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Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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skeaker wrote: post #711
fao_ wrote: post #602

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DMCA defines copying as theft. Derivative artwork requires paying the owner of the original copyright. > A "derivative work" is a work based upon one or more preexisting works, such as a translation, musical arrangement, dramatization, fictionalization, motion picture version, sound recording, art reproduction, abridgment, condensation, or any other form in which a work may be recast, transformed, or adapted. A work…

> DMCA defines copying as theft. Then the DMCA would be wrong: Theft requires the original owner to lose their property, which does not occur when copying data. This is no surprise as the DMCA has always sucked. Frankly you missed my point entirely, the DMCA and my/the technical community's general disdain for it doesn't have much to do with what I wrote. What I'm saying is that in 99% of cases AI art is unique enoug…

> Then the DMCA would be wrong

It's encoded in law. I wasn't talking about "what should be", I was talking about "what is".

> it is pretty much not possible to pay the "original artist" because you cannot identify them

there are numerous cases where an AI has spat out "literally just the original image, but badly". It really sucks that AI companies might literally have to- checks notes -"pay the people they're stealing from", though. Oh, my heart weeps for those billionaires that might have to shed a penny from their fortune to help those they sleep upon.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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hirvi74 wrote: post #624
atcalan wrote: post #583

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Both my son and I have a GAI in the gifted range. Our psi and wmi pull us down out of contention. I'm talking 88 and below. Both are heavily executive function loaded; a halmark of ADHD. Same happened with algebra. He was forced to repeat in 9th grade and they tanked me right out of algebra in 8th. Both of us taught ourselves calculus in HS because we were bored to tears. Algebra is heavily executive function loaded.…

Do you think IQ tests are as valid as psychologists claim? I took the WAIS-IV many moons ago, and I couldn't help but think how BS the whole test was. I even intentionally dodged some questions for the hell of it to see if my proctor would notice. I even got in an argument with the psychologist/proctor at one point during the symbol matching section. I was supposed to write the corresponding number under a series of…

> Do you think IQ tests are as valid as psychologists claim?

As someone who is the spawn of two MENSAns, has friends in Neurosci and Psych, and who has brushed up a fair bit on the topic, I don't think any psychologists outside those in a tiny subset of the community believe in IQ Tests. The support for them is at best "well they measure something, but we're not sure what it is, and we have trouble labeling it as 'intelligence' due to the broad nature of that term". There are so, so many flaws with IQ testing that have been pointed out not only by yourself, but also by others in the field. The only actual practical, measurable use an IQ test to improve lives to date was an application in the 1980s on intake for fighter pilots, and it resulted in many less fighter pilots dying from crashes during training.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by nerpderp82 »

TheRealHB wrote: post #717
nerpderp82 wrote: post #544

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I assume you are measuring the pulse/stress level of a candidate. Is this a proxy measurement for a lie detector?

We use on video-applications when pre processing them, the idea is to sense stress levels when the applicant is introducing themselves at the start of the video and then not reducing their scores or points when the same person gets shy of being on video or forget something due to stress when talking about something else. We try estimate a "confidence" level when saying something, but NOT able to guess if a lie. An ac…

Thanks, I appreciate the reply.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by pseudalopex »

WendyTheWillow wrote: post #629
pseudalopex wrote: post #621

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You meant sync? Email doesn't have presence indication. Few people expect near real time responses to GitHub discussions.

No I mean async. Slack is async. A phone call/Zoom call/in person conversation is sync. Presence indicators are irrelevant and trivially defeated. Besides, what part of ADHD makes you unable to be generally "around"? Not aware of an ADHD symptom that makes it difficult to literally be on a computer at all... People's expectations that you respond instantly have nothing to do with which app you use. They'll expect tha…

> Slack is async. A phone call/Zoom call/in person conversation is sync.

Chat clients and Slack specifically are designed for sync primarily. GitHub discussions and email are wholly async. Basecamp has a chat feature not chat focus. I don't know Twist.

> Presence indicators are irrelevant and trivially defeated.

Presence indicators were relevant in the 1st comment. And what would victory be in this context?

> Besides, what part of ADHD makes you unable to be generally "around"? Not aware of an ADHD symptom that makes it difficult to literally be on a computer at all...

No one said anything like this.

> People's expectations that you respond instantly have nothing to do with which app you use. They'll expect that via email if that's your work's culture.

You said instantly. Not me or the person who wrote the 1st comment.

I believe data I saw over your assertion. Nearly 2 in 3 people in very different companies said expectations changed soon after their company or team started to use chat software. This excluded companies where near real time responses were expected already. Our tools shape us is a well known observation.

And that was not even the type of expectation I meant. The 1st comment talked about missing conversation while focused on tasks. This leads to being left out of decisions and so on.

Re: Hacking ADHD: Strategies for the modern developer

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Post by hirvi74 »

fao_ wrote: post #752
hirvi74 wrote: post #624

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Do you think IQ tests are as valid as psychologists claim? I took the WAIS-IV many moons ago, and I couldn't help but think how BS the whole test was. I even intentionally dodged some questions for the hell of it to see if my proctor would notice. I even got in an argument with the psychologist/proctor at one point during the symbol matching section. I was supposed to write the corresponding number under a series of…

> Do you think IQ tests are as valid as psychologists claim? As someone who is the spawn of two MENSAns, has friends in Neurosci and Psych, and who has brushed up a fair bit on the topic, I don't think any psychologists outside those in a tiny subset of the community believe in IQ Tests. The support for them is at best "well they measure something , but we're not sure what it is, and we have trouble labeling it as 'i…

I fear your great comment is only feeding into my confirmation bias because your opinion is exactly what I was hoping to read lol.

I do believe the test are not useless, and I agree with Taleb that IQ might be more accurate at the lower extremes i.e. less than 70. In other words, the test cannot measure intelligence, but is pretty good at finding a lack thereof.

However, the further along the bell curve one traverses, the more the test falls apart.

The only reason I was administered a test was for ADHD diagnostic purposes. Sure, the conclusion was that I had ADHD, but the psychologist was confident in my diagnosis prior to the test, so the test was more of a formality.

> The only actual practical, measurable use an IQ test to improve lives to date was an application in the 1980s on intake for fighter pilots, and it resulted in many less fighter pilots dying from crashes during training.

This is so fascinating.

Tangent:

I was listening to a podcast about what it means to be a genius, how it's measured, what it means, etc.. There was a section about Lewis Terman's research on gifted children/adults. He followed and studied the lives over 1500 gifted children over the course of his entire life. Out of all the gifted children, none of them became anything noteworthy -- doctors, lawyers, etc..

However, two boys that were apart of the same school system that were not studied because they were not gifted eventually went on to each win a Nobel Peace prize -- separately and in different fields.

I will not claim that Terman's research proves anything, one way or another, but I did find it rather interesting.

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