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Every word is a concept because it is a discreet way of organizing and understanding some part of the world. Every intelligent person I know has been deeply interested in the meanings of the words they use and acquiring a new word is like acquiring a new mental model for understanding it.
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If people felt married in the way that they should, being one person. There are are many things that would be different. One of them is that when they see the flaws of the other, they would not see them as an external offence but an internal one, like their own flaw. To be corrected with care and to be given grace.
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I stopped following the “learn everything from basics first” approach a long time ago. Most of the time, it just gives you the dopamine of progress without actually pushing you.
Put yourself directly into advanced, hard things. Struggle. Get stuck. Break things.
Then DFS + backtrack whenever you realize there’s a fundamental you’re missing. Learn that piece, then move forward again.
This has worked every single time for me.
You don’t need to know everything before starting hard things. Hard things will tell you exactly what you need to learn.
Don't start inference engineering before knowing these OS pre-reqs
> Virtual memory
> Pages & page tables
> Memory allocation & fragmentation
> Processes vs threads
> Inter-process communication (IPC)
> Shared memory & message queues
> Workers & worker pools
> Scheduling & queues
> Distributed systems: rank & world size
> Memory pools
> Free-block queues
> Dynamic memory allocation
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Full episode on imposter syndrome here: youtu.be/5zzsisfNZ9c?si=42Yz…
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If you want proof of that, look at everything that you wanted to change about yourself for the last 10 years that hasn’t.
I guarantee it is something you tell yourself that you “should” be doing.
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a lot of the time- not always, but pretty often- i have this vague uneasy feeling that i’m ‘out of alignment’. in music terms, maybe out of tune. in chess terms, maybe not playing good moves. and its an interesting puzzle to sit with this feeling
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GPT4o is literally cooked 🔥👨🍳
Visual recipes are here and they’re actually kinda genius!
Prompt in ALT
ALT Create step-by-step recipe infographic for creamy garlic mushroom pasta, top-down view, minimal style on white background, ingredient photos labeled: "200g spaghetti", "150g mushrooms", "3 garlic cloves", "200ml cream", "1 tbsp olive oil", "parmesan", "parsley", dotted lines showing process steps with icons (boiling pot, sauté pan, mixing), final plated pasta shot at the bottom
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I highly recommend having a folder on your desktop titled 'you are loved', where you put in screenshots of lovely things people have said to/about you. here are some of mine
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Huge new result:
Anti-racism trainings probably lead people to accuse others of racism even when they're not racist.
That's exactly the result of a new study on DEI trainings, with a special focus on the impacts of the works of Ibram X. Kendi and Robin DiAngelo.
Let's dig in🧵
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I think my thing is, one of my favorite parts of talking to people is looking for tells in their speech that connect to their life experience, and then inquiring about that, and connecting with them about it. and LLMs don't have that
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I say this with love: over the years I’ve been repeatedly surprised to discover that a lot of professionals in a lot of creative fields, have excellent micro-detail-management/execution, but somehow kinda mid taste when it comes to the gestalt of what they are doing
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hello!
did you know that using screens makes you breathe more shallowly? you might even hold your breath from time to time without realising it
so I invite you now to take three normal breaths, whatever feels good
maybe look around a bit, take in the space
how did that feel?
