The Off Topic Topic

[garbon]

The number of people saying you have to play that game too...
It seems to be about the only site for getting professional level jobs these days though. Outside of some industries with their own specific sites anyway.

Yeah I understand it's totally different for academia.

I should say the people I mainly see doing the whole LinkedIn influencer thing are recruiters.

Oh you are lucky. I see all sorts doing it.

I have a profile and positions so they can see I am a real person when they go to verify my existence. Less detail than my CV as I have no description of my roles.

[Josquius]

The ones I most commonly see doing it are people who don't actually have much in their CV.
UX is full of these people who don't actually know much about UX at all and think it's just making pretty pictures.
Their LinkedIns are usually full of lengthy stints as founders of made up companies and lots of phony inspirational dross.

Saw a good one the other day. Guy claims he put Google - Google mail user since 2010 on his LinkedIn and instantly got more recruiter attention. 


Yes. I use mine the same way where it's basically a stripped down copy of my CV.

[Grey Fox]

Sheilbh


What's your take on the first ESC semi-final?

Is Ireland ok?

[Oexmelin]

Yeah I understand it's totally different for academia.

https://www.academia.edu/

[grumbler]

What country is Brian Colunio in?  Argentina?  It certainly isn't the US, because the very first statement is that "the state of the economy is poor (at best)" and that certainly does not apply to the US, where the economy is showing record-low levels of unemployment and the biggest problem is wage growth.

[Sheilbh]

Listening to In Our Time and suddenly thought how old Melvyn Bragg is (84) and still interested in everything which is great. But also going to be genuinely sad when he goes

[Josquius]

I recently bought a book by him for reasons. Just need to get the time to actually read it....

[Zanza]

These stickers are used by service in Germany when they are changing to winter tires to indicate that the tires have more limited performance than summer tires. So you should go no faster than 160kph / 100 mph or 240 kph / 150 mph in winter. 

[Josquius]

A weird thought.
Traditionally sci-fi depicts robots as speaking...well. Like robots.
Hel. Lo. How. Are. You.

Its funny that they imagined the robots would have super advanced human level intelligence...but be stuck with contemporary synthesiser technology.

Where we actually are heading is that robots will be able to speak perfectly like a human. Tone et al will be absolutely flawless. Better than most people. That's the easy part.

So what will identify a robot...is not poor speech but that it actually speaks too good?

There seems to be a sci-fi idea in there. Something about fast advancing weird slang used by humans with the robots being quite annoyed we won't speak properly.

[HVC]

Star Trek beat you, data can't contract words

[HVC]

@zanza accidents in Germany must be brutal.

[crazy canuck]

A weird thought.
Traditionally sci-fi depicts robots as speaking...well. Like robots.
Hel. Lo. How. Are. You.

Its funny that they imagined the robots would have super advanced human level intelligence...but be stuck with contemporary synthesiser technology.

Where we actually are heading is that robots will be able to speak perfectly like a human. Tone et al will be absolutely flawless. Better than most people. That's the easy part.

So what will identify a robot...is not poor speech but that it actually speaks too good?

There seems to be a sci-fi idea in there. Something about fast advancing weird slang used by humans with the robots being quite annoyed we won't speak properly.

They will be smooth talkers that make shit up, so car sales and politicians.

[crazy canuck]

Mrs. CC and I are travelling at the moment.  The local population (Sardinians) are generally fit.  A grandmother passed us walking up a steep hill...

But an interesting thing we are noticing about the Northern Europeans we see - the men in my generation have good muscle tone, but a lot of the younger guys are skinning fat.  Scrawny arms and pot bellies.  Or just plain fat fat.

I wonder if this will be the first generation when the younger men are weaker/less fit than the older generation.

[Tamas]

I wonder if this will be the first generation when the younger men are weaker/less fit than the older generation.

Possibly, but one thing I can tell is that your (our) generation will not be the first which will NOT think the next generation is inferior. 

[crazy canuck]

I wonder if this will be the first generation when the younger men are weaker/less fit than the older generation.

Possibly, but one thing I can tell is that your (our) generation will not be the first which will NOT think the next generation is inferior. 

Really, in what generation do you think a man about 60 could look at a group of 30 something men and realize he is clearly stronger and in better shape?