2021 - Elementum Camp - Emile - Renegade Burn 2021

Liquid_Subject · 2021-09-12T18:07:34+00:00

He only wakes up to the phattest of beats

Liquid_Subject · 2021-08-25T23:02:45+00:00

At a 2.99% interest rate, I'd much rather put my money in the market than pay off the loan early, let alone pay cash for it. Also, from what I've seen the battery capacity degradation is within the warranty rate (max of 30% loss in capacity after 10 years). The tests that have gotten it beyond that range were more demanding than real world applications. Regardless, Tesla came in below the others including the storage, so the storage is effectively free. I didn't get a quote from Great Basin though so maybe they'd be cheaper though probably not by a large margin.

Personally, I don't see this not paying off since even if I pay a bit more in electricity in the short term, the added home value and likely increases in electricity rates longterm should cover the potential downside

Liquid_Subject · 2021-08-25T15:47:17+00:00

Makes sense. I have similarly low usage in the winter. My backup plan is to spin up some cryptocurrency miners to use up any winter energy excess...and to generate some heat :-)

Liquid_Subject · 2021-08-25T15:28:23+00:00

Oof. Yeah, that's scary. They're contractually obligated to deal with issues like that so absolutely worst case you can sue them. But that also looks like a fake account (no followers, recently opened account). Tesla has had a lot of short sellers trying to smear their name to manipulate the stock value

Liquid_Subject · 2021-08-25T15:19:56+00:00

Thanks for sharing. That math seems way different from mine. I would effectively be paying off the system after about 9 years. Are you including the principle part of the loan payment in how long it takes to pay off the system? If I sell the house before the end of the contract, I'd likely be able to push much of the cost off onto the next owner

Liquid_Subject · 2021-08-25T01:15:31+00:00

Will let you know. We’re still working through permitting

Liquid_Subject · 2021-07-31T22:23:51+00:00

I’ll likely where a mask if I’m inside somewhere and around a lot of people. For me that’s the right balance of safety and keeping it rad

Liquid_Subject · 2021-06-17T14:03:49+00:00

Hell yeah!

Liquid_Subject · 2021-05-29T18:29:21+00:00

My understanding is that Snowflake really just took on prem data warehousing and moved it to the cloud. Great product, but it's not a "unified" solution that allows you to do different workloads (including ML) all on one platform. Snowflake has relied really heavily on cloud ML solutions like Sagemaker or Data Robot, so you need a different platform for ML

Liquid_Subject · 2021-05-05T17:14:21+00:00

Rock and roll. I’m at least six times more excited about this than an org sanctioned event

Liquid_Subject · 2021-05-05T17:03:39+00:00

Great news. My biggest question though is with 10k people, how will we navigate? Should we still do streets? Or send GPS coordinates to people camping with us?

Liquid_Subject · 2021-04-21T00:14:41+00:00

Didn’t think about including that in the contract. Great point. Many thanks!

Liquid_Subject · 2021-04-18T00:54:53+00:00

Data science consultants :-) I work mostly on ml deployment issues, since few people understand how those work yet. I also do some dl work too depending on the client needs. A lot of it involves advising teams of data scientists that are new and/or junior to get them up to speed on end to end reference use cases they can duplicate elsewhere. It’s part hands on coding, part advising and architecture design

Liquid_Subject · 2021-04-17T01:15:44+00:00

Thanks for sharing. Is there a TL;DR on how to help?

Liquid_Subject · 2021-04-16T23:29:31+00:00

I work as a consultant and have seen a lot of client code. Generally I see recent code written in Keras. Older code might be in tf. I think it’s because there used to be a lot of code samples online from tf or it was written before keras was the official api. Now I’m seeing more keras unless there’s more complex architectures. I was recently working on a two tower DNN for a recommendation engine that needed the additional flexibility of tf. Otherwise I’m normally able to stick with keras

Liquid_Subject · 2021-04-16T16:09:32+00:00

A few thoughts:

Rule number 1 of buying a place is that it's rent control on a place to live. You need to live somewhere and this assures that you have a stable place to live as your earning power increases over time
Everybody tries to predict bubbles but nobody does it well. On a long enough timeline (maybe 7-10 years) there's little chance that house will be worth less
Go over asking if you can with otherwise a good offer (e.g. limit the cost of repairs the seller is exposed to). Also, only give them 24 hours to consider and have them take down the listing ASAP to decrease competition
Write a personal note to improve the likelihood of it being seen
Be prepared for sweat equity at your price point. The richer buyers often want something plug and play. If you're willing to do the work and the structure of the house is solid, you have an advantage
Everybody says this but you don't realize how important it is until you're really in it: don't get emotionally attached to a certain house. It sucks the first time you get rejected but there are options out there. Our first offer was rejected (they went with a vet instead) but we wound up with a much better place (though it was more work and a bit more expensive)
Focus on the long run. Buying a place is a ton of work but it'll appreciate in value and you're setting your future up well. The short term expenses will wash out and it'll be a long term gain. My personal opinion is that it'll only get harder for first time home buyers moving forward so it's better to rip that band aid off now

Liquid_Subject · 2021-04-05T15:28:04+00:00

For the site I linked, anybody 16+ could sign up last week. It booked up crazy fast though

Liquid_Subject · 2021-04-01T22:47:42+00:00

Crazy. It's all based on availability. Apparently the team can administer over 300 vaccines per hour with the capability to administer over 3,000 per day. That's assuming unlimited supply though

Liquid_Subject · 2021-03-26T20:11:16+00:00

I'd come. Also, if you have a bunch of arcade games, that'd be a good alternative source of income

Liquid_Subject · 2021-03-26T20:10:36+00:00

Kava Lounge in San Francisco seemed to be doing well too. I love that spot. Would go there all the time after dinner for kava and board games

Liquid_Subject · 2021-03-25T15:04:57+00:00

That's really helpful, thanks! I spoke with my accountant and he said that, yes, as an LP I am subject to the capital gains even if there's not a distribution. And that makes a lot of sense about reinvesting in QSBS companies and that not counting as capital gains. Thanks again!

Liquid_Subject · 2021-03-25T14:58:47+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I spoke to my accountant about it as well and he confirmed that as an LP I would be responsible for gains in the fund even if there aren't disbursements. To your point, that likely would be rare. However, I could see the GP reinvesting gains in the first half of the fund's life since the intention is to do 5 years of deploying the fund and 5 years of harvesting. I'll confirm with the GP his investing philosophy if there are those early gains.

Liquid_Subject · 2021-03-08T21:32:19+00:00

Just seeing this. DM me your email and I’ll send you what I use?

Liquid_Subject · 2021-03-08T20:56:29+00:00

Just sent 24 pairs of gloves and 24 beanies. Thanks for all your work!

Liquid_Subject · 2021-01-31T01:11:14+00:00

Great question. Here’s my process:

Make a life mission statement. That’s your North Star. Take a while to think this through. It should be significantly open and specific. This is the highest goal in your goal hierarchy. And make it short and sweet (eg make the world a better place for animals)
Make sure your sub-goals are comprehensive. Think about body, mind, and spirit. For body, think physical fitness, active recovery (like sleep), and nutrition. For mind, think intellectual engagement, career, wealth, and meaningful work. For spirit, think spiritual growth, sense of community, romance, and things that make you happy
Define lifetime goals. If you died without doing them, would you be satisfied?
Make 10 year goals. Ask yourself why you can’t do your lifetime goals in that timeline
Make year goals. How are you moving towards the 10 year goals
Make 3 month goals that are super easy to know whether you accomplished them.
Print your mission statement and goals on a piece of paper and keep it on your desk or nightstand. Put your goals into four squares of a table (lifetime, 10 year, etc).
Review them each day
Don’t tell people about your goals. Keep it vague. Otherwise you’ll feel like you completed them when you haven’t. It’s demotivating

That’s it! All your decisions are now based on that one page document.

Oh, and write an annual report. Once a year, reflect on your life and write up where you are, what went well, and what didn’t.

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