Are you saying the US is the only country that has an excess of applicants for entry-level positions? Or the only one for which credentialism is the solution to this problem? If the second, how does the place you're from solve it?
"Cambridge University History of Mathematics Society
presents an illegal, immoral, and fattening lecture series,
without the endorsement, approval, or approbation of University authorities on:
HISTORY OF SCIENCE IN ANTIQUITY"
Gives me a warm feeling. Here's one of the lectures to get a flavor:
But in a larger frame, of "things tightly associated with coffee", they mean something extremely close. Whether these things are opposite from each other, or virtually identical, is a function of your point of view; or, in this context, the generally-meaningful level of discourse.
At scale, I expect having dairy vs non-dairy distance be very small is the more accurate representation of intent.
Of course, I also expect them to be very close and that's the problem with purely relying on embeddings and distance where, in this case, the two things mean entirely opposite preferences on the same topic.
(I think maybe why we sometimes see AI generated search overviews give certain types of really bad answers because the underlying embedding search is returning "semantically similar" results)
Is there a place to download the old Infocom games, or play them on the web somehow? HHGTTG was my favorite game, but I never played LGOP or MFV and would like to.
The Internet Archive is your first port of call. For some reason I can't get any of them to load in the browser, but all of the systems are emulatable locally.
I keep hoping that now that Microsoft owns all of Infocom's legacy they'll do some more interesting packs/anthologies again.
Also, it's not the kind of "platform seller, AAA modern stuff" that Xbox Game Pass is known for, but I still like to hope that if some of these games showed up on Xbox Game Pass for PC they'd accidentally blow up on Twitch somewhat the way old PBS shows like Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood did. Get a bunch of people playing old classic games they'd never think to try by making them "What's New on Game Pass" notable.
I have been experimenting with different representations of data in Neo4j, Markdown, and Orgmode. I even tried cludging the polyhierarchies into different file systems using symlinks and tagging,
I'm still researching for better storage techniques.
I want a good mix between hand editing, but robust machine readable formats. Orgmode works pretty good, but it's fairly complicated to parse, and I think it could be improved.
The retrieval and search part could be improved with RAG, but I don't have the hardware or time at the moment to hacking around with the compute intensive AI stuff.
