/soy/ - Soyjaks

So I've spent a sizeable amount of time studying things like social media marketing and analytics, and database design and content moderation, through AI and other means. I've also done a lot of study into human behavior and how things like the TikTok algorithm work, how recommender engines work, how LLMs work and how security works within all of these things.

How behavioral influence actually works in UI/UX design, how political opinions can be made to shift in people, how language and linguistics impacts society (it has here, for example, seeing maxxer on an ad in real life is something I'd never thought I'd see.

With this knowledge comes the knowledge of how evil companies are. And how much they manipulate people and how capable they are of doing it. Most people do not know what Arxiv is. Most people do not know what a quant is. Less people even then know what a swimlane architecture is.

What do you think about data? It can do a lot of things. It really can. It really is like the new oil…. I've realized that even if I can't fully comprehend the math, the applications of the math are amazing. The things the math can be used for are awesome.

Study math more.