Iโm 25 and tomorrow is the first day of my new career. After an unnecessarily hectic year in tech/ML, Iโm out.
Iโve decided that the industry is on track to become something I donโt want to participate in. Labor will be squeezed between LLMs, increasing amounts of insider
A little life update: I am in the process of buying a 1921 Grist Mill! People used to loaf around whittling sticks while their corn was being ground, and thus the hollar was named Loafer's Glory
I want to clarify why I think the labor dynamics in tech are beyond fucked
Everyone wants to hire a an amazing engineer or salesman, but they've been out of production since March 2020.
Most of these layoffs and "firings for performance" people are young laptop americans. It
I had a floor worker ask me about my LiDAR equipment at an Amazon fulfillment center yesterday
โSo is does this use k-nearest neighbors?โ
โโฆ. What do you knowโ
โOh I graduated from Penn State with a comp sci degree last yearโ
Yike
@garybasin
- expert witness
- forensic surveying
- figuring out which previous surveyor fucked up
- previous property owners illegally moved ground markers
- old surveys that reference trees and other landmarks that may no longer be extant
- non standard units of measurements. Some deeds
My 23rd birthday I had a party at my cabin in the blue ridge mtns. I was staring down the road and said to my cousin โIโm going to buy that fucking millโ
And now Iโm going to sell that fucking mill
It took almost 11 months from then to actually close. When I did close I decided
My plan is to initially clean and refurnish it to operate it as a VRBO, get it on the historic registry, and then begin major renovations, hopefully opening it to the public in some capacity. Bar? Coffee shop? Wedding Venue? A building like this can truly be anything.
@HououinTyouma
Just research, some guidance, and a strong sales pitch that despite being overqualified for the hardest parts of the job (data processing) I was serious about the change and wonโt waste time
A little life update: I am in the process of buying a 1921 Grist Mill! People used to loaf around whittling sticks while their corn was being ground, and thus the hollar was named Loafer's Glory
It was then an artist co-op for a few years, falling into disrepair again, until a family from SC bought the mill and began major renovations. First, they dynamited the dam for wildlife and to reduce risk of failure, and concreted the rusty wheel.
It was operated by the Masters family until the 1950s, when its use was discontinued. It was falling apart until the 1970s when someone installed a commercial well/septic and concreted the floors for fire code. It was sold to another family who named it Loafers Glory University
I accidentally told my 2L manager that I think we can automate about 40% of our work with machine learning. โI donโt think Iโve seen a better use case for ML in my entire careerโ
Iโm thinking I should develop it in my free time and sell it back to them a SaaS product
@Duderichy
Aimlessness disguised as Hedonism. I have seen this advice (often given by parents) kill more of my friends futures. Second only to substance abuse. Some even have enablers their paying rent for them
The airbnb guests who stayed at my doomsday compound have had power and direct tv this whole time and completely unaware of the destruction going on below them lmfao
@Empty_America
Itโs based in an absurd denial of reality that dogs were bred for certain traits mixed with the fact that they end up in the pound the most
@Duderichy
Typical is misleading. Kind of like the typical human has one testicle and one breast. Most people either live next door to their parents or across the country
@dannymcneela
Yeah. I think my big revelation is that the way to make the most money and impact is by applying tech to those industries not making a tech company serving those industries
@vincentmcasey
Stay humble, find a manager or a senior dev that wants to champion you, and make their life easier. Show up 30 minutes before them and leave 30 minutes after them at minimum 3 days a week
@PaulSkallas
Itโs a benefits job I know a hot rich black girl who was a morehead Cain scholar (literally nothing is off limits to her) and she is a flight attendant living LARGE
To all the people who have been shaming me for not turning the mill back into a grist mill, I should apologize for not being more clear. This would be nearly impossible, and would require rebuilding most of the mechanisms from scratch.
@lillybilly299
There are so many cool jobs in the world. Least favorite was working as a machine learning engineer from an shoebox in the East village
My personal favorites have been
- bike messenger
- Google street view guy
- airbnb hosting
- wedding photographer
Some jobs Iโd do if I had
I actively hang out with ivy league grads and people that couldnโt pass the iQ test to get into the military. Waitresses and artists make better lovers than any white collar slaves. If you canโt see virtues in others, youโre the one with low iq
@sunsettler
Physically itโs more eye to eye. Fr. I subconsciously respect tall girls more
Also tend to have concentrations of better genes overall, like green or blue eyes, symmetrical faces, high iq because tall girls are the product of power couples
Yet theyโre somehow overlooked
@levelsio
@realGeorgeHotz
The depth of the moat that CUDA represents. millions of lines of code. From CuBLAS to CudNN it is taking amd and intel years to half bake OpenVX and OepnVino. open source gpgpu is worth trillions to but i think there is still a long way to go
Tinygrad is way more narrow in scope
@thechosenberg
Like any cool business idea, you gotta have a core competency in something profitable. Best thing I have ever seen was a bar/coffee shop that allowed dogs in Asheville. The bookstore was slightly profitable but really an expense on the ambiance line item for the bar. Great vibes
@Duderichy
I think the real difference is how science vs engineering majors value freedom in their 20s.
Eventually most people just go for cash, but the initial bifurcation is driven by a curiosity not professionalism