Aaron Parecki

Machine learning is a bit like cocaine in the 1880s:

- been used in a weaker form for centuries
- some surprisingly successful early applications led to it now being over-prescribed
- beginning to understand that performance degrades after repeated use, negative feedback loops

Odd to think about, but in the last decade I:
* never gave you up
* never let you down
* never apologized or deserted you

"OK Boomer" only works on Boomers from Google. If your Boomer is from Apple, you have to say "Hey, Boomer." If it's from Amazon, you can simply preface your instruction with "Boomer", e.g. "Boomer, stop."

While I'm tweeting, passwords are 1970s shit and 1password is just a bandaid that helps tech folks feel better about our abject failure to fix what should be a simple thing while blaming non-technical folks for that failure.

AMA, xoxo.

Yay!

if you prefer round numbers, I can unsubscribe?

Been really enjoying the slow, considered process of redesigning and rebuilding my personal website recently. And excited to get more involved with the @indiewebcamp community.

Particular kudos to @aaronpk for the incredibly useful http://webmention.io

Watching @rdegges in the big Alpha room at #BuildStuffLT talk about the 12 Factors of Pain and Suffering in software development he's experienced.

Homebrew Website Club in Karlsruhe 13.11.2019
#HWC #IndieWeb

Most coffee is just chocolate milk with drugs in it

Modern coffee shops, all too often, optimize for people who wish they liked coffee, but it turns out they actually just like milkshakes.

I want a line of books called "$TOPIC for Smart People who are unfamiliar with this topic and can't give it the time required to master it, but still have to Get the Job Done"

F that "dummies" nonsense.

“We’re all beginning to understand better that algorithms are only as good as the data that gets packed into them. And if a lot of discriminatory data gets packed in... then the discrimination is perpetuated." - @ewarren knows what’s up 🔥🔥🔥

UPS, but they deliver your packages, unpack them, and take the cardboard back with them.

I have a bunch. Telling people to tweet a specific slide works well https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2019/07/tell-the-audience-what-you-want-them-to-do/

The ProGrade reader is a lot faster than the internal SD card reader by about 40% if memory serves.

If you liked it you shoulda put a retweet on it

"Hidden back doors in voting machine software" is the silliest conspiracy theory ever. Anyone who's examined the code for a modern commercial voting machine can tell you that there are so many security vulnerabilities, inserting a backdoor would be a complete waste of time.