Mikey Marrewa

@rationalyst @latentspacepod Using CLA, you don't need the real environment (3 years on the job training), you need an environment that preserves the decisions & feedback loops that matter to compress the dead time & keep the meaningful reps. It's not a "fake" job, it's just better learning design.

@rationalyst @latentspacepod There's a field called ecological dynamics that studies how people learn skilled behavior. The core idea is that learning happens through interaction with your environment, not just learning/memorizing rules. The coaching application is called the Constraints-Led Approach (CLA).

So much fear and foreboding about what AI does to entry-level jobs. I think Alex's half-joke about simulated jobs on @latentspacepod is actually an idea worth taking more seriously.

@nope_its_lily I miss the exuberant bioinformatics PhD at UCSD. It sure feels like we’re close to crossing the Rubicon.

@SlopeOfHope Especially because the effective tariff rate barely budged. We’re basically where we were in the morning with tariffs. When folks figure that out, they’re not going to be happy.

If you look up BULL TRAP in the dictionary, this is the picture next to the definition.

@nope_its_lily Any reason you’re not posting on the other blue app anymore?

🆕 AI Fundamentals: Datasets 101! latent.space/p/datasets-101 @fanahova and I finally got together to give the epic 1hr intro to (LLM) datasets that we wish existed, covering: - Concepts: whats the difference between a Dataset and a Benchmark? What is a Scaling Law? Why are all Datasets measured in Tokens? Is an LLM a Database? (shoutout @sarahcat21 haha) - Major Datasets: What are the origins of CommonCrawl? What role do UGC platforms like Reddit and Wikipedia play in training LLMs? - Are we out of data? Most academics say yes, we're in a "Token Crisis", but @ilyasut and @BlancheMinerva say we're not even close - Issues: Cleaning, Bias, Contamination, Copyright... all this and more on the latest @latentspacepod!

@BFoofer @TheMaverickWS I just want to know how to create a sustainable retirement system. It seems every system is tied to population growth or increasing productivity. Is there something else I’m not aware of?

@SD_Mikey @TheMaverickWS Are you defending the system? Just because of demographics alone the ss is unsustainable.

Our retirement system is based on an unsustainable Ponzi scheme. The Fed borrows from the future generation to pump the stock market so older generations can retire. How long do you think this scam will last before blowing up?

@dreyonthemoon That’s the misconception for all of software dev. Often times engineering thinks it’s about adding cool new features or fixing bugs. It’s about delivering business value and that value drives revenue growth.

@dreyonthemoon Is there a different goal to other jobs in software development?

@Beaker @perpetualsec From a random purple belt on the interwebs, congratulations @perpetualsec on the black belt!

Congratulations to my brother @perpetualsec who earned his black belt today in Brazilian Jiu Jitsu! Parabens!

@nope_its_lily Allergic to something in the spirits?

@nope_its_lily Honestly, the best thing I’ve done for this issue having already tried chiropractic, sitting on balls, special chairs, braces, etc was to make the muscles supporting the head stronger. I use the Iron Neck. Yep, it looks weird, but it works. iron-neck.com

@the_alphatrades Literal insanity

Insane!

@the_alphatrades Russia didn’t launch a nuclear weapon, they just blew one up that was sitting on the ground.

This thread explains the issues of the great financial crisis and why DeFi could lead us down that same road.

@jbeda @Bob_Wachter Super interesting. I didn’t see the Las test study. The BinaxNOW tests seem to work best from our family testing.

@jbeda @Bob_Wachter It’s tough to compare because rapid tests have poor sensitivity and specificity when compared to pcr so we’re well within coincidence.

@jbeda We had a similar situation. We ran an experiment where we did one test with nasal swabbing only and one with back of throat then nasal swabbing. Back of throat first came back positive while nasal only was negative. I did this after reading @Bob_Wachter describe this method.

You can now pay $3/month for the privilege to post JPGs that you paid money for as your twitter profile that you could still do paying $0/month with JPGs you paid $0 for. To quote Don King "Only in America!"