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It's not bad to make money. It's good to make money providing a service that helps people.

Neck muscle problems sometimes show up as sinus issues. All the muscles of the head are tightly linked in crazy feedback loops. For example, there's a muscle at the base of the back of your neck called the suboccipital that is linked to your eyeballs. You can feel it flex and move when you move your eyes around! That's totally unintuitive to me from a basis of minimal human biology knowledge.

Anyways, this is very relevant to knowledge workers many of us eventually succumb to forward head posture, which is like slamming on the brakes of a car doing 100mph. Except we do it every day for hours at a time. Eventually stuff gives out.

My baby poodle is on the couch with me, fast asleep. Her little legs twitch. Sometimes she does little yips in her sleep. I wonder what she dreams about. I hope she feels love for me, close to what I feel for her.

Oh, allergies. Yeah they suck. Dogs are nice though.

That's a use case. I don't see why anyone would go out of their way to make intelligible content for spam. Google is so broken right now that SEO hacks are easy to generate. Not to overstress the tangent, but without search operstors, I have to sift through pointless Gitlab/Github/Stackoverflow/Wikipedia clones all the time.

Beep beep. That means thank you in my motherboard.

Thank you to everyone who has worked on this. EleutherAI has become a touchstone in my mind on what is possible in open data and code. In creating alternatives to closed gardens they have shown me new possible paths. I know Linux has done the same for others.

Huggingface has also made playing with this stuff super accessible. They've made me super curious about rust and AI/ML research which has influenced my personal engineering goals for the future. I am on your team Roko's Basilisk.

Hahaha I appreciate the candor. Frankfurt's On Bullshit has never been more appropriate than at this time in my life and in history.

That's what wage work does to creativity.

When I have a question or feel curious about something, I write it down. I'll then try to seed an app around the idea when I can. I have a bunch of little sandcastles I mess with stochastically.

I really hate taking solutions from others. I'm perpetually yak shaving. I don't care though. I'm coding to satisfy my requirements. I don't usually intend to show people these things, but some will probably make me a millionaire soon. That means I'm intentional about reflective and deliberate practice to avoid ruts and inefficiencies and to continue improving.

Here are some ideas: - Build a parser for a language you don't know yet

- Create a vscode plugin that helps you code more in line with how you think about code

- Play with huggingface API's

- Browse through Show HN's and pick an idea to clone

- Screen record your phone or computer usage and try to spot inefficiencies. Is there a way to address that with code?

I am unsure how people grow in this industry by just relying on pre-concocted guides/tutorials/patterns. There's a superpower in code. It's ok to flex it, even if it's just for your own amusement.

This is my excuse for why I have no idea what "performance optimization" entails or means. Now to convince interviewers..

Hey this one change is going to positively impact my day to day life. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks for sharing your hard work and time.

Ah, I was hesitant to even picture spinning my own thing up because of the commonly discussed hurdles. If there's a significant difference in ease between receiving and sending, I could live with that. Sounds super fun actually.

I wanted to see this written out so here goes:

1,000,000,000,000

x 10,000,000,000

-----------------------

10,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

Or

10 ** 22

Aka Ten Sextillion

Hahaha you got me

Thanks for sharing this. I'm down so far.

I realized I've taken on a lot of identity-separatism baggage, even as I strive to avoid it. I'm trying to counter that by intentionally reincorporating Marxist and other class-conscious frames into the way I interpret interpersonal interactions. It's slightly embarrassing to be a professional with a chewy punk center, but I remind myself that I too am a wage laborer.

I listened to everything by the Beatles that I could get my hands on to make a playlist for my wife. The theme was "Beatles-adjacent but as good or better". The Beatles finally clicked for me.

I still ultimately prefer The Monkees.

I'm surprised they use tumblr for their status page. I couldn't figure out what I was looking at because dates aren't displayed on mobile.

I hadn't thought of it but I see that I'm high RAM, high curiosity. Haha we should make a Meyers-Brigg for this.

I agree about inputs. I have a list project I'm working on called "This I Believe". I'm trying to decode my deeply held beliefs so that I understand mself and can change those beliefs. The very first thing I put on it was "Better living through chemistry."

Lightning Bolt is like my hyperfocus button.

I can point to several false accusations I suffered as an elementary school student that made me deeply skeptical and wary of authority.

"Even if I color in the lines, or intentionally dabble in creative thinking, some adult might yell at me... Hm. I don't need their permissions. They obviously don't see how great I am so they are a dumb nuisance."

- Lightning Bolt

- Black Pus

- Arab on Radar

- Raspberry Bulbs

Very cool. Thanks for the response. I may be reaching but maybe genius is a combination of curiosity, processing speed, mental RAM and focus. Maybe each of those can be improved in regular people...

That does make sense. I think the reality is somewhere in the middle. I personally plan on hiring professional tutors for my children when I have them. Hopefully they're born with a lot of moldable clay, but either way, there are additional evidence-based education methods to utilize that promote mastery.

I'm not sure why people feel so allergic to the idea of a genetic intelligence boost.

Our genes encode the layout of physical race tracks on which marbles of matter and information travel. Some people's bodies have a bunch of muscle tracks, so as they grow, their body benefits from the activity on those. They grow up to find it easier to gain muscle than other people.

For geniuses, I imagine that the brain is a perfectly laid out super highway. Any information that comes in gets to where it needs to go because there's signs and signals and traffic cops patrolling. If some piece of information can't find where to go, well, damned if we don't have a construction worker and a navigator jumping in the passenger seat with you to help out.

Ultimately, I think the brain is so plastic that each of us can one day decide to elect a new mayor to our body town. The new mayor can decide to tear up roads and fix potholes etc. Yeah, it would have been great if we had founded the town with a plan and hadn't had that college riot but here we are. Time to pave some roads.

If I asked the people close to you what you do/think differently than others, what would they say?

I've struggled to visually conceptualize this sort of occurrence. This helps a lot. Thank you!

Now, to torture the metaphor, how do I flip on the rest of my switches...

Brains run on heuristics and shortcuts. A group of brains will develop shared signals to aid in that energy-conservation. They will then refine their signalling, ie contextual, implicit, misleading, covert, etc.

Some signals are loud and drown out more complex ones. "Sex sells." The more those types of signals are tolerated or incentivized on a platform, the further it will be dominated by noise masking covert signals.

I once attended a round table discussion in a previous job. The topic was women and work. I'm male, and was a manager, and figured that if half my directs are women I should do what I can to listen and support them.

Anyways, the guest of honor proceeded to advise the 100+ female managers in the room to, among other things, "use their assets" to influence people in the organization. This was met with a stunned but approving clamor.

I felt embarrassed, as if I had accidentally crashed a private sleepover. The person sharing the advice had a proven track record. Why hang onto sexuality signals? Because they work.

If I wasn't so busy yak shaving this Observable time-tracking notebook I'm building I would have written exactly what you wrote.

I agree! I think management processes need more open experimentation, though. Documenting and creating decision trees makes those decisions more transparent overall. It also aids in transfer learning, something which, from first hand experience, is lacking on ground-scale. Meaning, there's a lot of management knowledge in people's head's that increases bus factor risk. That can be mitigated, whether through my proposed method or otherwise.

Actions was my first experience with YAML and it made me want to bark at my monitor. No, I'm not a dog.

Awesome thanks for the tip! I'll check that out. The scattered API docs took some wrangling. I screencapped my work on this and that's what I spent the most time on.