Stephen Rout 馬强敏

Software developer, meddler in some other things.
ICLP@臺大 '22-'23, Centre College '24. Aka-san!
'The most based Democrat I've ever met'.

[tomie @tomieinlove]

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

[Stephen Rout 馬强敏 @Stephen__Rout]

@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,

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@liz_love_lace @zarzaliel Thank you for the rec, they're great!

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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.

[Overeducated Gibbon @MostlyMonkey]

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.

[Stephen Rout 馬强敏 @Stephen__Rout]

@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.

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@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.

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@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.

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@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.

[ぐる @parfaitgul]

お出かけ準備🚶

[Stephen Rout 馬强敏 @Stephen__Rout]

@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.

[Joey @Joey_FS]

Runaway data intensive applications being managed by the clanker cloud

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@BluebriarArts Frankly, whooshing around with an elytra is more fun than any of those things. Long live the elytra!

[Stephen Rout 馬强敏 @Stephen__Rout]

@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.

[Stephen Rout 馬强敏 @Stephen__Rout]

@Millanphilipose @idobadtakes It seems useful for the elite to have spent 4 years mixing together early in their adult lives.

[Sky @docentdemagogue]

@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

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@1owroller This looks amazing, where is it?

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@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.

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@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.

[Stephen Rout 馬强敏 @Stephen__Rout]

@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.