Reminds me of [Language as Intermediate Representation](https://chrisvoncsefalvay.com/posts/lair/) - LLMs are optimized for language, so translate an image into language and they'll do better at modeling it.
Cool connection, hadn't seen this before but feels intuitively correct! I also formulate similar (but a bit more out-there) philosophical thoughts on word-meaning as being described by the topological structure of its corresponding images in embedding space, in Section 5.3 of my undergrad thesis [1].
I think an alternative is to fund _individuals' maintenance of the projects_, as opposed to the project itself. Filippo Valsorda has written about this recently: https://words.filippo.io/full-time-maintainer
That's an interesting idea, thank you, I'll read through the post.
EDIT: I found the post interesting but unfortunately these projects are in no way load-bearing. I'm happy to hear Filippo has made it work for himself but as he points out, the projects he works on are simply much better suited to sponsorship and retainer/consulting agreements. I wonder what he would recommend for newer or less-load-bearing projects.
The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander.
It really made me reconsider the process and ultimate goals of building systems beyond housing, and how to make pattern languages for any system I build, especially software systems.
I studied urban planning in grad school, but didn't discover Alexander until I learned that my favorite band Phish had modeled their work on a Pattern Language.
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Grumpy is amazing! We very much enjoy their content and actually got inspired by that site in the first place. Theres a link to them on our About page:
Thanks, that's awesome, just spent 20 minutes reading on there.
But quite frequently as I was trying to read, everything on screen jumped upwards, by a few lines or half a page, apparently because stuff below it was loading. Normally I wouldn't complain, the site has taught me not to put up silently with such things. Don't think I've seen that behaviour before. (Am using latest version of FF)
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