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The_Amp_Walrus commented on How to start a school with your friends prigoose.substack.com/p/h... · Posted by u/geverett
FractalU isn't a school. It doesn't need to keep records, comply with miles of state regulations (employee and volunteer background checks, record keeping, mandatory exams, ...). It doesn't need to be able to demonstrate to other schools (or universities) what the students achieved. It doesn't need to demonstrate to the state that it's actually teaching the students something. It doesn't handle any money, so it doesn't need an accountant. It doesn't employ anyone. It doesn't need to worry about firing anyone.
My kids attended a small co-op school when they were young--5 employees (4 teachers + "director" who was mostly a floating assistant/substitute), everything else handled by parent volunteers. There's really an enormous amount of administrative overhead.
FractalU doesn't have any of that because it's not actually a school.
a school is an institution that teaches people
your definition of "actually a school" seems to arbitrarily include a lot of reporting and paperwork and commerce that have nothing to do with the bit where you teach people stuff
The_Amp_Walrus commented on Vagus Nerve Stimulation Erases PTSD: Study neurosciencenews.com/vagu... · Posted by u/rmason
I don't know how I feel about this. The nature of PTSD is that you have a true memory, that the event happened. Imagine if I tell you, 9/11 was real and it happened, but from now you will never feel any feeling about it. What exactly did we accomplish here? The bombings in Gaza are real, but from now on, you will feel nothing about it. You see? It reads like a dystopia.
There's an obsession with erasing the past and not digesting it. The subconscious wants reconciliation, and it will emerge over and over, that's what PTSD is. Lobotomizing someone is certainly one way of reconciling it. The only way out is through imho, that you are forever changed and saw the face of mankind, and your subconscious will not accept any cheap reconciliation for the most part.
"Just zap it", I sense the subconscious will not let you get away with that. You are custodian of the trauma.
you're conflating "not having an overwhelming negative reaction to it" with "never feel anything about it"
you can know something is bad and act accordingly without having a disordered and painful relationship with it
On this topic I really enjoyed reading "Autism as a disorder of dimensionality"
https://opentheory.net/2023/05/autism-as-a-disorder-of-dimen...
I'm just a casual reader I can't vouch for the veracity of the content, but I found it very interesting
The_Amp_Walrus commented on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2025) · Posted by u/whoishiring
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, LLMs
Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/
Email: mattdsegal@gmail.com
I'm a Melbourne-based software dev with 8 years of experience. I've worked all over the stack: on backend, frontend, DevOps and scientific computing. I'm looking to work with an organised, productive team to ship great software. I love coding and getting things done. Happy to work remote with US-based teams.
I might be wrong about this but doesn't ollama do some work to ensure the model runs efficiently given your hardware? Like choosing between how much gpu memory to consume so you don't oom. Does llama.cpp do that for you with zero config?
Location: Melbourne, Australia
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React, AWS, Terraform, Postgres, LLMs
Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/
Email: mattdsegal@gmail.com
I'm a Melbourne-based software dev with 8 years of experience. I've worked all over the stack: on backend, frontend, DevOps and scientific computing. I'm looking to work with an organised, productive team to ship great software. I love coding and getting things done. Happy to work remote with US-based teams.
Remote: Yes
Willing to relocate: No
Technologies: AI/LLMs, Django, FastAPI, Pandas, React/TypeScript, AWS, Terraform, Postgres
Résumé/CV: https://mattsegal.github.io/resume/
Email: mattdsegal@gmail.com
I'm a Melbourne-based software dev with 9 years of experience. I've worked all over the stack: on backend, frontend, DevOps and scientific computing. I'm looking to work with an organised, productive team to ship great software. I love coding and getting things done. Interested in working remote with US-based teams on the west coast.
Read https://mattsegal.dev/devops-academic-research.html and other posts to learn about how I like to work and think.