Eq0

@Eq0@literature.cafe

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Socially inept, introverted employees. How do you survive the workplace? Because I’m in dire need of some serious advice.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I might come across as abrasive myself in this comment, you are free to completely discard anything I write.

  You were fired after only 8 weeks from a position as ER nurse. Aren’t ER nurses quite difficult to find? 8 weeks is a pretty short time. So the managers considered, after such a short time, that it was better to loose you than to keep you. That having you in their team was a negative. And they didn’t warn you, so they thought that either you would not heed the warning or that your behavior was too serious a liability for them that they would skip the warning all together.

  Considering this, I would encourage you to find their point of view on the matter. Even if it seems to you that everything was good, did you overlook communication? Did you act as a lone wolf in a team? Did you overlook to show off your own contributions? Each one could have significant ramifications.

  The examples you give are quite extreme, did you communicate about them correctly or could you communication look like pointing fingers? Did you follow up on them in the way that is usually used in the team? Did you make an enemy of a key player?

  I know work politics can be exhausting. In this direction, I don’t have advice other than learning from every experience.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there no universities/colleges that start in the afternoons?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree: a university is a workplace for a lot of people, and work is expected to take place during working hours, by definition in our society that means 9-5. I never even heard this discussion being brought up, honestly

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How long would it take for a ball rolling across the room to bounce off the wall and get back to you - but the room has a time traveling portal halfway through?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not the time travel I like because it doesn’t create any fun paradoxes!

  I support the “unique universe” idea, with all the paradoxes that that can generate. So, you send the ball back to 1969. Has the ball then been bouncing up and down the room since then? You should have seen it when you threw your “new” ball, then!

  Or the same ball cannot exist twice at the same time, then somehow the 1969 ball stopped existing when the now-ball got created. And you will never get your ball back because it disappeared in the past.

  Or the universe fixes itself, then when your ball disappeared in the time portal, the 1969 version somehow reappeared in the room, but that is the paradox that needs the most “fixing”, so I don’t prefer it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be nice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed very interesting. Honestly, it still seems that the reason for inflation is “not backed by real good and something else we don’t quite understand”, in particular considering the examples of bills of credit in North America

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be nice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The assumed reason for inflation, as I understand it, is that on one hand things devalue over time and on the other we build our system around infinite growth and rewarding innovation (many asterisks here…)

  During the Middle Ages, neither statements were considered true, the world was considered stagnant and there was virtually no inflation. That was before the banking system - so with 0% inflation i would expect the banks to collapse…

  And then… I don’t know! Stuff is hard and economics harder…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be nice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Judgemental stare

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Done with being the one in charge of maintaining friendships⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Overall, I disagree.

  I have a good friend that never contacts me first. But if I start the conversation, they engage, often propose extra plans and are great to hang out with. They just postpone reaching out.

  I have friends that often beat me to the punch, and initiate the conversation first way more often than I do. I am grateful and we then have nice chats. Only sometimes we end up making plans, but I always thank them for reaching out.

  I have vague acquaintances with which I exchange birthday wishes every year. If by chance we were meeting up again, we would have a pleasant surface level conversation. They used to be friends, but we live far away now and the friendship dwindled. Still going to send birthday wishes to minimally keep in touch. That’s fine too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes :) since the topic was coming back in another thread, I felt more explanation was nice

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨hubris go brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Just to built on this and give some more unasked for info:

  All of AI is a fancy dancy interpolation algorithm. Mostly, too fancy for us to understand how it works.

  LLMs use that interpolation to predict next words in sentences. With enough complexity you get ChatGPT.

  Other AIs still just interpolate from known data, so they point to reasonable conclusions from known data. Then those hypotheses still need to be studied and tested.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨cookie combs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bubbles can move freely once created, so they have more freedom than cookies that are stick in place. Thus, bubbles will look for optimal volume to boundary ratio with less constraints