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How dense is your living environment?
I masked outside always when I lived downtown, because people were frequent and close. I don't anymore now that we have moved to a much less dense area.
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Metrix is FDA approved and seems to get to Canada ok.
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The green low value ones are indoor sensors.
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The federal scale got adjusted down, but the PM2.5 doesn't look any better to me. The air is less hazy, but I am still feeling it.
map.purpleair.com/air-quality-...
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Toronto AQI has ranged between 100-175 most of this week. HEPAs on inside, masks on outside.
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If you teach physics, Prince can help your students learn the Right Hand Rule. 🎢
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Jonathan III is in the middle passing on his family knowledge.
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Make Geocities Great Again
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Only a week old.
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Was explaining this to my Not At All Online wife like Oppenheimer furiously scribbling formulas on a chalkboard.
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Over six thousand words and three thousand more on the cutting room floor on this one. And I easily could have gone for a couple thousand more beyond that. More than anything else, I *resent* this technology for taking up so much space in my brain for so little benefit.
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I too am a reluctant skeptic. "I am, even more reluctantly, exposed to genAI Discourse every damn minute of every damn day. It is relentless, inescapable, and exhausting."
All due to a top down arms race hype war because Number Must Go Up. All it takes is addicting & firing enough people.
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Usually radiant canadiosity is measured with the Eh (or Hon in Quebec).
For absorbed dose, it's in Tims, but if you're talking about effective dose equivalent, then they usually measure it in milliBeavers.
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I was thinking luminosity but dosimetry does make more sense. Canadiometry!
Now to figure out the fundamental SI unit dimensions for Eh, Tims and Beavers.
Hmm.
Metrology is hard. Need a standards committee for this one.
I do love dimensional analysis.
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No True Canadian would miss the references.
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What are the units of CANADIOSITY?
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Forrester is a lot less expensive.
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And most of all, explicitly plan for self care mental health time when you stop your part time work.
It can be very discouraging. But there is a end to it, and another position out there. You are valuable and it will be recognized.
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The other thing I learned the hard way is treat it like a job, with search metrics
But a part time job with hard time limits.
Do cold calls to people you haven't spoken to in a while. Use the calls not to find a job, but to learn who is hiring and what is needed. Think of it as market analysis.
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I wish I did. So very sorry someone of your talents find themselves immersed in this.
The things that worked for me were referrals, networking & reaching around the ATS to connect with the hiring manager directly as if I was a consultant who would be solving their "pain problem".
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"one click application" boards drove a flood of junk applications. This begat automated Applicant Tracking Systems aka the black hole.
Now, hiring managers face a flood of LLM generated applications into their LLM using ATS.
It's a hiring nightmare for everyone.
It's beyond broken.
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My experience is that it is incredibly compelling right up to the point where you have deep domain expertise in the realm of its answers. Then the bullshit becomes very clear, very fast.
When you use it in your area of domain expertise, what has your experience been?
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The reason for the rapid appearance is because the hyperscalers hit the wall on growth, needed new land to grab, & a gold rush broke out.
They synthesized demand by putting it everywhere.
GenAI trades time for quality for well defined problems. Humans are terrible monitors of automation quality.
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"your custom protocol is broken"
If I had a dollar for every one of these I've dealt with over the years...