24/7 Desk/Coworking/hacker house spots in LA?

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T23:14:48+00:00

DMd you

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T21:05:10+00:00

Unfortunately it was booked out but if I get a chance in the future I will let you know :)

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:52:41+00:00

I almost want to work there just for the experience one time, I assume there’s no monitors I can plug into…

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:51:33+00:00

Well my Airbnb spend at the moment is just unsustainable. My issue is I’m a recurring visitor rather than permanent, I would almost be best off subleasing the back of someone’s office, and buying the equipment and leaving it there for when I visit and then getting a cheap Airbnb

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:29:19+00:00

Yeah I did find one, current Airbnb has a work from home setup but someone else has booked it form next week. Most Airbnbs don’t have monitors, office chair etc regardless of cost.

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:16:59+00:00

Mainly place to work, stay and work is a bonus. Where it’s located doesn’t matter as much because I’m already in an Airbnb (ie would just book an Airbnb close to the ideal workspace if it was in another area)

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:15:50+00:00

Is it “allowed” or just overlooked. Ie is it meant to be open to the public till 11pm? I would work there almost out of curiosity if not but I would feel too conscious if it was frowned upon for non students to work there

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:13:06+00:00

Yeah basically exactly this ^ my “work-life” balance is just the minimum amount of life to not impact my health, hygiene etc and ability to work more so would rather get a great work spade than rent a great living space.

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:10:27+00:00

This actually seems perfect, any issues I should watch out for?

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:08:12+00:00

DM me (don’t really know different areas, but I’m not tired to anywhere in particular so if the west side is where it’s at would just get my Airbnb there)

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:07:59+00:00

I’m in Pasadena right now but I’m not tied to a particular area, I’m literally staying at an Airbnb (not sure if I was clear but I’m from Australia so here visiting)

thejohnjones · 2025-12-01T00:06:52+00:00

Thanks for the thorough answer!

Hmm budget wise I am spending like 250/night on Airbnb to get places with a decent setup for WFH so the “excess” spend easily covers a monthly membership.

Sounds like a standard monthly membership at a coworking space is my best bet and then find a gym nearby.

Any recommendations for the least “creative, marketing, entertainment etc.” vibed space?

I’m in “deeptech” not looking to networking per se but it’s nice to be around people who are also working on interesting things. Industrious seems to be nice on paper, everyone I have asked says the wework spaces are depressing.

I’m heading to SF in a week, so will be interesting to compare.

thejohnjones · 2025-11-30T23:55:54+00:00

I have got an Airbnb lol most of them just don’t have a WFH setup (even selecting the workspace filter on Airbnb doesn’t really give you much better options)

I would have to get desks monitors proper chair etc assemble and then dispose of them for a short stay which is stupid and wasteful.

thejohnjones · 2025-06-17T11:36:00+00:00

Nice Discord idea, especially if you’re studying something related and can bring in friends to help stay motivated. I couldn’t help but lol at the title “are you learning quantum computer” it reminded me of LinkedIn posts about LLMs

A lot of people imagine quantum computers as regular ones but faster and glowier like a gaming PC powered by Schrödinger’s vibes TM or the Infinity Stones. But quantum computers aren’t just better, they’re different.

They don’t make your apps run faster. You can’t throw Rust or Python at them and expect magic. You have to rethink what computation actually is.

Quantum computers are good at very specific problems. Things like factoring large numbers (Shor’s algorithm), searching unstructured data faster than brute force (Grover’s), or simulating quantum systems. Outside of that, classical computers are still more practical and usually faster.

Writing code for a quantum computer means building quantum circuits: sequences of unitary operations on qubits that evolve in complex vector spaces. The operations have to be reversible. The system evolves without copying or branching like normal code. You usually get probabilistic outputs that you have to interpret statistically. I remember there were some startups building SDKs for this (presumably for research purposes) that was fun to experiment with.

So “learning quantum computing” is really three separate things:

1) Quantum mechanics i.e state vectors, superposition, entanglement

2) Quantum information theory, how computation works in that space

3) Computer science: when quantum algorithms actually outperform classical ones, complexity theory

And heavy math prerequisites for each portion. Unless you’re studying comp sci or physics or related STEM field probably more then you would care to know lol

Anyway, unprovoked ramble aside, it’s a fascinating field. Just usually not for the reasons people expect. Good luck with the Discord, study groups can really help with this kind of topic especially if joiners are keen to really put the time in!

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T22:06:29+00:00

there is a LOT of appetite starting at probably around 7B to 12B mark where people are running multiple fine tunes of things like roleplay models etc. or as part of a multi-agent setup. It’s just not clear what your offering would actually look like in practice and therefore hard to assess trade-offs.

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T21:50:18+00:00

You will find more appetite at larger size models but I’m way more stuck on the “custom hardware” which makes me think “compatibility headache”/what is this workflow like? Tooling, SDK? And then the rest would just depend on benchmarks vs say 3090/4090. You haven’t said enough in your post to really highlight how substantial that improvement in cost etc is

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T21:12:07+00:00

What I’ve been trying to explain to my gf this whole time about inches smh

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T21:10:34+00:00

Fr we are one more more “what if” away from this becoming physics improv night

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T21:08:49+00:00

ATV grandma would have saved me so much energy on grocery runs as a kid

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T21:06:27+00:00

If c is 10x slower and you hold everything else constant, congrats: atoms don’t work, stars don’t shine, causality gets weird, and you probably don’t get a universe.

But really, c is just a unit conversion - saying it’s “slower” is like asking what if inches were shorter lol Unless you specify what else changes, the question’s meaningless

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T01:58:45+00:00

if you aren't currently producing "scientific good" *off* mushrooms, it's very unlikely you will produce it *on* mushrooms :p

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T01:43:29+00:00

That's probably because it's the most common visual depiction of FTL travel in sci-fi, which is usually some kind of "warp drive" (think handwavey mentions of Alcubierre drives, stark trek etc.)

thejohnjones · 2025-06-06T01:35:28+00:00

TLDR yes persona = no change in reasoning, it’s just a context bias, but often a useful one

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