Technologies: Bit of everything, full-stack web dev (Vue, React) is what I have most experience with as well as Python. Web scraping, data analysis, recommender systems. Some ML/Pytorch as well albeit not LLMs. Lately I've been focusing a lot on Clojure(Script) and programming language design.
Primarily looking for part-time or contract-based stuff, but totally open to full-time for things that are genuinely interesting or truly aleviate suffering in this world. I'm very available for short-term gigs and odd jobs, so if you just need someone to run chores for you for a couple hours at a reasonable rate, I'm your guy.
Professional experience going back technically to 2012 if I'm allowed to be a little cheeky (used to write Minecraft Bukkit server plugins for some extra money as a teen) and provable professional-quality work going back to 2017.
I think "act like it's ridiculous" is pretty hyperbolic here. I didn't know what ARIA stood for until now (though I knew what it was).
You'd be surprised how many people barely know it exists... I was a TA for my uni's Web Engineering and Ethics in CS courses and accessibility never even came up in either course.
It's illegal to have navigation in your vehicle tell you there's a camera coming up in France, enforced and punished by high fines (I moved here from NL which has no such law).
"just like the bad-thing-doers of old, today's bad-thing-doers believe what they're doing is actually good" is a keen insight in itself when broadly applied, but useless for distinguishing bad things from good things.
I imagine myself switching over to that pretty quickly if I do stick with the platform (I also use YouTube that way) but that doesn't address the discovery problem.
It's just really sad that you give people a platform to say whatever they want to the world and most people seem to have little to say beyond "here's what made me unhappy today"...
Inspired by another recent post on ATProto I signed up for bsky, but all I see is endless American politics. I relentlessly click "less like this" but it doesn't seem to budge. Is this just what the platform is like? Being constantly barraged by the same predictable takes on today's bizarre overseas controversy is not very conducive to mental peace...
Guidance definitely can be helpful. Of course it's important that the possibility exists; Ihhave high functioning AuDHD and without extra support I probably wouldn't have made it as far as I have, but there's shadow sides to "support" as well. From a very young age I had to constantly play manipulative games one way towards social workers to present myself as adequately dysfunctional to qualify for financial support that my (poor, single parent) family desperately needed, and on the other hand as more "normal" than I really was to counteract my elementary school that was convinced I should go to special education and went out of their way to contact my prospective middle/high school and try to talk them out of accepting me for instance (I ended up doing the honors track in secondary education and getting a BSc after).
I'm sure a lot of those shadow sides disappear in adulthood when one is more in control over one's own destiny but so do a lot of the benefits (eg workplace accommodations aren't nearly at the same level as school accommodations and unfortunately I'm convinced the vast majority of ADHDers/Aspies are better off not telling people at work).
It's hard to say what to make of the whole "trendy" thing, for every such person I know I know several others who are definitely on the spectrum but undiagnosed. I do think in our culture we have an unhealthy tendency to jump from "this is difficult for me" to "something is wrong with me" but on the other hand executive function or sensory difficulties are something many people experience from time to time and if "I'm a little bit autistic/ADHD" is people's best way of describing what they're going through then I don't want to silence them, because I know those difficulties are real and I have a lot of sympathy for that.
In an ideal world we'd be able to talk about the symptoms without having to reach for the syndromes, but that requires a level of experiential insight and standardized nomenclature and especially sympathy on a population level that's just not really there yet.
If you just tell people you struggle with procrastination or have analysis paralysis or get too sensorily overwhelmed by sounds or smells or the office environment to function people do still often treat each other like they're snowflake wusses that need to grit their teeth and pull their bootstraps or whatever.
The fact that this is all just part of "the human condition" often just hardens people more ("I had to grit my teeth and bear it's only fair you do the same"). Putting people in an exceptional "disease" bucket gives some respite from that, would that it be otherwise.
Better to acknowledge that there's nothing special about being diseased, there's nothing wrong with being diseased. We are all diseased and we all deserve and benefit from care. Those that don't think so should try talking to an older person ;-).
It depends on your threshold for normal but the guy has maybe 1/100k strange IQ while holding 1/50 strange beliefs. No matter how weird your beliefs are it'll never make you as abnormal as an Einstein or someone who's 270cm tall
It's a mixed bag. I personally wish I had access to medication (but don't have the emotional energy fighting that fight with the medical system and getting rediagnosed in my current country) but amphetamines are unobtainium here through the medical system and methylphenidate turns me into a zombified wreck most of the time.
In many places getting an adult ADHD diagnosis is near impossible. I was diagnosed at age 8 personally, but I now live in a country where adult ADHD is borderline not acknowledged as even existing, and I know people have to fight very hard to get diagnosed and even harder to get access to medication if they can get it at all.
There can also be palpable downsides to having a diagnosis at all, eg in my birth country everyone with an ADHD or Asperger's diagnosis is legally required to pay for medical evaluation out of pocket to be allowed to get a driver's license and will face medical reevaluation on renewal as well.
This is an interesting list of claims but it's hard to evaluate it as much more than that. I'm aware of several of these arguments and some of them are strong, others have merit but also have standard counter arguments that aren't mentioned here. A bunch of claims either sound implausible to my ear or I don't quite understand; there's a lot of links to research that is then distilled down to a single paragraph where it's hard to understand what exactly the claim is, whether it actually matches what the source says, and if course whether the source itself is strong. Then there's some claims that are just patently absurd like RSA-breaking quantum computers in 2027 .
There's some good stuff in there but it's just a kind of a gish galloping polemic, it raises some interesting questions but it doesn't do much to sway my opinion on the macro level.
Remote: Yes please
Willing to relocate: Nope
Technologies: Bit of everything, full-stack web dev (Vue, React) is what I have most experience with as well as Python. Web scraping, data analysis, recommender systems. Some ML/Pytorch as well albeit not LLMs. Lately I've been focusing a lot on Clojure(Script) and programming language design.
Résumé/CV: https://webbieweb.org/work/looking_for_work.html (haven't gotten around yet to going in detail on portfolio, inquire by email for my actual CV)
Email: [email protected]
Primarily looking for part-time or contract-based stuff, but totally open to full-time for things that are genuinely interesting or truly aleviate suffering in this world. I'm very available for short-term gigs and odd jobs, so if you just need someone to run chores for you for a couple hours at a reasonable rate, I'm your guy.
Professional experience going back technically to 2012 if I'm allowed to be a little cheeky (used to write Minecraft Bukkit server plugins for some extra money as a teen) and provable professional-quality work going back to 2017.