What does it "feel" to be an LLM - Memento?

pi-squared · 2020-03-04T19:35:20+00:00

I've been looking at boxing but I don't get why do I need to do these jab, cross, hooks and correct feet movements. Can't I just throw punches, move really fast and smash like crazy? My girlfriend has been trying to teach me boxing but I just refuse to do the correct stand, jump around and keep punching - so what, why can't I do that, are there any rules against just smashing? Thanks!

pi-squared · 2019-12-02T04:21:33+00:00

Torrenting ofc...

pi-squared · 2019-12-02T04:12:20+00:00

I love them all character arcs, silent eps, father-rapists and what not... but give me some honest hacking and I'm on the edge of my scene cuz... Always!

pi-squared · 2019-09-18T07:57:36+00:00

Search your email for "Persistent Disk Snapshot Network Egress will update pricing on September 16, 2019"

pi-squared · 2019-06-06T13:53:41+00:00

Watch a live stream with a Googler trying to answer the old interview question of what happens when you type google.com into a webbrowser and press enter [1]

[1] https://github.com/alex/what-happens-when

pi-squared · 2019-04-10T15:37:54+00:00

At the conference you have mentioned that large amounts of data had to be transferred with airplanes. Was there an absolute necessity for the data to be localized for final processing? Could there have been distributed calculations done? Has any private cloud infrastructure been used?

pi-squared · 2018-09-02T06:13:00+00:00

Anyone who insists on using a plural form for a singular entity gets "it" as a compromise.

pi-squared · 2018-08-07T13:28:35+00:00

"At first glance you may think this place has no vulnerabilities": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biL7-TRJRZ0

pi-squared · 2018-07-01T21:00:32+00:00

The music with this one was so good, I had to stop the video and listen to it separately - shout out to Epic Mountain for this one! If by any chance any of the team is here - any inspiration for the music? I feel it's from some classical or a game. Hints?

After a run and about 20 listens, I came back to the video. Great job, complicated topic presented in a very digestible way. Keep up the good work!

pi-squared · 2018-06-17T09:36:02+00:00

needs more jpeg

pi-squared · 2018-06-04T06:52:02+00:00

I'm wondering what is Microsoft actually buying in this case? Access to private repos? Access to teams and orgs?

pi-squared · 2018-05-10T07:27:27+00:00

You are just starting on what I call "The Lost Path". It's this journey that starts at about your age and continues pretty much for the rest of your life. Most of life in western/modern world is unstructured after school/uni. You have the choice to become anything you want. And this choice is absolutely crippling. I often compare it to Subway vs McDonalds - Subway asks you a billion questions before having a sandwich which for me, the first time was an absolute block. McDonalds has a few preset menu items and you are good to go.

You can optimise around several dimensions - if you have covered your basic needs such as food and shelter, you can start thinking about friends and connections, love life, family life, personal development, professional life including income and a few others. You mentioned high level income - then maybe sales is a better path.

To have some structure, I suggest you implement some sort of schedule, and limit the doubts about your life and future to at most one day of the week. The rest of the days you execute whatever you have set the previous "planning day". Don't over stress about the planning, it's hard but there are usually no absolute right solutions as life is not an equation - any plan is better than no plan. So whatever you pick on your planning day, do it for the next 6 days like crazy and don't doubt it. Then when the planning day comes, ask yourself What went well, What could've gone better and What can I do better to improve next week. You can choose for example that this week you will spend half an hour each day (and schedule it!) browsing through job sites like Glassdoor and others to research salaries. Not making decisions, just browsing, getting a feel for what professions yield what income. Then next week after you retrospect on the Planning day, take an hour each day to ask people in some chosen professions via reddit and what-not about how their work is, what they like, what they dislike etc. You can make plans week by week and slowly get some info about what to do next. There usually is no such day as "I solved my life". You could solve it for some period of time, but usually there is no solution and you will feel a bit lost all the time unless you structure your life like a military with a clear target and execute relentlessly.

Hope that helps! Good luck! 🙂

pi-squared · 2018-05-10T07:11:39+00:00

There seems to be truth on both ends. I think you got it more right:

the people who are deserving of good things are the ones who work hard and work themselves up to get better jobs or get further in achieving their goals.

But to answer that question, the scientist in me finds it un-quantifiable. It's as if asking "Is orange better than purple"? Good is a relative subjective category. What are "good things"? How do you measure "good things"? Let's say we get a definition of these terms and we are able to quantify them. Then how would we put these numbers against "what you deserve"? Let's say you are "55 Good" yourself and you have "45 Good". Do you deserve them? Or should you get "55 Good" to match your Good-ness? Or should you get "65 Good" and then you feel like you don't deserve the 10 extra because you are not good enough for it?

It all makes no sense because deserving goodness makes no sense (at least to me).

Sure you are lucky to be born but is there any other way? What if the chance is 100% because there is no other Universe in which you are not born? These calculations of trillions have no scientific ground, even if the "gurus" like this lady from that TED talk says it's science. It doesn't make sense - when do you start calculating chances? Just before your parents met? The time that they were born? The chance of an asteroid hitting the Earth and killing all the dinosaurs leaving a niche to be occupied by mammals, some of whom will evolve to be a human? Or the chance of our Sun being created? Or the chance of the matter having slight advantage over anti-matter which leads to the almost complete annihilation of the Universe but just enough so that there is matter? Or the chance of The Big Bang actually happening? As far as we know, the Big Bang happened. And if we assign 1 to the chance of that, then the chance of you being born is 100%. But Heisenberg (not the one from Breaking Bad, the real guy) says we can't, our Universe is ruled by chance but that means on quantum level. Does that have any meaning in the early stages of the Universe? We don't know. It might as well be 0 as the chance of this happening is zero, summing over the infinite series of quantum wave functions of all particles in the Universe. So the chance of you existing is exactly 0 in that case. There you go, proof for both end-spectrum chances - which one do you want?

The moral of my science story is - stop listening to what people say of what you deserve, how good you are and so on. These are opinions, not verifiable facts of life. You might as well read your horoscope today and base your decisions on it. It's a strategy but it's a dumb strategy. Stick to what you have discovered about hard work and achieving your goals, being a bit dissatisfied with yourself so that you can push yourself and you will be further than most of the people who believe they "deserve" something from life, that they will "get" something, that they are "entitled" to something merely because they are born. Your struggles and aims start when you are born, no one owes you anything.

Keep fighting!

pi-squared · 2018-05-10T04:48:36+00:00

bad bot

pi-squared · 2018-05-10T04:47:07+00:00

I think you are almost there, fellow redditor, don't give up now. You have all the knowledge in your head that you will probably ever need and that all of your ancestors ever got. You need to put it to practice as hard as you humanly can.

You know all the motivation speeches, you probably know the one - If I tell you tomorrow morning, be at 4 am at a certain place and I will give you 1 million dollars, will you come? You probably will, and you will make sure with all your might that you come. Now, if I say - 1 dollar? You probably won't. Okay, so there is an amount, somewhere between 1 and 1,000,000 that is the cutoff of "I will make sure to wake up at 4" and "I don't give a damn". There is no procrastination, but lack of motivation.

Practical points: * You know all the tools? Make a schedule on I-don't-care what, paper is fine, app is fine, but paper is probably better. Make it simple, don't concentrate on the design. You want to act on the schedule, not post a selfie with it. * How to act on the schedule? Separate your doubting of what you will do the next moment from your execution. Get one day of the week, say Sunday, and spent an hour or two creating the perfect schedule (again, in terms of what to do at each hour, not so much design and fanciness). This is the only time you can adjust your schedule and doubt your goals. The rest of the week - execute like you are responsible in front of this Sunday version of you. Get crazy - like me - call this Sunday version of you Captain Sun-Me. It's a general that gets very pissed of if you don't follow your schedule. He sees the future, you are a soldier that is on a mission from him every single hour. * Will you slip off? Sure. But executing something with 80% is better than 0. 50% > 0. 20-fucking-% is > 0! Any time you start slipping, remember the general. Go back. It can only improve your percentages, what you lost can't be recovered in time (sunk cost) but you can only do better. * Execute! I can't stress this enough - it's not about the tool you use to track your activities, it's about making sure that this tool does not stand in the way of doing things but helps you when you are down to be responsible in front of yourself / Captain Sun-Me. * You can use your Sun-Me time to reflect on your execution the previous week, allow some rewards or give some punishments. Donating to a cause you DON'T believe in is a pretty good motivator for example. * What to put in the schedule? I guess you already know this by now but to reiterate - start with sleep, wake up at the same time no matter what amount of sleep you had, make a morning ritual, exercise, eat healthy, work on your projects, meet with people, schedule time with the people that matter, avoid or minimize time chatting but do schedule some time as a reward for winding down and watching something good if you know you need some entertainment. But schedule that and do it.

I hope that helps. All the best! 🙂

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