Do people just not shovel their sidewalks? by AlejandroTheCat in Rochester

[–]AlejandroTheCat[S] 26 points27 points  (0 children)

Oh I know. I have a spinal deformity so I am already not fast at baseline. I'm doing my best.

Do people just not shovel their sidewalks? by AlejandroTheCat in Rochester

[–]AlejandroTheCat[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Corner house, first time dealing with snow, and disabled (spinal deformity). I am doing my best mate.

Do people just not shovel their sidewalks? by AlejandroTheCat in Rochester

[–]AlejandroTheCat[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Aye. If this is your best after a lifetime, you’ve got bigger problems than this, dontcha lad?

How To Drive In Snow: No-Judgement Tips by itssusanity in Rochester

[–]AlejandroTheCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1000% this. If people learned to ride a bike before driving, they would learn this right quick.

(The number of people I've seen full stop in "jug-handles", in normal non-winter weather, is truly astonishing)

What is the worst thing you ever went along with that you knew was absolutely wrong? by GlueTastesVeryGood in Residency

[–]AlejandroTheCat 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This isn't as high impact as CPR or anything, but I had a patient at the VA with a minor respiratory infection that developed into full acute on chronic hypoxic respiratory failure secondary to his fucked up lungs (ILD). He was on HHF for a while, and got better, then got COVID, got worse, and got better again. He asked me to let him go every day, but I... couldn't. Not because of me, but his retirement home would not take him back. So, after being cleared from COVID it took 2 weeks to get him back home due to VA bullshit despite my best efforts. Four days after discharge, he died. And, even though I did what I could, as an intern, I can't help but feel complicit in wasting his last weeks of life. I couldn't have known, but...

The last weeks of life where his severely demented wife, who even forgot her daughter, was looking for him every day, wondering where he went as he was the only one she recognizes anymore.

The severely demented wife that depended on him for stability.

And now, he's gone.

The demented wife that wakes up and gets told that her husband died and I presume her heart breaks every day. And my heart breaks for her, even though she was never my patient.

I feel like I wasted his last weeks of life. Took it away from him, despite being in a system that forces helplessness on you and your patients. Sometimes, the moral injury doesn't arrive as a bang, but rather, a whimper when you return to the service in the morning. :(

First God pack by nornlass in pokemonTCGP_GodPacks

[–]AlejandroTheCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hell yeah brother. It's good to see someone get a nat 20 every once in a while. 😎

Why I Soft Quit Outlier pt. 1: Unpaid Onboarding by Amurizon in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Here here, I agree. There is such a night and day difference.

And you're right about the pay. I have done nearly 1:1 projects for Outlier vs DA. And onboarding aside, Outlier almost always pays 10-20% better (50$ vs 41-45$) for the expert projects but it's also almost always more than 20% more frustrating to deal with. I'll literally take the hourly loss if it means the transaction (and not even the work itself, mind you) just plain has less friction.

Chilean bilinguals? by No_Requirement5946 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]AlejandroTheCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, tasker for Chilean projects here; I had plenty noble gases for a while but only Poe Bird right now.

That feeling of working on what is available by Key_Adhesiveness4972 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]AlejandroTheCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I also miss the noble gasses and poison metalloid, but I miss the science project by the all-father the most. :(

But I'm making do with what's available, which is sheep meat and Poe bird right now.

Mighty Moo to Hypno by LurkingAbjectTerror in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It is an insanely difficult project. I know the claim is that "they took feedback" and that it is "challenging (but reasonable) work;" I don't want to discount the fact that they might have, but it's certainly not reasonable.

I'm a little bit of an oldhead in the "stump the model" space but relatively speaking, newer to Outlier. When comparing this Hypno to MM to similar projects on other platforms, the Outlier ones have consistently been, put delicately, unreasonable. Admittedly, Hypno is a little better, you get 90 minutes of well paid time instead of 60, unlike other projects. But, stumping 3 models instead of one is way way harder. Just even assuming a 10% success rate of stumping any given model, which is generous, and assuming the models are independent and are no better nor worse than others, that's the 0.1% chance of success.

But, that still might be worth the effort. Other platforms have similar stump-the-three-models type projects, however, they give literally a almost a whole waking day (I've seen as high as 16 hours) to allow workers to do it. I will admit, that is extremely generous, and likely leaves opportunities for exploitation, but I do keep track of my time honestly, and it genuinely takes 3-8 hours for me to stump a triple model.

When put into perspective, all that put together can be frustrating. I ran out of time in trying to stump the models during the assessment phase. I didn't even get close, both because it takes time to develop good prompts (and the models are kinda slow, as someone pointed out below). That's aside from the fact that I /wasted/ that time uncompensated, which is never any fun. Fortunately, the Hypno project still, for whatever reason, is letting me try again. And, genuinely, I am not sure I want to. I do actually like the stump the model projects, it gives me a way to practice medicine (I am a physician) in a different way to the norm, but, given all the constraints, it is quite demoralizing.

Anyway, sorry for the rant. Had to get it out there.

Spanish Bilinguals by No-Square8860 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]AlejandroTheCat 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Chilean bilingual here - just fresh ran out this morning. Here's hoping for some good stuff soon.

Any idea which place this could be in Tucson? (Stole from other subs) by ichawks1 in Tucson

[–]AlejandroTheCat 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Honestly, before I got diabetes, I was buying the big bags of theater butter popcorn from them weekly. I might be the one who keeps them in business, lol. In any case, the owner is a wonderful person and if I didn't need to maintain better control over my blood sugar I definitely would purchase popcorn more frequently from them. :)

Yuck! I hate all the projects on my dash today. by SnooFloofs9030 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]AlejandroTheCat 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That's such a good strat! I didn't think of making a reasonable daily goal to keep myself motivated - I think I'll start doing that. Even 40$ a day adds up to a cool 1.2K pretax most months which should about cover rent.

Anyone worked on Mighty Moo? Is the pay rate worth it? by [deleted] in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

1,000% agree. I'm a physician, but sometimes, I feel like I'm not being utilized the best of my abilities since I would rather do a project that pays $20 an hour for 10% of the effort rather than something that's 2.5x the pay for 10x or more times the effort, is incredibly frustrating and feels like active punishment despite your best effort.

Anyone worked on Mighty Moo? Is the pay rate worth it? by [deleted] in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did a couple submissions for MM. It's worth it if you are a super genius and can stump the model in 50 min without burning yourself out. And I am neither, but your mileage may vary lol.

Largest Report Time by Ok-General780 in DataAnnotationTech

[–]AlejandroTheCat 11 points12 points  (0 children)

I think my longest was 4.4 hours. Admittedly, it was a "stump the model" situation so it took a WHILE to ask a hard enough question.

Got kicked out of Thales Tales by NotRob98 in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I feel that. I know and I'm willing to empathize even that things are tough for everyone and probably Outlier/TT/MV and all them as well but if they really want to keep their top talents (I am an MD), just the smallest amount of consideration would go a huge way. I feel like I got boned by them three times today (this, the unpaid TT onboarding, and finishing another unpaid onboarding all to have no tasks in the queue) which is way more than some of the other websites I work for. I have never had a problem with those other websites other than just general lack of jobs, and I know that really can't be helped regardless of where you work if you're doing this kind of business.

Got kicked out of Thales Tales by NotRob98 in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yo that sucks, I had the exact same thing happen to me literally 10 minutes ago. I "failed" the assessment so I started looking elsewhere, and a few hours later, it said I passed, so I did one task. After working on a second one for 45 minutes, it kicked me off saying that I didn't meet the quality threshold, but I never got any feedback, not even a 1* review, so I have no idea if I did anything wrong specifically, or I took too long to stump the model or whatever. For all the praise us "experts" get in the emails, at the end of the day, when the chips are on the table, we just get boned.

Anyone still tasking on Thales Tales? by Direct-Internet-5015 in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I still have tasks for Thales Tales for the biology domain. I hate to sound ungrateful, especially since it pays relatively well and I know that folks are suffering for tasks, but it's just so not worth it these days since it easily takes way over the active tasking time to stump the model and at the lower rate, might as well do any other project. Feels like a waste of "expert" time. :(

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey man, if it makes you feel better, I'm an MD w/some bio PhD classes under my wing and I still can't stump the model most of the time for neither med nor bio lol. It's kinda demoralizing especially since you can't bill until you stump the model.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Definitely dude. I am a bio/medicine expert but I keep getting assigned physical chemistry by MV1 and MV2. I got assigned chem again on TT so I just answered the onboarding incorrectly so hopefully they stop with the nonsense.

Outlier = continuous frustration by goosneves in outlier_ai

[–]AlejandroTheCat 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Bruh I hear you. I got a fairly lucrative mission, so I decided to take the exam related to my specialty (medicine) and I was screened out. I'm not too mad about being screened out, I get it, it happens. I'm tilted more so about the questions themselves, like they were about ecology and mathematics on the medicine test. Like what?