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After all, how can we really conclude the interstellar habits of intelligent beings if we’re barely cutting the grade ourselves?
I use Ollama and DuckDuckGo.
THANK YOU
For keeping literary tradition alive.
Everyone remember COVID response doing away with bulk bins right?
How can we have a zero waste movement without bulk bins? Hm?
Supply infrastructure is imperative in supporting our way out of the consumertopia waste cycle.
Relevant in every way.
I support the idea that consciousness is “the inflection upon the substrate of existential being.” Which basically means matter and energy is dormant potential of being which living systems animate, crating sub scope singularities of “inflection” from senses, actuators , and other biotechnology.
I guess that means we’re analogue quantum computers and consciousness is the matter of the universe hallucinating ourselves.
Any retelling which gets attention beyond a hundred years later is worth having been written.
As to this offering being counted among the authors best works, I would like to point out that it is common for “outsiders” to produce pivotal works emulating other cultures on account of their naive and enchanted perspective seeing what the host culture takes for granted.
I enjoy seeing as many versions of the Arabian Nights as I enjoy stories of Sinbad, which themselves are contributions of yet other authors’ emulations.
10x engineers aren’t robots, they’re usually moody and need pay less than work that doesn’t make them feel like dirty whores.
10x engineers DO NOT DO 10x more work, they are 10x more “productive.” This means …
They understand the problem, they don’t rush headlong into make work, they create less problems for themselves (the real engineering overhead), these operate multiple roles with versatility, and often pre-empt problems, especially with humans.
Some can work and work and work, and some apparently do nothing until a flurry of action buttons up months of careful planning.
Find them? What do you have that they would want? It’s better to find a pretty good engineer who will be reliable and promote their taking initiative.
The future will have arrived!
You must pace yourself. Dividing work by cognitive load helps. Intellectual work in the early hours, casual work in between, and finally “talk to people time.”
What you will eventually find, is that thought productivity ratios are non-linear. You will become a superior problem solver with the realization that more work does not mean proportionally more productivity. Quite the opposite.
Lazy programmer predictive modeling will foresee purpose and economy, eventually finding the least amount of work necessary for producing the most necessary results.
Our strengths and weaknesses are all different. I tend to “see the solution“ in the first fifteen minutes thinking about a problem, even when the technical implementation takes weeks or months of implementation drudgery.
Don’t burn yourself out. Let more work happen as background processing, practice conservation of intellectual time. Do not over caffeinate. Take exercise breaks (yes you nerds.) Eat properly.
TBH, going through ten years of grind may well be intrinsically necessary in cultivating strategic foresight.
The only thing wrong with you are your expectations.
Codeup is hilarious when asked to converse as an online chat group participant. The only one to use emogies fluently. Speaks like a 20 something comp sci kid. Rich.
Samantha (and Dolphin, sorry Samantha), yarn mistral has a thing to say about this or that. Zephyr is quite practical and pragmatic. And when I want to get real work done, there is phind-codellama, wiazardcoder, and yes you codeup (you’re not only fun at parties.)
I still love you Samantha.
Prompt disposition for best results. I can’t wait until they can actually remember what we’re talking about.
And if your curious I do set my twelve core 64GB laptop on a block of ice (acclimate first to avoid thermal shock in the battery!)
And I can tell the difference between q4 and q8, it’s a degree of exactness that accentuates over time.
Yes, a life time of learning. After all, it took us at least a hundred years to come up with most of that stuff you’re cramming.
If you cannot find a social nerd club to talk it out, try an LLM! Or strap promptfoo on ollama and make your own nerd social club! (https://ollama.ai/library)
This is exactly how thought control works.
I don’t know TGWB, though I know thought control is much more than channeling.
Once the taboo secret that we can access each others mind is revealed, thought control’s ploy is the reliance upon these as one’s “ultimate source of truth”. Be wary.
Other than the perils of this occult truth, doesn’t it mean there is still great mystery in the world?
What I question is your “rationale.”
You are spoiled and coddled in a society which overlooks you. Being noticed is the untowardly phenomenon, not just your money. You would be only so lucky if you could pay them off. And that would be that.
Think productively not as prey. Have you received outward indication? Take responsibility for yourself as a man (advice I risk negative karma for offering).
Keep a journal (they're good for you anyway). Here you can log times and places. Most of Europe is now blanketed in cameras, any conversations with authorities should include documentation, especially written statements. Authorities can blow off your paranoid recount, their competence is judged through the lens of paperwork. Due diligence and all. Writing will also help you maintain your own coherent narrative when the truth is so murky others will simply suggest you need psychological help.
Wake up. The world you lived in and love is a comforting lie. Your vigilance and paranoid awareness will only draw you deeper into the modern psycho-drama. The “others”, whoever they are will never again leave you alone. Don’t be bitter or scared, be proactive.
The technical details are very different to what even a smart person would “suppose.”
Truth is not sane by society’s standards so we play along in confidence and call that convention.
You won’t like my answer I’m afraid, you are discovering how fragile the lie of modernity is. You would would be better off angry than scared. Be crazy, not complicit. A time for you to get serious (reign it all in.)
Wealthy and famous people do not live normal lives, everyone is trying to take a little piece of them, and the complicit denial of conventional society will help you little.
Find a way to lock up your cash for five to ten years so you cannot betray yourself. Keep a journal and any other records of suspicious activities in case you do have enough to convince authorities. Live a vigilant self determined life first above all else.
In my self pursuit of knowledge I have found several specific areas of interest for which I infill my understanding.
Architectural engineering (calculating beam loads for instance) and fast Fourier transformations (lots of things) are among my favorites.
Pick a specific end goal (like maxwells equations) and study everything necessary up to that. Doing so a few times in different directions (over years) will cover an impressive range of relevant materials.
As for how? You must be persistent and playful about it or you won’t follow through.
Remnants of the Precursors does a good job of teasing out the arms race.