cjohnson318

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by cjohnson318 26d ago
I used some check marks and x-es in a work chat, because it was easy to do, and so I could highlight the good and bad outcomes, and someone immediately asked me if I was using AI. I was caught totally flat-footed, because I hadn't used
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by cjohnson318 2mo ago
Well, I've enjoyed it. It's easier to set up an run from a virtual environment than Jupyter notebooks. That was a big problem I had for years.
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by cjohnson318 3mo ago
Well, my bad. I won't ask dumb questions like "was this written by AI".
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by cjohnson318 3mo ago
Was this written by AI? This is just "I automated some things, use skills instead of scripts". Like, what did you automate? How much time did you save? How can I reproduce that?
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by cjohnson318 4mo ago
100% I picked up shorthand to take notes quicker, but I'm still half-in/half-out of the conversation, mentally deciding what's important enough to jot down. This sounds like a great solution.
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by cjohnson318 6mo ago
I went to an old engineering school for grad school, all the older buildings had this color scheme.
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by cjohnson318 6mo ago
I typed in my dentist's full business name and location, "<name> family dentistry <city> <state>", and it was still #5 in the results. I still, out of habit, tapped the first link and called that number inst
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by cjohnson318 8mo ago
Yeah, and cameras changed art forever.
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by cjohnson318 8mo ago
Can confirm.
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by cjohnson318 8mo ago
I was consulting like this too, but my wife also had a full time corporate job. It all kind of ended with her team having layoffs around the same time that most of my clients figured out that they could use AI to do most of my work at a tin
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by cjohnson318 8mo ago
This spacing reminds me of Turing patterns, or activator/inhibitor systems, but I'm gobsmacked that this occurs in random matrices.
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by cjohnson318 8mo ago
What would I use this for? Everything in the examples is pretty easy to do in scripting languages like Python, JS, and Ruby.
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by cjohnson318 9mo ago
I got a stable job! I was unemployed for a few months, we paid a small fortune for health insurance, and I got ulcers from the stress, but things worked out! I enjoy my team, and I'm hopeful about 2026.
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by cjohnson318 10mo ago
Same.
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by cjohnson318 10mo ago
Bro you can't just leak operational secrets on the world wide information highway like this.
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by cjohnson318 10mo ago
They probably use Excel, maybe Microsoft Access.
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by cjohnson318 10mo ago
Yeah, this is the kind of thing that makes me really enjoy the internet.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
The thing about language is that words have a weird distribution. The most common 100 words show up in every single sentence, but then tons of "common" words show up statistically almost never. Like, "octopus" is a commo
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
So much for being a safe and lucrative place for all the best minds of the world.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
It would REBOLutionize everything.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
I disagree about the thicker paper part. It's the "sizing" of the paper that's important, that's the preparation of the paper that makes it more or less absorbent. Moleskine/Lechturn and similar notebooks have
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
That an interesting perspective, about working on a lot of your client's vibe coded fever dreams. Yeah, I'm don't envy 19 year olds looking for software work right now. God help them.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
Well, I moved into a more conservative role, which I think was a good move considering the economy and the job market.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
Racism? Lack of social awareness? Problems with impulse control? Trolling? Pick several.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
I've lost consulting work because I'm a lot more expensive than $20 a month. I've literally had clients say, "yeah, I would have called you, but I was able to figure out that bug with ChatGPT."
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
Yeah, well, I was trying to be generous.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
It's just a clever title. The article immediately walks the thesis back, and then relates some trivia about English. Five minute read, three stars.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
I tried Spanish. I wanted to test a few words that are different in Spain versus Mexico. I didn't get any results for anything I tired.
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
> voters and representatives who no longer believe in our shared objective reality. This hits the nail on the head. Before you talk to someone, there's no telling what planet they're going to be on. Maybe you can talk about the
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by cjohnson318 1y ago
I thought that there was a bar somewhere, a line that would not be crossed, but there isn't, it's just straight up identity politics, or owning the libs, whatever you want to call it.

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