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Personal, waiting through your life, ASD, sad
I suppose many people in the spectrum didn't have an easy childhood, especially if they lived in rural areas. Having difficulties bonding with peers, problems, solitude, bullying. However, the worst that you could have is having your parents tell the child that you just need to survive and wait, because one day you'll go a different school, meet new people and things will miraculously "be better". Because the child will take that literally, and make a point of their childhood to wait for this better day. It will believe that the problem is just a matter time, and then it will be solved.
Then comes the time for a higher grade school. And perhaps it will be a little better. But it won't be as great as it was promised. Perhaps you will cope better, perhaps you will find a better company, but you will never be neurotypical. And you will hear, once again, that you need to wait, and at the university things will definitely be just great.
Then comes the time for university. And again, it will be a little better, but never as good as it was promised. On the other hand, you will start realizing even more that you can't fit — that you've missed an important part of your life, that you lack the experiences that other people have, that you're a child that's suddenly ended up an adult between adults. And what will you hear? Of course, when you finally go to work, things will be even better.
And what's the truth? The future never brings anything better of its own accord. What it brings instead, is the realization that you've wasted the best years of your life waiting to be an adult. And then you are old, unhealthy and surrounded by people who sorted out their lives a long time ago. And people expect from you that you will work hard 5 days a week, and somehow manage to find more energy to sort out your own life at that.
And yes, as the old maxim says, you should just cope all these years and wait for retirement. Presuming you'll actually qualify for pension, that you'll be reasonably healthy and that the world won't burn completely by the time.
#ActuallyAutistic

Is this normal? All my life I directly remembered only a handful of years of my personal events. Like my birth year (1950), when I started college (1969), when I married and moved to the US (1979), when I moved from Xerox PARC to DEC SRC (1985), when I came back to Brazil (1992) and a handful more after that. For all other events -- when I got my PhD, became head of Dept, moved to current home, etc -- I always had go start from one of those dates and count the years, every time. ...🧵‍><…

Memory, nostalgia, personal
Today I've reached the part of Szczecin that I haven't visited for 15 years or so. I have to say: memory is interesting.
I only had minimal recollections before, some place names I've visited, some associations, maybe a few rough visual memories. Looking at the map helped uncover a bit more but not much.
Today, walking (unknowingly following a similar route), memories returned in bulk. "I've been here before", "I totally forgot about these plane trees", "I remember this fence", "we sat somewhere over there". Even some images returned.
I was hit by nostalgia too. After all, all that was important to me. I was in love, and for the first time in my life everything was going just right. These were the good memories.
So what's the issue? Perhaps it is that it's easier to cherish good memories when the present is good as well, or at least you're convinced that it's going to go in the right direction. Perhaps you need precisely that to avoid perceiving these memories as the good old days that are never coming back.
Or perhaps it's an autism spectrum thing. Perhaps these memories will always represent attachment to a person that's no longer a part of my life. Dreams that didn't come true. Good times that has passed, and that I didn't cherish as much as I wish I would. Memories made together that remain important to me, but not to anyone else. And these memories that I've lost, though they remain present at the edge of conscience, reminding of their existence, but ever unreachable.
#ActuallyAutistic

Earlier this week, I rode on the BART train (light rail in the San Francisco Bay Area) for the first time since 2019. I've avoided it throughout the pandemic so far because I don't want to get sick, but thanks to their air quality upgrades and my extremely effective PAPR, I decided to give it a try.
I'm glad I did!
Compared to driving:
* much less stressful,
* same total travel time,
* lower climate impact,
* much cheaper - saving me $35 for the d…

Earlier this week, I rode on the BART train (light rail in the San Francisco Bay Area) for the first time since 2019. I've avoided it throughout the pandemic so far because I don't want to get sick, but thanks to their air quality upgrades and my extremely effective PAPR, I decided to give it a try.
I'm glad I did!
Compared to driving:
* much less stressful,
* same total travel time,
* lower climate impact,
* much cheaper - saving me $35 for the d…

🧐 Making it personal: Considering an issue’s relevance to your own life could help reduce political polarization
https://theconversation.com/making-it-personal-considering-an-issues-rel…

Making it personal: Considering an issue’s relevance to your own life could help reduce political polarization
Changing the ‘psychological distance’ someone feels toward an issue can shift their attitudes in ways that might help people on opposite sides of an issue see more eye to eye.

The section heading on #Wikipedia sometimes give us quite a glimpse into a person's life:
3 Personal life
3.1 Activities
3.2 Alcoholism
#WikiWeird

The Five Of My Life
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The Five Of My Life | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Five Of My Life Host: Nigel Marsh Category: Society & Culture Sub-Category: Commentary & Conversations, Personal Stories First Episode: 2018 In the Five Of My Life challenge…

Fair Machine Guidance to Enhance Fair Decision Making in Biased People
Mingzhe Yang, Hiromi Arai, Naomi Yamashita, Yukino Baba
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.05228

Fair Machine Guidance to Enhance Fair Decision Making in Biased People
Teaching unbiased decision-making is crucial for addressing biased decision-making in daily life. Although both raising awareness of personal biases and providing guidance on unbiased decision-making are essential, the latter topics remains under-researched. In this study, we developed and evaluated an AI system aimed at educating individuals on making unbiased decisions using fairness-aware machine learning. In a between-subjects experimental design, 99 participants who were prone to bias perf…

Right To Be:
Hate and Hope Tracker
Here, you can document harassment online, in the media, or in your own personal life.
You’ll also find ways to document moments of bystander intervention and support others experiencing harassment.
We collect all types of stories of harassment and hope, and as we move through the 2024 US Election, we want to shine a light on #election-related

Right To Be’s Hate and Hope Tracker
Right To Be’s Hate and Hope Tracker is a tool to document harassment online, in the media, or in your own personal life. You’ll also find ways to document moments of bystander intervention and support others experiencing harassment. Join now.

Social Skill Training with Large Language Models
Diyi Yang, Caleb Ziems, William Held, Omar Shaikh, Michael S. Bernstein, John Mitchell
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.04204

Social Skill Training with Large Language Models
People rely on social skills like conflict resolution to communicate effectively and to thrive in both work and personal life. However, practice environments for social skills are typically out of reach for most people. How can we make social skill training more available, accessible, and inviting? Drawing upon interdisciplinary research from communication and psychology, this perspective paper identifies social skill barriers to enter specialized fields. Then we present a solution that leverag…

I had no idea Gene Roddenberry was so.. freaky? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Roddenberry#Personal_life

Billy Strings Net Worth ,Personal Life, Professional Life, Relationships, and Everything - Sunriseread
#BillyStrings
https://sunriseread.com/billy-strings/172572/

Billy Strings Net Worth ,Personal Life, Professional Life, Relationships, and Everything - Sunriseread
Billy Strings Net Worth ,Personal Life, Professional Life, Relationships, and Everything: He was born William Lee Apostol on October 3, ... Read more

Did you know when you attend SCaLE 21x you are actually attending more than just a single Expo. There are also several other Co-Located Events, such as the Second Kwaai Personal AI Summit, with greater speakers like Doc Searls, Bruce Schneier, John Willis, Pankaj Kedia, Khai Pham, Reza Rassool, and more.
Join Industry Leaders, Kwaai, and the broader developer community at SCALE21x on March 14th, 2024.

Waiting for Beckett - Media Burn Archive
More than five years in the making, the 1993 documentary is a blend of rare archival footage, performances of his work, interviews with friends and scholars, as well as excerpts from Beckett’s letters which provide an astonishing and often humorous insight into his personal opinions of his life and art.

Waiting for Beckett - Media Burn Archive
WAITING FOR BECKETT profiles the life and work of Nobel prize-winning author and playwright Samuel Beckett, a writer who shunned publicity throughout his life, and yet became a worldwide cultural influence. More than five years in the making, the 1993 documentary is a blend of rare archival footage, performances of his work, interviews with friends and scholars, as well as excerpts from Beckett’s letters which provide an astonishing and often humorous insight into his personal opinions of his…

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A messy divorce and flagging popularity upended her personal life and threatened her political future, Ben Terris writes. Can the MAGA Mean Girl start over without changing?

A bit personal, living in right-wing world and not managing to put your life in order
In a right-wing society, a man's life is expected to follow two main axes (women have it even worse, but I'm going to talk of the gender that I experience first hand):
1. Education − finding a job − gaining experience and promotions − managing to retire.
2. Finding a girlfriend − marriage − having children − rearing children.
Of course, there are other expectations too: buying a car and house, but they can generally be derived from these two axes.
While, technically, the individual elements aren't limited to a specific age, usually you have to deal with them early enough. I suppose many people can confirm that — those who tried to learn a new language, supplement their education, find a better job late in life. But things can get worse.
You could lose your job and discover that our specific experience isn't worth uch. You end up competing for junior positions, with people who are young, healthy and ambitious; with people who don't have all your negative experiences and who can accept a smaller living wage.
You could notice that all your friends have already started their own families, and you didn't have anything even remotely resembling a relationship for over 10 years now; that you find it harder and harder to connect with anyone.
I think that's precisely what being #MADAO is: discovering that you're already (relatively) old and you didn't put your life in order, in time. Add being neuroatypical to that. The awareness that you no longer have the momentum that made it possible for us to overcome difficulties, even if we were only moving through the path of least resistance. Now not only this path is no longer available to us, but also we're being burdened with emotional baggage that makes it almost impossible to move.
And the right-wing society doesn't include a place for people who aren't moving across the only legitimate axis.
#ActuallyAutistic

Billy Strings Net Worth ,Personal Life, Professional Life, Relationships, and Everything - Sunriseread
#BillyStrings
https://sunriseread.com/billy-strings/172572/

Billy Strings Net Worth ,Personal Life, Professional Life, Relationships, and Everything - Sunriseread
Billy Strings Net Worth ,Personal Life, Professional Life, Relationships, and Everything: He was born William Lee Apostol on October 3, ... Read more

Selenskyj dankt medizinischem Personal
Der ukrainische Präsident Wolodymyr Selenskyj hat sich via X bei den Rettungskräften, Sanitäterinnen und Sanitätern an der Front bedankt. Diese arbeiteten unter "schwierigsten Bedingungen".
🐦 https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status

Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський (@ZelenskyyUa) on X
They save our warriors' lives and help them recover. They work around the clock, on the front lines, and under the most difficult conditions. I am grateful to all of our combat medics. To everyone who saves lives and brings our defenders back to life. We are proud to have such…

i feel like i am never going to get through this stack of books by my bed #alas

Waiting for Beckett - Media Burn Archive
More than five years in the making, the 1993 documentary is a blend of rare archival footage, performances of his work, interviews with friends and scholars, as well as excerpts from Beckett’s letters which provide an astonishing and often humorous insight into his personal opinions of his life and art.

Waiting for Beckett - Media Burn Archive
WAITING FOR BECKETT profiles the life and work of Nobel prize-winning author and playwright Samuel Beckett, a writer who shunned publicity throughout his life, and yet became a worldwide cultural influence. More than five years in the making, the 1993 documentary is a blend of rare archival footage, performances of his work, interviews with friends and scholars, as well as excerpts from Beckett’s letters which provide an astonishing and often humorous insight into his personal opinions of his…

This article on #journaling for #mentalhealth by @… is excellent. This mastodon account is my journal. I realise now that I need to use the other prompts too as m…

Embrace Your Peace with Mindful Journaling Practices
Are you longing for a sense of tranquility and personal growth in your daily life? Look no further than mindful journaling practices. By dedicating time to refl

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08021 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_…

Careless Whisper: Speech-to-Text Hallucination Harms
Speech-to-text services aim to transcribe input audio as accurately as possible. They increasingly play a role in everyday life, for example in personal voice assistants or in customer-company interactions. We evaluate Open AI's Whisper, a state-of-the-art automated speech recognition service outperforming industry competitors, as of 2023. While many of Whisper's transcriptions were highly accurate, we find that roughly 1\% of audio transcriptions contained entire hallucinated phrases or senten…

Ich hab mal wieder ein Notion-Template gebaut. Diesmal ist es ein kleines Personal-CRM-Template und eine Auskopplung aus meiner Komplettüberarbeitung meiner Studiumsorganisation (die demnächst als Template zur Verfügung stehen wird).
https://www.notion.so/templates/people-dir…

The nerve of some of my customers!!!
I was in the produce department and one wanted to invade my personal life by asking me "Do you have dates here?”

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00919 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Learning About Social Context from Smartphone Data: Generalization Across Countries and Daily Life Moments
Understanding how social situations unfold in people's daily lives is relevant to designing mobile systems that can support users in their personal goals, well-being, and activities. As an alternative to questionnaires, some studies have used passively collected smartphone sensor data to infer social context (i.e., being alone or not) with machine learning models. However, the few existing studies have focused on specific daily life occasions and limited geographic cohorts in one or two countri…

Great thread. I still struggle with LLM in software engineering because of the number of errors it produces for anything other than predicting my next line of code or two. But I know others get great performance out of them. Still working at it.
However, I wouldn’t make any predictions yet as to where this will shake out socially except to say, I don’t think it’s a flash in the pan.

🔥Tomorrow, this vital program will abruptly end. 🔥
On November 21, 2021, President Biden signed the bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.
The new law included the ☀️Affordable Connectivity Program☀️ (ACP), which provided up to $30 per month to individuals or families with income up to 200% of the federal poverty line to help pay for high-speed internet.
(For a family of four, the poverty line is currently $31,200.)
On Tribal lands, where internet access…

Why millions of Americans may lose internet access tomorrow
In 2024, reliable access to high-speed internet is no longer a luxury; it is a basic necessity. From job applications to managing personal finances and completing school work, internet access is an essential part of daily life. Without an internet connection, individuals are effectively cut off from basic societal activities.

Things rotate around a life time with strange attractors, the monoxide detector is out of date in ordering a new one we picked one by Kidde; Kidde manufactured the Sirius 1, my personal "favourite" computer that propelled me into working for manufacturers 40 years ago.
#WaitLongEnoughAndEverythingPassesBy

User is considering a tech career but is concerned about work-life balance. They're interested in DevOps, Cyber Security, Software Engineering/Coding, Data Analysis and don't want to sacrifice personal time. They wonder if a healthy balance is possible, or if it's only for those rushing to join FAANG. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1astbwt/

I feel this so much. I left Lyft about 9 years ago, had a few hit positions since then, but am currently in a way less glamorous (but supremely better paying) role now. Much healthier work-life balance too.
https://mastodon.social/@sandofsky/112254071129781009

Demystify Adult Learning: A Social Network and Large Language Model Assisted Approach
Fang Liu, Bosheng Ding, Chong Guan, Zhang Wei, Dusit Niyato, Justina Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13267

Demystify Adult Learning: A Social Network and Large Language Model Assisted Approach
Adult learning is increasingly recognized as a crucial way for personal development and societal progress. It however is challenging, and adult learners face unique challenges such as balancing education with other life responsibilities. Collecting feedback from adult learners is effective in understanding their concerns and improving learning experiences, and social networks provide a rich source of real-time sentiment data from adult learners. Machine learning technologies especially large la…

Fani Willis, the embattled Fulton County District Attorney, plans to press ahead with her goal of putting Donald Trump on trial before the November election,
and intends to ask the judge presiding over the Georgia criminal case to schedule a trial date as soon as this summer
It’s a bold move considering the hurdles Willis faces in getting the case back on track after a two-month detour revealed details of her personal life, and leaving her politically vulnerable ahead of her own …

The Mourning After
Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: #GreatAusPods

The Mourning After | Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory
Podcast: The Mourning After Host: Benjamin Gibson Category: Health & Fitness Sub-Category: Mental Health & Well Being, Personal Stories First Episode: 2024 Join Ben, an End-of-Life Doula, Celebrant…

The post questions whether cybersecurity requires lifelong learning due to its fast-changing nature, expressing concerns about balancing personal life and constant studying. The user seeks advice on the need for continuous studying after gaining experience. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1apai5x/