[1] https://eblong.com/infocom/maps/zork-1-poster.jpg (big)

nspire.ai 's company page [1] lists as their head of sales "Chris Kinnard". Perhaps this is coincidental. Perhaps nspire.ai, and their head of sales, has nothing better to do than to spam people. Doesn't say much for the quality of their product.

Anyway, I wanted to share this scummy, shitty, spammy behavior, just in case anyone now or in the future happens to Google™ Theo, nspire.ai, AI career coaches, etc.

[1] https://nspire.ai/company/

    Location: Ohio
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No (but see below)
    Technologies: Kubernetes / Terraform / Ansible / Serverless / AWS / Rust / Bash / PHP / Python / JS / TS / C / Clojure / etc, happy to learn more
    Résumé/CV: https://ndouglas.github.io/resume/resume.pdf
    Email: See résumé
    Site: https://darkdell.net/ 

I'm very interested in deep learning, formal verification, and compliance automation, but also artificial life, complexity science, robotics, cybernetics (as in Beer), computational social sciences, network science, transit, city planning, etc.

I use Claude Code happily at work, as directed, and seen significant (though not unqualified) productivity gains. I've used it to varying degrees on different personal projects. I'm avoiding it now on personal projects (to retain and build skill). I can work anywhere along that spectrum.

I enjoy learning about what other people are working on, so even if you're not hiring or not interested in hiring _me_, I'd love to connect. I've had some genuinely transformative conversations with people I've met on HN, and I'd love to have more.

*EDIT*: I mean "I'd love to connect" IF you're not just trying to sell me something - especially your shitty AI résumé- or interview-prep services, you hacks.

On another note, I dig your box of cards. I've recently re-encountered the Commonplace book [1] idea in multiple places (and when two events pertaining to the same object of inquiry occur simultaneously, I always pay strict attention), and this is kind of a similar idea.

I've had wikis before but they always became more about the engine / storage / infrastructure / etc, and I like your lightweight vision.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commonplace_book

    - you're actually listing a job
    - the job pays money
    - the job pays a sane amount of money for the region in which you're hiring
    - you're actually trying to hire someone for the job
    - you don't demand they jump through stupid hoops like write an essay about Stendhal's views of modernity or your favorite unrolled loop from the GNU standard library
    - you don't come back every month for the next three years advertising the same job without hiring anyone for it
    - the business model isn't obviously delusional ("we're going to feed the global poor with AI, we just need to, uh, figure out some niggling little details")
    - you reply to inquiries and applications

I wish I had a stronger background in behavioral economics/psychology or some good connections in academia. The "instantly stop playing" thing seems really extreme and thus _really_ interesting. I'd expect people to think "nah, screw you buddy" but not leave entirely.

Unfortunately, while I follow a number of people on LinkedIn who work in the computational social sciences area, I'm not aware of any of them that actually follow me. I'd love to get their opinions on it but most of them are I think more in the area of economics than psychology or social psychology.

I'm doing a vaguely similar thing - I have a 10" rack minilab [1] and I've vibe-coded an MCP server that runs in the cluster to introspect, etc, but the main longterm goal is to set up some ML pipelines and maybe work toward formal verification via TLA+ or smth. (_not_ vibecoding that... I'm thinking of moving into AI formal verification or compliance automation as a career move.)

I have a separate amd64 server with an RTX 2070 Super - which is obviously old and low-powered. Useful for some general ML stuff, but I don't think it's sufficient to run any non-trivial modern LLM.

I'm thinking about upgrading that GPU, but haven't committed to it or even really thought that hard about it.

[1] https://clog.goldentooth.net/

For instance, I wonder if (all other things aside) Nicky Case would have the same problem with Parable of the Polygons ( https://ncase.me/polygons/ ).

I think this is distinct from the cognitive vs. emotional empathy issue you raise.

It's not perfect; I've had some issues with Claude Code forgetting where it did things ("oh... it's not working because I'm not in the right directory"). I think it needs some architectural tweaks to function more reliably.