You aren’t very likely to experience large swings in general happiness after you have passed certain age. Your life and career should be more stable with time. Though it is worth to identify smaller things that will lead to greater satisfaction.
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oh hey what's up Sobolev.
I agree with that. Things get more mundane, less prone to surprise and excitement.
But what if guys like us acquired a GF all of a sudden?
I'd imagine we'd have a bunch of great days in short term, but after a while our happiness would regress back to our natural means.
thanks for your comment!
Ah, well that's a simple but effective way to do it, much more practical than the image files I've opted for for some reason, probably Pox-inspired...
Looking forward to that blog! Intriguing. I tried getting some help with browser SpeechSynthesis via chatGPT earlier, but it wasn't great at that, it got some things right, but not a fully functional interface for the script, there's not (or wasn't at the time at least) much reference material available online on SpeechSynthesis though, so I assume where there's more documentation it can really work wonders. Still not using AI as much as I could/maybe should, it's definitely useful... didn't know it was this good with images either. Adobe's Firefly's pretty good at concept design, though seems to have certain reference-limitations, like it's terrible at generating visual text.
Have you tried any of the alternatives? Grok, Google Bard, Copilot, Deepseek?
Yeah it seems these things are changing fast too, it's a somewhat scary field to be in, you never know when you might just no longer have a skillset that's valuable... especially in more turbulent financial times.
Interesting, might try that. The page is still there, but I think I hid it from search, cause there are just too many random keywords there, takes over search results for more relevant things: https://cyberd.org/100-words.html
tldr
Interesting... A few parts of your post are familiar (you have health issues too? Are you one of us chronic folk?)... Overall, however, it looks like your life is good. That is something to be grateful for...there are many out there who could justifiably sum up their lives as a heatmap of blue squares.
I was gonna ask what program you generated all that with, then I read Cyberdevil's post & your responses. I haven't used ChatGPT for anything...yet. AI makes me leery. Wouldn't know how to program any of this if you held a gun to my head & demanded it.
I might have some chronic conditions but thankfully it's not bad enough to affect my ability to live 'normally'. My health issues are mostly digestive related. Or that's where I believe they stem from. Definitely fueled by psychological components too (hypochondria, general anxiety, dysthymia). I'm supposed to be retaking some blood tests soon to get further empirical results. All I know is (and knock on wood) that my health issues have attenuated since I started a gym routine with weight lifting a few months ago. Nothing dramatic or life-changing for me like gym-bros go on about, but I definitely notice a difference from cardio based fitness or other hobbies that may would otherwise keep me occupied.
True that. As I mentioned, I had pockets of general unwellness the last couple years.
The saying goes well people have many wishes, unwell people just wish to be well.
At this point all I really care about is good health, everything else is a bonus. But maybe I have it too easy!
So indeed, grateful.
Thanks for reading. I still have my hesitancies and was late to the AI train (especially given that I'm in tech)...but like I said...just too useful to pass up once you start. Does still feel like a cheat-code though, kinda takes the fun out of things. Well the two good things about programming that separates it from other 'technical' fields is 1.) program code is entirely unambiguous and deterministic, things are discrete and behave 2.) generally you're not gonna blow anything up or damage costly equipment...the worst that can happen is your program won't compile lol
From reading your posts I take it your a handy-man, likely self-sufficient and could probably build a livable place from the ground up...I'm the complete opposite, I can't do anything more complicated than replace a light-bulb without constant adult supervision. When a solar flare or whatever takes out all electronics...I'll be a useless man :P
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How did you track all of these? Seems like you have more than just the visual data in that first image, since you show it in different ways like this...
I remember this one... fun to see how it actually turned out. And overall not a bad year at all huh, if an overall average good is a cumulative well. Reminds me of that 'if you're just happy 65% of the time, then you're pretty happy' quote. That good lies more in the appreciation of time than in true bliss, which may not truly exist, but maybe that's just cynical thinking...
Tempting to start measuring my days too hmm. I think I won't, but writing a diary every day it'd probably be possible to go through days later on and get some kind of similar heatmap...
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It was a text file with 365 days, each assigned a numerical score from 0-10. That's all the underlying data is...
The visuals were made 85% in ChatGPT, that is, it was coded entirely in Python and ChatGPT generated roughly 85% of the code for it. I finally bit the bullet last month and jumped on the AI train. It's basically a stackOverflow search on steroids, and it retains the context from previous questions. It still gets things wrongs quite a bit. You just have to point it out and guide the system a bit. You still need to know how to debug your code if the AI tends to go down a path based on some bad fundamentals. More on this in a new blog post later...I hope
So AI is not in a state yet where it's ready to takeover programming jobs but its still is more efficient than building stuff from scratch especially if you've forgotten the framework. And they already say 90% of programming is knowing what to Google. Kinda like drag-and-drop and coding blocks that minimizes the programming tasks some, AI prompt-based 'programming' is the future paradigm of tech. If you're not using it, you're gonna be left in the dust.
you could also run your 100-words entries (which I can no longer find on CyberD) through a sentiment analyzer and ask it to assign a score...