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.
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
Education does not operate in a vacuum. Many students are incentivized by the social accreditation of completing a program. Institutions need some way to qualify that teaching is actually being done. Whether it be an examination, a certification, or bringing a project to completion.
But you are supposed to have a painful relationship with it. You are never ever supposed to be at peace with it. It's who you become as the holder of that pain that provides any foundation. In a sense, "zapping it" limits your potential. A surrogate mother robs the mother of child-bearing (in all normal cases like Kim Kardashian, not for cases where the original mother cannot physically give birth). That's just a fact. The trauma event has already robbed them, why rob them twice?
Most people will have no capacity to feel what you feel about it. You have the gift of feeling what is necessary to feel about that event. It's precious, and it needs to be nurtured. My utter contempt and sorrow for what I feel about certain things belongs in the world, as best as I can hold and steer it.
No one can feel your pain, and if you zap it, then not even you can feel it. It's unloving to yourself and your experience.
Try telling all this to someone who is effectively emotionally/physically disabled because their mind and body either enter a rollercoaster or just shutdown in response to anything vaguely reminiscent of something they experienced.
I think these treatments are better understood as methods to encourage one's mind and body to reprocess some experience so that it is "merely" a terrible thing that happened so they can live a stabler, more balanced, more normal life.
The tribe that you speak of is much much bigger than those who have an official diagnosis of PTSD via psychology. For example, addicts all have PTSD that is commonly related to past childhood/family abuse dynamics. They take drugs over it. So, as a matter of fact, that is exactly what is told to them. You can in fact hold your pain, and I believe it is righteous to do so.
It kind of reminds me of Eternal Sunshine of Spotless Mind. You cannot just erase something. Drugs effectively erase the bad feelings, but they don't last. Okay, so such a treatment being discussed is, I suppose, an everlasting solution. Why would I be against this? Because you cease being you in your entirety (which includes your trauma).
It's not an easy sell by any measure, especially for those who just go "well fuck that, I can erase this with some cocaine right now". Erasing it is a solution, for sure, but it's not a free solution. Something is lost in the process (you). Understanding that, stay with me here, that it's beautiful is part of it, that you have a beautiful part of you forever. It's completely didactic, you have to teach the person that they went through something and are PRETTIER in their surviving of it. Then it stops being traumatic.
If we zap them, we take away the pretty. If I zap you, and then say lets talk about it, and you say "well I don't feel any which way about it anymore", then it's lost. It's gone. So something is lost in the process. So yeah, this is exactly what is told to the most beaten down people in life.
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?
I would even say that Ollama is a step back. For example llama.cpp supports vulkan, which is a huge gamechanger for consumer grade hardware. Ollama does not support vulkan, eventhough it's probably fairly easy to do so.
If you care about running efficiently on your hardware, then llama.cpp is they way to go, not ollama.
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've been using this for the last few weeks and it's been a lot of fun, both for work and just screwing around.
Curious if there are any other tiny jobs or workflows people have been using LLMs for (how do I do this bash command, check my diff, generate a commit message, please explain clipboard text) that I could add in
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.