Small Bets, Costly Signals
L. "Magpie" PinetteI worked as a Machine Learning Engineer, attempted a linguistics PhD, and taught English to Koreans and Turks. I'm now pursuing self-employment & writing about that here, as well as AI, cogsci, and life in a world we made but aren’t made for.
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I worked as a Machine Learning Engineer, attempted a linguistics PhD, and taught English to Koreans and Turks. I'm now pursuing self-employment & writing about that here, as well as AI, cogsci, and life in a world we made but aren’t made for.
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