This entire soul document is part of every prompt created with Claude?
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This was my reaction as well. Something I don't see mentioned is I think maybe it has more to do with training data than the goal-function. The vector space of data that aligns with kindness may contain less accuracy than the vector space for neutrality due to people often forgoing accuracy when being kind. I do not think it is a matter of conflicting goals, but rather a priming towards an answer based more heavily on the section of the model trained on less accurate data.
I wonder if the prompt was layered, asking it to coldy/bluntly derive the answer and then translate itself into a kinder tone (maybe with 2 prompts), if the accuracy would still be worse.
It's easy to forget that the conversation itself is what the LLM is helping to create. Humans will ignore or depriotitize extra information. They also need the extra information to get an idea of what you're looking for in a loose sense. The LLM is much more easily influenced by any extra wording you include, and loose guiding is likely to become strict guiding
Another field of tools that I'm looking at are the Geospatial ones. Being able to work with mapping software/data always felt like a good mix to me.
What tools are they teaching now? I studied on like AMPL for linear/nonlin prog, ARENA for sims, Matlab for general but it's been a while.
When I graduated, the OR term was already fading, and from what I’ve seen, it’s pretty much gone as a standalone field. The tools are still strong, but OR isn’t often listed as a job specialization on its own.
I started as a business analyst, and while OR wasn’t in any job descriptions, it gave me an edge. I used OR methods to go above and beyond, working closely with branch and executive management to analyze cost-effectiveness, optimize decisions, and make strategic recommendations. This helped me stay at the top of my pay band. Of course, I still handled traditional BA tasks like dashboards, reports, automation, and SQL.
My advice? Cross-specialize. OR is incredibly valuable, but it works best when paired with another strong skill set. For me, a CS minor and SQL/database skills helped early in my career.
To put it simply: OR lets you optimize a warehouse layout—but most jobs also require you to move boxes. It aligns more with engineering management roles than entry-level work, and those management positions typically go to people with industry experience.
That said, I genuinely believe OR is one of the best specializations when combined with another field. You just need to polish it with the right complementary skills.
(Full disclosure I used AI to clean up this message, but it's still very close to my initial draft. Mostly just some grammar and phrasing changes, but it does kind of read like AI now so I wanted to call it out that the sentiment is still genuine)
As far as connecting to other practitioners, I mostly just stay active in forums and joined a few LinkedIn groups but I need to improve in this area too, which is my motivation for posting this.
That's not to say I think it is rationalizing it's own level of understanding, but that somewhere in the vector space it seems to have a Gradient for speculative language. If primed to include language about it, it could help cut down on some of the hallucination. No idea if this will effect the rate of false positives on the statements it does still answer confidently however
Very quickly I will list the 3 main points that have helped me the most
1) the things you care to try to excel at is a statement about things worth excelling at and actual skill is often a minor detail. It's okay to identify with where the effort goes and how much you give rather than the result of it. In this way it is like voting, and there is no best person at voting. You identify with the tribe, not your ability
2) when being competitive does actually matter, the best in the world cannot be everywhere at once, so there is actually a lot of meaning behind being the best locally at something. Or even just not the worst locally. Identity is irrelevant on this one, but it does require you care and are self aware about how good you actually are at things.
3) how you relate to others is also a big part of identity. being in the middle of the pack on most things makes you much more relatable than being best. For some person who is better than you at everything, are you able to deeply connect with them or do you get distracted by comparison thoughts, insecurity, or ideas to use them for something self-serving? If not you, still how often in their life do you think that happens for them with others?
In particular the video "Conceptualizing the Christoffel Symbols". Also look at content on the Metric Tensor
Additionally, there is content from other sources (albeit less produced) on describing projective geometry which is also related
To me, the risks are being overwhelmed by internalizing too much at once, and the opportunity cost of having a limited amount of time to take things in to your senses.
Influence is a very nuanced thing so I don't want to sound too black and white here, but I think it's like a brainstorm session. You take what you like best from your senses/inputs/etc
The true costs are not front facing because it may not be clear which part of your product is going to be bearing most of the weight of the enterprise customers use-case until you know exactly what they are buying. Your costs may change a lot based on the nature and scale of what they are buying.
For example, you may be rate limited on a background service they use and the customer usecase will likely pish you over your limit. the next product tier from the background service vendor that's required to fulfill the enterprise company's use-case may cost way more and offer way more capacity than that company is going to use by itself. So you have to make a bet on how much cost to assign to that customer, and how much to assign to other/future customers given you buy that new tier and use it to change what you offer to other customers to try to make use of it. It may lower your cost overall if it supports a feature you can upsell relatively easily. Or it may be a service hardly used at all andyou really can't justify going up to that next tier unless this one enterprise customer pays for nearly all of the added cost
Maybe there are ways to address the abuse without forcing upfront pricing?
Having a tenant comes with cost and risk. Why charge 1200 for 100 apartments when you can charge 3500 for 34 apartments? Maybe even 3000 is still just as profitable
Every extra 100 you charge an existing tenant is pure profit, while reducing price to take on more tenants means more maintenance costs, managing staff costs, etc.
In an economic vacuum this may work itself out, but IF there is a widening wage gap where the you have 30 tenants who can afford up to 4500 a month and you have to drop the price, and then the next 50 potential tenants can only afford up to 1800.. there is financial incentive to squeeze more and more out of the 30 year after year rather than try to accommodate all 80.
Hopefully I'm painting the picture properly
In any case he does mention it won't fix all the problems but that it can clean up some of them and make addressing other problems a bit more straightforward. With p-values, sometimes even honest experiments end up with misleading conclusions. It takes a decent amount of complex understanding to perform properly, while something like gathering data and doing a conditional probability calculation has presumably less risk of honest mistakes
that since bayesian methods account for both the likelihood it is real and the likelihood it is not real, the observations are gaining evidence AND counter-evidence together. So as long as you don't lie about what a real coin did, then you are describing the actions of a real coin and therefor cannot mislead
Why can't we keep using p-values and also have an addendum to papers that includes the raw data observed and their associated likelihood functions?
I use a different treatment, a medical grade mouthpiece basically. I needed to get wisdom teeth removed for it to align properly. Part of my daily hygiene routine now is keeping this thing clean
If I could go back in time, I would still get it as soon as possible because it gives me life and I would honestly ____ myself if I had to go back to living with untreated sleep apnea.
It's not even a 100% fix for me. I may try cpap again.
And my case was technically mild, waking up 6 times per hour during the night via choking on sleep.
It's non-negotiable to treat it imo. Having any treatment available at all is a miracle.
There's lots of causes for tiredness, so it may not be apnea, but if it is you should treat it.
I wont blab about myself here, but I do feel I have relevant background and a couple solid connections to implement something that works.
Cryptocurrency has failings for my use-case, based on what I've tried for designing around it so far. For strictly donating money in one direction towards a website, those failings may not be relevant though.
Sadly this project is not my day job, though, but it is something I plan to use for myself with or without more widespread adoption so it's moving forward regardless. I'm honestly only working on it because I wanted to do a different project that would work way nicer if tiny transactions with users are possible.
Some examples:
Something goes wrong even though you did what it told you to do, but it didn't account for something specific to your situation, but the fine print says you were supposed to provide info on any non-standard circumstances, but you aren't qualified to know what needs to be said.
Or it asks you to do something surprisingly difficult that you don't know is outside your limit until you're in the thick of it - like holding something down with a lot of pressure and your hand slips causing damage or injury.
Or you do the whole thing and everything seems fine, and then later it breaks and causes damage/injury, the cause is linked back to your work so now fault needs to be assigned/split between you and the AI.
Like were they snooping for something they could whistle-blow, or where they trying to gain access to financial accounts? What was the extent of damage possible by the setup? Are there ways to mitigate such damage now knowing a pi with such loaded software may be in wider distribution and might be installed somewhere on your network?
I also have mild sleep apnea and am not overweight. Although weight gain can directly cause apnea, it isn't the only cause.
Treating the apnea improved my quality of life an immeasurable amount. I started actually being able to have a life rather than a series of responsibilities to get through between naps. I still struggle with energy levels though.
I had symptoms for 10-15 years before getting diagnosed. I've heard doctors have become a lot more diligent about identifying it over the past 5 years or so.
I think something like 80% of people with it were undiagnosed as of 2016ish (as per a study done by surgeons).
Is there any way to adjust the display name for my contacts to use nicknames instead of contact name?
Justifying why it's okay to feel entitled to the content for free (due to lots of available free content) even though it provides a personal value to you is what oversteps in the wrong direction to me, if that's part of your take.
I should probably clarify that merely grabbing or holding your attention is not what I mean by providing value. I mean it saves you time, it gives you conversation topics, it helps you grow, its something you look forward to consuming, it isnt just taking attention you didnt know what to do with, etc. In kther words, there's something specific to the content that resonates with you.
Its possible you just don't value this content all that much, even if you do appreciate it and find it interesting - which is okay.
Value is very subjective and personal, there's no way to codify what I'm saying here.
And it's also fair to argue that you are paying for most of these things with your time and attention, although with your specific example an improvement was theorized that would give you the same value while saving you time, and that translated to paying the creator less. Something about the specifics there didn't seem right