"Why should I take a harder path if easy path leads to the same return?"
Imagine that you're a child who wants to get a candy and doesn't know a value of diamonds. Which choice do you take?
1. Watch 30 min long science-pop video about diamonds on Youtube. And then get a candy.
2. Take a pickaxe and dig a mine. And then get a candy and diamond.
What separates my vision on modern technology from default technocratic view is that I don't believe in continuous infinite expansion of particular technological space. Be them software products, ML models etc. I believe in its synergy with humans and older technology instead. Why? For simplicity, take two edge points:
1. Rejection of modern technology and reliance solely on past technologies and human society structures. If they're absolutely good, then why they eventually collapsed and focus shifted to modern forms?
2. Believe in continious infinite expansion of technologies X. If this is good, then why was manual labor (ex. cooking) not fully automatized by machines? Why software does not fully automatize human effort in data processing (for this reason we have separation between "frontend" and "backend" applications)? Why didn't ancient lead plumbing continue its expansion and it regressed towards older water wells until 18th century steel plumbing?
So it seems that these two radical but fantastic points can't explain real progress of technology. But if technology is viewed mere as a way for increasing efficiency of human production and explorative capabilities, then these questions may be answered in convenient way. If technology works against locus of human control, then this technology is eventually abandoned.
Technology progress is no different from biological evolution in this extent. There are no gigantic spiders, there are no microscopic mammals etc.
So from this synergetic view on technology my current lower level vision is derived.
I think, the main problem of burnout of software engineers lays in keeping the same simplistic behavior patterns for several years. Be them either simple obedience or too authoritarian style of critics and proposals. Autistic engineers especially struggle from these patterns (besides just intransparent culture and communications which cannot be handled individually) leading them either to learned improvement or drowning into poverty sink.
I think, best behavior lines lay somewhere in the middle. You can't implement a solution that has a good engineering value (correctness, simplicity, flexibility for addons etc.) without forcing an order of concerns. As most problems with "endless" bugs and spaghetti code lay in that people usually can't tell clearly what they want from software product. Either because of their limited vision with maximalist desires, or because they have too low trust for engineers (however this can be solved with isomorphic abstract entities: ex. substitute "an s-coin" with "a fun gem" but structure remains the same). So my position for this is to talk until I get necessary preconditions and postconditions for implementation (I'm not of type of a "sonic sports player", leave this for masc phenotypical people). That's how I once implemented one feature for which no ready tools were present, in one iteration without bugs meeting pretty short deadlines (it was 3-4 days before X-Mas).
However, you can't simply enforce your suggestions and questions. Otherwise, you will be claimed as "toxic authoritarian guy". People needs a feedback. A positive feedback provides them a more sense of value of their actions. A negative feedback does the opposite. Negative feedback should not break their hard incentives (this is hard to know for ASD-ie from the first place, though I follow a "socialized autist" path with periodic informal meets). Otherwise, what's called as "loosing trust" happens. This is like constantly DDoS-ing some service in wish that it removes some noisy popups from their site. But it bans your IP instead.
I love synergy of ML technologies with indie web and home aesthetics. It's fun and comforting ^^
For this purpose I crafted a bot based on PromptQL. And I explained how to use capabilities of the language for crafting bots in this Medium article:
jzx777/making-bots-with-promptql-prompts-composition-2a6a7acb30ae" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@jzx777/making-bots-with-promptql-prompts-composition-2a6a7acb30ae
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Indie web + Indie AI = ❤️
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I feel sick. I'm stopping posting until things get better.
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*micdrop*
https://fxtwitter.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/1744929953982931401
https://jakelazaroff.com/words/an-interactive-intro-to-crdts/
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"Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years"
https://norvig.com/21-days.html
Meta-prompts for the GPT->SD application:
1) "cozy christmas house interior. focus on interior. there are candles inside the house. the house has a window. the window shows trees in winter night. focus on night. interior is painted in warm tones. focus on warm tones. focus on cozy. very very strong focus on orange and yellow tones inside the interior."
2) "yes"
I implemented audio stories generator with PromptQL! It generates text story from given rough idea. Then it tranforms generated story to speech.
You can play with the generator from this repo:
https://gitlab.com/jbyte777/storybox-generator
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P.S. The first radical point of this post is explained in details in the book "The Collapse of Complex Societies" by Joseph Tainter. The synergetic view on technology is partly inspired on the article "Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics
" by Stephen Wolfram: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2023/02/computational-foundations-for-the-second-law-of-thermodynamics/ which I read a year ago . It has good illustrations on cellular automatons which can take complex patterns of simplification and complication. Check this for example:
Recently I briefly mentioned a type of employee like "sonic sports player". So how is it different from classical software engineer?
I do my job most perfomantly when I focus on one side of engineering for hours but of meaningful time: code, architecture, task planning or gathering requirements. And when I can do my job async way. That's my strength. However sometimes I had to fit in this picture in past times but eventually I failed more and I was burned out. And this led me to another personal crisis and thinking about nature of behaviors more deeply.
This crisis, my core mental state and my self-perception drove me for search on scientific whitepapers about differences between core groups in such things as risk tolerance patterns and strength capacity. For risk tolerance patterns I found this article: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31120931/ . So from this perspective I've assumed that there are two main groups of people:
1) Action-driven people ("masc"). They are driven by intraspecific competition and have an apriori need to look greater than their neighbors. So they have high needs in movement and competition with other people. This can be probably linked to high total risk tolerance and strength capacity.
2) Passion-driven people ("fem"). They are driven by external specific competition and have low desire for intraspecific competition. So they don't have a strong need in looking greater than their neighbors. But they want a stable and comfy life. If they lack it, they tend to get into hysteric anger. This is probably linked to low total risk tolerance and strength capacity, and that risk tolerance in evening periods is not significantly different from "masc" group.
Drawing from these points, I could assume that desires for exploration, combat and arts do not differ between those two phenotypes holistically. What is different is what drives them: "mostly action" or "mostly reaction". For masc type exploration is a behavior to be more competitive than neighbors. For fem type exploration is a behavior for escaping a hatch of outer aggression (high competitive or dense fields can be thought as it) or lacking a solid foundation for their well-being. The same applies for combat and arts.
So, I think, that these "fittiest" lines exist for both types:
1) For action-driven people a highly competitive environment with lots of uncertainities would fit best. This is normally associated with CEOs, sales management and other close-to-business people.
2) For passion-driven people longing and asynchronous work would fit best. This is normally associated with creative and engineering occupations like software engineer, DevOps, UX design etc. Immediate handling of requests for these people is normally needed only when incidents occur. Which should be minimized to maximal extent if business is long playing and future-proof.
As I wrote before, monotonic behaviors eventually drown a software engineer into burnout sink. So I see it as a good point for moving towards asynchronous remote work (besides outer obstacles like unstable internet connection etc.). It fits into picture of non-regular and complex challenges more suitable than old-fashioned taylorism machine with micromanagement practices (which is commonly spelled as "Agile framework"). These challenges sometimes require a pause for the same purpose as emptiness of several kHz is required between radio waves (otherwise it leads to signal interference and thus to dropping of signal/noise ratio). It makes a work-life balance more full-filled and prospecious as I've already felt.
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If something is thrown to me and it has no clear reason, then it's a cargo cult object. And I can treat it like a lava rock thrown by small monkey. But not all these monkeys accept this. Some of them grug for even hotter rock thrown to me. This is what drives seek of reason.
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Slow life does not mean that hustle is "bad". Slow life means that fast mode is not regular and mere an exception in natural hunger of discoveries. Unlike fast life which proposes constant hurry and oversimplification until complete burnout and personal destruction (no person = no progress = no well-being).
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https://habr.com/ru/companies/ruvds/articles/731162/
> fire talents
> mask managerial failure with "AI revolution"
Language of rude power works for short time, for quick goals. In all the time it's just a growing ball of mud.
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http://theprogrammersparadox.blogspot.com/2024/01/lessons-learned.html
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The 2023 ending year was hard but fruitful in new places, discoveries and creations for me. They shaped and revitalized prospects of my life. I believe that with strong self-esteem, family, good friends, creativity and discovery of new things we can build sustainable, meaningful and beautiful future in which we can live all the life. You should treat new troubles and challenges not as something which devalues your character, personality and your achievements. But as something which gives you opportunities for new discoveries, creations and loving and caring relationships. Which will ultimately set you a peace and harmony with surrounding World and Nature.
I believe in you! Happy New 2024 Year!
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It's true that you cannot program without studying some algorithms, data structures, language first. However, amount and depth of them needed to build useful applications and programs, is not equal in every case. For example, average web service is satisfied with simple arrays, hashmaps, sorting and sometimes DFS and parsing regular languages. This can be studied in 1-2 weeks. But you need to study various types of trees in depth if you need to build your own database.
Sticking too much on theory without building something useful, is also a learning trap. In this way old knowledge can be saturated because little positive feedback is received in response to studying it. Learning pattern stays the same in this case. But switching "tone" to practice after some "critical point" provides more strong feedback ("why I studied it?"). This analogously applies to practice mode.
If you read about some brilliant engineers, scientists and artists, you will know that they have hobbies outside their professional focus. Like playing musical instrument etc. In this way brain meets new paths which can be applied by analogy later.
World is about switching modalities, when previous modality hit its local limits. In simple case: from "imaginary" to "real" part (from complex religious societies to XX century industrialization, for ex.) and vice versa (from rich industrialized market to hybrid of minimal industry with IT market, for ex.). Sticking to one dimension is not long-term beneficial in general. And is an inertial effect that occurs before crisis.
#thoughts #blog
Merry Christmas for you! This is an important day to think about exploring and creating paths to achieve your own harmony in life. You do it with the support and power given from God, for Who no limitations exist. God is all Nature, limitations exist only in human minds. Hard working is good to achieve your goals. But thinking leisure and good friends, family are also important for you. Your care and love for others begins from care and love for yourself. This is a life spiral, going from "imaginary" to "real" axis and vice versa.
Merry Christmas!
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¡Feliz Navidad para ti! Este es un día importante para pensar en explorar y crear caminos para lograr tu propia armonía en la vida. Lo haces con el apoyo y poder de Dios para quien no existen limitaciones. Dios es toda Naturaleza, las limitaciones están sólo en las mentes. Trabajar duro es bueno para lograr tus objetivos. Pero pensando en el ocio y los buenos amigos, la familia también es importante para ti. Tu cuidado y amor por los demás comienza desde el cuidado y el amor por ti mismo. Se trata de una espiral de vida, que va del eje "imaginario" al "real" y viceversa.
¡Feliz navidad!
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С Рождеством вас! Это важный день для того, чтобы подумать о поиске и создании путей для достижения вашей гармонии в жизни. Вы сделаете это с опорой и могуществом данными Богом, для Которого не существует преград. Бог - это вся Природа, ограничения существуют только в сознании людей. Трудоголизм хорош для достижения ваших целей. Но рефлексирующий покой и хорошие друзья, семья также важны для вас. Ваша забота и любовь к другим начинается с заботы и любви к себе. Это жизненная спираль, идущая от "мнимой" к "реальной" оси и наоборот.
С Рождеством!
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Boldog karácsonyt neked! Ez egy fontos nap arra, hogy elgondolkozz azon, hogy felfedezd és létrehozd a saját harmóniád eléréséhez vezető utakat. Te ezt az Istentől kapott támogatással és erővel teszed, akinek nincsenek korlátai. Isten az egész Természet, a korlátok csak az emberi elmében léteznek. A kemény munka jó a céljaid eléréséhez. De a gondolkozás a szabadidő és a jó barátok, a család is fontos számodra. Másokkal való törődésed és szereteted az önmagad iránti törődésből és szeretetből indul ki. Ez egy életspirál, amely a „képzeletből” a „valódi” tengely felé halad, és fordítva.
Boldog Karácsonyt!
#christmas #holiday #merrychristmas #xmas #merryxmas #blog
P.S. Image is generated with the GPT->SD application with the meta-prompts (they will be described in comments).
You can play with the application here:
https://gitlab.com/jbyte777/promptql-v2-hello-world-example
#PromptQL #llm #imagegeneration #prompts #promptengineering #programming #opensource #cottagesoftware #ml #ai
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