Well, my fourth application to Anthropic was just rejected, this time with Dario personally telling me to never contact him again. No matter. Due to recent visions, I now realize I’m the younger brother of Jesus Christ
@Ned_Donovan I'd agree that that row is over-using the star-on-the-left motif, but they are absolutely still varying in line shapes/directions, exact figures, etc. Heck, each of those stars is unique! These have more room for variation than, say, yet another tricolor or bicolor flag,
Banking titles strike again. My boss at JPM is a VP, and has at least one individual contributor VP reporting to him. The closest ED to me manages ~35-ish people? That said, this is on the tech side, other areas of the firm may do things differently.
Quick point of order: being an "Executive Director" at a bank does not make you an "executive" of any kind. It's fundamentally a role with some limited management responsibilities over a small team, half a step above "Vice President". This lady is probably making 500-800 or so.
@Scholars_Stage 1) and 2) are not memorable unless the student manages to make them closer to 3) - which depends on their interests, and the amount of latitude in the class.
All this is a long way of saying that I haven't found my essays memorable - but I have a theory for how to change that.
@Scholars_Stage I'd say there are three big things an essay can contribute in eg a history class, and at least for my classes, the essays were often not well-aligned with any of these goals.
1) The essay can be a way of reviewing class content, with low expectations for external knowledge.
@Scholars_Stage 3) It can be about giving students a chance to expand their knowledge along some axis they find interesting - a research paper that actually expects students to do serious reading, not just lightly skim three sources to find a quote that supports their argument.
@Scholars_Stage 2) It can be about practicing the norms of the field, whatever that field is. Writing a paper the way other historians/literary studies/philosophers/whatever expect papers to be written. For history that may include, say, some slightly hand-held primary source analysis.
@hecubian_devil Hella anecdotal, but: I more often see the opposite - people being tripped up because they encounter someone who's opinions are a mixed bundle. Bundles are an important part of political opinion development, but I think you are overestimating their predictive reliability.
@Millanphilipose@idobadtakes That has less to do with concentration per se, and more with those fields offering a clear, legible path with high income potential and decent prestige, especially compared to eg government roles.
@seconds_0 “A human being should be able to raise a seed round, butcher a hog, conn a ship, replyguy roon, write a sonnet, solve a leetcode hard, set a bone, trade shitcoins, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone. Specialization is for insects”
― Robert A. Heinlein
@walterkirn The last few decades' wars also had massive shows of airpower and rapidly crushed most conventional resistance. It was all the parts after that which gave the US trouble.
@MostlyMonkey I also think that doctors/lawyers are generally upper middle class, with mobility to upper class gated behind levels of externally legible success in the field. That said, the division is kind of arbitrary. I feel like one could fairly argue that they should be lower-upper class.
@MostlyMonkey The way I think of it, "upper class" requires some combination of income and status. One can replace the other, but the conversion rate is costly. I could absolutely imagine people with 7 figure incomes, but who are not upper class. But at 8 figures that gets harder.