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@dnbt777
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3 months
yall the first people in the world to see a deep q RL algorithm play 6 dimensional snake in an audio visualizer
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my life completely changed when i realized I like caffeine and building cool shit way more than alcohol and gaming
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WASM VIDEO EDITOR MVP COMPLETE
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4 months
my work ethic 5xd when I stopped telling ppl i would do something til after i did it yapping abt future actions kills motivation to execute if u say "im gonna build xyz!! hey boss im gonna do abc this week!!" you will have received your reward, wrecking the incentive to work
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3 months
new article :) one of the strongest learning methods I know of
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3 months
pro tip for learning in new fields every word you hear, and don't know, LOOK IT UP EVERY WORD. takes time but eventually you know all the words if there's too many new words, settle for looking up every word you hear more than once
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4 months
pro strat: get tons and tons of skills by building stuff never made a site w stripe payment? do it to learn it never made an image classifier model? DO IIT skills are super useful, arent taxed, cant be stolen/lost, AND THEY COMPOUND bc they synergize
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4 months
This is rly mostly bullshit Many friends hired who have no advanced degrees but they can code in Python and know how to work with AI models Don't believe in credentialism, believe in skills!
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for your day to feel super productive, do tasks in the following order 1) time sensitive 2) tasks you want to do the least 3) tasks you like to do if u do work you like and avoid work you dont, its just procrastination. feels bad to feel amazing, do what you like least, first
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I HIGHLY HIGHLY HIGHLY recommend trying this. after testing it for 2mo, it consistently makes my day WAY more productive/rewarding definitely will be a lifelong habit for me, along with - start things immediately + spread the work out - get good sleep
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2 months
for your day to feel super productive, do tasks in the following order 1) time sensitive 2) tasks you want to do the least 3) tasks you like to do if u do work you like and avoid work you dont, its just procrastination. feels bad to feel amazing, do what you like least, first
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3 months
asi has been achieved internally
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2 months
@OrphicCapital When i was a little kid it was raining and worms were everywhere, vibin Ppl were stepping on them and i didnt like that so i told everyone it was bad luck to step on worms and they stopped
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4 months
article on how to get cracked at building things quickly funny experiment: DONT follow or RT UNLESS you try this and it works for you. but if it does, u have to come back and do that btw i only write abt stuff that has worked for me for months or yrs
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23 days
i need to retire my dad i need to retire my wife i need to give myself infinite runway to build fun stuff
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danb
4 months
how to learn by building, from 0 to cracked: 1 learn basics w flashcards/online tests/tutorials 2 find an idea for a project slightly outside your skillset 3 build it, forcing you to increase your skillset in order to finish 4 repeat 2 and 3 forever
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eddy brock
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@dnbt777 I wish i knew how
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4 months
recap of my articles about useful stuff: how i cured my procrastination how to build anything extremely quickly how to max out your knowledge derivative cracked LLM techniques
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3 months
we are barely using llms to their full potential
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4 months
To succeed in most things, focus on the fundamentals (the real). I.e. get CRACKED at the base concepts that ripple out to everything else. 80 20 kinda The middlewit "its about tactics/tricks/hacks" view will hold you back. I had it for yrs its TRASH
@nosilverv
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4 months
People so steeped in fake shit they’ve fully lost sight of the real. Think everyone is faking it, real is a children’s-tale or myth, etc. Shock and consternation at witnessing real, like meeting an alien - worldview blown
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5 months
Pro tip. If you want to get cracked at a concept, highly highly highly optimize the building blocks that make it up, recursively
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4 months
highly hiiiiiighly recommend doubling down on making your own tools made one today that trims a 15s process (300x a day) into 1s and another that cut a 3min process (1-2x/day) into 1s feels soooo soo SO good man. like building an army of tiny little robots
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4 months
massive list of all the cracked LLM techniques/tools I personally have found to be super useful includes examples, images, "copy prompt" buttons so you can easily try em
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4 months
16hr coding session #11 progress we do 16hrs of work every mon and thurs. join! ilya30u30 papers (supposedly what ilya gave carmack?) hiiighly recommend making your own tools like DANG dude they speed things UP
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@ludwigABAP The meetings will continue until morale improves
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3 months
I just want to find 100x or 1000x engineers surround myself with them, and become one you become the average of the people you spend the most time with elon is a 40,000x engineer, im sure there are lots of 100xers out there
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2 months
Incredibly useful thread on how to learn something from beginner level to master
@BowTiedFox
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the reason I keep saying "you need to do more volume" is because intelligent people win at literally anything once they recognize the patterns I have never once failed at anything I put my mind to, because I eventually figure out every system and its loopholes my method looks
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2 months
Do new things Do things you currently arent Do things other people arent Do new things
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5 months
@allgarbled Doesnt this just make performance feedback a weaker signal Is the meta then to be much more cautious abt performance feedback you hear abt friendly ppl
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4 months
16hr session done. feelsgooooooood we do these every mon and thurs. key is consistency. work your way up to 16. you want to do this long term and enjoy the progress compression book: ilya30u30:
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2 months
despite the clickbaity title, this video has really good advice (imo) on how to get better at programming basically: understand your tools and libraries, rebuild stuff from scratch in c to learn, and make sure you have fun
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4 months
if you wanna get cracked build stuff 15% out of your skillset, repeatedly. its fun too learn by doing is super super powerful. comfort zone is the enemy each proj grows skills by ~15%, doubles your skillset every 5 projects. speedrun this been doing this over half my life now
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3 months
AMAZING 16hr session, got a ton done data compression explained: ilya30u30 papers: my brief ilya30u30 notes: the discord is getting more cracked by the day I swear. so so cool
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3 months
Just learned "zig" came from its creator just running a random name generator a bunch of times Based
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3 months
if you teach people to be cracked + 'pay it forward', would that spread like a virus? let x = teach ppl to 1) be cracked and 2) x like could we engineer a good mind virus that makes ppl cracked at scale?
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2 months
Angkul is a great lowbie to invest in early Hes building his own web browser from scratch for fun, and constantly grinds learning ML and programming. Its been fun seeing this dude get more and more skilled by the day
@angkul07
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Code report: Day 48 16 hr code session done. work around 11 hrs. score: 7/10 > work on implementing the js in web browser(chapter 9) > build two linear regression model from scratch > lecture 3 of cs231n. karpathy sensei's slides are best. cya ;)
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4 months
some signals are noise to be cracked at anything, find and get cracked at the fundamentals (this is recursive) havent u realized the whole reason they're taught first is bc theyre the most useful?
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3 months
my life got way more interesting when I realized that going above and beyond (in the right circumstances) can bring you incredible rewards and amazing, meaningful adventures
@tekbog
terminally onλine εngineer 🇺🇦
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a lot of engineers half-ass their work, no pursuit of mastery, just 9 to 5 incompetence sad to see
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How to overcome plateaus. goes over one of the strongest learning techniques that has helped me. (it also has chess in it bc I love chess) tldr: overcome plateaus by improving via finding (and then training) core concepts you’re currently overlooking
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2 months
Sleep has such a profound difference on your ability to write and think The entire past month ive had a dropoff in ability to write articles, code, post bc caffeine was masking my sleep debt Took a break, slept well for a few nights, BAM much more energy and thoughts flowing
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3 months
16hr session complete i am so tired but it feels so good had to go an extra hr cause i got distracted by chess (i am CONVINCED visualization practice is how you get super strong) btw we do these sessions every mon and thurs, heres the discord
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if you put energy into what you do, and try to never lie (its hard), you set yourself up for an adventure maybe thats why ppl are so nihilistic, we've all been getting sniped by some dumb middlewit grifty tactics mindset that kills the call to adventure
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3 months
16 HR WORK/CODE/STUDY SESSION #17 (+/- 1) COMPLETE felt super productive this time, minimized distractions for the most part join the discord we do a session every mon and thurs!
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3 months
metacognition will make you cracked at solving your own problems you get skilled at understanding your own thoughts by practicing noticing them for yrs i talk about this a bit here
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3 months
Im so so hyped for ding season 2 My favorite posts are seeing people build cool stuff Pro tip, like+bookmark every cool post like this for x to fill your feed with them. I do this and my FYP is filled with the coolest shit
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introducing DINGCAD hot reloaded javascript cad modeling
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2 months
fyi if you drink lots of caffeine it can mask how sleep deprived you are. youll feel well slept but your brain functions worse it was happening to me over the past month, i couldnt figure out why I couldn't think as clearly taking a day off caffeine helped fix this
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danb
3 months
if youre stressed bc you work/learn slow, assume this razor: you arent dumb. you use bad techniques/algorithms for learning, working, etc. fix them to be smarter/more efficient this is VERY VERY VERY common. ive seen ppl 1.3x, 2x, 5x from fixing algos
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2 months
Having a strong why is SUUPER useful, and the largest disadvantage I got from lack of sleep last month, tbh, was forgetting the 'why' behind my goals Why do i post? Why study programming? Why write articles? Whats the point? Slept. now i remember :)
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danb
2 months
Sleep has such a profound difference on your ability to write and think The entire past month ive had a dropoff in ability to write articles, code, post bc caffeine was masking my sleep debt Took a break, slept well for a few nights, BAM much more energy and thoughts flowing
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3 months
To speedrun learning a complex concept, find the most commonly talked about subconcepts. Then learn those. do this recursively if needed practice/get good at this for transformers, some fundamentals are: self-attention, residual nets, encoder-decoders
@kair0smtc
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@dnbt777 what's your approach for adapting your speedrunning outline technique to concepts that you have little to no knowledge of? i.e. in studying ML, if I want to implement a simple transformer, but don't even know what I don't know, it's challenging to create even a rough
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ok, as much as I hate this, no more new projects until I finish more old ones shiny object syndrome is real man way better to have 4 complete projects than 20 half done ones
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FREEDOM
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3 months
great account to follow for ML/reinforcement learning @jsuarez5341 super skilled MIT Phd great stream so far, ive learned a lot, he took snake from 200steps/sec to like 500k
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danb
4 months
here are ludwigs ML/CS resources as a RAG u can chat with: includes 201 YT vid transcripts, 88 bookmarks, 1 book setup: 1 download/unzip/open the obsidian vault 2 install smart connections obsidian plugin 3 add your gpt api key
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CS: ML: My bookmarks:
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4 months
implemented lz78 compression algo. quick fun exercise, i recommend it got the idea from @pixqc (great ML follow imo) resources: clear, concise notes on lz78 by Peter Shor (of Shor's algo): random cracked russian guy on YT:
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@yacineMTB x is modern athens you have the ppl that make you think. you have diogenes. you have it all used to be universities but they fumbled it. flipped it and tumbled it
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@nearcyan fear of regret of not achieving my life goals made me put tons of willpower into turning my entire life around. it worked if you grew up thinking youll be successful, it makes it 100x more painful to give up not saying the trait guarantees success, but there is a causal factor
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wait its actually.. a MINECRAFT clone??????
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3 months
16HR SESSION #13 , COMPLETE links below to discord, ilya papers, compression book, my ilya paper notes JOIN its a VIIBE + we get stuff DONE we also share our learning resources, and our tips on what helps/doesnt for working long hrs
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danb
3 months
super super interesting article + gold advice from a super cracked dude
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@ludwigABAP
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I wrote down some loose reflections on the adventure that started with this tweet for anyone interested:
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i used to play vidya for like 14hrs a day on my off days now i just grind work or side studying/projects its the same thing to me except this feels 100x better fug
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16hr session COMPLEEEEETE join the discord we typically do one every mon-thurs great opportunity to get stuff done and improve your work ethic with others in CS/SWE/ML who are serious about it
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I have the best friends on x I wanna thank all you guys for being so awesome and helping me break outta twitter jail yall are real for this
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FREEDOM
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@deedydas Interesting. It was a job impossible to fail at for people who the process filtered for
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5 months
Some real bangers in Karpathy's highlights
@karpathy
Andrej Karpathy
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Ideally never absorb information without predicting it first. Then you can update both 1) your knowledge but also 2) your generative model.
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Had a GREAT 16hr session today. First one after ~2 weeks or so (i was away and unable to do them) From now on I'm only posting my progress in the discord bc I want to experiment with making my x a place for posting 1) useful information, and 2) completed results, and thats IT. I
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pivoting
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@rtx140201 practice the habit of starting everything immediately. Then spread the work out over a long period of time, preferably finishing early. Finish each work session hungry for more by stopping slightly before youre satisfied If you do one thing, do this I went from C/Fs to As w it
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Amdahl's law it's why getting cracked at the fundamentals is the route to mastery in anything, since they're used the most "Black belt is the belt of having a firm, solid grip on your basics" - Roy Harris, 7th degree bjj black belt, badass mf
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Pro tip. If you want to get cracked at a concept, highly highly highly optimize the building blocks that make it up, recursively
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@yacineMTB Compression is intelligence Better compression algos are better intelligence Its pattern recognition + higher "kolmogorov" processing speed E.g. Waitzkin talks abt his mind going 300fps while his chess opponents mind went 3fps
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thread of my old fractal stuff 1. frogbrot
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Wrote abt how I went from being super lazy to getting tons done with less effort+more freedom. one of the most important things in my life I think this'll help some of you even if you already work hard. Just gotta get through my garbage writing style lol
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5 months
@justalexoki Learn by doing (while studying) Build projects ~15-30% out of your comfort skillset Each project increases skillset by ~15-30% Skillset doubles every ~5 projects at 15% and every ~2 at 30% (70/x) Each proj takes longer but u get faster get_cracked() in log project complexity
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COOOKIIIIIING IT WOOOORRKSSSS Invented new network type based on taylor/mclaurin super fcking based, not even sure if its good or if already discovered (probably tbh this is so basic) but it works (overfit test btw)
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The amount of momentum you can build in a week is actually insane
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@yacineMTB the gradients must flow BILLIONS MIST BACKPROPOGATE
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3 months
putting energy towards not having to lie leads to waay more success, ime lying is usually a local optima put a high cost on low integrity BS and you'll naturally work to find strategies that dont involve lying/deceiving, which are WAY more effective global optima gang
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Did some RL. Set the models fear of death too high Instead of seeking rewards, it shuffled back/forth to avoid death, getting tons of tiny punishments Then it learned to die asap to minimize punishments Reducing its fear fixed it Over fearing stops success Reduce it to fix
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4 months
done. 1hr 17 mins. also btw it saves your terms on refresh code for plugin is on my gh in bio (advanced-muting)
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Semantic Muting who's building this??
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danb
3 months
Learn how to learn Super powerful positive feedback loop
@aidan_mclau
Aidan McLau
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im gonna say this, and its not gonna make sense, but meta-learning is the single most important capabilities vector ever. literally everything else (math, coding, even agency) is secondary
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@Noahpinion you see what you engage with curate your feed by both bookmarking and liking a post. Then that kind of content will become disproportionately likely to show up on your FYP
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3 months
no better feeling than overcoming something like fear or procrastination I LIVE for that feeling
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3 months
Another 16hr coding session DONE LETS GET ITTTTTT we do a session every mon and thurs we share useful compsci resources in here too
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in trough of sorrow, most new ideas look better by comparison for any large endeavor worth doing, it helps to be aware of this trap push through the trough. NEVER GIVE UP
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ok, as much as I hate this, no more new projects until I finish more old ones shiny object syndrome is real man way better to have 4 complete projects than 20 half done ones
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wrote a new article: how you can get tons of useful info these ideas helped me grow and overcome many huge challenges over the last decade btw, pls DONT RT unless this has worked for you. if it has, consider RTing. amplify good stuff, filter out slop
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@yacineMTB Use llms but on a much larger scale For example yesterday for a friend I put 30hrs of huberman podcasts into an llm to answer his question "what does andrew huberman personally do 4hrs before sleep for health" Took like 5 mins (btw just dumping 30hrs of transcripts into a gpt
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after im done making my game engine in zig from scratch, i think im gonna pivot to making useful stuff, keep it as free/useful as possible, and add an optional paid plan later or something even if it doesnt work out, i love building useful tools for myself and they save me time
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another subcomponent of my project, complete
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3 months
the lure of freedom is such a crazy good motivator i had so much fun doing hw in my last yrs of college bc i realized getting way ahead meant i could do whatever i wanted lol
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2 months
intelligence too cheap to not use at a massive scale
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So many ppl on x would love to grind towards a good goal give em a high payoff long term goal, show em how its possible, and theyll go crazy on it if I see a pot of gold far away, and i can find a long but totally doable road to it, i start walkin
@isaacbmiller1
isaac 🧩
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Mandate of heaven has passed from @yacineMTB to @ludwigABAP and @dnbt777 to spawn a generation of cracked young people according to my tl
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progress so far on raytraced zig+cuda/opengl game engine from scratch: - frame image and level geometry stays on the gpu - camera now works.. 90% correct
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hes obsessed obsessed ppl work like this on autopilot be obsessed if u wanna work like this. have vision dude. have a hugely ambitious important and possible mission. retire your mom or save the world idk. hes a gaming addict but for his mission
@bayeslord
bayes
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few have the grindset required to even step in the ring with this man 😹
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This helped me grow a lot bc I used to try to get things perfect out of fear of mistakes Literally just do lots and lots of things to grow way faster Opportunity cost is way worse than mistake cost. Minimize regret gang > minimize mistake cels
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the meta game theory is to create a super high trust environment around you so the local world around you has better games prisoners dilemma, what? never heard of it lol skill issue
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3 months
Added new section to the LLM techniques article: "Efficiently programming multifile projects" (section 2.1)
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2 months
in a unit hyperbolic space, the largest possible triangle has 0deg angles and an area of pi
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the 5am-9pm 16hr coding session is COMPLETE next one is monday 6/10! join if you want to do these w a bunch of other ppl studying, building, working, etc. awesome community Progress - generated dataset for finetune project - added database/commands to
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WE GOT MOVEMENT LADS
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3 months
16 hr session basically done. actually ended up being 17.5hrs join our discord, we do these every mon and thurs huge amount of self improvement actually happening in there. much walking little talking
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its like.. avoid the same feeling that makes you want to overpromise. the feeling of wanting to feel like you did something because you told someone you would do it its painful but so so effective. i now go out of my way to stfu about endeavors im going to do til ive done it
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16hr 5-9 work/building session: - made new ml architectures (mclauren and euler 'polynomial perceptron' models) and made (w LLM lol) an mnist drawing tool for model inference - made progress on new article (got data w an experiment ive been doing on a method of learning faster)
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danb
4 months
pro tip for reading ML papers faster/better watch a yt vid on them first like this BEAUTIFUL example: covers residual networks, the context they were created in (imgnet accuracy race), and other stuff you wouldnt learn just from reading the paper 👌👌
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i need a list of failures as long as levelsio's just gotta keep building, bros
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