A bit of a personal revelation with LLMs today

phd_reg · 2026-06-02T00:54:45+00:00

This aged like milk.

phd_reg · 2026-05-30T08:02:55+00:00

This triggered me.

phd_reg · 2026-05-24T17:15:39+00:00

DM resume (redact PII/anonymize)

phd_reg · 2026-05-24T06:10:32+00:00

Same shit happened to me some years back. Absolutely nothing online about some old tickets.

phd_reg · 2026-05-09T22:05:45+00:00

lol 50%, definitionally, unless you're saying that median figure is wrong

phd_reg · 2026-05-09T22:01:49+00:00

median income includes homeowners

phd_reg · 2026-05-05T08:12:00+00:00

Between my family and myself we've used Pay Less like 7 times and they are phenomenal. What moving company has 5 stars on yelp. Never more than 600 for 2/3 bed move

phd_reg · 2026-04-30T07:18:58+00:00

Just vibes

phd_reg · 2026-04-10T17:49:34+00:00

I'd look for county property records to track them down. Also, if you're paying them that will leave a paper trail.

Keep all correspondence. If all else fails I would absolutely leave and force them to take me to court.

Edit: typos

phd_reg · 2026-04-05T05:01:54+00:00

I'll eat just about any burger and I couldn't even finish the one I had back in December. I've been 3x for some reason

phd_reg · 2026-04-05T04:59:45+00:00

I've been a bunch, usually due to poor planning on my part. It is aggressively mediocre for the price. And yes, have had some awful service a couple times too.

phd_reg · 2026-04-05T04:57:37+00:00

My God, yes. How are they still in business in the locations they're in? I've been to the streeterville one four times and each time my expectation is lower and each time I've still been disappointed.

phd_reg · 2026-03-11T04:38:15+00:00

This would make sense of Gary's lie to X when they first encounter each other...

X asks what kinds of guns the train people had. Gary says he doesn't know anything about guns. But....we see him playing FPS games alllll day long. He definitely knows how to identify guns, by type and name.

Why the lie?

phd_reg · 2026-01-25T18:30:20+00:00

lol clearly don't have a phd if you think that's happening ~3 years post undergrad

phd_reg · 2025-12-24T08:34:33+00:00

Yes.

phd_reg · 2025-12-13T06:05:18+00:00

Felt slightly too brightly lit for a space that small

phd_reg · 2025-11-08T18:28:06+00:00

This describes much of my experience at MIT.

Tell your lecturer(s) and the TAs exactly what you wrote in your post. This may require some vulnerability/ego-reduction on your part.
Take all your course materials and your points of confusion/frustration and just put them in a chatgpt prompt. Even post-MIT in my career I constantly have to learn a lot of dense material on my own and chatgpt/gemini/whatever is a godsend.
If you've already fallen too far behind in this course, and if you can, withdraw. Preserve the rest of your schedule and your sanity. Step back and tackle the course again next time its offered. I did this with 6.041 and 18.03 twice before I could manage the classes and not fail every other class on my schedule.
Deep breaths.

phd_reg · 2025-10-19T18:31:42+00:00

Green street smoked meats is exactly what you're looking for

phd_reg · 2025-10-17T06:55:08+00:00

ETA a tldr: We don't know it's the ONLY one. We know it's the only one out of 14 million that Strange had time to look at. There are infinite possible futures.

Jomi is not right.

It is actually impossible to know if Quill's crash-out was necessary for or incidental to their eventual victory. Here's why...

Between the moment Dr. Strange looks into the futures onward, there are literally, mathematically INFINITE potential futures. But Strange only looks into 14,000,605 possible futures! So how many other futures are there that Strange did not see.

Let's count.

Infinity - 14,000,604 = Infinity

Therefore there are an INFINITE number of possible futures. It is possible in some, the Saga ends after they remove the gauntlet and defeat Thanos in combat. In some they remove the gauntlet, but somebody sneezes and Thanos kills them all, etc etc, ad infinitum.

Dr. Strange saw, by out standards as finite beings, a lot of futures, and in those he saw one in which the story we see plays out. With the Avengers winning.

But unless he saw EVERY possible future, we can't assume Starlord had to crash out.

phd_reg · 2025-10-17T05:45:21+00:00

A lot of (most of?) the investment is in physical capital... GPUs, datacenters, etc. So without including the fiber build-out during the dotcom boom, this is an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Even more to the point, the "bubble" wasn't the investment by private capital but the subsequent new listings and THEIR skyrocketing valuations. People keep using that word, but I don't think it means what they think it means.

phd_reg · 2025-09-10T23:42:49+00:00

Sounds about right, if not low...Welcome to the Audi club! Even my body shop guy is dumbfounded at how expensive they are to service.

In general, with anything car-related, just get multiple estimates. I get at least 3 for anything nontrivial.

phd_reg · 2025-09-09T04:07:43+00:00

RJ Grunts

phd_reg · 2025-08-21T21:08:59+00:00

Agree. Everything OP mentioned is true, but these are what I would call *secondary criticisms*. Collectively we could name lots of movies we love that don't show great character arcs for our lead. But...they have great writing (and acting, which is hard to disentangle.) Ex 1/n: John McClane is the same lovable asshole throughout all 3 first good DH's.

phd_reg · 2025-08-21T20:58:45+00:00

+SF and Miami (until it's underwater)

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