๐จ Ilia Topuria says that once he became UFC champion, he felt an โemptinessโ instead of happiness:
โHours later, everything that had existed in my imagination for so many years became real. I won by knockout. I became world champion.
I had reached the summit of that mountain, and for much of my life I had believed that when I got there, I would feel something like permanent happiness.
When you are a child, you imagine that is how it works. You think that one day you will have the things you wantโthe belt,the money, the house, the cars, the freedom, the recognitionโand then something inside you will say, โThatโs it. I did it. Now Iโm happy.โ
But the morning after I became world champion, I opened my eyes and discovered something I had not expected. The first question that came into my mind was very simple:
โWhat now?โ
I had spent so many years chasing that moment that I had never thought very much about what existed beyond it. I felt something like an emptinessโnot because I was ungrateful, or because winning the championship did not mean an enormous amount to me, but because I discovered that no result, however great, can fill you forever.โ
via @Topuriailia
"An evidence for destiny is that many intelligent people are miserable and many foolish people are living a good life."
- Imam Shafi'i (May Allah have mercy)
Tafsir Razi under 16:71
FEMALE ADHD PATTERNS that are often mistaken for not having it together.
She has it together. Just not in the format anyone taught you to recognise.๏ฟผ
My article on the Mogadishu military tribunal's records (1915โ1941) is out now in ๐๐ช๐ด๐ต๐ฐ๐ณ๐บ ๐ช๐ฏ ๐๐ง๐ณ๐ช๐ค๐ข. I hope it draws attention to this archive as a resource for research on African and Arab soldiers in the Italian colonial army https://t.co/Xm3Fol6e65
ADHD isn't an attention deficit. It's an inability to regulate attention. And scientists now believe it's one of the most underdiagnosed conditions in adulthood. Here's why the medical community is finally catching up...
Whenever you are conscious of the breath, you are absolutely present. You may also notice that you cannot think and be aware of your breathing. Conscious breathing stops your mind.
I put together a handbook on how attention works, from the Q/K/V equation up through how it actually runs in modern LLMs.
Self vs. cross-attention, causal masking, multi-head attention, RoPE, KV caching, MHA/MQA/GQA/MLA, FlashAttention, worked through by hand, with citations back to the original papers.
Made it to be the explanation I wish I'd had.
Iโve spent 10 years teaching math to machine learning engineers.
80% of university math is irrelevant to your actual job.
Here's the 20% you actually need to build models (and how to learn it fast):
https://t.co/sV52SBB16J