I was amused by “AI” when it took off in the winter of 2022-2023. My friends and I took turns generating comedic images, probing our imagination for the most incongruous prompts to see what humor could manifest. More than one year later, I’ve developed a distaste for generative technology, but more than that a sense of foreboding. I doubt that I have any new opinions here but I find it worth writing down anyway.

…and the jobs that benefit the most people pay the least. We’re incentivized to benefit the fewest people and wonder why resources are concentrated into the fewest hands. 2024-09-06: I found this expressed in almost the exact same way in a documentary about burnout. One of the most pernicious things about our current economic system is that the more your work benefits others in an obvious and immediate sense, the more your work has a clear and undeniable beneficial effect on other human beings, the less you are likely to get paid for it.

Apr 2034, Reuters Sam Bankman-Fried, formerly convicted of various counts of fraud and released from prison early in 2027, has purchased Valve Corp. and lays out his vision for the future. “We’re taking the Steam platform in an entirely new direction”, the 51-year-old entrepreneur said. Bankman-Fried will focus efforts on providing a premiere platform for AI-generated content. “There are so many ideas that AI can help us explore”, said Bankman-Fried during our visit to his 100,000 sq.

I received a question about interpreting the exponentiated coefficient of a logistic regression (with a logit link). I don’t usually try to understand the coefficients in terms of odds, because I find them unintuitive. And I never really explored why I found them unintuitive until I was asked about them.

I’ve done it! Finally got my website all sorted. TLDR: RTFM. The config section of the docs had the answer the whole time; needed to set config to point to my subdirectory instead of the root. Clear your cache, and the web server’s cache. Band-aid is to open your browser’s network section of the dev tools and disable cache, which apparently also has the effect of requesting fresh content from the web server as well.

Finally got around to updating this dang website. I’m using straight Hugo, built on a WSL Ubuntu, and rsync’d over to my website (why is rsync on Windows so hard?). I might use quarto going forward to render any notebooks I have. For R and python I’m using micromamba to manage installation and environments. Formerly I’d relied on the R package blogdown to create the website; however, I felt that it abstracted just a bit too much of the process away, I wanted to be more involved in maintaining hugo settings and understanding the system a little better.

Twitch was at least 12 years old, perhaps as old as 14. Twitch was a centerpiece at my cousin’s wedding – a Chinese wedding – in New York City. Goldfish symbolize wealth, abundance, and fertility in Chinese culture. According to wikipedia, Jinyu (金鱼, the word for a goldfish) is a homophone for “gold in abundance”; therefore, they are perceived as suitable gifts for wedding. Facebook tells me the wedding was in 2011, but for some reason I seem to remember it being earlier.

Moonlander ZSA Review I bought this thing in late October, a few days after I’d had some pain in my wrist at work. This thing comes direct from Taiwan (free shipping!), and the wait was rather agonizing, checking the tracking every 10 minutes or so. At about $375, this is not a budget keyboard by any means, but I figured the health benefits avoiding wrist injury was worth the price tag.