Posts by jared@mathstodon.xyz
 (DIR) Post #ARDAL38weLMxEhhlrM by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-01-01T21:12:54Z
       
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       @robpike yeah, your host looks rather empty when I visit https://inuh.net/public/local
       
 (DIR) Post #ASeQ5RtfOfATpBZKPg by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-02-08T13:57:04Z
       
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       the great thing about #LeBron James is he knew his potential. Like many people, I was surprised and skeptical when he went professional straight from high school.Yet he knew his potential. He stayed focused, worked hard to improve and to deliver on his promises, and above all, LeBron never gave up.This is the lesson from sports heroes: know yourself, what you can and want to accomplish, and stay true to yourself.Of course, we see this in non-athletic heroes too during #BlackHistoryMonth
       
 (DIR) Post #ASeQ5VWltjEN5Kt6HY by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-02-08T14:13:06Z
       
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       and I don’t know who else needs to hear this (because I know I do!) but—It doesn’t matter what other people see in you! The lesson is to see something true and growing within yourself!It doesn’t matter what you do or do not accomplish! The lesson is to attempt and to dedicate to pursuing your aspirations
       
 (DIR) Post #ASeQEJM0Wp2nw43DJA by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2022-12-31T16:57:13Z
       
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       -- I require follow-requests to discourage bots; most requests accepted!-- my unpinned posts auto-delete every 2 weeks.-- I mute profane language and "hot topic" terms.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVNnrfA6UxRkFs2qiO by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-05-06T12:51:22Z
       
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       “People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.
       
 (DIR) Post #AVuZLDJBtblGH5L8WO by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-05-22T11:17:40Z
       
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       Let’s think like a SFO founder. The $10 billion from MSFT will be used to cover present day ambitions. What about the future? Obviously an SFO venture looks for an order of magnitude— 10x. So $100 billion will be needed for future ambitions. No actual goals, plans, or economic realities required.@niclas @phil_stevens @lupyuen
       
 (DIR) Post #AWNc7tXXXpjLX58qUy by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-06-05T11:12:55Z
       
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       I did some back of the envelope calculations last year when I bought a car. I found that the total CO2 emissions of a traditional versus electric vehicle would be around the same— of course the fuel efficiency and annual mileage tips the comparison in favor of the EV. But not in a zero emissions kind of way.It’s simply best not to drive a car, or at least drive much less, and purchase well maintained, used vehicles to avoid manufacturing emissions.What really soured me was when I learned about the plans to dredge the ocean floor for rare earth deposits to make batteries. A total spoiling of the environment for “clean” fuel IMO@lupyuen
       
 (DIR) Post #AWmYg8BDF7f4mildq4 by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-06-17T12:24:33Z
       
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       @tante worldcat.org and multiple friendships with (borrowing) privileges is the answer.Let’s coin a new term: call it #polylibrarious ?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXkd4B69ESRoWnQ2iG by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-07-16T11:42:35Z
       
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       @lupyuen this sounds like a great way to infer whether I’m underpaid, especially with a large company.Pick any three peers and add myself to the meeting. Divide by four. Does this match my equivalent hourly pay?And besides… why would I care about the “cost” of the meeting? For whom is this tool made? I would not normally call a meeting unless I consider it net valuable for the business, and my judgment on that value isn’t based on the employee pay scale and present benefits — it’s based on future benefits of having been informed and aligned on business needs.I find the tool amusing but suspect it introduces bad incentives, e.g. keeping shorter meetings on the calendar for smaller groups of lower paid employees, while possibly increasing the overall communication loop-backs to inform outside groupings.The company culture really needs to be in sync to make it work well without creating interpersonal friction. In which case— why even bother making these estimations?
       
 (DIR) Post #AXkd4KKetsP1APHG52 by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-07-16T11:46:11Z
       
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       @lupyuen oh wait a sec, here’s the problem “””Executives and their employees both say they spend hours each week in meetings that could disappear without consequence.“””Sounds like initiative has been lost in general, so the idea is to introduce a distracting protocol to reduce opportunities to engage with decision making? Good luck to all that 👍
       
 (DIR) Post #AaoJvNGwiA35uFMIJU by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2023-10-16T00:16:49Z
       
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       @adamasnemesis that photo is so crisp, clear, and brilliant that I thought for a second it’s CGI. Beautiful weather to be on the water—enjoy!⛵️
       
 (DIR) Post #AipLkCs8JM5zJHzpuS by jared@mathstodon.xyz
       2024-06-11T19:09:05Z
       
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       @twylo The "bad intern" argument ( let's start calling it a fallacy ) annoys me.Would the interlocutor brag about habitually hiring poorly informing interns? Would they be satisfied that their intern requires an entire team weeks of R&D and capital expenditures to improve just slightly? Would they be happy that their intern never graduates to become a valued employee and respected colleague?The "bad intern" fallacy exposes both the disappointing limitations of an LLM (it never improves as readily as a human improves) as well as a the callousness of the LLM user (they're not committed to a truly resource efficient solution to their staffing problem, i.e., education).