2026-09-16 10:39 UTC
imagine your friend shows you his Project. it'll be like "it listens to birdsong and draws birds in an 19th century style". wow! how does it do the song recognition? how does it even work? simple enough for some kinda PCA? a SVM? did he build some little FFT visualizer with annotations to help him debug it? tell me about classifier architectures! tell me what you learned! BUT HE CAN'T. HE DOESN'T KNOW! HE CAN'T TELL YOU ANYTHING. HE IS SILENT. HE HAS NOTHING TO SAY!!! HE DIDN'T LEARN SHIT !!!!!
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@jk@mastodon.social 2026-09-16 11:11
i believe strongly that interacting closely with the thing you are making, with tools that you are in direct control of, teaches you about the nature of the work on a deep level by allowing you to inhabit those tools so that you can 'think as them'. through exploration and struggle, you become aware of subtle possibilities that both the tools, and the unfinished and imperfect work, suggest to you, and these will inspire you, and your ideas will be better, and you will make things that are better