Was recently talking to a working student at $DAYJOB about LLMs and wanted to make the point that the pay-per-use model shows they’re still a relatively new/immature technology. So, I likened them to mobile phone calls, which would generally cost you per minute in the early 2000s.

Yeah, she had no idea what I was talking about.

This week, I was talking to someone at work about a topic they know a lot more about. It was a good exchange, I learned a lot. After the meeting, in the span of like half an hour, they sent me ten essay-length LLM outputs.

And it’s just genuinely, like, what is the goal here? It’s cool that they want to provide additional reading material, but clearly they did not proof-read it, so I could’ve just asked an LLM myself, if I deemed that helpful.

There is also just no chance in hell that I’m reading ten essays on the topic, especially when they’re as poorly written as LLM output generally is. I genuinely took a few minutes to try to skim it and I covered maybe 10% of the text, but learned hardly anything.

I just really don’t understand this mindset of “I can generate a lot of text, so I’m being helpful by sending it to you”.

For avoiding scratches, a “laptop sleeve” might be what you want. It can only used when transporting the laptop, though.

Normally, you just buy one for the screen size you have and that should fit well enough…

The section “4. What editing does to the mark” talks about that. Probably best to look at that illustration again, but basically those edits would interrupt consecutive runs of detectable text, but if a run is long enough, it can still be detected with statistical significance.

So, it doesn’t have to check the ‘color’ of the words from start to end uninterrupted, but rather can also detect color sequences in the middle of the text.

Yeah, they can’t easily rotate keys, because the text can’t tell you which key was used.

They could switch to a new key e.g. every month and then just check every previous key during detection. But that would slowly increase the likelihood of false positives, so no idea if that’s a good idea either.

Funnily enough, Firefox basically has it, with its Tracking Protection. The vast majority of ads use tracking, so get blocked by it.

With “refine”, I would guess they’re talking about refining a task, so breaking it down into smaller, more concrete/actionable tasks.

Because that’s usually meant in dev lingo, and because the other possible meaning of improving already-written code/docs is kind of already covered by “review”.

Small humans are also humans.

Huh, is that also why the western half is relatively unpopulated? It’s not quite the inverse of the population density, but not too far off either…

Joa, hatte noch kurz überlegt, wie dumm es jetzt wirklich wäre, da mal kurz reinzuschauen ohne Verdunklungsbrille. Aber bin dann doch noch drauf gekommen, dass man einfach immernoch geblendet wird und effektiv nichts sehen wird.

I believe, the right term to call that, is abuse of their dominance in one market to force their way into another…

Well, there’d be two of these:

And a blue fish.

It’s not a Dr. Seuss reference. 😅

Someone’s been a

Badweiser

Man, I thought, the whole point of the more limited OEM license (can’t move to another PC; can’t easily reinstall on same PC) was that the OEMs would get it for cheaper than a proper license.

Now you’re telling me, if someone gets their Windows license through an OEM, they have to pay $100+ extra for a worse product?

I enjoy how the news isn’t “Microsoft increases prices”, no, the news is “Microsoft increases prices more than usual”. And the article doesn’t even try to explain why they increase prices every year.

Is it to compensate for inflation? Or just the yearly increase in greed?

Bekommt man Lakritz hier eigentlich einfach so im Supermarkt? Will das mal wieder probieren. Das letzte Mal war ich noch ein Kind, keine Ahnung ob’s mir jetzt vielleicht mehr zusagt…

Don’t you mean …67% ?

My mum prepares them like this (when not eaten raw):

1. Remove the woody skin of the bulb. You rather want to cut off too much than too little, because biting on one of those woody parts is really not nice.

2. Cut into the shape of large french fries.

3. Cook them in a small pot with just enough water to cover them, and a little bit of salt, some vegetable stock and optionally nutmeg thrown in as well. Lid on.

4. Wait however long you want to wait. If you like a bit of bite, then shorter of course. But they’re also gorgeous when they’re tender.

5. Thicken the remaining sauce. The kohlrabi gives off a really nice taste into the sauce, so you don’t want to drain the cooking water.

Because we’re German, this was then served as the side-dish to the most boring food imaginable (noodles and probably some meat).
I think it would go much better with rice. Well, and I’d go with soy chunks as the protein, but that’s personal preference.

I also think caraway works really well with kohlrabi. And I could definitely see a spicy variant with some chili added into the sauce. Well, or a mustard sauce, of course:

Hmm, smoked tofu probably also works well with them, although you probably want to add that at the end, lest you want your whole soup to taste smokey. 🙃

Gotta love the dichotomy of “I have no skills” to “Anyways, I considered doing this in LaTeX or plain HTML”.
Mate, even you just understanding what LaTeX and HTML do, that requires so many skills which are not at all par for the course.

And I would actually take that quote from their posting at face value. I talked to the main recruiter at our company before and he told me that for entry level positions, the only thing they really care about is why the person believes this to be a good job for them. Have they done something similar as part of a hobby before and enjoyed it, for example?

Because ultimately, you will need to be taught a ton of things, no matter what your grades looked like or how many overachiever prizes you can list. And if you’re likely to quit after a few months, because it’s not the right job for you, then the company invested a lot of time teaching you, which isn’t going to pay off.

So, yeah, whatever made you consider this job posting, I would try to describe. Most of that will be in the cover letter, but if you’ve got specific skills or hobbies that you consider relevant, then throw those onto the CV.