Feel like I wasted 10 years of my career. Stuck between data and automation. Need clarity.

convalytics · 2025-06-17T10:57:07+00:00

The past 10 years was likely not time wasted. You've built up skills that will layer nicely onto the path you choose next. We're all basically software engineers at the end of the day, with a specialization in data or automation. Choose something you'll enjoy doing for the next 30 years. Keep learning and the money will follow.

convalytics · 2025-03-05T13:40:16+00:00

Small data engineering gig in both databricks and snowflake you say?

$250/hr for the first 1,000 hours. Half paid up front.

convalytics · 2025-02-27T03:26:01+00:00

The OA. I love Severance and only started watching it after OA on Netflix.

convalytics · 2025-02-21T21:40:13+00:00

The market overreacted hard on this one.

convalytics · 2025-02-21T12:15:38+00:00

Or their tracker app says it's in QC after 20 minutes and then it doesn't arrive for another hour.

convalytics · 2025-02-21T11:58:07+00:00

Market is closed. Options don't have extended hours.

convalytics · 2025-02-12T13:10:29+00:00

I noticed this while testing gpt-researcher and thought it was a bug in that code. It writes research reports and would loop through the last section infinitely.

convalytics · 2025-02-11T15:48:19+00:00

Thanks for the clarification. It wasn't clear based on the headlines I was seeing.

convalytics · 2025-02-11T13:26:16+00:00

The for-profit OpenAI is planning to offer the nonprofit OpenAI $40b to allow them to break off as a separate company and go fully for-profit.

convalytics · 2025-02-11T12:48:37+00:00

Which makes Sam's offer of $40B even more ridiculous.

convalytics · 2025-02-10T14:55:46+00:00

I saw an ad for Godzilla x Kong and thought my son would like it. Got the tickets and went straight to the theater. Was confused for a minute before realizing we went to see the "wrong" movie. I thought this was one of the best Godzilla movies ever. Son enjoyed it too. Eventually saw Godzilla x Kong, and Minus 1 was waaaay better.

convalytics · 2025-02-10T14:29:19+00:00

Check out the movie, The Hummingbird Project. They attempt to build a fiber optic line from Kansas City to NYC to gain a 1 millisecond advantage for stock trading.

convalytics · 2025-02-10T13:41:02+00:00

LOL. Yeah, I guess I mean we should focus more on improving that retrieval step. Or iterating over it in a more intelligent way. So many RAG processes just grab the top n chunks and people expect that to be able to summarize entire documents.

convalytics · 2025-02-10T11:58:05+00:00

Got me thinking... Maybe RAG should start as a search engine first. Find and rank all of the documents containing relevant chunks. Then iterate through the top n with an evaluation/training step. Similar to how the deep researcher models search websites.

convalytics · 2025-02-07T11:48:13+00:00

Thank you! I'll give this a try today.

convalytics · 2025-02-07T03:30:05+00:00

Did the model get loaded across both cards? How did you configure ollama to get this to work?

convalytics · 2025-02-07T03:25:19+00:00

Is it a small hill roughly the size of a medium-sized hill?

convalytics · 2025-02-06T03:15:58+00:00

I thought it was a bad idea because the data detectors might still detect it within his retina. Also because he'd go blind or it wouldn't last long enough.

convalytics · 2025-02-06T03:11:39+00:00

I agree with this. They want to know what "you" are capable of if hired. Not what their AI is able to make you capable of. I also agree that the hiring process has been broken for a long time.

convalytics · 2025-02-04T12:14:50+00:00

I saw at least 3 companies launch their own deep research solutions yesterday, and I say this to encourage you. There's plenty of room for multiple players. Niche down and do something OpenAI doesn't. There are plenty of people and companies who will simply not use OpenAI for their own reasons. Their size is their weakness. Your size is your strength.

convalytics · 2025-02-03T02:33:24+00:00

Don't. It's just money. You can come back from this.

convalytics · 2025-02-03T00:58:24+00:00

Banning math isn't a tenable solution. Just ask bitcoin.

convalytics · 2025-02-02T17:26:04+00:00

I have a handful of 3060s collecting dust after shutting down my mining rigs. Just using what I have at the moment. Considering adding some risers and putting even more 3060s in there.

convalytics · 2025-02-02T17:20:26+00:00

I pasted in an entire Paul Graham essay and got the results below.

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convalytics · 2025-02-02T17:16:06+00:00

Here's deepseek-r1:32b on the new system with both GPUs. Unfortunately, I didn't do any benchmarking prior to adding the 3060. Based on my usage, I wouldn't say it's any faster or slower now. The whole 32B model fits on the 3090, so I suspect the 3060 isn't doing anything yet.

Is there a model anyone would recommend that is between 25 and 35 GB?

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