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Change who’s around you.

Plan B, try to change how you let them affect you. Easier said than done, but very effective when pulled off.

The perspective shift is this: if they bully you, tease you, put you down, and you get angry and sad, notice that you let them decide your feelings. Instead, view what they say, as something that says more about them than it does you.

Source: I struggled with bullying. I’m still considered odd, but that I’m OK with that.

Tap water is so cheap it might as well be free, and it’s probably included in the rent in a lot of places.

I guess it’s not free in places that need to have a revolution first?

This.

Also, one of the machines is running the git plugin, so things get saved in my Forgejo as well. I guess I could set it up so they save to hit, but in different branches. 🤔

Fair, but it’s also just a way of saying that programming isn’t a task for humans. (At least not in the correctness aspect)

https://open.spotify.com/episode/3umFrR0Bpu1fmXpO1PzDdh?si=NPMlzRCtTZGakiuikO8GEw

This. So much this.

I’m a member of Sveriges Ingenjörer. Fortunately, I’ve never needed serious union help, but it’s probably because the background threat is more than enough. And the salary statistics alone are worth the dues!

Axioms are not like the others, they’re assumed to be true even before considering any evidence or even arguments.

Sounds reasonable, but a lot of recent advances come from being able to let the machine train against itself, or a twin / opponent without human involvement.

As an example of just running the thing itself, consider a neural network given the objective of re-creating its input with a narrow layer in the middle. This forces a narrower description (eg age/sex/race/facing left or right/whatever) of the feature space.

Another is GAN, where you run fake vs spot-the-fake until it gets good.