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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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...
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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A while back I had argued that there was great potential for visual search now that we have a lot of images available. Well now someone has delivered and it is Google Labs with it’s Similar Images prototype. In fact, they did exactly what I had proposed in my original post, which was to make this a refinement to the regular search process, saying:
In fact, Google has had a close analogy in text search for a long time. Results from a search have a link for “similar pages.”
Well now there is “similar images” and it works amazingly well. First, I tried a search for “ball” as there many different kinds of balls. Not all the results have a “similar images” link yet, but the ones that do produce great results. Next, because it is near and dear to me because of Etsy, I tried a search for “ring”. The results of exploring the “similar images” are nothing short of amazing. Try different ring styles and you will almost always find lots more rings with a very similar basic style but lots of small variations. I look forward to making ample usage of this.
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A while back I had argued that there was great potential for visual search now that we have a lot of images available. Well now someone has delivered and it is Google Labs with it’s Similar Images prototype. In fact, they did exactly what I had proposed in my original post, which was to make this a refinement to the regular search process, saying:
In fact, Google has had a close analogy in text search for a long time. Results from a search have a link for “similar pages.”
Well now there is “similar images” and it works amazingly well. First, I tried a search for “ball” as there many different kinds of balls. Not all the results have a “similar images” link yet, but the ones that do produce great results. Next, because it is near and dear to me because of Etsy, I tried a search for “ring”. The results of exploring the “similar images” are nothing short of amazing. Try different ring styles and you will almost always find lots more rings with a very similar basic style but lots of small variations. I look forward to making ample usage of this.
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