Kagi

Outcome independent.
Dispelling the competency-locked fog of war.
ML Engineer

I work on intelligence, specializing in Reinforcement Learning.

[Inexperienced Me @InexperiencedMe]

Rebranding Skill Issue as Experience Issue

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@francoisfleuret Quality input?

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Spending this weekend predicting Y from X

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@The4thWayYT Deafening silence. Nobody will help me if I don't help myself

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Compression == Beauty

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@laurenlself We need a story of how you changed. I thought you'd have to grow up in a farm to become a based milk n guns n libertarian girl. I need like a 101 on converting people

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ChatGPT is insaaaane, and by insane I mean doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results

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Randomly wanted to play Minecraft with my nephew, who got an Xbox for Christmas, and turns out that Microsoft locked some time ago LAN and online multiplayer behind Xbox pass subscription...

Impressive. Bringing me closer to going full time Linux out of moral obligation

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Oh I love this. And I love long term.

"Play long term games with long term people."

[Steve Magness @stevemagness]

For performance, the tortoise really does beat the hare.

A big new study looked at 34,000 elite performers found that:

Early success rarely predicts adult achievement.

Exceptional young performers peaked quickly but narrowly mastered one thing.

Exceptional adults reached their peak gradually. They engaged in broader, multidisciplinary practice early on.

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Haha, peak ML twitter wordplay

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@JamesTimmins It does it does, I understand the current options, I thought that it could be better ;)

Im thinking about shaping the environment. If the file descriptions were an option, I could make my repos crystal clear w/o anyone having to look for the info. I care about details like this

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I can't understand why git repos by default show last commit message that modified a specific file.. Why not let us write one sentence explanation of what each file does?

95% of the time the commit messages are not useful for me as a solo dev. Make them optional, not default.

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Something happened with free ChatGPT. For the second day in a row it just misquotes my own prompt. Nowhere in my text I wrote "self-attention". I mention it only once and it's capitalized.

Some new aggressive cost-cutting technique.

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@JamesTimmins Fair enough, but it requires sacrificing some of file minimalism and forces you to open everything. I just looked at this space that is not being helpful at all for newcomers. Ideally I'd like to open a repo and immediately see the big picture without being familiar with it

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@graffioh Oh alright, makes sense, then it could be worth a shot. Unlucky then that they use these tools, very annoying, I feel you

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@graffioh It's just degrading, all the automated stuff and AI interviews.

The company that hired me had actual humans calling and emailing me, and first interview was with 5 employees talking to me. That's investment. Then im willing to do assignments, and I did and got hired.

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@graffioh Oh no, don't do the automated online tests. It costs them nothing to invite you, but it costs you time.

One time I even got 90%, passed the stage, then they gave me a form asking abt my exp and rejected me right after. Come on, give me the form before I spend time on the test..

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@YourPrimePath Past doesn't even exist. Your future self is rooting for the present you

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I got "10" from a model trained on MNIST - a dataset of hand drawn single digits... 👀 It started it figure it out

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I studied some neural net and saw Group Norm, so I decided to digress a little and really tackle the Normalization Techniques, even if it's just conceptually.

It's one of these small bricks that are not flashy, but learning them will lead me to mastery and less cognitive load.