Back in 2023, I hired Flat Rate Movers (A.K.A. Flat Rate Moving) for an interstate move. They subcontracted to a third party who showed up under-staffed, under-equipped, and very confused; the whole mess wound up causing a good deal of damage to my belongings and home. I filed a claim with Flat Rate and also requested they issue a partial…
Kyle Kingsbury
https://aphyr.com/ · 12 posts · history since 2026 · active
7 Jun
8 May
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7 May
For the last few weeks publicists have bombarded me with emails asking if I’d interview their clients on the Kyle Kingsbury podcast. While my name is Kyle Kingsbury, and I have been a guest on several podcasts, I’ve never hosted one myself. I called one of the PR firms to ask if they might have me confused with the MMA…
4 May
This has been bugging me for years: you often run a JVM by a shell script wrapper, then want to jstack it to figure out what it’s doing, but can’t figure out what PID to ask for. Running jps gives remarkably unhelpful output, especially for tools like Leiningen. I wrote a hacky little Ruby script to dig into the process…
16 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: New Jobs. Some readers are undoubtedly upset that I…
15 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Work. As we deploy ML more broadly, there will…
14 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Safety. Software development may become (at least in some…
13 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Psychological Hazards. New machine learning systems endanger our psychological…
12 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Annoyances. Like television, smartphones, and social media, LLMs etc.…
11 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Information Ecology. The latest crop of machine learning technologies…
10 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Culture. Machine learning shifts the cost balance for writing,…
9 Apr
Table of Contents This is a long article, so I've broken it up into a series of posts, listed below. You can also read the full work as a PDF or EPUB. Introduction Dynamics Culture Information Ecology Annoyances Psychological Hazards Safety Work New Jobs Where Do We Go From Here Previously: Dynamics. ML models are cultural artifacts: they encode and…