DaveZale

I was placed by a recruiting firm that places a lot of tech workers from India for a short term project a few years ago. The recruiter worked hard to edit my resume to fit the job description (and I had to edit his edits to fit reality). It was embarassing. I was placed along with a couple other temps. They both had minimal experience, but despite my credentials far exceeding theirs, I was the lowest paid in the bunch. Not that it mattered to me. It was nice to get placed in a really beautiful campus. But the manager pointed out in a group meeting, indirectly but obviously, that my pay was way too low. I contacted the firm to express my disappointment and all I got was crickets. The firm had a "closer" whose only job was to lie to me, that was okay, I knew he was lying and he probably knew I knew he was lying.

I will caution that even submitting a resume to one of these firms can mean that your contact information may be distributed to other firms and you may get a LOT of spam job inquiries. It's really hard to block all those texts and emails, which is the only option when they don't ever respond to replies. Just really unnerving.

You don't even know which country these people are in... and they don't know our customs. In a word: degrading. But, they were aggressive and did their job, though it seemed very unprofessional to an American.

actual age minus twenty

alrighty then (pushes hand through hair like Ace Ventura)

fwiw the Tokyo noodle packs' price actually dropped, if instant noodles is one of your staples.

"you are your brain"

I stopped reading there. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Compare yourselves during times when you, your brain, and the rest of your body were in peak fitness vs when you were miserable with a cold or the flu. The reality is completely different.

Arnold Schwartzenegger gives similar advice. Cultivate chosen habits, so that energy isn't spent agonizing over choices. This reduces friction to the behaviors that you choose.

The Pump Club newsletter is a free offering and has simple, time tested tips that he's picked up over the last six decades, during which he's been Mr. Universe, two term Gov of California, movie star and more. Not to be a shill, but I've picked up plenty of useful tips over the past year. Now to mine over a year of those email newsletters and distill them into bite-sized, fortune-cookie-like nuggets and put them into some kind of blog or app :-)

try watching a televised American football game. So many ads for AI. Of course ads appeal most to the gullible.

"The authors noted that the distinction between reality and delusion can be complicated by the actual capabilities of modern technology. Real-world algorithms do track user behavior to serve targeted content. This can sometimes mimic the experience of having one’s mind read or being watched."

Do these researchers conducting this study know about cookies, browser fingerprinting and how data brokers operate? How about AI users injected into social media? I've seen two cases of temporary but disturbing delusions in extended family members who were using that really big social network that wants users to eventually have 5-15 "AI friends" - and my conclusion is that social media can be very hazardous to heavy users.

if you are near mountains, and love to go on long high altitude hikes, very little training is required

all of those sound great. Plus on top of that, we'll get unexpected developments. But these are economists, I get it

easy to build, kits available, or use arduino, or go even more original

or maybe what there is likely never makes it past the microbial stage? As we go up the food chain, entropy gets so much higher, with as many things that can go wrong as can go right. Look at the fossil record, most higher life forms either adapt (dinosaurs becoming smaller birds) or die

some old school types also say

Read it. Write it. Say it.

Same gist

it's not 100% real, I bought a call last week at a deep discount to the ASK.

Do you remember the stock market a few decades ago? Stocks once had large bid/ask spreads. Now the hft/dark pools eat it all, with 99% profit on trades. High speed, lasers and fiber optics front-running..

also if the losses are in a non-IRA, they are (or were? talk to your cpa) tax deductible against other gains. But is it all worth even one lost night of sleep. Nah.... of course, there are ways of covering bets with options but that is professional level stuff.

I made the mistake of gambling on 3x gas and oil futures once. Problem was, I got lucky a couple of times. They got all my money back and then some eventually. Gains based on luck can be toxic! Unless it's a well thought out statistical approach, maybe- but that would be a full time job.

also you may have to pay interest on shorted shares. Better to take a Burry/Taleb approach of extreme option bets with small money.

fwiw I am in the process of degoogling including a switch to protonmail, and the sign up included recs to use Bravesearch, Qwant and Kagi for search

maybe learn about options. do some practice trading. Theory is one thing, patience and common sense are other things. Above all be very, very careful, but have fun.

The practice part is important but when you are comfortable, nibble a little with small amounts.

May be stating the obvious here, but Uncle Sam is lending a hand to AI companies. Sure it may be a red herring but hey, these people can literally print money if they want to. Just don't call it that. Call it "Fed balance sheet adjustments"

Why am I suddenly hearing that pop song in my head, "How looong has this been going on?"

WIX is a really cheap company, no loss. I got an invite to apply recently, and almost laughed myself out of my chair.

Nope, same here.

But the attacks on neighbors hasn't stopped there. Or here

Gaza is not being destroyed relentlessly on a daily basis. Of course part of that is because it's already obliterated. But what a nightmare it was, and as a US taxpayer I was complicit.

Okay here come the downvotes. So be it.

for the classics, look no farther than archive.org - no log in or paywall ... if you're like me, when you find one you really like, order the physical copy on betterworldbooks or some other nonprofit site

9/10 on the bullshit meter. okay.... Okay! I've done my share of algorithmic fitting of far simpler lab spectral data to be convinced that "trying to hard to find something" can result in convenient delusions. Still, it's worth studying. It's still not 10/10 and enough discoveries are purely accidental, so why not increase the odds of an accident. Or, in a Zen-like approach, "doing not-knowing"

oh, "after the lights go out" - got it! I was taking that literally. Post-apocalypse?

there are infinite buddha worlds in even a raindrop. No kidding. These are very old ideas.

Just read translations of the old Zen masters. Or better yet, translations of translations. The translators will reveal that sometimes small errors with each iteration are sometimes beneficial. But I digress.

"My books don’t rely on the good will of algorithms or tech billionaires; they’ll still be readable long after the lights have gone out."

:-)

so it doesn't absorb but it emits? If I get the gist

that is really interesting! About a decade ago, I worked on a coca cola flavoring. The recipe that I located involved eight essential oils, so I formulated them in a certain "vehicle" and submitted it to a tasting panel. The scent of it was spot on, but the flavor was not. This was written off as due to the absence of large amounts of sweetener. But now I may know another part of the reason. Very interesting, thank you

Well a sure component of test scores reflects test taking skills. Years ago, I purchased a book of a series of IQ tests, and my numerical result increased with every test. Another component is confidence. And another is ability. It is said by some that among the first big users of IQ tests was the US Army.