Tag: musings
We're Using The Word 'Kindly' More,
I recently watched a 5-minute TEDTalk by Adam Aleksic about how AI changed the way we write and speak, even accidentally. In his talk, Adam says, '[W]e know ChatGPT says delve at way higher rates than usual [because] OpenAI outsourced its training process to workers in Nigeria who do, actually, say delve more frequently. Over time, though, that little linguistic over-representation gets reinforced into the model [...] more than in the workers' own dialects. Now [it's] effecting everybody's langu...
The Jack of All Trades and the CCNP
I remember when I was younger, I was really good at a few things that could become good career paths. A lady told me that being a jack of all trades is good but it doesn't lead to greatness. I used to think she was wrong. It's wild to me in hindsight how right she was. My journey in IT is proof. From tester to field engineer to more advanced titles and back to field engineer. I've been good. But I have not been great. I got into IT pretty early in my 20s, but I didn't really dig deep until much...