linear regression enjoyer

Being on the hiring side of tech really jokerified me re: endless complaints about job search

"Just get more people to review applications" that's what recruiters are for, and y'all complain about recruiters even louder

"Well yes it'll take a while. That's your problem as a manager" Okay so you're good with not hearing anything about your application for 3 months then?..

Before you yell at me: I review every application I get with my own human eyeballs So far I reviewed about 700. I have 200+ more to go. Job has been posted a month ago. It's a senior, specialized position. Now imagine, like, a junior SWE opening

everyone complains about hiring teams using AI to analyze job applications but no one wants to tell me what are hiring managers supposed to do when a job ad is receiving 200+ applications per week

es lunes

im not particularly concerned with whether the computer is sentient. im more concerned with whether the drivers i see everyday on the road as a cyclist in america are sentient (theyre not)

Might be a good time to remember that each of us is profoundly annoying to someone.

my hot take (with the caveat that i used to teach college) is that i do not care. You are an adult, if you make a choice to waste $100k on college and come out learning nothing - that's your choice. I'm not a cop and I'm not a nanny. I'll be over there teaching people who are interested in learning.

Crying face wojack says "Professor won't you please answer your emails -- at least look in your inbox, it's part of your job" is being responded to by a wojack version of me that is just saying "No, I'm scared."

Sometimes it do be like that

Silver car on city street surrounded by low pile of snow.

black car on city street surrounded by low pile of snow.

Any car that hasn't moved in the period between the last storm ending and the next storm beginning should immediately be towed, stripped of hazardous materials, and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to become artificial reefs like they do with old subway cars.

corporate lifehack: take PTO Wednesday to Wednesday instead of Monday to Monday. Same number of days, but you're bookended by two short weeks for dealing with The Bullshit

A museum case filled with, i guess, plastic cutouts?... of stylized human hair, face, legs etc. All parts somewhat resemble National Book Prize winner Joyce Carol Oates. There's a description next to the case, which is transcribed in the next photo.

Description of a museum case: Robert Therrien working stencils, drawings, cutouts, and photographs, n.d. Wood, metal, plastic, and paper Robert Therrien Estate The character of Joyce appears more frequently in Therrien's archive and sketchbooks than in his completed work. Named for Therrien's admiration of the novels of contemporary writer Joyce Carol Oates, the figure was formed initially through the combination of various PLOT-O stencils (seen in a nearby case). The artist spent years investigating the two- and three-dimensional potential of Joyce, producing sketchbooks, drawings, and sculptures in a dizzying array of materials and sizes.

there's a new JCO post going around, so i thought y'all might enjoy this absolutely freak shit i saw at the Broad museum in LA yesterday

like of course you should teach a class so that people taking it enjoy the activities they are doing! The post isn't saying that you shouldn't! "Not having enjoyment as the primary goal" is not the same "not having enjoyment".

if you look at the breakdown of people taking your math class, how many are taking it to enjoy the math and how many are taking it because having these skills is necessary to then go and do things they actually enjoy?..

mathematicians of bsky are having predicatable reactions to this tweet, showing that they haven't interacted with a non-major in 10 years

Like yeah, I don't think the primary objective of a mechanical engineering student taking calculus is to enjoy solving math problems!

Movie description of the B horror move Death PhD. Gawdawful movie.

Now this is a movie plot!!! Someone understands grad school.

"but alex how will you pretend to work when you go to the climbing gym in the middle of the day" joke's on you, i haven't gone to the gym in 8 months. because I'm depressed. due to slack on my phone.

wow turns out the key to peace of mind was deleting slack from you phone

this quote made me realize that the reason people outside tech perceive the ai vibe shift very differently is because for them, computer was *always* nondeterministic

the need to be able understand the lyrics is so intensely funny to anyone who wasn't born in the west but lives through the era of western cultural hegemony

like, do you think the beatles were dubbed in moldovan

we have been tryly reinventing chatgpt for centuries

Today we added a page view tracking script to our website, and this guy asked me if now we'll get historical data for people who visited the page before this change. Like I didn't even know how to respond? Should we have a philosophical discussion about the directionality of time?..

this is a very unkind thing to say, but nothing has challenged my conviction that "intelligence isn't a real thing" as much as working with digital marketers

halftime show fromt eh supebowl showing a set on the field featuring a nyc bodega

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

getting a lot of responses from people in places other than the New York City metropolitan area. please understand this is not about you, it’s about us. everything is about us.

people On Here both under- and over-estimate the permeation of ai discourse into the normie culture

all ai opinion-havers should spend couple hours people-watching in a coffeeshop, because normal people out there are using chatgpt for literally everything on their little laptops, while at the same time asking their friends next to them "wait what's an ai agent" (friend also doesn't know)

me every day:

People mostly say "Americans live in different realities" to talk about politics but it is blaring in my head reading the positive reviews of One Battle After Another

it explains a lot about how americans think about immigration once you realize that they think a "visa" is what they have to do to get into EU