What were the main attributes that led to varying states of whelmed?
One reason I love text discourse is that it gives me time to thoughtfully respond. My wife is super witty and can be instantly funny and social when she wants. It takes me more time to match that sociable wit.
My hunch is that wit-rate would be a contributing whelm factor.
Some of them were far more manic in the flesh. Email and Usenet hid aspects of what we'd now call spectrum behaviour or ADHD. That was the over whelm.
Otherwise, I'd say it was that people can be less rounded and interesting than you like in an amicable and two way relationship. It's easy to mistake a dialogue to specific intent online for some kind of connection when it really isn't. If they have 50,000 followers (hate that word) and you mistake being 50,001 for some stronger binding, prepare to be disappointed.
I will say that I've also experienced really good, relatable responsive engagement with my heroes and heroines, it's not uniform. It helps if you can meet them in a room of common purpose, not one solely designed for them to showcase in. Then, they're just ordinary people like you, mostly. If you're careful.
Wit: I have "esprit d'escalier" and so only think of the Bon mot on the way out the door.
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And what/if any arising issues are you currently tracking?
I’m also curious about your 12/2019 info sources. We had a postdoc in our lab in ~late 01/2020 that was obsessively watching the Johns Hopkins COVID tracker, so that’s when I was tuned into the inbound insanity.
We have evidence that non Homo sapiens bipeds (e.g., Neanderthals, Homo habilis) used tools far before we came onto the scene. A long lineage of hominin species came before humans!
And even today, our species' cousins (Chimps) are rudimentary tool users. Recently saw a documentary where they evolved their 'tools' to get honey from a 1-stick approach to a 3-stick approach.
I’m curious if there is a diagnosis criteria for SDAM.
It likely exists on a spectrum (just like mental imagery).
I have aphantasia and struggle quite strongly with autobiographical memory, but if someone reminds me of an event or I look through old photos, I can remember things.
This is why I love having Immich so much - it lets me feel connected to my past.
In the past I took a 18 month break and played around with leaving it blank or putting side projects. It definitely doesn't help but it wasn't a killer either.
Well I am pretty much you but maybe several years junior. I went to a state school, was obsessively focused only on my field of study, and scoffed at the idea of exploring anything else (save for some Jung and Nietzsche).
But as I’m “aging” into the real world after grad school, I’ve similarly realized how silly it was to turn my head to literature.
Curious if you’d be willing to recommend a classic, or share the genres that you’ve been enjoying.
I don't understand the "silly" part. Classic lit is amazing and also good for you. I am a late comer to it as well and I'm so glad that I have discovered it. I am finishing Ulysses now and it absolutely rocks.
Well they can be watching all the action and thinking the whole time as the action leads up them, just like we do in poker. To me it's different, subtly perhaps.
For my implementation, I'm passing in the current hand's action history (e.g. Player 1 raises to $X preflop, Player 2 calls, Player 3 calls. Flop is A B C, Player 2 checks, etc) whenever the action is on the player.
Your idea of having it being passed in real time and having the LLM create a chain of thoughts even if action is not on them is interesting. I'd be curious to see if it would result in improved play.
One reason I love text discourse is that it gives me time to thoughtfully respond. My wife is super witty and can be instantly funny and social when she wants. It takes me more time to match that sociable wit.
My hunch is that wit-rate would be a contributing whelm factor.
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