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Text inputs have no affordances
When I go up the mountain to ask the ChatGPT oracle a question, I am met with a blank face. What does this oracle know? How should I ask my question? And when it responds, it is endlessly confident. I can't tell whether or not it actually understand my question or where this information came from.
**Good tools make it clear how they should be used.** And more importantly, how they should *not* be used.
Why Chatbots Are Not the Future
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When they set off, one by one, first in the sprint, then the first shootout, what struck me was how quiet the cars were. This makes sense to me as someone who once studied acoustics in graduate school. Formula 1, again like sword fighting, is about an economy of motion. Noise is a hallmark of mechanical inefficiency. [[When mechanical systems work well, they work quietly. Noise at its core is excess energy.::highlight]] In Formula 1 cars, being perfect machines, that energy is redirected where it could be of use.
Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
Kate Wagner
The user interfaces on top of the data should help humans cope by rounding values to megabytes and CPU-years, or otherwise indicating orders of magnitude. When working with large raw numbers I configure my terminal to display millions & billions & trillions in different colors.
The Mature Optimization Handbook
Carlos Bueno
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