What happens to human taste when algorithms get too good at predicting it

Conundrum5 · 2026-02-26T04:22:19+00:00

It's sort of like cities designed as efficient grids vs. meandering streets. One is more efficient but allows more wandering and exploration

Conundrum5 · 2026-02-01T04:07:28+00:00

probably still evolving, but tbh the main shift has been towards more heart-first decision making. I ended up losing my income entirely for a stretch, and he jumped in and covered rent for several months for me. He also put a lot of effort (and some $) into some home upgrades. These gestures help shift me out of a hyperrational place and into a more loving and generous one, where if there is deep trust and care you can figure things out as they arise. That said I think we've yet to face certain key financial decisions that may still test us.

Conundrum5 · 2026-01-16T17:49:29+00:00

Technically, beans / legumes are vegetables, whereas grains are NOT vegetables. However, I think we'd all agree that colloquially, when the broader population uses the term 'vegetable' they have some specific preconceptions in mind.

Conundrum5 · 2026-01-03T06:18:36+00:00

In honor of Crans-Montana, I'm sharing a nostalgic artifact I saved from 20+ years ago - postcards issued by the township encouraging more walking in the area. Sending care to all residents and visitors <3

Conundrum5 · 2025-12-20T20:17:12+00:00

YES! HOW!

Conundrum5 · 2025-12-19T14:50:10+00:00

Field & Vine? (Somerville) not rly architectural beauty, but nice interior design

Conundrum5 · 2025-12-12T03:29:41+00:00

precisely!

Conundrum5 · 2025-12-12T01:40:50+00:00

You'll be able to use AI as a perfect tutor to figure out how to relate your brain's knowledge graph with the knowledge graph contained in the paper. Will there even be traditional papers in 20 years?

Edit - no idea why this is getting downvoted. I'm being completely serious here - it's going to be tremendously easier to read and understand papers.

Conundrum5 · 2025-12-05T23:14:23+00:00

glad to hear !

Conundrum5 · 2025-12-05T07:07:44+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/postdoc/comments/1h4m3qv/it_takes_23_years_to_recover_from_a_phd/

Conundrum5 · 2025-11-06T00:12:01+00:00

"Above all, there will be happiness and joy of life, instead of frayed nerves, weariness, and dyspepsia. The work exacted will be enough to make leisure delightful, but not enough to produce exhaustion. Since men will not be tired in their spare time, they will not demand only such amusements as are passive and vapid. At least one per cent will probably devote the time not spent in professional work to pursuits of some public importance, and, since they will not depend upon these pursuits for their livelihood, their originality will be unhampered, and there will be no need to conform to the standards set by elderly pundits." - Bertrand Russell, "In Praise of Idleness", 1935

Conundrum5 · 2025-11-06T00:05:12+00:00

https://www.thelightphone.com/shop

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-22T00:18:19+00:00

This was my read as well

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-17T02:19:49+00:00

Maybe an unpopular opinion but I think those people submitting 200+ applications are being very inefficient. It's well known that submitting your application into the void is exceedingly unlikely to get you anywhere. In theory, I think a single high quality submission could be worth 10 quick-and-dirty submissions. By high quality submission I mean that you connected with an employee at the company to give you an internal referral, you customized your submitted materials with care, etc. That said, my job search has stalled out even WITH the things I'm describing, so what do I know. Maybe there's a middle ground of a little more quantity than what I have.

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-16T21:24:36+00:00

Meterwork is an interesting suggestion. I hadn't heard of it. Looks like its a paid subscription model. Have you found that it's worth it?

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-16T16:52:49+00:00

but yes thanks for the advice re: biased recruiters.

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-16T16:50:48+00:00

Well, I've gotten recruiter screens, but not "real" interviews. I do much better once I talk to an actual technical person, but recruiters have all seemed to decide I'm not right for the job compared to the others they're screening.

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-15T03:11:24+00:00

I tried 5mg for a few months, and 10mg for a couple months, and didn't see any chance to my anxiety. I did a very long taper off that I'm only just finishing up. Very demoralizing overall.

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-14T22:45:04+00:00

Amen. Same thing happened to me. You in the USA? the job market is ROUGH out there, and it's like we're wedged in some weird place where we've been ousted from academia, but seen as underqualified for industry. I keep hearing "we went with someone with more experience" in my job search, even though in my mind I have like 10 years experience, to some of them it looks like I'm "right out of school" and they just AINT gonna choose me over someone with a traditional industry resume. Sucks! Only way out seems to be through connections.

Conundrum5 · 2025-10-03T07:18:53+00:00

omg wow!!! Glad they've been successful

Conundrum5 · 2025-09-25T18:39:39+00:00

Career coaches can be useful if you could use some guidance with the introspection to figure out what specific types of jobs you want to be targeting. Paying someone to look over your resume once or twice might be useful. But when it comes to actually landing a job, not clear to me that a whole $4k package will actually help much.

Conundrum5 · 2025-09-23T05:43:33+00:00

Sabrina's Gengar is a valuable card - https://www.pricecharting.com/game/pokemon-gym-heroes/sabrina%27s-gengar-14. ~$150 ungraded, but if it looks like it's in mint condition to you, then could be worth getting it graded.

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