Pavel Gordon

Post about embracing depression, and a bit of software engineer notes adjusting to AI

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

Today is my first day at @Spotify. Excited to be a part of the band!

[Nathan Clark @nathanclark_]

it’s in gemini, just create it in ai studio. oh, that’s for your personal google one account. for workspace you need gemini business. no, not gemini advanced, that’s ai pro now. unless you need ai ultra. oh agents? you do that in spark actually. no, not gemini api managed agents, that’s different. for coding use jules. unless you mean the agentic ide, that’s antigravity. no, that’s the old antigravity, download the new one. actually gemini cli is being deprecated, use antigravity cli. no the flash model is smarter than the pro model. unless you need pro. if it’s video, use flow. no, flow uses veo. no, nano banana is images. actually that’s in gemini now. unless you’re in search, then it’s ai mode. no, research is notebooklm. anyway it’s all very simple.

[Fair Transition Sweden @fairtransition_]

Over the past few weeks, something unusual has happened in Sweden.

The government has proposed tightening the requirements for Swedish citizenship. What has surprised many of us, however, is that the new rules are set to apply even to people who already applied under the previous rules and have been waiting, in some cases for years, for their applications to be processed.

There are currently nearly 100,000 pending citizenship applications. Average processing times exceed 500 days. Applicants who applied in good faith under one legal framework may now be assessed under another.

Both the official government inquiry and Lagrådet (Sweden's Council on Legislation) have explicitly recommended against introducing the law without transitional provisions.

In response, a group of affected residents, many working in Sweden's tech, research, and professional sectors, have launched a grassroots initiative: Fair Transition Sweden.

Our position is simple: if the rules are to change, they should apply going forward. Not to residents with applications already in the system.

This is about predictability, institutional integrity, and rättssäkerhet. Sweden's competitiveness depends not only on talent and innovation, but on trust in stable and transparent rules.

If you are affected, or work in policy, law, research, or business and want to engage constructively, we welcome the conversation.

https://t.co/RztQfOV9yY

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

@gregthesorcerer @bryan_johnson how will impact health and longetivity?

[OpenAI @OpenAI]

Build playlists with @spotify in ChatGPT.

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

This happened after a long session where it executed commands perfectly.

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

Is this AGI?
@claudeai something is wrong with claude code, it refused to run simple terminal command.

[Ilya Lyamkin @ilyamkin]

we cook now

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

Let’s see if we can find those mountain lions

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

@WHOOP

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

@rainboltsburner

[Xans | Hypnotist + High Performance Hypnosis @xansnds]

This is what declining health looks like

Being indifferent is a low energy state

Depression = low energy

A state of depression is a state of low energy

That’s the literal root definition

Think about it have you ever met someone that’s super high energy and depressed?

I’m not talking suicidal. That stems from something different and doesn’t require depression.

True depression simply means you are in a low energy state.

And the solution is to raise your energy

What is one of the clearest indicators of declining health?

Fatigue aka low energy

Most people don’t experience this until late 20s when the poor health decisions have finally caught up with them. And Interestingly enough that’s when most people give into their circumstances.

It’s when they give up on their hopes, desires and dreams.

I firmly believe this is the result of declining energy levels NOT the mental desire to give up.

That’s where a deep depression begins to take root and festers for the rest of their life until one day they wake up and realize they fucked up.

So if you are in a low energy state like the person below the best thing you can do is start moving.

Clean your room. Go for a walk. Go hiking. Go workout. Get some sun. Eat clean food. Call up some friends and go go-karting. Play laser tag (or airport). Go sky diving. Go race cars on a race track. Go to a comedy show. Volunteer at a local garden. Clean up your local park/beach. Take a dance class. Go harass the local homeless populace. Go beat up some kids. Go visit a nice museum. Go ask 20 girls or guys out. Pick up a new hobby. Join a club.

Just do something that requires energy.

Anything.

It truly doesn’t matter.

The key is to demand more energy from your body.

Energy begets energy

If you don’t use it you lose it.

I’ve had to go thru this process countless times in my life.

I’ll go thru periods of depression stemming from my circumstances or due to unsolved problems from my childhood and start to isolate myself which leads to low energy which leads to less motivation to live life which leads to lower energy which leads to more isolation which leads to lower energy and so on

And then I find myself laying in my bed at 2pm on a Saturday watching some brainrot just to numb the pain of feeling like i’m throwing my life away. And might I add unconsciously. On the surface I tell myself it’s because I don’t care.

I don’t care about going out with friends.

Or trying to date new girls.

Or exploring a new hobby

Or creating a new story

“I’ve done it all” or so I tell myself.

Then I get fed up with it after i’ve fallen into a deep depression.

And then I go back to the basics.

Clean my room and hit the gym.

Do anything but stay at my apartment.

And within a matter of days or weeks my depression starts evaporating.

And then I feel like a completely different person

I know it’s hard to imagine when you’re in the throes of a deep depression, but take it from someone that’s been on the brink of ending it multiple times and felt there was no way out or feeling like I just didn’t care. The answer is to FUCKING GET MOVING!

That’s it.

You’ll figure out the rest when you have the energy to solve your problems again

But you’ll never do it laying in your bed or isolating yourself.

Losing your spark is optional.

[Красный тифлинг @red_tiefling]

Вайбы Ревашоля такие, что не смог пройти мимо!

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

@messedupfoods Everyone must enjoy this modern rice

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

@nikitonsky 😒

[Ilya Lyamkin @ilyamkin]

Insights from the Llama 3.1 paper are relevant for any RAG application involving Web retrieval.
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Markdown vs Plain Text: Researchers discovered that Markdown produces worse results, recommending plain text with specific attribute extraction, such as alt tags. In my experiments, I also found Markdown to be noisy and opted for plain text with href and alt extraction.
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Hash vs MinHash: Using MinHash instead of a standard hash helps exclude nearly identical HTML pages.
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Line-Level Deduplication: Line-level deduplication can be risky for RAG, but with the right threshold, it effectively targets headers, footers, and other low-value text.

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

9 лет занимаюсь в Duolingo. Тред со всеми языками, которые я через него выучил 🧵

[Roman Sokolov @Einperegrin]

11 лет занимаюсь в Duolingo. Тред со всеми языками, которые я через него выучил 🧵

[Pavel Gordon @PavelGordon]

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