Agree. This entire thread is weird. How do so many people in this thread have such obvious reading comprehension issues?
On a similar note--I've noticed that HN comments are often overwrought, like the commenter is trying to sound smarter than they actually are but just end up muddling what they're trying to say.
My wife and I have a shared Google Sheet where we enter every purchase (logging date, location, cost, and category) we made that day. Then we reconcile it with our monthly budget that night and make spending decisions from there.
Play with it. The people who play computer games learned input/output. The people building biodata websites learned how servers and ftp worked.
Play with it enough to know what tokens are, why LLMs are bad with calculation math but good at reasoning math, what vector DBs are, etc. It's like a language, it improves with immersion. At the current rate, the people using AI for roleplay are going to be the experts in 3 years.
There's also going to be the crowd that try to slap a LLM on everything, and engineers should be literate enough to explain why it is or is not a solution, instead of defensively screaming 'hype' or 'stochastic parrot'.
That's a really interesting idea, but how do you make a business case for something like that? It'd be far too easy to just resort to whatever the organization's cultural norm is, especially for high-priority comms.
I couldn't see myself paying for something like that, anyway, but would be interested to hear your business case.
The fact that the MBTI frantically added a fifth type for neuroticism is all the evidence you that at best it's playing catch up real personality science. The MBTI is all about profiting off of a human desire for belonging, which is why all the examples that the major sites give for each type are historical heroes (are you more of an Abraham Lincoln or Joan of Arc). Neuroticism is a harder sell, but guess what? Thinking of myself as a sensitive/neurotic person has been extremely enlightening, more than all the MBTI results in the world.
I'm preaching to the choir, but I get fired up about this stuff.
It is. I find Big 5/OCEAN to be both more scientifically validated and more intuitive to use, as all Big 5 traits exist on a spectrum. It's much easier to understand what it means when someone says they're in the 25th percentile for extraversion (that is, 75% of people are more extraverted than you), and tease out what implications that trait has, than for them to say, "I'm an INTJ" and you need to know not only those 4 traits, but the "cognitive functions" beneath them and how they interact with each other.
It's not. People just like to pretend they have moral superiority for their opinions on arbitrary writing rules, when in reality the only thing that matters is if you're clearly communicating something valuable.
I'm a professional writer and use em-dashes without a second thought. Like any other component of language, just don't _over_ use them.
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