Notices by HalvarFlake (halvarflake@mastodon.social)

@jzilske Not sure if it was fun or just gall? :) I was never a big fan. I did make statements about that entire field being wedded to deriving value from scarcity, and that I think the key to both individual happyness *and* a better world is the advice to "work on abundance, not on scarcity"

Dear neurodivergent Twitterverse, I suspect one of my kids might have/be ADHD. I am suspicious of self-assessment tests, and would like to learn more about the SotA for testing (ideally quantitative tests without practice effects). What outside of TOVA exists? Anyone with experience with any such tests?

Also: while I think it's unlikely, I'd be interested to see what reliable tests for neurodivergent traits exist that are for adults?

Next time management asks you to stack-rank the members of your team, buy an electrical motor assembly kit, drop it on their desk, and ask them to rank the parts by importance/performance.

I heard something today that is reasonably profound in analyzing communication failures:

Having thought something isn't having said something. Having said something isn't being heard. Being heard isn't being understood. Being understood isn't agreement. Agreement isn't change. Change isn't permanent change.

Keeping this list of possible failure points in mind is helpful in analyzing communication failures.

2h 38 minutes delay on a trip of 1h 44.

There is no unreliability like travelling Deutsche Bahn. How can one train system be such a shame?

There's not much to love about FRA airport but the mechanical flight table simultaneously taps into my childhood emotion of "daddy is coming home" and young adult "let's see the world".

I am in trolly mood, so I used some SDXL on TPU image generation to generate images of Sundar Pichai smiling in front of a burning building.

My internet connection got upgraded from 7 Mbit/s to 400 Mbit/s, and it makes a difference.

@WowSuchCyber Rural france.

Ok, I rescind that opinion, the last 30 seconds are bonkers.

I didn't always admire young GeoHot, but watching this interview was a lot of fun, and he has clearly matured a lot.

Or so I thought, until the last 30 seconds, which are pretty bonkers, but that doesn't devalue the stuff before 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJg0hAKtzt8

It's been 25 months since my mother was last awake and alive, and 23 months since her death. I am spending the last two nights in her flat before the remaining content of it is thrown out.

It's a very strange feeling. She lived for memories, and her flat has an overwhelming quantity of photos in it. Boxes and boxes. It's strange to throw that out.

I miss her, a bit for myself but much more for her extreme love of children that my kids will not experience. And I miss the worldview I had ...

A thread on p(doom) from a fundamentalist Bayesian point of view: If you have read (and understood) De Finetti, you understand that in settings where you don't have repeatable experiments, you are not in a frequentist setting, so something like a "true, objective" probability does not exist. The only thing that exists are subjective degrees of belief, expressed by betting odds. It's clear that these odds are entangled with individuals utility function for money, but ...

Be nice to each other.

The person you are talking to is trapped on a small planet in environmental crisis, with 8 billion vicious, stressed, destructive, murderous and angry monkeys.

@druid I've followed BTC since 2010 and have remained unconvinced of the utility of it.

If the average stock picker underperforms Index tracking, why not use a portfolio of stock pickers, short them while going long the index for market neutral return?

@druid with all due respect, this is entirely beside the point, and a bit of a cliché cryptobro reply: "I haven't bothered to think about the question, but my answer is fiat bad crypto good."

This is the funniest thing I've seen in weeks.

A 2.3bn loan collateralized by Nvidia GPUs.

What a time to be alive.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/coreweave-raises-23-billion-debt-collateralized-by-nvidia-chips-2023-08-03/