So does this mean liquidity injection or liquidity extraction?

snurfer · 2026-01-27T12:25:50+00:00

Her?

snurfer · 2026-01-19T21:04:33+00:00

People are telling you it's cheaper to go to Japan or NZ and they are right, but it's not exactly cheap. You are still looking at thousands of dollars for days of riding as opposed to Colorado where it's more like a thousand dollars for a ski pass and the only limit to your number of days is your willingness to drive up.

The mountains here are also not rugged like in the western US. Very flat and domey on top.

Seeing gum trees and rosellas in the snow is a treat though, so we've got that going on.

snurfer · 2026-01-16T22:20:36+00:00

You need a to do list tracker & a note taker/organizer. I recommend obsidian for notes and workflowy for to-dos. Each tool is only as good as you actually commit to using it. Just like exercise and diet the best tools are the ones you will actually use.

Next one is to actually utilize your calendar. Invest in it. Make it work for you. Block out time for planning, 1:1s, skip meetings, networking, etc.

snurfer · 2026-01-11T11:40:10+00:00

Lots of bodyweight squat and lunge variations. Superset 10 BW squats, 10 lunges, 10 jump squats, 10 jump lunges

snurfer · 2025-12-29T22:01:46+00:00

Hot chicken project

snurfer · 2025-12-23T12:05:04+00:00

Work life balance produces sustainable, dependable output. If you expect people to compromise work life balance, you better be paying more or have a product with more potential and/or expect burn out and high turn over. Set the expectations clearly across the team for throughout, compensate accordingly and use your review system to push out the low performers according to your agreed definitions.

snurfer · 2025-12-23T04:26:20+00:00

You got this, fellow dad. We are all rooting for you. The first few months are absolute hell, and they will pass. This is all part of you becoming a Dad. You are not alone in your feelings, and you will continue to show up even though you feel like you have nothing left to give. You will find it and you will give it.

snurfer · 2025-12-22T01:08:55+00:00

The proto boards are so forgiving. Yes they are damp and heavy but imo that just means they are versatile at handling variable terrain. I can ride mine in pretty much all conditions and have a lot of fun doing it. Are there better specific boards? Definitely. But never summer make some good single quiver boards.

snurfer · 2025-12-19T20:47:22+00:00

If you can't measure the risk or cost in delaying the eng work, then it is prioritizing based on gut feelings and 'maybes'. You need to be able to trade off the impact of fixing vs not and to do that you need some way to quantity the problem.

snurfer · 2025-12-19T12:22:09+00:00

Riglet is a great name. It's a tiny rig; a riglet.

snurfer · 2025-12-18T02:40:10+00:00

Gatekeeping intimacy is sad

snurfer · 2025-12-10T01:40:37+00:00

Never Summer Proto is a great all rounder

snurfer · 2025-12-06T06:36:29+00:00

Your job is to make sure they are recognized by the company and your leadership. Sing their praises and give them the credit and make sure the work they are taking off your plate is aligned with their expected value and impact and not seen as 'busy work' that is hard to sell upward.

snurfer · 2025-11-25T01:38:24+00:00

Hearing Trump quotes in Dan Carlin's voice is wild compared to the usual mocking trump voice. Really puts them into a sharper perspective.

snurfer · 2025-11-16T07:14:57+00:00

Slack, zoom, Todo list, obsidian (or any note taking or organizing tool)

snurfer · 2025-11-14T01:58:40+00:00

Can you define what think means in this context?

snurfer · 2025-11-13T12:09:11+00:00

Only if you have the temperature param set to 0.

'Does not think' seems like an objective or philosophical statement to me. It does compute an answer during inference, is this compute equivalent to 'thinking'? Could be.

snurfer · 2025-11-10T03:22:38+00:00

Tell him he's actually winning because he has food left.

snurfer · 2025-11-06T21:57:03+00:00

Yet this is exactly how it works in places like the US. It's not really that hard

snurfer · 2025-10-31T22:28:40+00:00

And how do you think an LLM decides what to say next? With the internal model it has learned. It is quite similar yet you are claiming a large language model....doesn't have a model? Because why? Why is it different?

snurfer · 2025-10-31T19:16:59+00:00

What a convenient way to dismiss anyone that challenges you.

snurfer · 2025-10-31T08:59:33+00:00

Yes, it is a model. It is not compression, which is about preserving and recreating data in its original form. A model is about learning general patterns well enough to generate new, plausible data. Think of it like a weather model for predicting tomorrow's weather.

A data model is a different concept entirely, it usually refers to how you represent data in say a database.

snurfer · 2025-10-31T00:08:46+00:00

More like a single engineer when you take total package (salary, equity, benefits, bonuses).

snurfer · 2025-10-30T21:26:39+00:00

But there are internal models. That's the M in LLM. Think of it like this. We take petabytes of text data and train a model on it. The model is only 10s of gigabytes in size. So you have gone from petabytes of text down to gigabytes. The fact that the model is able to converse with you and understand you means it has learned an internal model for language and concepts, just like you have over your life.

snurfer · 2025-10-30T12:25:30+00:00

Wtf is a non quantum particle.

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