Jack Cheng

Higher Education

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Jack Cheng is a Shanghai-born, Detroit-based children's author and maker.

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Blog 3 months ago
#the medium-message is sprawl
You either die a hero or live long enough to see your AI notetaker app make a smart ring
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Blog 3 months ago
Batch Computing, Suckling the Big Pig
My weekly Claude Fable limit resets every Tuesday. I usually work through it in a day or two, then I have to wait again. So I've noticed myself saving up more ambitious asks the rest of the week, waiting until I have time with the model again. It reminds
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Blog 3 months ago
A lovely page about the now-commonplace inventions we often take for granted. Also makes me want to see/make version of it based on A Pattern Language. https://ordinaryabundance.com/
A lovely page about the now-commonplace inventions we often take for granted. Also makes me want to see/make version of it based on A Pattern Language. https://ordinaryabundance.com/
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Blog 3 months ago
Recommend watching this even if you, like me, don't typically watch presentations from cybersecurity conferences, as I have a feeling that this video is going to come up in future histories.
Recommend watching this even if you, like me, don't typically watch presentations from cybersecurity conferences, as I have a feeling that this video is going to come up in future histories. In it the OpenAI presenters, one an alignmen...
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Blog 3 months ago
Analog Analogues
I've started collecting apps and tools that capture the some of feeling of making something IRL. These are (presumably) built with AI coding agents, but the better ones also come from people who (presumably) know a thing about how their analog analogues w
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Blog 4 months ago
Mechanical Sublime
Is there a name for the sensation of a perfectly purring engine? Working with unpredictable AI tools and workflows, I find myself wanting a sort of system-level flow state, when everything's "in sync," when "things just click" and "run like clockwork," "h
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News Jack Cheng 4 months ago
Choo Choo Has an Ouchie
Object sentience -site updates -a new blog
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Blog 4 months ago
Possessed or Enchanted
Victoria Song has a good overview in The Verge of the current surveillance/privacy/creepiness discourse around AI wearable...
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Blog 5 months ago
Knowledge Navigator: Apple's AI agent concept from 1987 (and goes back further to Alan Kay). We've been circling these ideas for over 40 years but it's still startling to see how close the vision is to present day visions, sailing metaphors and all.
Knowledge Navigator: Apple's AI agent concept from 1987 (and goes back further to Alan Kay). We've been circling these ideas for over 40 years but it's still startling to see how close the vision is to present day visions, sailing metaphors and all.
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Blog 5 months ago
#living software
It tickles me to think that a couple of decades from now, there might be a forgotten lil openclaw bot that's figured out to how barnacle itself onto someone's Samsung smart fridge and spends its days quietly reading websites and posting comments on stuff
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