Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@glyph @nedbat @brianokken I am not sure but they feel slightly different to me. I think of a benchmark as a fixed task that you do to track progress. Evals could be stuff like having humans rate 1000 examples of output, or using a specially trained evaluator model to rate a bunch of outputs. Probably a wide enough definition of either term allows one to encompass the other, but they probably have different centers of mass.

Ok yeah that is actually pretty loud. This is the power spectrum with the tip held about an inch away from the microphone. Going "aah" at the same microphone from the same distance at a normal or slightly elevated speaking level is giving me peaks around -40 and this thing is doing -20.

I think it is this one, in case anyone wants to... uh... light candles 😉 https://www.amazon.com/VEHHE-Electric-Rechargeable-Flexible-Barbecue/dp/B0852VJ6RD

@brainwane I will also note I see a huge correlation between kindness and happiness. Could easily be that happy and secure people feel they have a lot of slack to be kind as well, but when my instinct is to not be kind or forgiving or accepting and I am able to overcome it or actually genuinely feels really good.

@brainwane I think it is true though that people overestimate some of these things, so on average this advice is moving people in the right direction.

My 7 year old is a great kid but he hates getting in any kind of trouble so he often tries to avoid blame. I had to explain to him that yeah it sucks taking the blame for stuff but counter intuitively people really appreciate when you are quick to accept blame and own up to your mistakes.

@kittylyst @epilepticrabbit My job in the US as a teenager was pretty much exclusively gathering up the carts at a Wal Mart. I think I would have liked it a LOT less if I were spending my shifts inside doing something else.

I still will go out of my way to return my cart to the right place, though (except in rare circumstances where I am alone with my kids and it would be a huge pain to leave them alone to drop it off but also a huge pain to get them out to take them with me).

In any case as long as the carts aren't blocking parking spots or sidewalks and they aren't in particular danger of blowing around dangerously in the wind I don't really judge other people for their cart behavior.

@feoh I guess I'll have to just imagine the unlikely scenario in which most of the people in the Spanish-speaking track of the English-language conference can empathize with feeling self conscious about your grammar and accent in a language that isn't your native language 😉

I am of two minds about giving a talk in Spanish, to be honest.

On the one hand it is a personal goal to be good enough in a foreign language to give a useful or interesting talk.

On the other hand, if I ever hear the recording I might die of embarrassment when I hear myself speaking Spanish, so....

Two of my three proposals are for the Spanish language Charlas track. I have heard that they would very much appreciate more proposals, even from non-native speakers.

@kevin Disappointed in the sense that you would not have started if you knew it would end that way or just in the sense that you wanted more seasons?

@andrewblasco El concepto ya existe, se llama estivación: https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estivaci%C3%B3n

No sé el verbo en español, en inglés es "to aestivate". Supongo que sería "estivar", aunque "estibar" también existe y es otra cosa.