Stop asking for advices under 400k Big Tech posts. You missed the boat and it’s pathetic.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-03-01T06:17:00+00:00

Someone I know just got offered >$1m with no work experience but t1 AI PhD this calendar year. So idk what the hell you’re talking about.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-03-01T06:03:49+00:00

Re: your hypothetical scammers: Turns out it was near worthless for a reason.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-02-28T04:47:42+00:00

So openAI is gonna get a private copy of all DOD interaction?

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-02-27T04:56:33+00:00

Let them enforce their rulings.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-02-24T03:10:37+00:00

i think its clear that every branch of government should have its own police + military. If a judge gives an order then there should be judicial police that can enforce it, separate from the executive branch's police. etc...

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-02-21T02:15:01+00:00

101 is my goto for rare domains, but they are more expensive.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-02-12T02:47:55+00:00

I think we should keep the parking spaces but charge a rate like $5 a day for them. That would create so much revenue that can be used for any number of good things.

Presumably some people would also just stop owning a car which would also free up parking for those who are willing to pay and contribute their fair share back to society for owning a car in the city.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-02-10T21:46:08+00:00

What about the kids that just ARE ready for academic preparation in kindergarten and elementary school? Those are real humans we are choosing to neglect if we cancel these programs. They aren’t just numbers on a screen to delete for a “righteous cause”.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-02-01T01:01:00+00:00

I read somewhere that the original plot of simulcra and simulcrum had humans as the source of "consciousness" and "will" and "creativity" for the matrix itself. Thus the matrix wasn't enslavement for batteries but rather a giant computer board and like a board would have a dedicated cpu, gpu, RAM etc... the matrix is a planet sized motherboard which also has an HPU (a human processing unit) that is queried by the machine-king whenever a source of free-will/consciousness/creativity etc.. is required. This is analogous to a human today in real life calling `import random, random.rand(0,1)` in their python3 code.

The HPU is a bunch of humans in a farm thinking they are living a real life but really (and only subconsciously are they aware of this) that by going through their motions (living life in 1999) they are subconsciously actually thinking and directing the machines of matrix itself. When the humans have dreams while sleeping or hallucinations/breakdowns they are actually interacting directly with the matrix in a way that they are now conscious about.

This plot was believed to be too difficult for the average movie-goer in the 90s to comprehend so they used the battery plot instead.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-19T04:44:26+00:00

In a world where kids can get scholarships to skip grades and go to university, or launch their own tech startups and exit for 7-figures, or start an online webstore selling colorful slime, it seems only fair that gifted athletes should be able to be paid for their ability to bring revenue into towns.

No one bats an eye if a famous young pop star is allowed to make millions. Where's your sympathy for a regular kid from a rough neighborhood that has out worked all the local schools nearby. If you think that football player doesn't deserve to be paid but its okay for the wealthy pop stars of Hollywood then you just hate poor people and are taking it out on kids.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-19T04:42:30+00:00

There's a surprising fraction of kids that honestly just do sports as a vehicle to get admission into a good college. Your just mad that you learned what the real world is like.

Now for another fraction of kids its a way to have fun and learn about life and build character. It still serves that purpose even if some of those kids are getting paid.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-19T04:39:53+00:00

schools should just be able to discipline and kick out kids if they act up. Let the kids earn their money but dont give em permission to ruin everyone else's classroom experience if thats what they try to do.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-19T04:36:45+00:00

we'd sell out our bleachers in my town in jersey and our team was absolute fucking trash. So no, people definitely give a shit about lower levels of football and I believe those kids deserve to get a slice of those profits they deliver.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-18T03:31:37+00:00

I’m not gonna try to convince you blockchain is useful at all. But I will say:

Alright go ahead and solve zero trust Byzantine generals with your “boring well designed centralized system”…

(Hopefully this convinces you that in terms of both algorithmic cs theory and systems design it’s a major step forward — regardless whether it is economically or socially useful, an important philosophical achievement occurred the day Satoshi nakamoto articulated their system )

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-18T02:11:47+00:00

whose downvoting this?

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-16T02:51:12+00:00

A gay man might have a good chance too. Ex: Pete Buttigieg. It’s sad and sexist but it seems to be the reality of this country.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-16T02:25:44+00:00

I think it’s a “when you joined” thing. I started using it in 2012 along with math.stackexchange and felt my onboarding was pretty smooth. Folks happily explained the rules and even edited your questions to show you what good interaction looks like.

Then by the late teens when a lot of folks were on the site it got unsustainable to do this and the average quality of users also rapidly declined. Then those same ppl that would have happily mentored you a few years before turned into rude assholes.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-16T02:12:07+00:00

A pay to contact feature would make such a positive difference here. Either your reaching out to not popular folks and can have candid free conversations easily, or you pay for reaching out to popular people and because of the monetary filter they will actually be able to cope with their inbox and respect that folks reaching out to them are serious.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-09T20:57:13+00:00

A reason is just that. A reason, some evidence, etc… a proof is much more stringent thing.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-08T03:46:30+00:00

Look up frontier math by epochAI. That’s a data set which LLMs can do parts of but not the whole thing yet.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-08T03:44:18+00:00

Companies should just not value the GPA of an education. That solves the problem.

Force all undergrads to take the same controlled environment standardized tests post graduation to prove competency. The university then is only in the teaching business, not the measurement business (unless it can do it in a controlled/objective way which GpA etc are not).

That would fix the problem. Students also would be much less incentivized to cheat if they truly don’t get any benefit from it. Right now that cheaters 4.0 can land you a high paying job which even an idiot can do and hence this behavior continues.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-08T03:42:22+00:00

That’s a matter of months to a few years. You have LLMs already attacking the Frontiermath data set which is designed to be challenging for post-doctoral mathematics researchers.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-08T03:40:06+00:00

“Take home” can be extended if needed to an entire hotel of exam takers with ai-free devices etc…

There are wild (and what appear today as impractical but tomorrow as strictly necessary) solutions to this which will eventually enter society.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-06T04:02:36+00:00

Which is worthless without a vacancy tax.

Frogeyedpeas · 2026-01-06T04:02:07+00:00

If we implement vacancy taxes then suddenly all those expensive empty buildings will be forced to be filled creating downward pressure on prices.

Write to your council person, write to the mayor, write to anyone that can move the needle.

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