Notes
I keep wondering when the input methods for LLMs will start to diverge from familiar chat and voice interfaces. A few links to things that seem relevant:
This talk from 12 years ago shows a coder who created a domain specific language for coding python by voice:
This paper discusses “Pen-Centric Shorthand Handwriting Recognition Interfaces”:
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/4488861
SkipWriter was a recent attempt at LLM-Powered Abbreviated Writing on Tablets:
https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3654777.3676423
The authors say:
Abbreviating with LLMs presents novel and largely untapped potentials for text input.
Shorthand-Aided Rapid Keyboarding (SHARK) was a keyboard replacement for iPhone and Android:
A future where public servants spend their time on hold to Palientir to get anything done …
he complained in an email to Palantir. Four months later, his case was still visible to other officers, and he was still sending emails to Palantir to fix the problem
How Palantir, Peter Thiel’s Secretive Data Company, Pushed Its Way Into Policing | WIRED
I’ve heard the term “digital by default” pop up a few times recently, so I dug out the original definition from the UK Government Digital Strategy:
Digital by default means digital services which are so straightforward and convenient that all those who can use digital services will choose to do so, while those who can’t are not excluded.
I had an opticians appointment the other day and have some standard age + UV based degradation. The preventative healthcare answer to which is 1) kale 2) hats. So, London based hat wearers, any suggestion of hat shops for men of a certain age?
Booking marking this case study of GOV.UK Notify from Hannah White and @eaves.ca to wheel out next time there’s a bit of reductive technical solutionism about common platforms. Scale by starting small and thinking about adoption. Scaling Digital Infrastructure in a Siloed State
Sketching interfaces, riffing off Berg’s Here & There
Because software is eating the world, there are now theology articles in Wired. (I started reading and couldn’t stop).