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Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by vanderZwan »

throw10920 wrote: post #213
banannaise wrote: post #185

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> When I stopped playing dota, civ took it's place, then reddit, then tiktok, etc. All of which are also hyper-optimized to be addictive. Perhaps part of the problem is that you live in a world surrounded by things that are hyper-optimized to feed your addiction rather than bring you joy?

On what grounds do you base your assertion that Civ is hyper-optimized to be addictive?

Not the person you asked, but I would guess the fact that "oh shit I forgot to sleep it's six o'clock in the morning" is a universal funny-because-it's-true joke made about all Civ games since forever? "One more turn syndrome"?

Honestly, on what grounds would you deny that Civ games are addictive given this common knowledge?

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Post by nicbou »

nonethewiser wrote: post #215
nicbou wrote: post #196

Earlier quoted context omitted.

allaboutberlin.com. I'm self-employed, and I have no direct customers. So long as my bills are paid, everything else is extra. I can invest time into more, better content, but I can also mess around with things that don't make money. More often than not, they turn out to do just that. "If you build it, they will come." Mind you, I still have to work, but there's rarely anything that needs to be done right now , unles…

How do you make money from that website? Seems like you have a donate button. But other than that?

Affiliate links on things an immigrant needs during their journey. There's enough genuine demand to skip the sales pitch entirely. The quality of the advice gives the rare product recommendations a lot of weight.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by dymk »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #197
dymk wrote: post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remote software engineer at a company with good WLB

Intersting. I am also a remote software engineer, but either working "feels right" a lot less for me than for you, and I feel like spending time outside riding my bike a lot less than you, or my employer is a lot less tolerant of taking the day off to ride my bike because work just didn't feel right. I am curious how many hours a day/week you work, and if you are open about this with your employer...

I wouldn't say that I'm taking my day off to go ride my bike without telling anybody, but I would say that working from home affords me flexibility to, say, take a few hours to get a massage, go work out, or take my time making lunch.

I make sure I'm aligning my personal technical interests with the kinds of projects I work on for the company, so work feels more like a fun puzzle to solve rather than slogging through tedium. Generally I don't work late into the evenings, but sometimes a problem is really just that fun to solve, and I enjoy spending time on it. Other times, projects may be less interesting, so I work fewer hours, letting myself rest. Burnout is real, and it sucks, and I avoid it at all costs.

My employer really just cares that I get my work done, not how many hours it takes to do it. If I'm getting "meets all" or "exceeds" in my yearly ratings, then I'm meeting or exceeding their standard, and we're both happy.

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Post by colemannugent »

tikkun wrote: post #220

I made a summary of this article, because I found it a bit hard to read. I used GPT-3! Here's the summary: The author is saying that people who write about productivity are, in a way, the devil, because they convince people to do things they hate. The author is also saying that these people are not literally the devil, but are just as bad. The article argues that humans are not "naturally" lazy, and that the feeling…

This is a shockingly coherent summary. The accuracy leaves a bit to be desired, but this is perfectly usable for distilling things you don't have time to fully evaluate.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by Infernal »

tikkun wrote: post #220

I made a summary of this article, because I found it a bit hard to read. I used GPT-3! Here's the summary: The author is saying that people who write about productivity are, in a way, the devil, because they convince people to do things they hate. The author is also saying that these people are not literally the devil, but are just as bad. The article argues that humans are not "naturally" lazy, and that the feeling…

As someone who has not "used GPT-3" what does it mean to say that you used it to make a summary? Just dump the full text of the article into a tool and request a summary output?

I have only seen GPT-3 used when it takes a prompt and then generates more related text, I didn't realize you could run that process in reverse.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by travisjungroth »

jaqalopes wrote: post #199

I love and agree with this article, but I do want to defend the Pomodoro method. In brief, if you already don't enjoy what you are doing for work, applying a new time management strategy to that work will not increase your enjoyment. However, I have personally thrived using the Pomodoro method to help keep myself on track and hitting goals for the work I do enjoy. In this light, moreover, I don't think the analogy to…

Like 15 years ago, before pomodoro was popular (or at least I didn't know about it) my sister asked if I knew a good time schedule for studying. She was in senior year of high school, I was in flight school. My answer of "about 15 seconds reading then a 10 second break" was not what she expected. It's what I was using and worked pretty well.

I enjoyed that work very much. I was basically memorizing the book. No way that schedule would work for something I disliked.

On the other hand, I have actually found one minute on, one minute off, 30 times with an automated repeating timer to work on tasks that seem downright unbearable. The minute off you just do nothing. Do not do this daily! This is like a once-a-year thing.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by Pigalowda »

ryzvonusef wrote: post #42

Isn't life just a menu of frogs?

“A life, Jimmy, you know what that is? It’s the shit that happens when you’re waiting for the things that never come.”

-Detective Freamon (The Wire)

>Life is what happens in between all the frog eating. As we all wait for “the big break” and dine on these frogs and prepare ourselves for bigger frogs we end up mischaracterizing the in-between. It’s unfortunate I squander this in-between time by preparing myself for the next frog rather than living in the present froglessness.

Re: Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs

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Post by Tenobrus »

Infernal wrote: post #225
tikkun wrote: post #220

I made a summary of this article, because I found it a bit hard to read. I used GPT-3! Here's the summary: The author is saying that people who write about productivity are, in a way, the devil, because they convince people to do things they hate. The author is also saying that these people are not literally the devil, but are just as bad. The article argues that humans are not "naturally" lazy, and that the feeling…

As someone who has not "used GPT-3" what does it mean to say that you used it to make a summary? Just dump the full text of the article into a tool and request a summary output? I have only seen GPT-3 used when it takes a prompt and then generates more related text, I didn't realize you could run that process in reverse.

The main interesting thing about GPT-3 is that prompt engineering turns it into an incredibly general tool. This summary was likely generated with a prompt something like:

Here's an article about x:

A quick summary of the article, focusing on the main relevant points and keeping critical detail:

as an example, then duplicating that with the real article and text.

That's the "few shot learning" from the original paper. It could also be that it's good enough at summarizing specifically that you don't need an example, just the right framing prompt around the article text. Either way, that kind of prompt engineering is how you get "text completion" to perform basically any text processing task, generate code or play tic tac toe, so on

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Post by redhedgehog12 »

Infernal wrote: post #225
tikkun wrote: post #220

I made a summary of this article, because I found it a bit hard to read. I used GPT-3! Here's the summary: The author is saying that people who write about productivity are, in a way, the devil, because they convince people to do things they hate. The author is also saying that these people are not literally the devil, but are just as bad. The article argues that humans are not "naturally" lazy, and that the feeling…

As someone who has not "used GPT-3" what does it mean to say that you used it to make a summary? Just dump the full text of the article into a tool and request a summary output? I have only seen GPT-3 used when it takes a prompt and then generates more related text, I didn't realize you could run that process in reverse.

Not OP but I've used GPT-3 quite extensively and can imagine that's exactly what they did.

You can give it anything - or nothing - and ask for any kind of output.

The relevance and accuracy of what it gives you can vary lots. You can give it examples of the types of things you want back etc. You don't necessarily have to give it examples either, just ask it a question. It normally performs better on semi-complex tasks when you give it examples though.

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