https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1t3oa53/comment/okiit1g/

https://discord.com/channels/639936208734126107/639938269030907914/1246180147791532196

Typewriter Report Card v1.8 via Pelicram

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1o77cpz/made_my_own_service_booklet/

https://www.facebook.com/Breogan51/posts/pfbid02KK2N5eB2iBtsJuCfkbS9buv57HYdax8fxemtHjDgLLd3vb9Pc49QocwVAw2emEaql

https://www.acmetypemachines.com/restoration-process<br /> archive copy

a reasonably nice list of typewriter adjustments for a restored machine

Dex Horthy公开撤回了他的极端观点，并鼓励人们“请阅读代码”，这反映了技术社区对代码质量的重视。

Mikhail Parakhin's emphasis on depth over breadth in AI research suggests a focus on quality and depth of work rather than quantity.

这一观点强调了数据质量在模型训练中的重要性，为数据工程和模型训练提供了新的方向。

这个例子展示了我们如何通过表面的质量来评判工作质量，而这个质量并不总是代表实际的工作质量。

主流观点认为科技公司会通过产品创新和改进来提高价值，但作者直言AI公司可能需要让产品变得更差或更昂贵才能满足投资者回报要求，这挑战了科技行业进步的叙事，揭示了资本压力与产品价值之间的潜在冲突。

主流观点认为付费的云端LLM服务在质量上显著优于免费开源模型，但作者声称开源模型已经好到大多数用户无法分辨差异，这挑战了付费服务价值主张的核心，暗示AI行业可能面临价值重估。

大多数人认为AI工具会产生大量低质量的'垃圾报告'(AI slop)，增加开发者的负担，但作者认为现在AI生成的安全报告质量很高，虽然数量庞大但都是高质量的报告。这是一个反直觉的观点，因为通常人们认为自动化工具会产生大量噪音而非有价值的贡献。

这一观点挑战了当前AI模型规模扩大的主流解释，将问题从技术复杂性转向数据质量问题，提出了一个反直觉的视角：模型规模实际上是应对低质量数据的必要之举，而非技术发展的必然结果。

大多数人可能认为高质量软件的创造完全依赖于AI或完全依赖于人类工程师，但作者提出了一个折中的方法，即结合使用AI和直接编码。

大多数人认为只要测试通过，代码就是好的，但作者指出过度编辑问题使得测试难以全面评估代码质量。

AI在代码质量和自主修复能力上的进步令人印象深刻，特别是能够消除无意义的包装函数和备用脚手架，这表明AI正在从代码生成向真正的软件开发实践转变。

这一发现挑战了'规模和计算能力胜过一切'的AI发展范式。高质量专业化数据训练的小型模型在特定领域表现优于通用大模型，暗示AI发展可能从'越大越好'转向'更专业、更高效'的新阶段。

这一观察揭示了AI训练数据质量的危机。随着互联网内容质量的下降，AI系统可能面临'垃圾进，垃圾出'的风险。作者提出的'低背景钢'比喻巧妙地指出了使用2023年前纯净数据的解决方案，同时也暗示了数字时代知识污染的严重性，这可能会对AI系统的可靠性和偏见产生深远影响。

令人惊讶的是：AI生成的代码不仅功能完整，包括联系人管理、实时搜索和完整的管道仪表板，而且所有单元测试都通过了，表明AI不仅能快速编码，还能保证代码质量。

AI Scientist 存在「论文质量 Scaling Law」——底层模型越强，生成的论文质量越高。这个发现的含义令人不寒而栗：随着 GPT-5、Claude Opus 4.6、Gemini 3.1 等模型持续迭代，AI Scientist 生成的论文质量将自动提升，无需任何额外的工程投入。AI 加速科研，更强的 AI 又反过来加速 AI 自身的科研——这是第一个有实证数据支撑的正反馈循环证据。

【启发】「整洁的代码库会教会 AI 模仿它的风格」——这是一个良性循环的起点。好代码 → AI 学习好风格 → AI 生成更好的代码 → 代码库更整洁。反之亦然：烂代码 → AI 学习烂风格 → 越来越多的烂代码。这意味着代码库的初始质量会被 AI 放大——好的变得更好，烂的变得更烂。技术债的「利息」在 AI 时代将以更高的复利增长。

【启发】这句话的深远意义在于：它把 AI Coding Agent 与人类开发者置于同一评价维度。这不是「AI 是否能替代人」的问题，而是「AI 受代码质量影响的方式是否与人类相同」。答案是肯定的——这意味着几十年来软件工程师积累的代码质量实践，不是因为 AI 的到来而失效，而恰恰因为 AI 的到来而变得更加重要。技术债从「慢慢影响人」变成了「立刻影响 AI 的 token 消耗」。

MMLU 有 6.5% 的题目本身就是错的——这意味着任何模型的「真实上限」是 93.5%，而不是 100%。更令人惊讶的是：这个广泛使用了数年的权威 benchmark，其误差率直到最近才被系统研究和量化。这揭示了整个 AI 评测生态的一个深层问题：benchmark 的质量本身也需要 benchmark，而这一层元评估几乎从未被认真对待。

大多数人认为高质量标注需要人工专家或单一强大模型来完成，但作者提出利用多个异构模型输出的一致性来评估样本难度和生成可靠标注，这一方法挑战了'人工标注最优'的传统认知，展示了模型间协作的潜力。

大多数人认为训练策略应该统一应用于所有数据，但作者提出了分阶段渐进式训练策略，在不同质量层级的数据上采用不同方法，这种针对数据质量差异的训练方法挑战了传统'一刀切'的训练范式，代表了数据为中心的AI新思路。

大多数人认为糟糕的软件质量是技术限制、时间压力或复杂性的必然结果，但作者断言这实际上是一个有意识的选择。这一观点挑战了软件开发中常见的借口文化，暗示质量问题本质上是责任和决策问题，而非客观约束。

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=8664575033636687&set=pcb.10161146832999678

Test of Shift and motion<br /> nNnNnNn

Test of Color Control<br /> __ 1/41/41/21/2// (black) __ 1/41/41/21/2// (red)

Test of Magic Margin<br /> x<br /> x

Test of Tabulator and Back Space<br /> x x x<br /> xx xx xx

Test of Line lock and margin release<br /> nnnnnn<br /> nnnnnn

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https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1rc3m66/keys_arent_making_contact_with_paper_to_strike/

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10162847550852775&set=p.10162847550852775&type=3

Olympia quality control sheets had sections for:<br /> - shift (Hh Hh Hh)<br /> - type specimen for all the characters<br /> - Black ribbon test in two lines of all characters<br /> - Red ribbon test in two lines of all characters<br /> - Stencil Test <br /> - Final Proof: "Olympia-Qualitaet findet in der ganzen Welt Anerkennung - sie verbuergt besseres Schreiben."<br /> - Line Spacing: the letter "m" at all settings<br /> - Back Spacer: "rrrrRRRR"

[[Kevin Kelley c]] on how adding a nine (e.g. from 90 to 99, to 99,9 percent) is very heavy lifting. An order of magnitude I think.

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Some good pointers to [[Brian Eno c]] work and thinking, to follow up.

Also good anecdote from one of those links on Rem Koolhaas notion of n:: premature sheen Making things look nice early takes away from thinking about other points of quality. Jeremy applies it to AI too, the premature sheen generate awe, but not quality output.

https://archive.org/details/triumph-perfekt-manual/Triumph%20Perfekt%20Factory%20Test/

A factory test sheet from Triumph

The bid strategies will work as hard as they can do decide which auctions to enter and how much to bid. It's our job to ensure the strat has relevant ads that are closely related to the KW and that we drop the user on the right page.

for - novel - The Inheritor - special quality to the writing

Symptom: Ghosting lines overlaying typed text:

This is assuredly not a type slug cleaning issue and the secret is that the loops in the letters like "a", "e", "o", etc. are clear. The lines are caused by the paper not being held to the platen, so when the slug hits, you're getting ink from the other part of the slug transferring to the paper. The remedy is to tuck the paper underneath the paper bale and rollers.

If one still sees issues after this then check your manual to ensure that the ribbon is properly threaded followed by a check that the ribbon vibrator isn't bent too far away from the typing point and too close to the platen and causing the ribbon to rub against the paper.

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1oblfvo/service_booklet_2/

See also Google Drive document with details.

https://typewriterdatabase.com/1926-mercedes-4.19461.typewriter via Kevin Stallaert

This is the core point I was hoping for. I don't think it's super well supported or well argued here. But it shows up.

We don't know who we are unless we try new things, unless we put ourselves through processes of discovery. Taste comes from trying, and the tinkerers are down to FAFO.

SB22-140 Work-Based Learning Quality Expectations

RE: poor type quality on the "!" via u/TheGuyAtThePlace265 at https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1no1whe/poor_definition_on/

Lots of things can cause this in rough order, check:

Clean the slugs

Ribbon can have an effect. Silk is generally crisper than nylon which is crisper than cotton.

The paper can have an effect depending on the thickness and general grain.

Typing technique can play a part. Often you'll see issues including ghosting and other problems, particularly if you bottom out a key while typing.

Are you using a backing sheet?

Is your platen rock hard or has it been re-covered?

Is your ring and cylinder adjustment properly done?

The most frequently abused slugs are often the ones at the the ends of the segment and 1/! definitely qualifies. Sometimes a small bit of forming can clear things up.

We know that this is a high impact strategy (applying learning helps students get jobs that pay well) and learners say they want it. Yet only a third of us offer it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/TypewriterRepair/comments/1lqzhj0/typebar_alignment_adjustment/

https://reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1ll06y7/metal_balls_came_out_of_my_typewriter_and_now_i/

We R Memory Keepers with ball bearings that fell out.

This assumption needs to be validated. Would standard definitions be a silver bullet for learner navigation and employer value? To wit: We have standard definitions for degrees and yet the navigation and value problems persist in that domain. What if the more important issue is not what to call these programatic containers but rather how to describe the contents of what they contain?

There is nothing more aggravating than watching a film that has rattles – irritating enough to notice, but only during the most exciting parts of the movie. When reported, they don't seem to get fixed.

So, please pay special attention to this and make the notes required to get it fixed.

This reminds me that we should create a 'ping' system so that these things get followed-up on.

for - deep listening - definition - Kama Muta - Deep Humanity - deep listening - paper - Harmonizing Hearts: High-Quality Listening and Kama Muta Among Listeners and Speakers

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1k9ia5b/keys_falling_out/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1hmh1qx/casual_observer_first_time_owner/

https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1i5tgpz/royal_classic/

for - US agriculture - food quality - poor - but US farmers in a bubble - silos - effects of - US agriculture

https://pwp.cityofpasadena.net/pasadena-drinking-water-system-impacted-by-eaton-fire/

https://fire.airnow.gov/#11.62/34.1826/-118.0887

https://www.airnow.gov/?city=Altadena&state=CA&country=USA

This is a description of common practice, not a valid point about making reliable judgements about credential meaning and quality.

How do we know that this has been a problem? It's conventional wisdom but what validates it?

Naming the important learning => encouraging persistence/success => currency that helps access future opportunities

Credentials must be credentialing something.

2 Keys: this synthesizes with student success, research, and other existing priorities; and executive sponsorship is baked in.

TRSP Desirable Characteristics The PID Manager MUST maintain entity metadata as accurately as possible in collaboration with the PID Owner. This copy is the authoritative version.

TRSP Desirable Characteristics

TRSP Desirable Characteristics

The repository addresses technical quality and standards compliance, and ensures that sufficient information is available for end users to make quality-related evaluations.

for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - third quality - feeling seen - John Churchill

for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - second quality - attunement - John Churchill - definition - attunement - John Churchill

for - psychological infrastructure - attachment system - first quality - internalizing safety generates faith and trust - John Churchill

https://typewriterdatabase.com/img/g17557_111429_1643735948.jpg

Employers want to know what credentials are credentialing, and they want to hear it in their own language. The temptation will be to convince faculty and others to revise descriptions, however the opportunity is in leaving that and instead seeking their consensus and comfort with interpreting their descriptions into the languages of employers.

• Page 17: Top 5 most important factors for creating an effective teaching and learning ecosystem: Having a strong leadership and vision (45%) is the #1 (next highest is 15%)
• Page 20: *83% of higher education respondents said that it was important for institutions to provide studens with skills-based learning alongside their academic education. *
• Page 26: Participants identified several challenges in fostering a a culture of lifelong learning for professionals, including: 89% Clear learning objectives
• Page 7: Real-world experiential and work-based learning are no longer fringe; 4 in 5 see these as essential.

https://typewriterdatabase.com/1949-adler-46.17557.typewriter

If the "Hanks Effect" was really so prominent, then we should see the commensurate rise in price of 5 Series Smith Coronas and particularly the Clipper and the Silent which he's also mentioned several times. In fact, he's said these would be the typewriter he'd keep if he had to get rid of all others. Given this fact, it has to be, in part, a variety of other factors which inflates the prices.

Personally I think that it's a combination of the fact that they were manufactured at the peak of typewriter use and manufacturing and before companies began using more plastic and cheaper manufacturing methods, but were also done in a later timeperiod when exterior design and color were on the rise as a differentiator in the marketplace. Quality, form, and function become part of a trifecta which drive desire and collectability.

Opportunity to go deep here. Bread crumb is to check out the issuer directory with Credential Engine, where they are inviting institutions to publish details about their credentials in a standardized format (CTDL) that will hopefully one day be consumed by connections like those hinted at here.

This could play into Credential Quality Assurance work in Higher Ed.

related to how connections and dependencies between people shift over time due to changes in social structures, contexts change; also see Thiele, K. Figuration.

Springer Reference

https://reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/1fjfl1g/highest_quality_archival_4x6_index_cards_lined/

https://www.franklin-christoph.com/

Among various fountain pens, notebooks, and other papers, they sell archival quality 3 x 5 inch index cards suited to fountain pen use.

This creates a very dark and sad image inside of my head.

for - health - heart - LDL score

health - heart - LDL score - The AMOUNT of your LDL score is not as important as - The QUALITY of your LDL score - ALL high LDL isn't dangerous

It can be useful to take some mineral spirits, naphtha, or paint thinner and a tooth brush (or, even better, a brass bristle brush) to your typeface every now and then to clean the ink, dirt, paper, bits of ribbon, dust, etc. out of it. Doing it after changing ribbon is always a good idea. If you're really hard pressed, nail polish remover (acetone) or rubbing alcohol and a cotton ball along with a small pin tip for the loops of letters like 'a', 'o', 'p', 'g', etc. can be used.

How well (or not) your typewriter works from a print perspective can also change with the type of paper you're using, what your ribbon is made out of (usually nylon, silk, or cotton), how much ink it's got in it and how old/worn it may be. A good backing sheet behind your typing paper can also be helpful.

reply to u/kirrachristine at https://www.reddit.com/r/typewriters/comments/1dtuksy/one_letter_weirdly_thicksmudged/ RE: one letter weirdly thick/smudged

Increased course completion rates is a huge indicator! Also, K-12 has been hammering transparent goals for a generation, as Marzano and others have demonstrated that a top factor in successful learning is whether or not we support Learners with clear expectations of what they will need to know and be able to do.

Quality Matters rubric categories

10 Things Jerry Seinfeld Can't Live Without by [[GQ]]

Quality is very important

Index card quality can be important for cards that are repeatedly used.

This admonition was more frequently attended to with respect to library card catalogs, but potentially less followed in personal use—Niklas Luhmann's self-cut paper slips which wore ragged over time come quickly to mind here.

This is key for me too, it's about quality visuals, which I find lacking in a lot of kids content personally.

The ages thing I needed

YES. This feel similar to the way that TDD can also improve the code that you write, but with a broader/more comprehensive outlook.

Broderick: https://www.garbageday.email/p/ai-search-doomsday-cult, Anderson: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.17493

AI search hides the authors of the material it presents, summarising it is abstracting away the authors. It doesn't bring readers to those authors, it just presents a summary to the searcher as end result. Take it or leave it. At the same time, if one searches for something you know about, you see those summaries are always of. Leaving you guessing how of it is when searching something you don't know about. Search should never be the endpoint, always a starting point. I think that is my main aversion against AI search tools. Despite those clamoring 'it will get better over time' I don't think it will easily because the tool nor its makers have any interest in the quality of output necessarily and definitely can't assess it. So what's next, humans factchecking AI output. Why not prevent bs at its source? Nice ref to Maggie Appleton's centipede metaphor in [[The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI]]

Barrier is about burden to status quo...if sustainable process existed, would systems accommodate something that is probably in learners' interests?

Model for HE to value high quality external (non-accredited) credentials

Seeds of doubt on MC quality

via ref to Xianhang Zhang in Social Software Sundays #2 – The Evaporative Cooling Effect « Bumblebee Labs Blog [archived] who saw it

via [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] in Evaporative Cooling of Group Beliefs

Zu den vielen negativen Folgen von Hitzewellen gehört, dass sie die Luftqualität verschlechtern. Die World Meteorological Organisation zeigt in ihrem Bericht über Luftqualität und Klima 2022 u.a., dass die Hitzewellen des Jahres zu sehr viel mehr Waldbränden und zu einem bedeutend höheren Anteil an Sahara-Staub in der Luft einiger Regionen führten.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/sep/06/world-meteorologists-point-to-vicious-cycle-of-heatwaves-and-air-pollution

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  • we need to have a Deep Humanity dive on
    • quality of life vs quantity of life
    • if we acknowledge and face our mortality,
      • how would that change the QUALITY of our life?

Die Rauchwolken der riesigen Waldbrände in Kanada bedrohen zum zweiten Mal die Gesundheit der Einwohnerinnen und Einwohner großer Teil der USA. In vielen Städten erreicht der Air Quality Index Werte von über 200. Ab 100 sind Menschen mit Atmwegsbeschwerden akut gefährdet.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/us/canada-wildfire-smoke-air-quality-midwest.html

reply to u/jordynfly at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/13b0b5c/comment/jjcu3cn/?utm_source=reddit&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I'm curious what your area of research is? What are you studying with respect to Zettelkasten?

Caveat notetarius. Note collections are highly idiosyncratic to the user or intended audience, thus quality will vary dramatically on the creator's needs and future desires and potential uses. Contemporaneous, very simple notes can be valuable for their initial sensemaking and quite often in actual practice stop there.

Ultimately, only the user can determine perceived quality and long term value for themselves. Future generations of historians, anthropologists, scholars, and readers, might also find value in notes and note collections, but it seems rare that the initial creators have written them with future readers and audiences in mind. Often they're less useful as the external reader is missing large swaths of context.

For my own personal notes, I consider high quality notes to be well-sourced, highly reusable, easily findable, and reasonably tagged/linked. My favorite, highest quality notes are those that are new ideas which stem from the combination of two high quality notes. With respect to subjectivity, some of my philosophy is summarized by one of my favorite meta-zettels (alt text also available) from zettelmeister Umberto Eco.

Anecdotally, 95% of my notes are done digitally and in public, but I've only got scant personal evidence that anyone is reading or interacting with them. I never write them with any perceived public consumption in mind (beyond the readers of the finished pieces that ultimately make use of them), but it is often very useful to get comments and reactions to them. I'm only aware of a small handful of people publishing their otherwise personal note collections (usually subsets) to the web (outside of social media presences which generally have a different function and intent).

Intellectual historians have looked at and documented external use cases of shared note collections, commonplace books, annotated volumes, and even diaries. There are even examples of published (usually posthumously) commonplace books, waste books, etc., but these are often for influential public and intellectual figures. Here Ludwig Wittgenstein's Zettel, Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project, Vladimir Nabokov's The Original of Laura, Roland Barthes' Mourning Diary, Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Waste Books, Ralph Waldo Emmerson, Ronald Reagan's card index commonplace, Stobaeus' Anthology, W. H. Auden's A Certain World, and Robert Southey’s Common-Place Book come quickly to mind not to mention digitized scholarly collections of Niklas Luhmann, W. Ross Ashby, S.D. Goitein, Jonathan Edwards' Miscellanies, and Aby Warburg's notes. Some of these latter will give you an idea of what they may have thought quality notes to have been for them, but often they mean little if nothing to the unstudied reader because they lack broader context or indication of linkages.

{Quality Assurance}

Specific earning criteria offers transparency.

Assessment questions

Key finding Paraphrase - So what does a conscious universe have to do with AI and existential risk? - It all comes back to whether our primary orientation is around - quantity, or around - quality. - An understanding of reality - that recognises consciousness as fundamental - views the quality of your experience as - equal to, - or greater than, - what can be quantified.

• Orienting toward quality,
  • toward the experience of being alive,
• can radically change
  • how we build technology,
  • how we approach complex problems,
  • and how we treat one another.

Quote - metaphysics of quality - would open the door for ways of knowing made secondary by physicalism

Author - Robert Persig - Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance // - When we elevate the quality of each our experience - we elevate the life of each individual - and recognize each individual life as sacred - we each matter - The measurable is also the limited - whilst the immeasurable and directly felt is the infinite - Our finite world that all technology is built upon - is itself built on the raw material of the infinite

//

reply to u/dotphrasealpha at https://www.reddit.com/r/Zettelkasten/comments/11z08fq/what_type_of_note_did_niklas_luhmann_average_6/

The true insight you're looking for here is: Forget the numbers and just aim for quality followed very closely by consistency!

Of course most will ignore my insight and experience and be more interested in the numbers, so let's query a the 30+ notes I've got on this topic in my own zettelkasten to answer the distal question.

Over the 45 years from 1952 to 1997 Luhmann produced approximately 90,000 slips which averages out to:

• 45 years * 365 days/year = 16,425 days
• 90,000 slips / 16,425 days = 5.47 slips per day

In a video, Ahrens indicates that Luhmann didn't make notes on weekends, and if true, this would revise the count to 7.69 slips per day.

260 working days a year (on average, not accounting for leap years or potential governmental holidays)

• 45 years x 260 work days/year = 11,700 days
• 90,000 slips / 11,700 days = 7.69 slips per day

Compare these closer numbers to Ahrens' stated and often quoted 6 notes per day in How to Take Smart Notes.

I've counted from the start of '52 through all of '97 to get 45 years, but the true amount of time was a bit shorter than this in reality, so the number of days should be slightly smaller.

Keep in mind that Luhmann worked at this roughly full time for decades, so don't try to measure yourself against him. (He also published in a different era and broadly without the hurdle of peer review.) Again: Aim for quality over quantity! If it helps, S.D. Goitein created a zettelkasten of 27,000 notes which he used to publish almost a third more papers and books than Luhmann. Wittgenstein left far fewer notes and only published one book during his lifetime, but published a lot posthumously and was massively influential. Similarly Roland Barthes had only about 12,500 slips and loads of influential work.

I keep notes on various historical practitioners' notes/day output over several decades using these sorts of practices. Most are in the 1-2 notes per day range. A sampling of them can be found here: https://boffosocko.com/2023/01/14/s-d-goiteins-card-index-or-zettelkasten/#Notes%20per%20day.

Anecdotally, I've found that most of the more serious people here and on the zettelkasten.de forum are in the 4-10 slips per week range.

<whisper>quality...</whisper>

Skills + competency data => transparent credentials

What makes for good work in the humanities?

Noteworthy that the recommendations for quality prioritize 1) The granularity of documenting learning outcomes; and 2) that credentials use standards that can be independently verified and validated.