Duncan Riach

An engineer and psychologist solving human problems. Technology pragmatist relationship enneagram psychotherapy meditation comedian. #BootstrapYourLife

[NVIDIA AI Developer @NVIDIAAIDev]

👀 Nemotron-H tackles large-scale reasoning while maintaining speed -- with 4x the throughput of comparable transformer models.⚡

See how #NVIDIAResearch accomplished this using a hybrid Mamba-Transformer architecture, and model fine-tuning ➡️ https://t.co/AuHYANG9gX

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

Today, I got a “free” car upgrade, which was then taken back when the insurance upsell failed.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

. @SixtRentACar I thought you were different. The universal experience with rental cars is the shitty customer experience at the counter. I find myself not looking forward to it. It seems to be that you all incentivize those folks to upsell, so what we get is cold/fake/awkward.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

Even though Sixt is publicly traded, it’s mostly owned by the Sixt family, which makes this experience surprising. I feel like things have shifted with Sixt over the past few years. Is this because someone in the family is selling out? Could they not sell to the other members?

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

Have you noticed the way that nobody ever calls Albert Einstein "Doctor Einstein"?

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

“Enlightenment:” the running away seems to have stopped, is all.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

The co-narcissist will team-up with a narcissist, explain why they are like they are, why they can't help it, why we should have compassion for them. The co-narcissist will amp-up the narcissism, reify it, empower it, feed, water, and clothe it. This is the narcissistic apologist

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

I was reminded to write this as I have been reading Four Thousand Weeks, in which Oliver Burkeman describes the zen monastery training of Shinzen Young in Japan, where he had to bathe in ice-cold water three times per day.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

When I get Thai massage, it is extremely painful. I have experienced the most extreme pain of my life during Thai massages, but I always leave the session feeling deeply relaxed. I have been practicing relaxing into the pain, but recently I have started a new practice:

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

This is the continual, mundane rediscovery that samsara *is* nirvana.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

@PeterAttiaMD I wonder if you would have been in the same place (but faster) with a bit less fasting, a bit more protein, and a bit more resistance training. Fasting (in moderation) increases HGH and insulin sensitivity, both good for hypertrophy. I think you changed too many variables.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

I have been told to shut up about union with god, about satori, by more than one “spiritual teacher.” I will not, apparently, shut up about it. It’s none of my business if my expressions of revelation undermine the charlatanism of others.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

I know they you have a form to ask questions for AMA. You might want to consider having a form for feedback/suggestions as well.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

. @PeterAttiaMD Your show notes could be improved with publication-quality formatting and stored directly in PDF format, for easy and enjoyable reading either on a device like a reMarkable (or an iPad) or in the web browser. 1/3

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

It would also be good to be able to download and store a nicely formatted PDF for future reference, and/or to print out.

[Duncan Riach @DuncanARiach]

My own personal purgatory: explaining other people's mistakes to them.