Zephorah
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- Comment on Women accounted for almost all of job gains in August. Here’s why 3 days ago:
IT is male dominated and they all seem like they’re being downsized right now. Microsoft alone has cut a ton of jobs.
A quick google says men dominate: construction, piloting, CEOs, engineering.
Computer science and math push to 58% of degrees granted.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice 5 days ago:
They are testing quite a few things atm. Radiology image recognition is definitely there. But is this what the phone wavers are accessing? No. The Google search bot and the bots being tested are two different things.
I wouldn’t get too excited about the future of AI in medicine, not given the level of venture capital and such in medicine already.
LLMs are programs that can be tuned by people who have not sworn an oath or spent 12 dedicated years and $250k debt to pursue medicine. What will motivate how these bots are tuned? Publicity and PR can create excitement, but what have the last 30years of medicine taught us? Even the radiology bot can be “turned down” in ways a human rarely would allow.
Profit speaks. Profit drives. Profit decides patient care levels and outcomes. What keeps it afloat are the people clawing back at administrators. Don’t underestimate the power of angry nurses or pushy physicians in just how much they’ve kept healthcare afloat. For you. While admin battles them from the shadows in the name of profit.
What they don’t mention among the many bots being tested is the EOLI, or, End Of Life Index. The most used electronic medical record had a bot introduced this year, unannounced, that is a probability predictor of a patient dying in the next 6 month. The mouse over admonishes caregivers not to discuss this with patients or families as it may upset them. Does/will the EOLI factor into insurance decision making?
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 6 days ago:
You don’t typically have a horse without money.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1 1 week ago:
Idk, the fake smiling on vendors is spot on imo, especially the trade authority guy on The Den, contempt and such comes through on the guy who will buy anything and pushes a distinct smarmy vibe.
There’s room for what I’d call New Vegas refinement on Fallout 3, but it’s a huge game.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 1 1 week ago:
Starfield. I’m a little surprised it’s not more popular. Blows Skyrim away imo as a real time killer.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice 1 week ago:
Here’s an example of how not to use it. Medicine. The Internet soup includes medical advice from new agers, mommy blogs, anti-vax, chiropracty, chakras, well meaning but mistaken posters, Reddit, aggregate scrape sites, legit sites, and more.
If you take the time to correct the AI it will apologize and then move to other attempts until it nails it, maybe. Alternatively, you tell it the right answer and it confirmation biases you. (But are you actually right? The AI will never tell.)
The medical professional community is getting hit hard lately with aggressive waving of phones, yelling, and unwillingness to listen, because the Google bot said so and the medical staff doesn’t agree with the Google bot. Or, the chatGPT subscription said so. The ChatGPT guys go hard on defending the AI.
There used to be a bit of embarrassment and willingness to listen to credentialed individuals giving medical advice in contradiction to WebMD or random posts. Not always, but often.
Lately, people are defending the AI answers like it’s their own life’s work.
It’s starting to resonate, at times, like people caught in an addiction but not ready to get clean: defensive, they know what they’re about, you don’t know, and they’ve got this all under control. That’s not quite right, but it’s the closest equivalent in my experience.
Computer things though, I use it sometimes, depending.
- Comment on google's getting pissy about using their shit while logged out 3 weeks ago:
They want your data, and if you don’t give it to them by logging in, they’re cutting you off. Probably.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
Not easy, you’ve done well.
- Comment on The price of soda in 2017 3 weeks ago:
That’s not a bad idea. It is addictive. Tax it like alcohol and tobacco. I’ve watched a subset of diabetics scream that they need sugar no matter what healthcare tries to say about it. Tears. More often, anger and spiteful overconsumption in reaction to being told no. (A subset, not all.)
- Comment on I need an adult 3 weeks ago:
Red cabbage.
Purple carrots get to be purple, but, that may be because there are literal red carrots.
Purple peppers get called black or some such, but again, red peppers exist.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 4 weeks ago:
While what you say is true it is also true that this administration is a train wreck, talks often of deregulation, and gives no fucks about working class citizens.
It’s difficult to trust in coincidence with these self serving leeches.
- Comment on This is what Democratic voters are saying. Will the party listen? 4 weeks ago:
And enough regulation that we can eat fruits and veggies without fear of explosive diarrhea. And the capacity to afford said fruits and vegetables.
- Comment on "It's not work" - Austrian Chancellor Stocker declares that in his view caring for children isn't work 4 weeks ago:
Either that or he’s taking the stance that stay at home moms and dads are lazy bastards who do no work
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
If it’s starlings, that’s fair.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I do such that my cats would probably be terrified of the outside. Even so, there are ferals hunting the fields.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
They eat cats.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 4 weeks ago:
Hey, I went back and played both NWN and NWN2 base campaigns. I don’t care. But others will emit a never ending keening wail and possibly break their own bank accounts on it.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 4 weeks ago:
Sure, but even with all that, what are the odds? Given the amount of “dated engine” and such in review commentary.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 4 weeks ago:
That game was such a bleached out, thin piece of repetitive garbage. Every character, and their dialogue, was about as deep as a guard NPC in Skyrim.
Season 8 of GoT had better production value.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 4 weeks ago:
ME manages to incorporate just about every SciFi trope in a good way, have punchy dialogue and characters, offer chills at some points, and have a great overarching plot. More importantly, they give it an ending.
BioWare really fucked themselves with that EA deal. I don’t see them saving themselves like Amplitude did. I suppose there’s DDO, it’s still around, love of D&D being what it is within D&D communities The devs made a deal with Warner Brothers and now it’s Standing Stone, but how often has that happened? Mostly, studios just die.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 4 weeks ago:
I grew up with a card catalog and had Netscape navigator at college right out of high school. Stellar graphics are great, preferred, but not necessary. Would I care if graphics/engine quality went back to Dragon age origins or II? Mass effect the original? Even FO:NV? No. But I want the story level, complexity, and total game time to be completionist about it. Witcher 3 is lovely but it’s the quality of darkness in it that makes it so compelling.
Even without the hardware limitations, good, immersive stories that keep you as involved as GoT before the writers stopped writing are already in short supply.
I’m presently replaying the Dishonored games. There’s only so much of that a person can do. Games worth the time sink are already in short supply.
Candy crush and similar bullshit can’t replace good games.
- Comment on Bloodbath Ahead For EA As It Looks To Cut $700 Million In Annual Costs Under Saudi Arabia 4 weeks ago:
Well, there goes the last remnant of possibility for a dragon age or mass effect revival.
Replaying Dishonored 2, still mad about Arkane.
It’s like the long game is to kill gaming from two directions. Game Studio deaths and making PC components unaffordable for working class.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 month ago:
I was fortunate. We were considered poor but not so poor that mom wasn’t home with us. Thrift clothes and homemade clothes (a very cheap option in the 80s) got us teased mercilessly, but the parents were present.
There have been articles lately about the young generations aging faster. It’s always been noteworthy in medicine. People, on the worst case scenarios, looking 60 when they’re 40. Not from outdoor life but just hard life. Given the overt stress the younger gen’s are under on all sides it fits.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 month ago:
The time theft has a far reach. I’ve worked with kids who’ve gone inpatient for mental health, acting out in school, etc. Why? Because mom isn’t there. It’s not willful neglect. It’s neglect through not neglecting her motherly duties by working 2-3 jobs to keep the lights on and shoes on her child’s feet.
Time is a key reason we need to be paid more, have a much higher minimum wage, though it isn’t often mentioned.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
I’ve not voted for a conservative president, ever. Xennial.
Cities have more jobs by the numbers, yes, but do they have more job openings able to accommodate all the people in those cities?
The main point is location matters with degrees.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
To be fair, jobs and degree value is 90% regional. There are states with less degrees and states with more degrees. The PNW, for example, has a glut of Bachelors degrees, meaning your Bachelors will give you very little if any traction for jobs. Why would it when there’s double digits in those degrees applying for every 1 job requiring one? Many Midwest, flyover states do not. When there’s no one applying to those degrees positions and then That One Guy shows up, he’s almost guaranteed at least a try in that position.
Sometimes you have to take your degree and move or it will hold little value. People don’t like to hear that, and that’s fair, but it’s also the reality.
You’ll have a cheaper house, cheaper COL, and be very competitive in a job in a flyover state, but because you don’t want to leave the city of Seattle or its surrounding beauty, you stay and bitch about it instead. Or San Francisco. Or [next high COL/housing place]. No one really likes Ohio or the ass end of Illinois but there are both job openings and cheaper housing there.
An in-law earned a safety degree. They could stay in there state for $80k or move to a degree bereft state, with cheaper houses even, for $125k. They moved, and on the company’s dime.
Some of what’s happening here is based in the human principle of: I don’t wanna.. “Don’t wanna” rules the day most of the time.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
Not you. All the people posting with a shrug saying it’s just a piece of paper that doesn’t mean/do much except help getting a job. Like there’s no useful information there they can’t learn all by themselves & that they have the personal discipline of a 4 year dedicated college curriculum in conjunction with using AI to complete everything.
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
The amount of scorn for degrees here is spectacular.
Medicine happens, in part, by experience. Even so, would you want your doctor or nurse working on you either of those roles without their degree(s)?
Psychologist?
Your lawyer?
The engineer designing that bridge you cross every day?
- Comment on Suspecting AI cheating, Ivy League prof ordered an in-person final; scores fell 50% 1 month ago:
What is the point of paying for college when you squander it this way?
- Comment on Satan's Ballsack 2 months ago:
Post pics. Share your imagery.