🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo @trinsec @khird

1) My role is the STEM amateur enthusiast, not even a student, nevermind in the professional line. If I were starting fresh, I would gravitate towards that.

2) My enthusiasm for changing to a "sibling server" ranks up there with my interest in changing my email address. Again. Which is to say, "not very," and for the same reasons. I'm not clear I can alter my handle on the Birdsite without losing any means to have my fediverse address in there at all.

3) My wife and the very few friends that started accounts on qoto do not appear to be using this much if at all. "Moving" would for them would sound an awful lot like, "forget you bothered with Mastodon."

4) I'm highly confident any ties between you and any other server will bring on the Ultra Self-Righteous crowd that got qoto on the naughty list, and a new site would be on that list faster than word could get out the site exists.

@freemo In the immortal words of Miley Cyrus: "everybody make mistakes, everybody has those days...just, preferably not with highly reactive chemical species" 😂

I guess Ill reintroduce myself: Hello, S.R. Weaver here.

Im am an Ruby developer, Author, Poet, and Composer. I tried doing game design with RPG Maker VX but could never finish a game.

Ive written seven novels, one poetry collection, and some poetry.

Ive recently gotten back into music #composing, and aspire to play like Claude Debussy and Nobuo Uematsu.

Look forward to meeting people.

@freemo Same. Yea I became dissappointed in the direction eugene was talking Mastodon.

Its weird seeing so many new people,.but Im all for it.

I wasnt expecting myself to get swamped by AI. Not large language models though.

Small Language Models.

@Romaq @freemo
Never forget layers 8, 9, and 10.
https://community.infosecinstitute.com/discussion/28801/osi-layers-8-9-10

Okinawa Black Sugar Sourdough

Recipe: https://lupyuen.codeberg.page/articles/sourdough.html#okinawa-black-sugar-sourdough

@freemo
Welll …
as qoto.org instance admin,
you're working for me, so I stick around.

@Romaq

@tatzelbrumm Usually if the interviewee is struggling or stressed I will remind them of this story, that I have had people who couldnt answer a single question that I've hired and that I care more about how they reason their way through a problem than what they know... so hopefully that helps the unequal treatment somewhat.

As for some of the questions I ask, I usually have a range of them from simple, to advanced but most of them are designed to have multiple levels of answers.

Also keep in mind since ive worked in so many diverse fields, usually as the boss, that the questions vary dramatically based on the field. Hiring chemists are very different questions than programmers, or medical doctors, or electrical engineers. So its hard to give you good examples that really covers the gammut.

I think you're a programmer IIRC so let me give you some examples from there:

On the whiteboard, in psuedocode, write for me an algorithm that will check if a number is prime. How would you be able to optimize it if you were asked to generate a bin of primes rather than to test for prime?

What is the difference between little-O, big-O little-omega and big-omega?

How would you evaluate a conventionally written algorithm to determine if it is likely to be suitable for GPU acceleration?

What is the fork-join pattern useful for and why is it so important?

@freemo @olives

Ty. it was just a quick search & 1 link but lots easily found.

I forgot his immigration laws changes

And an opinion, but lots of facts - 2 links below

https://www.kff.org/policy-watch/floridas-recent-immigration-law-could-have-stark-impacts-for-families-and-the-states-economy/

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/ron-desantis-florida-record-presidential-campaign

As a climate scientist who has warned about the threat of climate change for decades, I think the fact that we just saw what was probably the hottest day in recorded history, and probably in thousands of years, is deserving of attention...

https://www.cnn.com/2023/07/05/world/hottest-day-world-climate-el-nino-intl/index.html