Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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While on vacation I started some prep work for using MongoDB at DailyLit, which is mostly written in PHP. The prep work consists of creating a lightweight way of getting PHP objects in and out of MongoDB (I know there are some things out there already, but what’s the fun in that?).
Here is a slightly simplified summary what I am shooting for:
I like the idea of using static/class methods for retrieval because these will be generating one or more objects and I do not want to have to deal with separate factory or builder classes. Unfortunately, I encountered some annoying PHP static:
This prints “Fruit” – what the flagnard? For my plan to work, I need this to print “Apple”.
First, lets establish that “Apple” is not an unreasonable expectation. In Python, I can do the following:
This prints “Apple” (well, actually it prints “__main__.Apple”).
In Ruby, I can do this:
While on vacation I started some prep work for using MongoDB at DailyLit, which is mostly written in PHP. The prep work consists of creating a lightweight way of getting PHP objects in and out of MongoDB (I know there are some things out there already, but what’s the fun in that?).
Here is a slightly simplified summary what I am shooting for:
I like the idea of using static/class methods for retrieval because these will be generating one or more objects and I do not want to have to deal with separate factory or builder classes. Unfortunately, I encountered some annoying PHP static:
This prints “Fruit” – what the flagnard? For my plan to work, I need this to print “Apple”.
First, lets establish that “Apple” is not an unreasonable expectation. In Python, I can do the following:
This prints “Apple” (well, actually it prints “__main__.Apple”).
In Ruby, I can do this:
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