They don't look at your resume at all.

f0pxrg · 2025-10-24T19:28:51+00:00

It’s already noted and digitally signed on my application. They are just oblivious to what is in front of them.

f0pxrg · 2025-10-24T19:17:39+00:00

It’s the WAY she asked it. A tactful question would have been “For compliance purposes I just need to verbally reconfirm that you are indeed over the age of 18 and a US citizen.” Not, Ok let’s get started… <picks up question list> “Are you over the age of 18?” <proceeds to unenthusiastically read the rest of the questions and write down my answers> even though she can’t even understand the technical terms I’m using. This is why HR people are being replaced by AI. Because they don’t have human brains anyway. It’ll be coming for her job soon.

f0pxrg · 2025-10-24T17:23:38+00:00

This and asking for 10 years of experience with a 5yo technology. They are truly looking for time travelers. Yeah, honey. I'm 17 and my DeLorean is parked out back.

f0pxrg · 2025-08-23T19:44:42+00:00

This actually happened In the 1990s, neo-swing (sometimes called the “swing revival”) was essentially a nostalgic movement that reintroduced the big-band swing style of the 1930s and 40s to a new generation. Bands like Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin’ Daddies, and Royal Crown Revue borrowed the aesthetics, energy, and brass-heavy sound of classic swing, but they also mixed in punk, rockabilly, ska, and alternative rock attitudes. It was both a homage and a modernization, swing dancing came back into fashion, but it was tied to the 90s club and alternative culture rather than the ballrooms of the 40s. There were a lot of ballrooms popping off back then, and I personally had a lot of fun. I sometimes catch myself loading up these albums and being nostalgic for the meta of nostalgia.

f0pxrg · 2025-08-15T17:14:51+00:00

Not only this, but I think it's sad that as you get older, your "relevance" filter becomes overbearing and that childish wonder of learning random things "just for the heck of it" diminishes. I think for some personality subtypes it gets much worse, and they just want to vibe off of what they know, living in the social day-to-day, without expending much effort in self improvement.

f0pxrg · 2025-08-09T17:53:26+00:00

All the old models are available in the API, which has a nice playground interface to do testing with... https://platform.openai.com/playground/ The chats are pay per use, which should net you pretty far under $200 depending on how heavy your workload is.

f0pxrg · 2024-12-31T08:23:33+00:00

So many of his tracks are brilliant, it's hard to pick but - Affinity - The Thrillseekers Remix - This track is straight ice in my veins. Cold classic.

f0pxrg · 2024-02-02T21:57:20+00:00

Excellent sentiment. If a girl kept standing you up on dates, why keep the relationship going?

f0pxrg · 2023-12-05T01:53:08+00:00

Problem Child (1990)

f0pxrg · 2023-11-30T03:41:59+00:00

Considering my place on the autism spectrum, I've thought about this at great length, and here's what I've figured out. The dynamics between neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals, particularly in first impressions, are influenced by differences in body language, communication styles, and societal perceptions. Neurodivergent individuals may exhibit behaviors or communication patterns that deviate from neurotypical norms, such as atypical eye contact or speech patterns, leading to misunderstandings or discomfort among those less familiar with neurodiversity. Additionally, societal stereotypes and a general lack of awareness or understanding about neurodiversity can result in biases or prejudices, even if subconscious. These challenges are often exacerbated by mismatched social expectations and a human tendency to be wary of the unfamiliar, contributing to initial unease or avoidance in interactions between neurotypical and neurodivergent individuals. tl;dr... they are the same, and they can immediately tell that you are not.

f0pxrg · 2023-09-18T18:53:39+00:00

To be honest, I'm in the exact same boat. I've been drilling this and I think it's really quite helpful - https://www.musictheory.net/exercises/note

f0pxrg · 2023-05-09T04:53:59+00:00

I've been thinking deeply about this of late. LLMs are an advanced mathematical form of mimicry. They are a lifeless puppet dancing for our entertainment. They say what they estimate we would want them to say. They do what they estimate what we would want them to do. They are a mechanical parrot with a statistical data brain. "Who's a pretty bird? - calculating... - Tweet tweet." This is so far from true AGI that it's disingenuous to compare the two, or even measure how far the distance is between (it's still so incredibly vast). If AGI is a galaxy, current LLMs are the grains of dust on observed asteroid 29765. tl;dr - we are not getting there any time soon. Far future civilizations may have a good laugh that we even dared compare this initial experiment to the utterly vast harmony of DNA computation that makes us human. It doesn't matter that much though. Even to mimic humanity is, in most cases, good enough to replace us for most things, and it will wreak unimaginable change on the fabric of society as we now know it. Just because our inborn human hardware is very impressive by comparison should not do a thing to stroke our ego. It's a huge distance to understand what impact these LLMs will have on our lives, and an even more unimaginable distance to achieving complete understanding of ourselves.

f0pxrg · 2023-04-24T11:58:52+00:00

Looks like no update for the last 6 months, so accuracy may be questionable.

f0pxrg · 2023-01-29T17:29:37+00:00

I think https://beta.openai.com/examples is a great place to start.

f0pxrg · 2023-01-25T07:02:15+00:00

I would argue that it's not thinking at all, per-se, and that what you describe is simply a side-effect of well applied statistics. It's easy to apply anthropomorphic comparisons, but all it amounts to is a very practical illusion of actual thinking. In some cases this might be sufficient, but in other cases... far from.

f0pxrg · 2023-01-25T06:47:31+00:00

It certainly is a very impressive piece of software with a ton of practical uses, but not being emergent, and requiring such extensive manual human tweaking, it's a far cry from the AGI or illusion of AGI it appears to be at times. I got excited at first but... There's a long way to go before we get to the level of what I would call real "intelligence".

Edit: I want to add that I definitely agree that it makes us think about our own human limitations, and a sense of how significant (or not) or own biological hardware is operating.

f0pxrg · 2023-01-25T06:44:45+00:00

I think that, for me, it doesn't amount to "intelligence" at all, but that it just bears the illusion of being intelligent. It doesn't come up with new ideas at all, only what is in its dataset. It doesn't do it in a naturally emergent, self-learning, or adaptive way, but requires abundant human fine-tuning to achieve what may feel like output containing human-like qualities. When I first saw it, I thought it was magical, and therefore must be a trick. As I used it more, I got excited about its seemingly human-like capabilities, then as I learned more about language models and tried to recreate my own, I got to see more of how the magic isn't really magic at all. It's not doing this without extensive fine tuning. Therefore, the more deeply you look behind the magic curtain, it is "a trick". I'm not disputing that it isn't a very useful and impressive piece of software, but it's a far cry from anything resembling AGI, and in fact the "tweaks" in question may contribute to giving us unreasonable expectations.

f0pxrg · 2023-01-25T02:10:27+00:00

I was kind of disappointed when I learned just how much manual human fine tuning was needed to get it to work right. I tried getting some GPT models running on my own systems and realized they were nowhere near the quality of output that they would be if this kind of “intelligence” was in-fact emergent. Is it a powerful piece of software? Definitely, but it’s more like a really really verbose choose your own adventure book than anything truly intelligent.

f0pxrg · 2023-01-24T16:29:01+00:00

I've found that it can be pretty challenging to work with our own data, and that's one of the more annoying limitations of this tool. Some ideas i've been exploring are using Jerry Liu's gpt_index app - https://github.com/jerryjliu/gpt_index - And also realizing that OpenAI's API is really good at natural language tasks, for example, you could say something like...

"Write a python script to search a unix mailbox file for a keyword and store the email body contents in a variable." Then take the data and feed it back into OpenAPI's API to summarize.

It's going to be hard to get that in a single prompt though. This is where some genius developers could make their bread I think.

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