now, though I don't count myself conversant enough to go super deep on class critique. Figured I'd point a few very vague…

Yes. For more on this, see section 2: https://aphyr.com/posts/412-the-future-of-everything-is-lies...

I am, oddly enough, the chief executive officer of two (trivially small) tech companies.

I actually wound up geoblocking the UK based on Ofcom's February 2025 presentation for small services providers--they said that they intended to target "one-man bands" who (e.g.) f…

It's been weirdly uneven. Sections 1, 3, and 5 did well on HN; 2, 4, and 6 sank with essentially no trace. The distribution of views is presently: 1. Introduction: 33,088 ( https:/…