My boss is out this week so I am his proxy and A is in India so I am also solo parenting ubering the kid around for her activities, cooking, getting dog his daily activities and dealing with escalations at night. I can’t wait for both of them to be back and I will fucking take a few days off!
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Both Hijack S2 and Drops of God S2 have been so meh so far, especially the latter. At least Hijack is a thriller, drops of god is becoming so insufferable and pretentious.
I don’t think Jensen and Musk are totally wrong when they say that in ai era new generation of learners are better off focusing on math and physics rather than coding. I am sure it extends to beyond math and physics. We are already seeing it play out in high school. Comp science is no longer the in thing for high schoolers even in stem focused (read CS) like TJ. A good majority are now opting for biotech / neuroscience / physics / math / medical tracks etc. Comp sci / coding is nowhere in the top list for any high schooler anymore. Who knows humanities and liberal arts may after all come back.
It’s not that I cannot write SQL queries to do data analysis, but I do struggle when I have to write complex queries and have to join multiple data sets. Now with AI tools, all I do is prompt the AI to build a query for me. I know enough to know what I want and I can look at query to see if it makes sense but I am not smart enough to write the query in 5 minutes like AI does. For things like this, AI is so good. However as they say, if the underlying data itself is junk or the schema is sub optimal even best AI is going to serve you half cooked meat.
I have nothing to do so I am watching SOTU and my god the comedy horror that this crap is.
🍿 Fall (2022) – ★★☆☆☆
The movie has some legit vertigo inducing scenes. But it runs out of steam so quickly with horrendous acting to boot. Wish it was better – there was a decent movie in there somewhere.
With today’s matches it absolutely looks like India may have hard time even qualifying for semis, given the form the other three countries are in. Thanks India for making this World Cup suddenly interesting and especially this group!
My manager left for a week long getaway with his wife over weekend to…. some place near Puerto Vallarta. I have been trying to get hold of him since morning after all the news about escalating violence down there. I hope to hear from him soon.
Temps above freezing so the snow was all slushy and wet – however it was not too much so shoveling didn’t take much time. The wind however is ensuring that snow is just flying around. Still this is a better outcome than last storm (and normal may I say) – temps steadily warmer through week so this should not stick around long. Commiserations to our northern friends who got hammered. Even our friends up in Philly were hit with a foot of snow and not done yet.
🍿 Gladiator (2000) – ★★★★★
Watched it again with kid after like decade(s) so I had mostly forgotten a lot of story. What a sweeping epic and I forgot how fucking good Joaquin Phoenix. They simply don’t make movies like these anymore.