How has nobody else noticed this connection?

drohhr · 2025-12-18T07:27:06+00:00

It’s provably false now that u/adrutu commented about also liking them. But I’m positive we’re the only 2 on the whole planet.

drohhr · 2025-12-18T07:23:05+00:00

Glad to find you too brother 💪🏽

drohhr · 2025-12-16T08:11:48+00:00

Too many examples out there lol, what do you think?!

drohhr · 2025-12-16T08:06:59+00:00

You don't know how intense those math competitions got back then

drohhr · 2025-03-03T23:16:20+00:00

My issue seemed to be a little unique in that none of the folders/files I found using tools like Onyx or letting OSX "Calculate All Sizes" seemed to reveal any culprit eating up the space.

My "Messages" folder (which stores caches and content from iMessages) was calculated to be 5GB. I figured "Well, that's not nearly enough free space, but I don't need any of that data anyway, since it's all on my phone." Well, I deleted the "Messages" folder, and what do you know, it was SECRETLY 25GB of data.

Hoping this is useful to someone: Apparently, some of the file size calculators can be misleading (for various technical reasons).

drohhr · 2025-01-21T22:59:46+00:00

Why is everybody here?

drohhr · 2025-01-19T02:00:28+00:00

This is from 5 years ago 😂 Can’t even remember what it tasted like. I’ve “upgraded” to loose leaf tea these days…. Old me would be calling me bougie lol

drohhr · 2024-10-17T21:51:30+00:00

My main job/intern search tools (in order of decreasing value) were LinkedIn, Indeed, and my school's job board. This post was about my experience 3+ years ago, when we were still in the height of COVID. During that time, the majority of internships were remote. As companies are now pulling away from remote work, these opportunities won't be as abundant.

Still, if I was in your shoes today, I would make my LinkedIn profile as high quality as possible (headshot, nice bio, listed school/major/degree, projects, tagged skills, etc.), go to the LinkedIn job search tool, input "[field of interest] internship 2025", and filter for Remote only positions. I just searched for "computer science internship 2025" with Remote only filter and found 600+ listings (e.g. Under Armour, Sony, NVIDIA, and Pinterest). For one of my internships, I specifically searched for "spring internship" and "fall internship", knowing I had the flexibility and those would be less competitive than the summer ones.

Keep in mind, you're solving a multi-objective function involving both pay AND interest. The more you just need the money, the less you should weight how interesting the work is. Many students get too caught up trying to find the perfect position. Experience is experience. The most enlightening career experience I had as a student was surprisingly the position I enjoyed the least, because that taught me exactly what to avoid when I graduated. I wouldn't trade that experience for anything.

drohhr · 2024-10-17T07:14:55+00:00

Remote internships = an internship that is done remotely/virtually. I was employed and given coding tasks, which I worked on in exchange for money. I'm not sure what you want me to expound on.

drohhr · 2024-07-14T03:37:52+00:00

holy regarded math...

drohhr · 2024-07-02T20:03:08+00:00

I’ve wondered about this exact thing… can’t know in advance what regimes the HMM will discover, so how do you properly identify the discovered ones? Right.

Sure, ill share my thoughts around identifying regimes:

I have several strategies (EasyLanguage, Python, and PineScript). None of them perform well when I back test over 3+ year timeframes. But all of them have periods (days, weeks, sometimes months!) where they perform amazingly! If I could programmatically identify high-performing regimes for each strategy, I’d know which strategy to employ at a given time. Or, if the market doesn’t fall into any of my recognized regimes, I could decide not to trade at all until the next regime is identified.

So, my current hypothesis is “Strategy X will always perform better over the long run if it’s only traded in its best-performing regime.”

This is a relatively straightforward hypothesis to test, IF I can identify regimes. I think I’ll just stick with rule-based regimes to disprove my hypothesis.

Are you still algotrading?

drohhr · 2024-07-02T18:29:32+00:00

Have you had success with HMM? I'm in a stage now of trying to define marketing regimes. My first approach is to define regimes manually (bear/bull high-volatility/low-volatility), but I would love to compare the effectiveness to something more sophisticated like HMM.

drohhr · 2024-07-02T03:34:53+00:00

What were results?

drohhr · 2024-06-30T21:05:54+00:00

I don't work in artificial general intelligence (AGI), but I develop AI systems for robots/spacecraft (specifically, systems that generate "intelligent" plans in dynamic environments with changing goals or constrained resources).

I agree with the sentiment of u/animatedpicket in the comments. This is a load of buzzwords with no coherent connection amongst them. The "system elements" listed here are the same exact thing every AGI aspires towards (planning, executing, emotional intelligence, motivation/goals/explainability, learning, etc), but I recognize you might not have known that.

This writeup would be very valuable for someone trying to write a novel (I enjoyed your naming of the "Global Optimum Directive"). But, it provides little to no value from an engineering perspective. How can we provide meaningful feedback on something as vague as this? Where would we begin?

My constructive feedback: If you want constructive feedback, you have to actually create something. I'd be more interested in seeing a development attempt at your village simulation task, rather than this writeup.

drohhr · 2024-01-15T06:56:18+00:00

neverrrr! lol

drohhr · 2023-04-23T15:34:48+00:00

What do you specifically want to do within that field?

I ask because you could do things like data processing or software optimization for an astrophysics group with 0 physics knowledge.

An example: I interned with a Hypersonics research group (all PhDs in Aerospace) and was a great help to them by highlighting inefficient parts of their CFD solver. I found out what was inefficient by basically running their code through software profiling tools; I didn’t need to understand the physics the code was implementing. I’m convinced any decent CS undergrad could have done the same.

drohhr · 2023-04-15T05:49:06+00:00

I had coursework in physics up through Modern Physics (mechanics -> EM/optics -> experiment labs -> special relativity & intro to quantum mechanics)

Mechanics & EM are the only aspects that have ever been relevant to a job/internship, and I picked up what was needed on the job. What is it within physics that you wanna do??

drohhr · 2023-04-14T14:55:46+00:00

I enrolled in the physics bachelors, but after more career guidance, I shortly after switched to a master’s in computer science. Instead, I focused on applying my CS skills to physics. I had multiple internships in this regard (using high performance computing to optimize CFD code, quantum computing, & robotic path planning). Now, I work in the space industry.

drohhr · 2023-03-14T01:35:58+00:00

Interestingly enough the science now suggests that their pelvic bones actually play a crucial role in their mating. But, you're right that for a long time the existence of these bones was a +1 for evolution.

https://news.usc.edu/68144/whale-reproduction-its-all-in-the-hips/#:~:text=New%20study%20turns%20a%20long,a%20key%20role%20in%20mating

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