I really should have said monetizable instead of useful.

You don’t want a person on a contract with multimillion dollar injury payouts to get invited and have to also pay someone else to fill their role.

A solid foundation in optimization makes your skills useful pretty much anywhere.

Basically the people who do the math on risk management for things like insurance and finance.

It’s typically a very regulated job with tests required for different levels. But the pay is good and it’s one of the highest job satisfaction careers out there.

There are a lot of different fields of math, and some of them are more useful than others.

Applied math is generally difficult but useful for ask kinds of things from finance to weather prediction.

Pure math is often more academic/paid for by universities.

And most universities realistically pay for math professors by having science and engineering classes take math courses, and by grants for research.

Speed run this time though

This is every Mozilla CEO in the last decade:

Honestly none of this sounds good.

Firefox will grow into a suite of software? Why?

People just want Mozilla to make Firefox fast and modern (I.e. renders their content, follows web standards correctly, is secure)

AI and whatever else is just a distraction from the one product people want.

The Venn diagram of Firefox users who want an AI browser is zero.

Know your customer.

That’s how I felt about his “quiet piggy” content getting so much attention.

That’s not my worst one. I did an analysis for one company which took 2 months since their data was such a mess. They were spending at least $10m/year (20 high comp devs) developing a product that was pulling in 8k/year. They did not have a path to growing revenue 1000x on that one, when I told the ceo and he doubled down that it was a bet they wanted to make. They really just wanted the nice slide deck for the board.

I checked in a year later and they were still working on it. Two years later they mothballed it. They could have saved millions by listening to me.

Those seeds in your farm contain patented DNA, please pay up.

Just following orders, computer says no

Last year I quit a job that added AI use to performance reviews.

It was basically “if we’re not all in on AI our competitors will be, we all need to learn it”.

Nobody paid for their product for AI before, they paid for a product that was simple and reliable so that their business didn’t have to worry about issues and could dicks on their core competencies.

I watched some sheisters build some impressive money furnaces, they got the praise while I got sidelined for pointing out the costs. I literally showed the forecasted costs of tens of thousands a week on basically a vanity feature with no payout, and the execs all said yeah that was fine, it’s AI. Then two months later they were asking me why our costs went up so much and why they didn’t know that would happen, and I just pointed to my date stamped presentation of the numbers and meeting notes they approved (and my numbers were 99% accurate to the true costs).

When execs ignore my advice and warnings I leave.

Your freezer has a display?

I think there are “smart” monitors now with these things being built in.

Haven’t recipes been commoditized for a while now?

DDG has shown recipes inline from Allrecipes for like 10 years now.

I’m more interested cooking advice and techniques and styles, which AI can’t actually qualitatively try and document.

Whenever I ask ai for cooking advice it just says whatever I’m doing is genius and great. Even if it’s fucking stupid or wrong.

I thought it was wrong to say mean things about murder victims?

I couldn’t read this, I stopped halfway through.

Beautiful, great work!

I don’t know where this is, but that gap on the old did would let so many animals into the shed, the new door looks much better.

I hate having my shed smell like animal urine/nests.

Ah, the Etsy strategy