Greg Potter
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There’s many dissertations that could be written on the tradeoffs between targeting a larger more passive viewership versus a smaller more active viewership, especially for educational content, not even to mention with a 3rd party corporate platform in the middle.
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
There’s many dissertations that could be written on the tradeoffs between targeting a larger more passive viewership versus a smaller more active viewership, especially for educational content, not even to mention with a 3rd party corporate platform in the middle.
This system is one of many things that continues to shift the YouTube platform from more of a place of active community to more and more of a place of adversarially-competitive content for passive consumption.
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
This system is one of many things that continues to shift the YouTube platform from more of a place of active community to more and more of a place of adversarially-competitive content for passive consumption.
Yeah, I’m not saying they are a large portion of total views (which is ultimately what YouTube is trying to make as big as possible), but people that are more active in their YouTube experience are also probably more likely to give a comment with feedback that they don’t like a thumbnail.
November 13, 2025 at 8:50 PM
Yeah, I’m not saying they are a large portion of total views (which is ultimately what YouTube is trying to make as big as possible), but people that are more active in their YouTube experience are also probably more likely to give a comment with feedback that they don’t like a thumbnail.
I think there is a pretty high correlation between people who dislike manipulative slop thumbnails and those that will save videos to watch later, as they are already taking a more active, intentional role in their watching selection, as opposed to the more passive-experience users.
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I think there is a pretty high correlation between people who dislike manipulative slop thumbnails and those that will save videos to watch later, as they are already taking a more active, intentional role in their watching selection, as opposed to the more passive-experience users.
The way this system works it only awards relevant watches to people who essentially immediately watch a video when they see the thumbnail. This means that people that save videos to watch later are pretty much entirely devalued.
November 13, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The way this system works it only awards relevant watches to people who essentially immediately watch a video when they see the thumbnail. This means that people that save videos to watch later are pretty much entirely devalued.
Also, they seem to be absolutely terrible with responses around patents, like if asking for patents related to a certain concept.
I would guess that is because patents are a bunch of discrete single sources in their training data, instead of a bunch of sources that say the same thing.
I would guess that is because patents are a bunch of discrete single sources in their training data, instead of a bunch of sources that say the same thing.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Also, they seem to be absolutely terrible with responses around patents, like if asking for patents related to a certain concept.
I would guess that is because patents are a bunch of discrete single sources in their training data, instead of a bunch of sources that say the same thing.
I would guess that is because patents are a bunch of discrete single sources in their training data, instead of a bunch of sources that say the same thing.
This is how I’ve found them useful too. Not as a source for information, but as a search tool to find proper sources which I will then get the information from directly.
I will say that I have found the more specific my prompt is, the worse the hallucination problem is.
I will say that I have found the more specific my prompt is, the worse the hallucination problem is.
November 5, 2025 at 5:41 PM
This is how I’ve found them useful too. Not as a source for information, but as a search tool to find proper sources which I will then get the information from directly.
I will say that I have found the more specific my prompt is, the worse the hallucination problem is.
I will say that I have found the more specific my prompt is, the worse the hallucination problem is.
I’m currently reading the classic Design Patterns book, and I feel like referencing that could help you narrow things down.
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
bookshop.org
October 25, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I’m currently reading the classic Design Patterns book, and I feel like referencing that could help you narrow things down.
Bivalent logic isn’t the only logic system. CS also very commonly uses true, false, or null/unknown, which is just one example of a three-valued logic system — and there are also n-valued systems.
I’d say using a system that includes some sort of “inapplicable” value would be useful for this.
I’d say using a system that includes some sort of “inapplicable” value would be useful for this.
October 25, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Bivalent logic isn’t the only logic system. CS also very commonly uses true, false, or null/unknown, which is just one example of a three-valued logic system — and there are also n-valued systems.
I’d say using a system that includes some sort of “inapplicable” value would be useful for this.
I’d say using a system that includes some sort of “inapplicable” value would be useful for this.
Anytime green lighting is used, I find it looks toxic/sickly. Green pigments are great looking, but green lights, yuck.
August 29, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Anytime green lighting is used, I find it looks toxic/sickly. Green pigments are great looking, but green lights, yuck.
Oof, apparently it’s still going to be limited to just the origin private file system. Apple really will drag its feet as long as possible on progressive web apps.
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Oof, apparently it’s still going to be limited to just the origin private file system. Apple really will drag its feet as long as possible on progressive web apps.
Portable identity is absolutely key for true decentralization.
August 25, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Portable identity is absolutely key for true decentralization.
It’s absurd that this is coming from Mastodon/ActivityPub people, when ActivityPub doesn’t even have decentralized/portable identity. The current state of PDS and app usage is quite distinct from the underlying architecture. ATProto’s architecture supports more decentralization than ActivityPub’s.
August 25, 2025 at 2:25 AM
It’s absurd that this is coming from Mastodon/ActivityPub people, when ActivityPub doesn’t even have decentralized/portable identity. The current state of PDS and app usage is quite distinct from the underlying architecture. ATProto’s architecture supports more decentralization than ActivityPub’s.
aspect-ratio is also great for avoiding reflows when images load, for cases where the width or height are set as a percentage.
August 15, 2025 at 3:51 AM
aspect-ratio is also great for avoiding reflows when images load, for cases where the width or height are set as a percentage.
Hmm, any correlation of this with standardized testing? That must at least have contributed to the shift from instilling actual learning to merely passing artificial milestones.
August 12, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Hmm, any correlation of this with standardized testing? That must at least have contributed to the shift from instilling actual learning to merely passing artificial milestones.
That “prefix” nature of the keys also works especially well for composition relationships, where the parent owner entity’s ID can be placed directly in the key of its owned child entities.
August 6, 2025 at 5:06 PM
That “prefix” nature of the keys also works especially well for composition relationships, where the parent owner entity’s ID can be placed directly in the key of its owned child entities.
I quite like the specific key-value implementation of Deno KV, which has typed-tuples as keys. Your key tuples will have a path-like hierarchy from most broad to most specific, and you can search by “prefix”, letting you have fast lookup by hierarchical categories that are built right into the keys.
Deno KV Quick Start
In-depth documentation, guides, and reference materials for building secure, high-performance JavaScript and TypeScript applications with Deno
docs.deno.com
August 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I quite like the specific key-value implementation of Deno KV, which has typed-tuples as keys. Your key tuples will have a path-like hierarchy from most broad to most specific, and you can search by “prefix”, letting you have fast lookup by hierarchical categories that are built right into the keys.
You can make a vanilla HTML/CSS/JS progressive web app. That also avoids the insanity of listing on the iOS/iPadOS App Store.
Progressive web apps | MDN
A progressive web app (PWA) is an app that's built using web platform technologies, but that provides a user experience like that of a platform-specific app.
developer.mozilla.org
August 6, 2025 at 6:45 AM
You can make a vanilla HTML/CSS/JS progressive web app. That also avoids the insanity of listing on the iOS/iPadOS App Store.
Domains where mixed fractions are common, usually require the use of an operator symbol like “×” for multiplication, and are more typically hand written than they are typeset.
It is very odd for a calculator to treat that as a mixed fraction by default.
It is very odd for a calculator to treat that as a mixed fraction by default.
August 1, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Domains where mixed fractions are common, usually require the use of an operator symbol like “×” for multiplication, and are more typically hand written than they are typeset.
It is very odd for a calculator to treat that as a mixed fraction by default.
It is very odd for a calculator to treat that as a mixed fraction by default.
This seems like it would be an absolute nightmare to gamut map for print, especially with the large number of them that are outside the gamut of CMYK printing.
August 1, 2025 at 8:24 PM
This seems like it would be an absolute nightmare to gamut map for print, especially with the large number of them that are outside the gamut of CMYK printing.
I’ve heard people compare the aesthetic to the Transformers cartoon, and marketing people seem to often use the word “rugged” to describe it, so I would guess that’s why it’s become used on SUVs so much. It has become a way to visually signal that something is tough, whether it actually is or not.
July 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
I’ve heard people compare the aesthetic to the Transformers cartoon, and marketing people seem to often use the word “rugged” to describe it, so I would guess that’s why it’s become used on SUVs so much. It has become a way to visually signal that something is tough, whether it actually is or not.
It reminds me of the aesthetic that handheld power tools now almost exclusively use, with the mix of hard lines and curves, and a bold-color + black two-tone color scheme. The car companies are even adding the molded-in greeblies of that aesthetic to the plastic grill sections.
July 27, 2025 at 8:19 PM
It reminds me of the aesthetic that handheld power tools now almost exclusively use, with the mix of hard lines and curves, and a bold-color + black two-tone color scheme. The car companies are even adding the molded-in greeblies of that aesthetic to the plastic grill sections.
Any reason in particular for the rhombus grid, or is it just an arbitrarily rotated square or cube or something?
July 24, 2025 at 4:04 AM
Any reason in particular for the rhombus grid, or is it just an arbitrarily rotated square or cube or something?