I’ve been doing lots of experiments with GPT, though I’ve only written about one until now… the more serious something is the harder it is to call it finished or identify the outcomes. Here I’ll describe something a bit lighter: world building, or specifically city building, with …
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Thoughts On Voice Interfaces 2 years later: LLMs
Over two years ago I wrote Thoughts On Voice Interfaces, a scattering of ideas about voice interactions. Time has passed, I’ve been working more on voice interfaces, and though products in the market have barely changed, I still have NEW THOUGHTS.
Large Language Models
I’ve only been exploring …
Infinite AI Array
making new string and list classes that call gpt3 under the hood so you can access elements beyond the final one. no more index errors!
— shb (@himbodhisattva) December 24, 2022Some ideas are dumb enough you just have to try them, so I introduce to you the Python library: Infinite …
Firefox Was Always Enough
There are many concerns about Mozilla right now, and reason to be concerned. While I am no longer with Mozilla, it’s still a place that supported me for many years; I believe in Mozilla and want the project to succeed.
Mozilla’s one product
It’s not always clear …
Project ideas for (what’s left of) 2020
While I’m conflicted with the need to find a …
A History Of Projects
I’ve had a lot of projects, and at this moment of reflection I thought I’d look back through those that felt most meaningful, and which despite my excitement I’ve also let go of. If there’s a thread that connects them maybe I’ll find it, or …
Thoughts on Voice Interfaces
I’ve been working on the Consumer Voice Products team in Mozilla for about a year now. My primary project has been Firefox Voice, but our mandate is larger.
I still feel like a beginner in the area of voice, but I have developed some opinions. Many observations are the …
Kling’s Axes of Politics, and the Technocrats
In Arnold Kling’s The Three Languages Of Politics he argues that we don’t all exist along some set of objective political axes, left and right, or even the classic two-dimensional spectrum (or even three dimensions). Instead different groups use different axes, or different dichotomies, to look at the …
“Users want control” is a shoulder shrug
Making the claim “users want control” is the same as saying you don’t know what users want, you don’t know what is good, and you don’t know what their goals are.
I first started thinking about this during the debate over what would become the ACA. The …
Open Source Doesn’t Make Money Because It Isn’t Designed To Make Money
Or: The Best Way To Do Something Is To At Least Try
We all know the story: you can’t make money on open source. Is it really true?
I’m thinking about this now because Mozilla would like to diversify its revenue in the next few years, and one …
