Alex Clemesha

My iOS app The Wiki Game is currently #7 in the Apple App Store in paid word games! Been seeing quite an increase in usage since the world went stay at home..

LLMs: Deterministic they are NOT.

What makes the news is that which has high salience but low statistical significance.

Vibes is the contemporary term for aesthetics.

Philosophy triggers a curiosity for the adult mind that’s a given for the mind of a child.

To achieve synthesis, philosophical programmers simply rebase thesis onto antithesis.

Only reading can mainline pure thought into your mind; all other mediums are laden with noise.

Science is good explanations; Mathematics our only definitive truths; Religion is answers you can’t question; Philosophy is questions you can’t answer.

Thought about Euler's identity recently? If not, it's worth soaking in the mystical beauty: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euler%…

Learn about "Confirmshaming", "Privacy zuckering", "Roach motels" and more at deceptive.design/types !

Remember back in the day when Twitter used to go down a lot, and the world gained “increased productivity”? Now we have ChatGPT going down often, resulting in worldwide “decreased productivity”.

Large Language Models are a huge deal - something that most techies already know, but the world at large hasn’t figured out yet. In order of importance in tech, in the last 20 years, I’d guess (1) Mobile (2) LLMs (3) Cloud computing.

OH: denial of service attacks on your attention.

Crypto came on my radar in 2011. After voracious reading, light usage, Twitter Crypto believers, Hacker News haters, “number go up or down” friends/family, and BTC to DeFi, I'm still fascinated by the shocking implications, remarkably articulated here: bvp.com/atlas/why-i-m-crypto…

I pity the fool that doesn't use a password manager.

Timeline of the Human Condition: southampton.ac.uk/~cpd/histo… (each item includes links to scholarly articles, which makes this particular timeline fantastic)

Technology readiness level: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Techno…

The Cognitive Bias Codex: upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped…

Use a thesaurus while coding to solve one of those 'hard problems' in computer science.