This was the first week I've gone to an office for five days straight since March 2020. I'm enjoying commuting and getting more of a sense of separation from my work and home life.
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Nature is not allowing scientists to include ChatGPT as co-author
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They found the tiny radioactive capsule in Western Australia. This is good because I kept returning to an old and unhealthy obsession, looking up the history of "orphan source" accidents.
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Spritely Goblins has me hacking on Scheme for the first time in years. This seems like a really promising model of computation although I wonder if the Lispiness will scare people away.
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I'm going to turn off my Twitter bots this week. It was fun while it lasted, and they're all on Mastodon. There's no way I want to pay to keep my API access open, which is superficially a bit weird as I've subscribed to the Patreon which keeps botsin.space running, but helping with a community Mastodon server is very different from throwing spare change at a Silicon Valley garbage fire.
One thing I'm feeling quite strongly this week is that news about what we now refer to as "tech" - which roughly means the big Silicon Valley web and streaming companies, plus the ecosystem of VC money which swarms around them - is really boring. It's not relevant to much that goes on in my professional life (ChatGPT is an exception) and feels like a kind of weird Kremlinology for neoliberal economics fans and the sort of people who used to call themselves "power users".