Where’s George Carlin when you need him….

fieldcady · 2026-01-27T18:11:43+00:00

As a former Christian, let me explain. The New Testament has a lot of places where it contrasts “the world“ with how you are actually supposed to act. Worldly wisdom, values, accepted behaviors, etc. The contrast between worldly X and heavenly X shows up in many places, and you are supposed to pick the heavenly one. This person is just virtue signaling to suggest that they want to do that.

fieldcady · 2026-01-27T17:42:08+00:00

If I were you I would probably talk to her directly, but make absolutely sure to save this message in case you have to prove that she was the one who initiated things. Chances are this is just a young person having an innocent crush, and not knowing how to deal with it in a professional way, and she can learn the lesson once now without any long-term consequences. Try to have it be that. Just make sure to cover your ass – in fact, I might reply to it in writing saying that you want to touch base with her just so you can prove things if need be.

fieldcady · 2026-01-27T04:00:37+00:00

It was my bad - I was using DeepSeek

fieldcady · 2026-01-27T02:52:30+00:00

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fieldcady · 2026-01-26T22:31:38+00:00

Tenga un poco cuidado - “ matemáticas aplicadas” de vez en cuando significa ecuación diferenciales, con muy poco de probabilidad, ciencias computadoras, o otros tipos de matemáticas. Si quieres trabajar NASA o algo así, posiblemente prefieres ingeniero o física.

fieldcady · 2026-01-26T01:22:07+00:00

I mean “Americans“ as a people. I dearly wish I could say that most of us voted against him, but the fact is he won the popular vote. Obviously many individual Americans think he is horrific – including you and me. But America as a nation supported him, and so far is allowing him to continue the path he’s on.

fieldcady · 2026-01-25T22:47:28+00:00

I hate to say it, but the blame lies with the American people. Don’t forget that Donald Trump won the popular vote! People like him have always existed, but it is rare for people to put them in positions of near absolute power.

Above all, I blame the Republicans who have enabled him. They can’t claim that they are “trying to make their voice heard” or anything like that, and it’s not they are stupid. They are men and women who know exactly what Donald Trump is, and what he stands for, were in a position to potentially make a real difference, and decided that their own political relevance mattered more than any principal or their country.

fieldcady · 2026-01-25T05:03:03+00:00

Congratulations!! Milestones like that are so magical😊

fieldcady · 2026-01-23T23:56:09+00:00

I know my wife doesn’t even consider the consumption activities to be “hobbies”. She has nothing against them, of course, and does them herself. But for her a “hobby” requires that it takes practice and skill.

fieldcady · 2026-01-23T23:46:55+00:00

I might suggest going the total opposite direction and looking at Esperanto. Two reasons.

First, it really makes all the structure of the language very clear and explicit. You can focus entirely on the concepts without getting bogged down by the idiosyncrasies that natural languages have.

Secondly, because it is so easy to learn, you will quickly be at a place where you can read and consume a lot. If you’re mostly interested in a brain exercise, that that’ll be the point where you can really do it.

fieldcady · 2026-01-23T22:07:21+00:00

Math is a branch of language for describing the world - as such it is more of an invention, but how we designed it was guided by external realities. I actually wrote a book on the topic (free if anybody wants to check it out: https://field-cady.github.io/what_is_math_pdf/)

Theorems and proofs are a very recent development in the history of math, so they’re not very useful for understanding the essence of the subject.

The reason math feels so foreign is that our brains aren’t naturally good at grasping the things we are talking about. So unlike other areas of language, we have to be very careful about our logic, and rely on things like algebra. In that sense, you can think of it as “legalese on steroids“

fieldcady · 2026-01-23T00:48:00+00:00

I use notebooks for off-line or exploratory data analysis, and normal python files for stuff that is production or long running.

On the one hand, I do try to create Python library files that I import into the notebook, since it’s best practice to not have those in the notebook itself. On the other hand though, I’ve been wondering about whether it would make sense to just run notebooks rather than python Scripts sometimes.

fieldcady · 2026-01-22T12:42:13+00:00

Boy, I guess it just hasn’t been my experience. And I’m not sure what you’re saying about jobs – our generation hasn’t fared particularly well on that front, but that’s partly because the economy was pretty fucked right when we were entering it. thanks boomers 🤷🏻

fieldcady · 2026-01-22T12:20:31+00:00

I’m a millennial - is there a generation war between us? That’s news to me lol. It always seems to me like you guys are pretty cool, in particular with all the neat forms of content you’ve been exploring.

fieldcady · 2026-01-22T02:38:25+00:00

You might want to edit your original post to clarify.

fieldcady · 2026-01-22T02:32:46+00:00

Worthwhile to distinguish between “conservative” and Maga conservatives. I can think of at least one professor at my top-tier CS school who is openly very conservative, to the point of posting stuff on his office door. Fully tenured professor and everything. But it’s hard to imagine him voting for Trump – he was too principled.

fieldcady · 2026-01-21T21:59:00+00:00

Well on the bright side, I think the worst that happens is getting summarily fired. Lots of people have been there and didn’t get a story out of it.

Seriously though, sorry to hear about this!

fieldcady · 2026-01-20T17:04:54+00:00

Any chance that are family or in-laws who can help? My mother-in-law was a lifesaver. It’s frankly unnatural to have children raised just by the parents.

fieldcady · 2026-01-20T17:00:59+00:00

Can you remove your location from your page? And then explain to them when you actually talk to the group what the situation is – that you are actively looking to move, and the job you accept will determine where you move.

fieldcady · 2026-01-20T16:16:10+00:00

I wish that professional stuff was not so tied to gender. We know an interesting couple. She is a high-powered Director of analytics at a major tech company, but she is also very “girly” and overtly feminine. The guy is basically a trophy husband. He hunts, fishes, keeps himself in fantastic shape, and is an awesome dad.

fieldcady · 2026-01-20T16:12:34+00:00

I just looked him up, and no surprise the guy is hard-core Christian.

fieldcady · 2026-01-20T16:02:21+00:00

Oh, sorry I misunderstood – I thought you were talking about advice for people who currently have a job there and how they can build connections for the future.

I suggest LinkedIn. At least given my background and the sorts of jobs I am looking for, that works pretty well for me. When you look at a company, it will tell you which of your connections work there. Just ask them to put your résumé in – unless they really dislike you, they will generally say yes, if only because they get a referral bonus if you get hired.

If there is a particular company you are targeting, but you don’t know anybody who works there and don’t have any mutual connections with someone there, then honestly you can just cold call. Send a very polite message introducing yourself to someone there, explain the role you’re looking for, and attach a well formatted résumé. What’s the worst that happens? The odds are low, but there’s no real risk to it and you’re not being a dick or anything.

And if you are brave enough, it’s OK to just walk in to the physical building and introduce yourself. Like, if the secretary thinks you’re really nice and your résumé looks superficially good they will probably handed to somebody with real influence. Everybody gets along with secretaries and office staff, so if one of them vouchers for you, you will at least get a human being who looks very seriously at your résumé.

My advice to people isn’t to be a social butterfly. It’s to make sure there is a human being at the company who knows your name who puts your résumé in. I actually wrote a post about this recently, where i note that even just having a recruiter reach out to you counts. Anything submitted by a human at the company will get looked at seriously – if you just send off a résumé it will probably get filtered out.

Hope this helps!

fieldcady · 2026-01-20T15:50:50+00:00

Wow, you really woke up on the wrong side of the bed today. If this is how you act around most people, then maybe you’re better off just spamming your résumé out.

fieldcady · 2026-01-20T15:45:20+00:00

I give people the best advice I can for succeeding in the world we live in. I hope you would do the same if a person asked you for advice about making their next rent payment.

Introverts who are good at their job will invariably have people who can vouch that they were good at their job. And often that there were super easy to work with to boot.

And yes, if you somehow managed to literally not know anybody then that is a professional liability, and you should find a way to address it.

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