#bangbangcon — Public Fediverse posts
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Bem-vindos a todos os nossos novos seguidores!
@jay & I chat about #bangbangcon, #Amtrak, and #Twitter^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H #Orkut.
#IanAndJaySpaceOuthttps://archive.org/details/ian-and-jay-space-out-2024-08-31
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should have known this is the platform where #bangbangcon is used correctly
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https://paste.debian.net/1327598/ here's the notes i had for an unconference session i was thinking about doing at #bangbangcon (but unconferencing didn't happen on day 2 due to time & technical difficulties)
'where is "IDA for source code"'?
sorry an evil wizard ate the formatting and also this is just sort of a skeleton to keep my infodumping vaguely on track (it's not, like, slides)
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Better Late than never!
What a better way to kickstart my presence here at @Mastodon
Just finished attending #bangbangcon and omg, meeting folks from different spectrums and to listen to the amazing speakers was truly a humbling experience.
Kudos to the organizers for conducting such a fantastic event.
Lastly, I feel we should conduct more tech conferences at the beautiful UCSC campus. Its such a great vibe, unique and stunning to say the least.
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From Max Kreminski at #bangbangcon: Humans are worse at ideation when they use ChatGPT, compared to Oblique Strategies.
The paper he coauthored: https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01536
Projects he talked about:
Blabrecs: beat the classifier at making up nonsense English-y words. https://mkremins.github.io/blabrecs/
Blabwreckage: start with either a real poem or complete gibberish, then "wreck" it into something vaguely language-shaped. https://mkremins.github.io/blabwreckage/ (I don't think you can provide your own seed? At least, not without hacking the Javascript?)
Savelost: remove one letter at a time from a sentence, attempting to preserve meaning. (I'm curious how a human would do at this task in comparison.) https://barrettrees.com/savelost/
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Teared up at #bangbangcon ending.
I hope people keep the spirit of this conference alive. It was wonderful to witness a conference about joy.In an era where computing is more personalized yet less personal, more polished but less exciting, and where nonsense is made to look like it makes sense, it is good to have such authentic human nonsense. <3
As Max said, “Nonsense is the antidote to cliché!!!!”
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wow! I was intending to go to #xoxofest this weekend and see a ton of folks that I know/admire/want to know better.
but it didn't work out for pandemic reasons.
BUT I got to attend the last #bangbangcon online, with a ton of folks I now admire and want to know better.
big weekend of feelings all round.
I want to be part of people finding joy and community on the internet!
For me, that's what they both reduce down to.
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And it’s over! Here’s @lindsey in front of a collage of all the #bangbangcon speakers ever!
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No longer orbiting the sun, the Voyagers are now gravitating toward the center of the galaxy! It takes 45 hours to do something and get data back from Voyager I. #bangbangcon
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drinking tea and crying about the Voyager mission data #bangbangcon
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Super excited for Bruce Waggoner’s closing keynote! Bruce works at JPL at Caltech and is gonna tell us how Voyager I, the manmade object farthest from earth, was debugged from millions of miles away. #bangbangcon
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In the last 10-minute talk by Santi Gepigon III, we got a whirlwind tour of how Braille works and how you can sort of use it on a modern iPhone!
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Max made a variant of Scrabble called Blabrecs that includes more words but only ones that sound like they might be real, like “grenkistry,” not obvious nonsense like “zcjddxxd”.
A prior exploration along those lines is @tom7’s paper “What words ought to exist?” https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom7/papers/sigbovik2011tom7whatwords.pdf
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Cool finding from Max Kreminski’s talk: people who used the Oblique Strategies card deck for inspiration came up with more diverse ideas than those who used ChatGPT. #bangbangcon
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Omg, the biggest registrar is 1,252 registers in a trenchcoat! This is because when a domain expires, you want to snap it up so you can auction it, and there’s a per-registrar rate limit 😭
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Now up: @wesleyac on what happens when you press the Buy button on a domain name! Who gets to decide what domains exist?? Wesley is part of a worker-owned co-op domain registrar soon to launch, https://namespace.coop!!
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More cool tools from talks at #bangbangcon
Interactive bridge condition explorer (also interesting just to see the distribution of bridges by type or length!): https://bridge.watch/
Archive of banner ads from 1996- 2000, text-searchable: https://www.banner-depot-2000.net/
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This next talk on bridges and infrastructure health by @mclare, an actual structural engineer (turned software engineer), also has a companion website! https://bridge.watch #bangbangcon
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Here we have a search engine for early web banner ads, sourced from Wayback Machine from URLs extracted from physical “internet yellow page” books circa 2000! By the Switcheristic Telecommunications collective. #bangbangcon
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It’s hard to use my phone in the sun but great talk on SAT solvers by @vaibhavsagar! Classic CS shit but strangely satisfying, pun not intended. #bangbangcon
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I was greeted by a rafter of wild turkeys on my way in to #bangbangcon this AM. The #UCSC campus continues to be ridiculously awesome.
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Disrupting polyamory with a formula for averaging polycule members over the traits that make for a good relationship! This expression keeps getting more hilariously complicated with each slide… Juan Pablo Sarmiento at #bangbangcon
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My talk at #bangbangcon is coming up in the next ~30 min!
https://bangbangcon.com/speakers.html#maryanne-wachter
Livestream here: bangbangcon.com/livestream.html
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Ivan Zhao’s inspiration for exploring Chinese typefaces was this one seen in Taiwan with a similar hand-drawn feel to the English text! #bangbangcon