The average person available on a freelance writer site cannot confidently BS their way through the typical thing I write about. If you dropped me in the middle of this artifact, it reads as produced by an ~undergrad writer who *has enough understand to engage my brain.*
@patio11
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AI-Generated Content Quality Compared to Traditional Blog Spam
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“Would it read to a busy professional as plausibly human?” As someone who has read a lot of blog spam over the years, with production functions that involve varied levels of human activity, this is clearly a better artifact than most blog spam.
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Cold Email Proof of Humanity: The Superstimulus Technique
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A technique for cold emails since time immemorial has been to include a Proof of Humanity prominently at the top. A thing many people, including me, advised was looking at someone’s public writing and making it obvious you’ve actually read it. This is the superstimulus of that.
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AI Toolchain Automatically Generates Undergraduate Reviews of Scholar Work
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Expected this but did not expect it to happen so quickly: someone has cobbled together an AI toolchain which scrapes publicly available writing of a target on a topic, produces an ~undergrad level review of it, then publishes, probably to let you butter them up via email.
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MicroISV Journey: Building Independent Software Ventures
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The community burnt an excessive amount of brainsweat on this question; plus la change. I called myself a microISV for a few years; the original title of my blog was “microISV on a shoestring.” This was not a very considered choice; WordPress said I needed a title and so…
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Systems Accrete Rather Than Design: Understanding Emergent Complexity
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Someday I have to write a doorstep about how The System Was Not Designed, It Accreted but today will probably not be the day for it.
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Generations in Internet Software Conferences: Ecosystems Overlap
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Free essay prompt for anyone who wants it: talk about the generations involved in Internet-based software conference, the overlaps, the mutual illegibility, the provider ecosystems, etc.
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The Original Indie Hacker Communities Before IndieHackers Era
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There was a thriving community on Joel Spolsky’s Business of Software forum who were all grinding things out in obscurity-at-large but publicly to each other, incidentally. It was IndieHackers before IndieHackers gave that general activity a name. (And before that, shareware.)
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AI Logic on Even Numbers and Mathematical Reasoning
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“Steve has some pairs of socks. Does Steve have 17 socks?”
“No.”
“How do you know?”
“Eight twos is 16. Nine twos is 18. There is no number between eight and nine.”
“… Absolutely good logic. Now, do you remember even and odd?”
“This nonsense again?”
“Yes.”
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American Math Education: Encouraging Creative Thinking Over Rigid Rules
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Adventures in American math education: Problem: Cindy has less than ten $5 bills in her pocket. How much money could she have?
Lillian (9): … Any amount.
Me: That’s my girl! Now, to write some math fanfiction.