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wittjeff
·20 dni temu·discuss
I'm curious if you used a particular tool for this comparison or a LLM. I ask because (layered irony) I'm making a general tool for multi-dimensional item comparisons, using Claude to build the tool (but not the comparisons, not that I mind).
wittjeff
·2 miesiące temu·discuss
The existence of non-profits, and the possibility that they might be net-beneficial to society, is counter to the dominant religion of the day. Profit motive = good, other motive = bad. Welcome to UChicago.
wittjeff
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
I'm a big proponent of use of design systems for efficient remediation and maintenance, so I'm also aware of how a small oops bug can have wide repercussions.

Let me know if you'd like to chat about use of your system to help enforce proper use of semantics and ARIA in web UI. It looks good.
wittjeff
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
From your title my immediate thought was "cool, maybe this will move us a bit closer to making components (or the testing thereof) cover accessibility thoroughly by default".

See, the idea with the semantic web, and the ARIA markup equivalents, is that things should have names, roles, values, and states. Devs frequently mess up role/keyboard interaction agreement (example: role=menu means a list will drop on Enter keypress, and arrow keys will change the active element), and with ensuring that state info (aria-expanded, aria-invalid, etc.) is updated when it should be.

Then I checked the Antithesis website. They don't even have focus state styling on any of the interactive elements. sigh
wittjeff
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Without negating your point I want to add that at some threshold of tediousness, usability issues become accessibility issues. The fact that this threshold varies from individual to individual makes heuristic guidelines difficult.
wittjeff
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
> as opposed to using AI as a total replacement for your thoughts or your writing and therefore removing the personal touch?

I'm really having trouble grasping the true breadth of this problem in the wild. How much of it am I not seeing because the mods filter it out first? How much is faulty signal detection from readers?
wittjeff
·4 miesiące temu·discuss
Let me refer you to my buddy Anton, a software developer in Ukraine. He has CP and it makes typing and communicating by speech very slow and tedious. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/aYbDLOK14uM

He has a blog, which I think is particularly relevant to this conversation: https://www.patreon.com/c/GreenWizard/posts?vanity=GreenWiza...

IMO his writing style is quite melodramatic. I have asked myself, how much of that is his perhaps overly compensatory tendency to project an articulate voice, and how much of it is applied by his AI tools?

The last time I saw Anton in person I asked him about his writing process, and he said something like, "I just draft it and then ask ChatGPT to make it sound professional or whatever." So after thinking about it for a while, I have decided that this is his preferred voice, so I'll accept it as his voice.

IMO it is not for you to decide how people recast their own voice. Once you adopt that dogma, you're committed to denying other people's experience of discrimination (through the lens of disability's symptoms). Whether or not you participate in that other type of biased discrimination is irrelevant.
wittjeff
·5 miesięcy temu·discuss
> Listen: every idea you've ever had, every single one, some cocaine-addled sales critter has had too. And they're better than you at SEO.

On most days I am resistant to stereotypes about "the welfare state" eroding incentives for entrepreneurism and innovation. But if you're going to wave it in my face like that, I might have to reconsider.
wittjeff
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
Also a lot of contractors consider their vehicle appearance a tax deductible marketing expense.
wittjeff
·6 miesięcy temu·discuss
A fully-electric Maverick?
wittjeff
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I can't read as fast as your demo GIF. Just infuriating.
wittjeff
·7 miesięcy temu·discuss
I bought a Dell Precision 7910 2x Xeon E5-2687W v3 (10 cores, 20 threads each) with 32GB RAM and 512GB SSD for $425 including shipping. I found that Windows 11 Pro will recognize only 20 of the virtual cores/threads. I don't feel a need to upgrade to more expensive Microsoft OSs at this time, so I just run Ubuntu natively on that box, which recognizes all of it. Assuming used DDR4 RAM returns to more reasonable prices at some point, I intend to load that box up to the 768GB max.
wittjeff
·9 miesięcy temu·discuss
Right. Now try background color #767676 on the body element and see how much better it is.
wittjeff
·10 miesięcy temu·discuss
I'm always happy to see more innovation in this area. It'd be great if you could make your model, weights, and training corpus public (preferably under a permissive license) on GitHub. It'd also be great if you could run some benchmarks against the other similar tools in this area (I'm thinking particularly of Mathpix, Equatio, and Microsoft's math OCR in OneNote, Word, and Azure APIs. If you make your test corpus and code available I could set up the benchmarks for you.