Working to elect Democrats | Was Joe Biden's Director of Engineering | Built a lot of tech for Hillary Clinton | Rumored to have done a bunch of other computer things | My bots @CampaignEmailAI & @everyDotGov | Austin, TX
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Last Notes npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges This week I wrote seven groups of bullet points on a fairly complex topic, and then I used a language model to help me rapidly turn those into more formal chunks of a memo. I could tell you that it helped me get that task done a lot more quickly than starting with a blank doc, but plenty of people would tell me that it didn't. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1yn5…h50w lots of ways to slice "creeping fascism" but "democracy" ranks quite low on the "most important issue" question. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub16j3…cnmq I track our monthly inflows and outflows in a spreadsheet. For the viz I'm using Google's charting library. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges being weird and making a sankey diagram of our 2023 household income and expenses npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges things are going well npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges "I, Joseph R. Biden Jr., do hereby grant a full, complete, and unconditional pardon to all current United States citizens and lawful permanent residents who, on or before the date of this proclamation, committed or were convicted of the offense of simple possession of marijuana, attempted simple possession of marijuana, or use of marijuana, regardless of whether they have been charged with or prosecuted for these offenses on or before the date of this proclamation" npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges do genz teens go through a Pink Floyd phase or nah npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1f5g…yudr Affordability is a major, but not the only, reason given for not enrolling. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges If this was coupled with an uptick in community college and trade school enrollment (and completion) I would say this seems good. But that doesn't appear to be the case, so this seems bad. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1yn5…h50w gotchu npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges The economic vibes discourse elsewhere on the internet has now entered "prominent right-wing analysts is upset that it costs $125 to have steak and lobster cooked and delivered to his home" and honestly I don't know what there is to say at this point. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1hs4…k8w2 Sometimes a Magic Eight-ball with better language skills is useful! npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I remain quite bullish on the roles Generative AI and other Machine Learning tools can play in political campaigns. We already see strong, positive, use cases for things like internal operations and asynchronous voter communication. The tools are incredibly useful at tasks like helping us draft and edit content, or acting as a co-pilot in data analysis. But... npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1yn5…h50w Pandoc has informed me that it can't work with .doc npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1yn5…h50w literally googling how to make a .doc and it looks like the answer is Export Google Docs to .docx and then open in LibreOffice and then export to .doc from that npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges it's basically 2024 and the academic journal says no .docx allowed only .doc npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I do get a chuckle at, "it's not real intelligence!" when "artificial" is right there in the name. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1xzm…eykm I think it's historically incorrect to say that, "technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing". Yes, marketing is capitalizing on it! But the nomenclature matches my CS education from the late 2000s and it matches 70 years of how "AI" is used in research and literature. The recent obsession with asserting "theory of mind" or "intentions" or "originality" or "real intelligence" seems, well, recent. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1xzm…eykm Not too long ago — in fact, roughly a year or two ago — "Artificial Intelligence" was a term used to describe computer systems which could perform tasks that historically required human cognition. Few people were offended that Chess or Go-playing systems were considered "AI" and "real intelligence" was never a requirement. But, as we see time and time again, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet." npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Seems bad. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges 💻🇺🇸 The Movement Cooperative is hiring a CTO #PoliticalTech npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Today Biden is announcing $8.2 billion in new funding for 10 major passenger rail projects across the country, including the first world-class high-speed rail projects in US history. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Surely someone has tried this — If you calculated CLIP embeddings of every frame of a video could you do text-to-visual search against it? @npub1f6a…pnql npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I get that everyone mourns at their own pace when an online community is lost, but the fact that we're now hitting the one-year mark and people are still writing articles titled The Moral Case for Quitting Twitter really does showcase the traumatic dependency these platforms create npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1l3t…cal9 I mean I wouldn't say I'm equipped to do anything close to "research" when it comes to vaccines, but I would like to know if this is a thing the research-doers say I should get or if it's more for other people npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I went to schedule a booster and CVS was like "can we also interest you in the updated Hepatitis B vaccine?" and now I need to go read about stuff npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges It's kinda funny how spending almost a year away from Twitter makes you see how newsletter bigbrains, university economists, campaign rapid response teams, and MAGA influencers all dunkquoting each other for 14 hours yields absolutely zero impact on electoral outcomes ... and everyone involved should spend their waking hours doing literally anything else. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1efv…4jx2 I mean, npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Two years ago I inherited a legacy app that used Google Firestore. I promptly replaced that with a TOML file. Today I replaced that TOML file with a Google Sheet. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1ddp…2tax @npub10uh…p7v5 If you're trying to rationalize the minds of the electorate — in any state — you're in for a bad time. Voters are weird! A not-insignificant number of the voting-eligible population things Democrats ended Roe. These needles are very hard to thread. Sometimes name recognition wins out, despite the logic of ideology. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1ddp…2tax Mike DeWine achieved some fairly astounding persuasion wins with left-of-center Ohio voters during the peak of Covid. Many suburban Democrats spoke openly about "Wine with DeWine" over the past couple of years ... a ritual of drinking wine and watching DeWine hold press conferences about managing Covid protocols. It was weird! Voters are weird! npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges I can't stop looking at the #OhioIssue1 map. This is the kind of map Democrats haven't seen in #Ohio since 2012. Just look at the 2022 #OHGov race by comparison! Republicans have really gone all-in on a losing issue. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Last night was such an immense gift to Sherrod Brown. #Ohio Dems will now have precinct-level data on winnable voters on a winnable issue. Just a staggering self-own by OHGOP. Frank LaRose devastated. #OhioIssue1 npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges @npub1dl0…49nf The size of the court is set by Congress, and we don’t have control of one of its houses. Turning this into an unpopular money-burning performative issue around the presidency — that we already hold — is not a great strategy for power-building, in my opinion. npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges 💻🇺🇸 The Biden campaign is hiring Data Scientists,¹ Data Engineers,² and Data Analysts.³ #PoliticalTech #PoliticalData npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Seems bad. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide npub1l93rswuh9fewt2ks4p9pu93llzadglx0znp5uwwvhj6ywuetalwqa7mzuz Matt Hodges Tell me something cool you made or read or saw or photographed or watched or learned or did in the past month. The only rule is it can’t have anything to do with a social media platform.
