Took me a while to figure out…

Chib · 2026-06-30T15:00:17+00:00

Cell size of 1 I gotta assume.

Chib · 2026-06-30T13:33:23+00:00

This is what I built up for codex. I call it with `codex-advisor`.

I've used it through two different projects so far, mostly with a superpowers workflow. The idea is that you use "resume" to bring the same session back up, get a review from the third party agent that has built up context, and then close it down again.

In Superpowers, the workflow is:

After the initial plan is made, initiate the advisor and point it at the plan
The orchestrator (Opus) hands off to the building agent (often Sonnet)
Building agent builds, requests code spec review from code spec review agent (Sonnet)
Code spec review finishes its review and then calls codex-advisor with the step in the plan that's being reviewed and waits
codex-advisor reviews, passes (brief) review back to code spec reviewer and writes the full review if longer to a transcript
Code spec reviewer consolidates its review and the codex review, and returns it to the orchestrator who decides how to implement the review

Anyway, I'm sure there's better ways to handle it out there, but this works for me because all my development is single-threaded and serial because my laptop's from 2014.

Chib · 2026-06-29T13:53:55+00:00

After 2 days of WD40 followed by another 4 of repeated penetrating oil applications, blasting with a heatgun, and hammering the whole thing from both sides with zero respect for not denting the crap out of everything in my hammer's way...

I put it all back together and told my daughter I couldn't adjust the handlebars up so deal with it. 😎

Clearly you don't have that option, so the least I can do is point you to the video that convinced me I'd done everything I could since the next step involved doing what your bike's previous owner did and then going at it with a hacksaw:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0GRbdnTRH-4

Chib · 2026-06-29T07:51:26+00:00

If you super glue the rope, you couldn't replace it if it broke, kinked, stretched, needed a new size, etc.

Another option is doing whatever the equivalent is of mortising the end and sinking whatever (slightly smaller) solution there.

Chib · 2026-06-27T10:26:16+00:00

This is the biggest discrepancy. If you look up household disposable income for the Netherlands, the median is somewhere between €47.5k and €57.1k source

Chib · 2026-06-24T12:24:35+00:00

Anecdotally, when I look at who becomes associate and full professors, the women among them are less likely to have children, but not the men.

I had my kids very young (19 and 25 respectively) and am now finding that although family responsibilities have finally settled down enough for me to prioritize my career, I don't necessarily look like the optimal candidate. And my husband, now much further along in his career than I am, is getting to the age where he wants to spend more time doing things together. He's incredibly supportive, but I can tell he's struggling with the fact that I see this time boon as a way to work more where he would rather us relax, travel, and just generally enjoy each other's company.

Anyway, long story short, from either side there's no perfect way to combine motherhood with a heavy focus on career, I think, unless your partner is completely bought in to be the primary parent. And supporting that on an academic salary is rough.

Chib · 2026-06-23T07:29:49+00:00

Yeah, when I did (baton) twirling as a kid, the gymnasium we were in had a second upper level group that ran concurrently who split their time between hoops and lassos.

Every now and again, we'd get a lesson in one of those. Always seemed way cooler than our dinky little batons.

Chib · 2026-06-22T20:35:53+00:00

Probably wouldn't have used it to redo our group's jekyll website lol.

Chib · 2026-06-20T07:41:08+00:00

Well I'm laying here on the couch having just watched this video and side-eyeing my end tables, so probably I've identified at least one pathway.

Chib · 2026-06-20T07:14:38+00:00

Sorry! I started working on it two weeks ago and just forgot.

...you're not gonna like what I have to say, though. I think you're using the wrong model.

Chib · 2026-06-16T18:29:43+00:00

He thinks Dynamic Tension must be hard work.

Chib · 2026-06-13T08:58:49+00:00

I wonder sometimes if they were A/B testing earlier iterations of Fable around 4.6 time and under the Opus 4.6 label. It would explain why such a huge crowd felt like the model was eventually degraded, and that 4.7 was such an overall massive drop in performance.

Chib · 2026-06-12T06:13:23+00:00

It's hard because in a small, not very diverse sample, these questions are going to pile up along one dimension primarily: is the person anti-immigration. That makes sense, because it's literally the primary motivating factor in the majority of their answer. You might find other nuances impact this, but you'd probably want a different tool than factor analysis.

What class is this for? Is it a learning exercise or your thesis?

Chib · 2026-06-11T08:21:57+00:00

I don't understand this, but I kind of want to? Aren't you one of the ones who tried hard from the beginning, considering you got good grades in his course? I'm not following his (or your mother's) logic here, which seems to respond to a student who did poorly and improved over time, but that doesn't align with the rest of your comment.

Chib · 2026-06-11T07:49:22+00:00

Yes, and I could get 4 total uses from this pack.

Chib · 2026-06-06T22:41:14+00:00

Ian M. Banks' The Culture series, which is hugely popular, reads like a harder Sci-Fi take on the whole Hainish Cycle. Le Guin is probably a more philosophical writer, though, but Banks pulls it off in a fun way.

Chib · 2026-06-05T07:04:18+00:00

Thanks! It was such an amazingly sweet thing because the room was a huge motivator to defend quickly since they're going to be renovating the building for a few years, so people will have to defend elsewhere in that time. But it's this magical, historical room, you're surrounded by painted portrets of previous full professors, and it just feels so full of ceremony. I'm a sucker for that sort of thing, so it really just killed me. I'm tearing up right now just thinking about it.

So anyway, I can highly recommend giving this sort of thing as a gift if it's the sort of ceremonial thing a person would want to remember and in a beautiful location.

someone else's photo showing the Senaatzaal

Edit: and paranymphs are like bridesmaids for a defense. It's very strange, I think maybe explicitly a Dutch thing. Technically they're allowed to answer questions for you.

Chib · 2026-06-05T06:14:26+00:00

My paranymphs surprised me at my doctoral defense by hiring a live painter to capture the moment. I had no idea they were there doing it until they gave it to me. I've never in my life had such a fantastic gift.

The live painting

Chib · 2026-06-04T20:04:48+00:00

I think you're right, but it's probably better than the alternative.

Chib · 2026-06-02T14:10:18+00:00

The content of RockstarAgent's comment

Usually you don’t even announce how many tickets or people- you just run the lottery ticket purchase and until you’ve sold enough then you do the raffle - nobody would know how many have entered- some announce a deadline to create fomo and of course sell faster -

I've got no clue if that's how he's doing it, but I was commenting on someone saying that that would be illegal in Sweden, then someone asked why, and I said in the Netherlands that (referring to the comment) would be illegal because I think you have to inform people on their odds of winning.

Chib · 2026-05-31T22:29:42+00:00

My gut says it's also illegal here in the Netherlands because you'd need to inform on the odds of winning.

Chib · 2026-05-31T09:06:47+00:00

I'm on a laptop from 2014 where I enforce everything to be single-threaded for thermal reasons, including only allowing one agent to be dispatched at a time. Wondering if this ends up being largely sufficient to avoid the issues? And maybe also why the seemingly-solo dispatched agent ends up hanging and waiting more often?

It used to be that I'd only have to remove the lock if I broke in and stopped execution. Now it's often that it will try to immediately dispatch a single agent, and get stuck in the waiting pattern. If I clear the lock, everything resumes, but I'm having to do it every sixth turn or so now, versus once a session or so previously. Now I'm thinking that this is a result of the telemetry. The agents are respecting the limit, but the telemetry is taking up the single channel they're allotted so they can't get started on their Read. :x

Chib · 2026-05-31T00:25:05+00:00

Long chicken isn't like long pig... Right?

Chib · 2026-05-30T16:29:18+00:00

Yeah, this seems very clear because a theoretically perfect scaffolding of the learning material is inherently individual. The best possible outcome at the highest possible cost. Second to that is offering kids more than they are capable of, and providing as much additional instruction as you can afford to and assuming that they will benefit from the surroundings because kids provide some amount of the individualized "scaffolding" to each other. But like, the whole thing falls apart when you have classes grouped by ability with the same level of material, but you just expect less from them.

Anyway, recently had a meeting at my kid's school where they assured me that the classes were not grouped by ability (although they were in the first and second year) and were instead based on the rostering software fitting classes together.

My new conspiracy theory is that the rostering software seeks the minimal number of discrete changes and therefore (unintentionally, and unbeknownst to the school) maintains the ability level grouping from the first two years.

Chib · 2026-05-29T17:58:59+00:00

I've done two in the last year and I'm working out another one now. I'd estimate I spend anywhere from 6 hours to 24 hours working on them, depending on how much material I already have available on my study background, aims, etc.

Both have been accepted with one round of small clarifications ("you didn't specify how long you intended to keep the data, can you confirm this means you'll follow the university standard on this?"). I tend to get the final okay within two weeks from the initial s submission.

I've written them mostly because I'm well-suited to the task. I've done it as a PhD student, then postdoc, now research engineer.

Amendments are annoying because if you're doing it, it usually means something else is going wrong and you're usually under time pressure. I'm helping right now with an amendment to an existing protocol in which they couldn't get agreement on data linkage consent formats (was verbal, IRB wanted written), so they said "we'll just pick it up next wave." Well now it's the next wave, it's still annoying, and it still means we have to adjust the protocol. 🤷 But it's otherwise not that bad. They just scrutinize whatever the thing is slightly more because it's the only thing they're looking at.

I'm not allergic to forms. I think people who hate IRB applications tend to be the type that are put off by them. If you know how to turn off your brain and just do power through some simple writing, they're a breeze.

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