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unemphysbroon What are Nerds daily routine?

5am - coffee + browse reddit/hn/blogs + tryna poop

6am - gym climb lift or cardio + meditate

8am - shower at gym and get back home or office ripping down 101+880 in my motorcycle because it makes me feel

9am -- 5 pm - work

5 pm - pickup+drop off family&friends from work/cook,eat/leetcode/side-project/stock+crypto trades/existential dread of just wanting to hang out with friends

9pm - bed & rewatch father ted episodes for the nth time 'dogel you bloody ijiot'

just a modern bay area man

unemphysbroon Death Clock

You're doing something right ;)

unemphysbroon My First Impressions of Web3

I think moxie makes a good point about centralized services like alchemy, on-chain data from opensea, etc.

The increase in development velocity using services like alchemy and pinata is astounding (I remember spending a month writing a stupid nft app in 2017 which now only takes a weekend.) I think these services are here to stay but they ultimately undermine decentralization.

I'm optimistic for the future of web3. :)

unemphysbroon Sources: OpenSea Eyes $13B Valuation

freedom and access - anyone can tailor a unique or novel fundraising models in code.

in theory it's pure democratization of financial instruments.

i recommend anyone new to the space to play around with contracts on testnets.

now anyone with basic coding know-how can play the types of financial games limited to the select few through credentialization, connections, or regulatory barriers.

i think it's the coolest thing ever.

unemphysbroon Sources: OpenSea Eyes $13B Valuation

yeah, though, it seems they want to go legit through the eyes of regulators.

personally, I would've preferred an ICO. It's the new-world fundraising model that should be normalized.

unemphysbroon Ask HN: What is your spiritual practice?

Growing up our family were followers of Shirdi Sai Baba. Nowadays, I follow the basic tenants without a particular attachment to any saint. I meditate daily with personal mantras, prayers, and basic affirmations to be a good and moral person.

It's pretty simple but helps me stay grounded and reminds me of what's important in life.

unemphysbroon Sequencing your DNA with a USB dongle and open source code

Happy to see this year. I worked on solid-state nanopore development as a part of my PhD.

Now I'm a Data Engineer doing backend work in public sector. :)

Here are some press releases related to articles I published during my PhD:

https://physics.illinois.edu/news/article/34064

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141014095320.h...

unemphysbroon SpeedCrunch

echo "expression" | bc -l

unemphysbroon DNA seen through the eyes of a coder

The really cool thing about DNA is it encodes information and does compute.

DNA structures can be designed to solve problems like the traveling salesman problem.

So it's a self-computing stochastic machine. How cool is that! :)

Can't pull up sources atm but google "DNA computing" & was a biophysicist :)

unemphysbroon Show HN: I redesigned my landing page to be as unprofessional as possible

hell yeah brother!

unemphysbroon Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

got some paper recs for that first one?

unemphysbroon Ask HN: What are your 2022 predictions?

oh come on now, at least try :)

unemphysbroon The Burnout Society

I was probably the happiest in my life when I was living in a studio with no furniture/bed working as many random jobs/freelance contracts I could find. :)

unemphysbroon Ask HN: What is the fastest way to ramp up on DevOps, k8 and GCP?

https://www.udemy.com/course/docker-and-kubernetes-the-compl...

That course got me up to speed pretty fast (3 weeks) with docker and k8s. I highly recommend it.

unemphysbroon Stacked changes: how FB and Google engineers stay unblocked and ship faster

how do you typically stack diffs?

unemphysbroon Decentralized Woo Hoo

Of course not, the dao hack is a case in point.

I am happy the ecosystem is spurring growth in formal verification.

It's still the wild west and I encourage anyone interested to swing a lasso.

unemphysbroon Decentralized Woo Hoo

Smart contracts are really really really cool!

I was able to write a contract to take out a loan, distribute funds to various pools and pull the funds out. Having that sort of atomic control over financial transactions or data is simply amazing. Anyone with the knowledge can do it. Just understand the vulnerabilities and caveats with the languages/apis that interact with the various blockchains.

unemphysbroon Ask HN: What you up to? (Who doesn't want to be hired?)

I'm designing a full back and shoulders tattoo for myself. About one/tenth of it is completed on my back so-far. Leafing through art history texts, old-maps, and going through museums in my free time.

I'm also getting very conformable on my motorcycle in the twisties; I'd like to try a track-day soon.

I'm still trying to find friends post-pandemic (moved to the bay area during the pandemic).

Besides that, I'm taking a break from tech besides my day job for a bit.

unemphysbroon Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says

This certainly is the future of Impact-Driven Value as a Service (I-DVaaS).

unemphysbroon It is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated

how do you recover?

unemphysbroon DeepMind AI predicts incoming rainfall with high accuracy

This is really cool!

unemphysbroon I Am Not Satoshi Nakamoto

** IRS noises intensifying **

unemphysbroon It's tough being an Azure fan

Deleting any resource has a 70% success rate

simply mindboggling

unemphysbroon It's tough being an Azure fan

even from a documentation perspective, GitLab CI is so much easier to digest then azure pipeline docs.

unemphysbroon It's tough being an Azure fan

another team in my org is trying to configure the same but it's been challenge. I don't know specifics but it's taken considerable time to set-up the environment.

unemphysbroon Using two keyboards at once for pain relief

Love the mistel. I've been using it for 4 years and it's great!

unemphysbroon U.S. sanctions virtual currency exchange after spike in ransomware attacks

dexs, or the ideas therein, are shaping the future of finance.

unemphysbroon An overview of the theory of overparameterized machine learning

Briefly skimmed the paper and I'm not a ML or math dude but familiar with the double descent problem.

I wonder if there's a good way to measure information content in models and how it scales with model parameters, if there are any invariants, scaling law's that arise etc. Reminds me of renormalization group methods which could be applied to a space of models, etc...

Again, I'm no expert in any of this stuff, just arm-chairing away.

unemphysbroon How to Ride a Motorcycle – 1942 British Military Training Film [video]

I was slightly biased against electric bikes, no "vhroom, vhroom", gear-shifting, etc but I test rode the livewire and loved it!

unemphysbroon How to Ride a Motorcycle – 1942 British Military Training Film [video]

I ride in the SC area. I wouldn't call those trivial roads to learn on but I'm glad you're doing it!

They are some of the best in the bay area to ride!