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by coyotespike 3y ago
Also a good point! A lot of line dancing here in Texas.
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by coyotespike 3y ago
> After Jane Austen’s death in 1817, the country dance was gradually succeeded by the waltz and other “closed couple” dances like the quadrille and the polka and—later—the foxtrot and the Charleston. A century on, we are rarely offered a
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by coyotespike 3y ago
I can recommend Shinzen Young as a senior meditation teacher with a high degree of rigor. He self-consciously will use mystical language, but is also upfront about the fact that he remains agnostic. The Science of Enlightenment is the best
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by coyotespike 3y ago
You may have already heard about KneesOverToes guy - his programs scale down for his mother and up to NFL/NBA athletes. Can definitely recommend, he's helped many people.
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by coyotespike 3y ago
I feel you. Still, after hearing this story, my takeaway is not "Do not fix AI researchers' code if you want to become an AI researcher." Rather, "Good news! It turns out a software engineer has much to offer AI research
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by coyotespike 3y ago
Coming from a meditative practice, I would interpret it in line with her "attention is the purest form of prayer." You can be so immersed in experiencing the world that you forget everything except the experience itself. And there
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by coyotespike 3y ago
I agree and good for you. I guess all good relationships have some sort of similarity, but therapy is otherwise unlike friendship. It's one-way, that's the whole point, they listen and hold space in a way that doesn't work in
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by coyotespike 3y ago
Beej wrote the first computer science curriculum for Lambda School, which accounts for its initial breadth and depth. I taught there so I could learn CS, spending many hours to learn each class before teaching it. One of my favorite modules
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by coyotespike 3y ago
Let's champion both. Living in Austin, I plan to add solar to my house someday, and I would also love to see us build nuclear power plants. I really cannot understand why people set these things at odds with each other. They are both b
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Yes, I was comfortable walking through it alone, but my parents weren't thrilled when we walked through it together > dealers don't even annoy you usually is not that strong an argument.
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by coyotespike 4y ago
outside of work: I'm managing my resources with Terraform - I'm about to start managing all my personal GH repos this way too! I think GitOps and DevOps are cool and a great way to level up as a programmer. And I'm doing a ma
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by coyotespike 4y ago
This is a great comment, I've saved it in my notes and I've been thinking about it. Suppose Friston's theory and yours here is basically correct, that prediction is the best measure of and even development of intelligence. Fr
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by coyotespike 4y ago
I'm with both of you. I was an early ProtonMail and ProtonVPN supporter and for years would only chat to family members over Signal. I'm conscious of how my phone can track me and of the benefits of using cash. But I still can&#x2
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by coyotespike 4y ago
I like this way of framing it. It's encouraging in that if you imagine how long something might take to get good at, it'll feel hard, but on a daily basis sitting down to practice every day isn't so hard.
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by coyotespike 4y ago
I partly agree and partly disagree. If you think MDMA is giving you a feeling of deep friendship with a perfect stranger, then you might be hallucinating the feeling of a long and strong relationship. However, that's not really the fee
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Yes, I agree both that they are objectively superior and that happily they are spreading! At first I would see people treat them like a slight curve in the road and blow through them, but we seem to have figured them out now
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by coyotespike 4y ago
This is a great comment. I can recommend Jack Kornfield's modern classic, A Path With Heart. Just as you say, he spent years practicing with the much-loved Ajahn Chah and the formidable Mahasi Sayadaw - and then came back home to find
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Yes to a first approximation this is a good heuristic! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain%E2%80%93body_mass_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encephalization_quotient
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Hmm, this might be useful for my project to use reinforcement learning on-chain! I'm toward the end of learning most of what I need, so it's data time.
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Ha, yes, I use "like, such as" all the time - I don't think most people get the reference though!
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by coyotespike 4y ago
At a glance, really nice design, and love the name. This may or may not be stupid, but you could curate/link to snazzy umbrellas, the most functional and most stylish.
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by coyotespike 4y ago
I love this, a real future shock moment. Jarvis wen?? Have you seen LangChain? It has a similar idea of getting GPT to output runnable code, and then using that to search the web or run Python, and giving the results back to GPT.
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Don't let your fear prevent you from asking questions. Other engineers will be very happy to spend literal hours with you, including breaking down the overall architecture and figure out ways to contribute. Anything to help you get les
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by coyotespike 4y ago
I sorted my life out in my mid-30s. Still divorced and single, which is scary as I push 40, but everything is on an unshakable upward track. You are in a wonderful position, and a tough one. What's tougher than feeling sandbagged by yo
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Yes, Einstein himself directly addressed the myth, noting he'd mastered calculus by about 12. It is probably true that he was not the mathematician that many other theoretical physicists are. How would you compare him with von Neumann?
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by coyotespike 4y ago
I could be wrong, but it seems to me: - ChatGPT prefaces each call to the LLM with the conversation thus far. This gives it "memory" of the entire context of the conversation. - They appear to have worked hard to avoid negative re
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by coyotespike 4y ago
This was my reasoning when I was younger. Now I think it's sometimes true but not always. Lots of people do sacrifice financial success for other passions, some of them regret it and some don't. And lots of people put passions on
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by coyotespike 4y ago
I completely agree. In fact, even just for specifically code-related work, think about code review. Really closely reviewing a big PR can take hours . Here's a fun thought experiment. How many engineers in a team do you need before on
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by coyotespike 4y ago
Here in Texas, any student from the top 10% of their high school is guaranteed a place at the flagship University of Texas at Austin. This is widely understood to be a form of affirmative action. Naturally, high schools in underprivileged a
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by coyotespike 4y ago
This was fun! I have never donated before, either - the magit maintainer doesn't get a lot, so I set up a Substack's worth of donations, so to speak ;)

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