hypethral.bsky.social
Striver for general adequacy occasionally employed as a software maker
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I loved watching all the dudes in suits get bibs put on them for a $10 meal at skyline chili.
Most places offer hot dog with all the benefits of Cincinnati chili sans the overcooked spaghetti
Honestly I can't wait until they figure out fried potatoes is better than spaghetti!
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To me, this looks similar to the federal infra/road funding that is conditional on states following federal highway "rules"
...but for fascism this time.
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My favorite thing about this is LLMs generally have a hard time with negation... so they basically biased the answer towards GUESS and HALLUCINATION weighted terms...
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oi, teaches me not to bluesky while half-watching my three year old in the park (currently assaulting some bubbles)
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Fast & mediocre advice can be useful, but narrowly. The people asking for LLM/AI solutions generally aren't intending to use it this way.
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I suppose it's no different from other tech that's mismarketed, but it's been so objectively harmful and personally it's annoying.
Like last week, my partner's CEO was telling her they fixed hallucinations...
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I have been asked to help build LLM based products for therapy for under 18 victims of trauma, to help old people be less lonely, and generally to give expert advice to ignorant people.
Properly tuned LLMs are generally good at giving fast, mediocre advice to experts. This is usually unappreciated.
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This is a mischaracterization;
The public generally understands what toothpaste is. It doesn't fix your cavities, straighten teeth or replace a dentist.
AI, in particular LLM tech, is NOT widely understood and is marketed by experts as useful in situations where it is likely to be harmful.
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I've found comments more useful on tests than code. How (code) -> What (tests) -> Why (comments)
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Step 1: Terrorists wear Trump masks and MAGA hats
Step 2: AI is trained to target terrorists
Step 3: PROFIT
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I'd be curious if HasChor has a place, particularly if it simplifies anything (and under what assumptions/conditions)
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I just see pointfree as gymnastics to reorder variables so that you can plug your function into other functions a little cleaner
Doing so always feels like all the applied demorgans law and diffEQ reformatting shenanigans from undergrad.
Is there more to it than that?
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This is for new development though right? Not search through the back catalogue of books a publisher decided not to publish before the genre popped or suddenly offer deals to self-published books that are similar?
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But the two markets seem very similar in that the time cost of a book is high enough to favor expertise and recommendation over other selection methods. It's also rare to choose one book over another because it's slightly cheaper (but you are willing to pay more to get something quality sooner)
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Super different! It's also different in that for books marketing costs are way lower, end-user is less motivated, profit per customer is way lower (only supports low CPC), and IP rights last far longer (though there's "generic" pile-on within 6 months of a successful book these days)
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I'm surprised publishers don't do more genre marketing. Though maybe they do: Romantasy is a thing now, but unsure if there were centrally marketed streams or just a bunch of indie authors/influencers that brought it into the zeitgeist
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sales data is generally a trailing indicator anyway, but unsure what the leading indicators are for books (or if they vary per genre or are different for well known vs relatively unknown authors)
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Ugh, the more I think about this, the more I see goodreads as a completely wasted opportunity for marketing insights... unless this is what they are already doing and I'm just ignorant? 7/7
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I'd love to see the "want to read" vs "read" vs "reviewed" pipeline across my genre. As an authot I'd want to see what's different and what actions increase my top of funnel (preferably through something channel tagged like a referral link!) 6/7
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If I were one of these agencies I'd probably want goodreads actions as a primary measure of awareness (does amazon sell this data? Is it scrape-able?) 5/7
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This is probably expensive to know and hard to collect, which is true in Pharma too, so the agencies/people that collect & organize this data probably sell it to multiple publishers rather than individual authors 4/7
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My amateurish guess for authors interested in marketing is understanding what and where their audience is, who they have to get it read/reviewed by in a given sector, and what level of awareness existence of your book has (also do they know that you as an author exist) 3/7
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She's mostly interested in regional level sales, maven use (familiarity by highly cited/respected doctors), and general impression/knowledge of the product (and *how* they know) 2/7
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My wife works in pharma marketing which is similar to books in that the product doesn't change, just the awareness and knowledge of what it brings 1/7
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That 6 month report is just for the purpose of royalties right? Or is it supposed to be actionable?
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Ah, you want to make sure the promotion you're doing has a short term impact by looking at total ebook sales? Referer links could work for this, right? since amazon reports on that more frequently?
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What data do you wish you had? Sales per metro by day or week? Number of physical books shipped to a store/warehouse or actually consumer sales? (does publisher even have this data?) What data from ebook sales would be actionable? zip code seems too invasive while state/country seems too broad?
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I think Hildalgo smartly gives infra priorities to things she supports and shorter term policy/spending to things she doesn't (there's not a majority party in Paris, so it's highly consensus based and she's a master in the backroom)
She's definitely hated as much as she is respected though.
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Did I out jerry Jerry?
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The hardest part of milking a muscle is remembering if you already milked it; If you're good at remembering they say you have muscle memory
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It's far too easy to find or create blackmail there, and after you take money from Israel once... you can't stop
Their biggest threat was counterintelligence and bribing truck drivers has never been hard
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My biggest surprise is that DHS knows how many immigrants they are supposed to have locked up.
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Also known as 202ML?
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TIL there's a show less on Discover! I literally never use it (except by accidental left swipe)
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This was/is the hardest part of parenting for me. There's just no focus time anymore...
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There's so much pressure in the moment, you're very likely to follow the order
Check out Zimbado's book The Lucifer Effect, which rang very true for me after I got back from Iraq
If you do decide not to follow an order, you *will* wait for judgement from the brig
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Those murkily unlawful orders are usually given after you're in a shitty situation (and you're often blind to the bigger situation so default is to trust)
Additionally it's usually in coordination with other people in your unit so you can end up fucking over the people who have your back
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Conscientious objector doesn't work in this case: In the US, "The individual's objections must be to all wars rather than a specific war"
It's why I had to go AWOL and risk jail. Hardest thing I ever had to do.
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Remember these soldiers & marines joined the military NOT the police: instead of being loser bullies, they're well trained & disciplined;
They signed up for respectability, a pension, citizenship, affordable college, and/or points toward a govt job;
They are also used to being held accountable.
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Morale doesn't get too bad as long as the officers/NCOs are in the same boat
My bet is the phones they still have in the pictures are more an issue for morale.
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In theatre, in addition to the "normal" war stuff, we had to stir+burn our own shit, alertly stare into the freezing wind at the desert for half the night, and do 12 hr patrols with 40+ lbs of equipment on that started at 40F/4C but got up to 100F/40C+
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Stateside, we used to do jumping jacks in bunkers full of tear gas (to learn to clear masks), sleep in holes we dug out of the frozen ground, undergo questionable dentistry, and choke down the worst eggs imaginable
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Inevitable LGTM incoming