I love her so

More precious for it, though.

Well done?

Ooooof.

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This country was founded and shaped by plutocrats exploiting bigotry and xenophobia to enrich themselves; I'd frankly and bluntly call that more the natural state of American politics than not.

I've had the thought that, one of the main products in engineering (at least as I know it) isn't actually whatever thing gets designed, but accountability behind how the design got that.

I'm just saying that policy, as put into practice, is by its nature going to be heavily influenced by politics and back-justified, as opposed to "what does evidence suggest is best".

... I've always felt like without volunteering my labor (fuzzy wording, whatever) I wouldn't earn my continued presence in groups of people and that feels similar... not like I'm an organizational hub without which the group falls apart, but rather that if I don't have a role they'll leave me behind

That's interesting, but I guess somewhat unsurprising. I imagine there's a lot of fields where the data is pretty clear about the effects of various options, for all the politics of those options are fraught.

Lizzie wearing a green/grey tank, with a fresh side-shave

Well, didn't go out last night because of storms, but fresh sideshave. Not bad for 44.

The first is sort of what things feel like, talking to friends who went the software focused direction.

I'm not sure I want to talk about Lean here. 🤭

... and how they're going about it, and what they're not interested in considering about the implications.

I have some friends who are AI enthusiasts and I can see some of their excitement! I'll leave aside for the moment whether or not I think it's justified by the actual things as that's besides my point.

Because all of this stuff is inseparable from what the companies developing it are trying to do.

There's no room in the process for "here's a non-deterministic black box whose reasoning can't be examined" no matter what else it brings to the table. There just isn't.

It sounds like the software "tech" world works differently and I have to shrug at that.

... so an integral part of the "product" is "everyone can explain what's behind every decision made if necessary". I give other engineers an answer on how something works; I can explain how the data supports that answer, how the data was analyzed, where the data came from, how it was collected, etc

I don't mean this as a rebuke but as a counterpoint; "the engineers" feelings on LLMs are far from uniform. I'm a mechanical engineer, and my career has been in testing, usually with new product design. Sometimes verging weirdly close to research in the "we're answering things nobody's asked" way.

May do a selfie later; actually, wife and I are going out tonight so going to get dolled up.

But 44 today! I feel like after starting to transition I've started aging like a fine wine; yes older and nobody can or should deny that, but getting better for it.

Hard for me to say, but conceptually! 😊

That sounds like a conceptually fun idea.

Damn right we do.

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In the same place too, in at least one case. 💜

You know what, fair.

Hey, I'm doing that with messages I send back and forth to my _wife_, thank you. 😁🥰

Very much so!

... you know, I feel pretty OK about not knowing who that is, but that sure was a thing that happened to him.

Oh hey, happy birfday.

... I think same, but we've both been sick here so, you know.