I didn't encounter much in the way of quantitative stuff other than DeMesquita's "Logic of Political Survival," and related papers and code, which is what people should understand after they have read the foundational books like Getting To Yes, Influence, Never Split the Difference, the guidebook to negotiations A-Z from The Economist, etc.
People who haven't read laterally in it tend to only have one or two tools that have worked for them up to their level. Haggling, bargaining, and auction models aren't really negotiation. Reality is, it's the process of price discovery, often with people who are looking for rules they can break and points of leverage.
I have done some private development on salience models and use them informally with spreadsheets. DeMesquita expands on them with his predictioneers model, which there are a few repo's of code for.
To understand salience models, I think people need a background in traditional negotiation so that they can have the tools to apply to the model once they develop it. It's the why behind the model. Negotiation overlaps with organizational psychology and business strategy, and these days, political tactics as well, but for someone who doesn't have a background in this and who are the sort of person who still tells recruiters and hiring managers their current/last salary, it's not useful to throw them into the deep end.
How much of Harvard and MIT's catalogs are actually online in their entirety? (incl. textual resources, coursework, answers, etc.) IIRC it was more like a few handfuls of introductory courses.
While we're on it, what's the best way to back up all my google photos? I'm on a paid plan, but nonetheless, that has some important memories I'd like redundancy on.
Get an external hard drive or NAS (Synology makes well-supported devices), go to takeout.google.com, request an archive of your photos, wait a couple days, and then download the archive.
Note that the takeout archive will most likely not contain your original images. Google photos deletes, and in some cases rewrites, the metadata in your files. It's much better to back up your photos and videos directly from your devices. I use Resilio Sync or SyncThing to do this automatically, and then use PhotoStructure to manage and view my photo and video library on my own hardware.
I decided it was worth it to pay adobe $10/month for a terabyte of storage. I really like the integration with Lightroom, where I can give it a budget of how many gigabytes its allowed to use locally and it handles swapping out high resolution for 'ok' resolution so my whole collection fits on my laptop.
I also appreciate that they gave me a checkbox for "please don't use my family photos to train your algorithms" so I can opt out, Google does not give you the option, all your photos are theirs to train with.
>the worst thing that many of my neighbors are capable of comprehending
I know some people who are going out and drinking and hugging (they told me this) in Michigan (we're not supposed to even visit other houses). This is across the entire wealth spectrum.
They have expressed a belief that the virus is not very dangerous, as well as a belief that the government/their neighbors should not be able to tell them what to do.
Being raised in middle america, I strongly identify with the latter sentiment, but not as much as I do with a numbers-based approach to "keeping grandma alive".
As a representational painter, I've been waiting for someone to do a write-up on how/why these 'AI' paintings aren't going to be equivalent to human paintings until 'AI' is itself equivalent to humans.
Unfortunately, I haven't seen one yet. Maybe I'll have to do it myself.
IMO most 'generative art' is about as creative as a markov chain text, just with images as the input instead of words. It'll be a while before anyone can assert any sort of equivalence to human creativity and have it taken seriously
Lots of them. I'm a manager at a popular niche restaurant chain. Our cancellations yesterday were up 200%, but the empty spots were filled almost immediately.
One of our employees has quit already (as of now, we don't offer any time off/paid leave). I've had a conversation with my bosses that I'll probably be gone in the next two weeks.
