Choukha Ram

Data X Business

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

https://t.co/3CR1HXfFxb

[Lawrence Yeo @moretothat]

Envy is the inability to know yourself

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

The most important career lesson to internalize after 10-15 years in tech is to make very intentional career choices, based on

1) what kind of life you want to create

2) your superpowers

3) what type of work energizes you

4) what type of people you love working with

You would think that folks with great titles who are managing massive orgs must be making very intentional career decisions.

But you’d be surprised by the degree to which many folks’ career choices are just driven by the tendency to follow the most attractive career path that their peers are following, and then justifying taking that path with logic after the fact.

This is mimetic desire at work, along with conformity bias.

Some other folks make their career decisions primarily based on what is easiest in the moment, with the chief goal of avoiding any and all discomfort. They always find a great logical explanation for their choice after the fact.

This is known as the affect heuristic, basically a form of confirmation bias.

So here’s the surprising thing:

When you make your career decisions with sincere intent i.e. based on a thoughtful, drama-free assessment of the 4 factors I listed above, you might end up making very different choices than the vast majority of your peers who have similar experience & capability.

And as you make more intentional career choices, you will feel strange at first.

Some well-meaning “mentors” will even urge you to reconsider your choices. And by all means you should be open to feedback. But only if the mentor has actually taken the time to ask you about your preferences for the 4 factors above. If they haven‘t, and they are still dispensing career advice, it is likely that your mentor is also following the herd without being aware of it. Such is the power of the herd.

The beauty of this approach is that your intentional career choices will compound.

You will do better work than you‘re used to doing. You will feel more connection to your work than you ever did. You might still have some tough times work-wise, but you won‘t be as fazed by them because you know The Why behind your actions.

And lastly, once you have seen the power of intent once, you will feel more confident & courageous when making your next career decision with intent.

You are now playing a game you can master, a game you‘ve chosen to play on your own terms — even as most of your peers remain confused for decades about what game they are even playing & about why you seem so serene as you play yours 😎

[BURKOV @burkov]

Just like data scientists aren't scientists, prompt engineers aren't engineers.

[Jim Fan @DrJimFan]

AI Twitter is flooded with low-quality stuff recently. No, GPT is not “dethroned”. And thin wrapper apps are not “insane”. At all.

I feel obligated to surface some quality posts I bookmarked. Every one of them should've been promoted 10x, but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

In no particular order:

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

Cyber safety is more important than ever and New Zealand's "Keep It Real Online" campaign is a great example of how to educate parents and caregivers about protecting young people online. Let's prioritize online safety and spread the word! #cybersafety
https://t.co/blWhihTRDE

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

One model, many applications. If you've use-cases that require finding and segmenting objects in any image or video, try it out. https://t.co/YglqqIMFQk Segment Anything, literally anything. Lastly, unlike (not so)Open AI's chatgpt, this model is open sourced along with the data.

[Richard Socher @RichardSocher]

Introducing YouCode: The best search engine for developers. Available now at https://t.co/8yJAr9WAi4.
A 🧵 with our features that make you more efficient when coding.

We’d love your feedback to make it better for all kinds of programming, from frontend, web3 to backend and AI.

[United Nations @UN]

"We are on a fast track to climate disaster."

-- @antonioguterres calls latest @IPCC_CH report a litany of broken promises and stresses that #ClimateAction plans must be turned into reality. https://t.co/ETUa4MIHj2

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

https://t.co/oSWwsxDdWA

[Will Koehrsen @koehrsen_will]

Software engineering best practices for data science and machine learning: https://t.co/Noq5V0SpA4

[elvis @omarsar0]

🎓 The Art of Linear Algebra

An impressive set of graphic notes on the popular book "Linear Algebra for Everyone". A great resource for what's an important subject in machine learning and computer science in general.

repo: https://t.co/BaMV3AI9DE

pdf: https://t.co/bi4i5BPyf0

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

𝑾𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝑪𝒂𝒏 𝒀𝒐𝒖 𝒅𝒐 𝑻𝒐 𝑺𝒕𝒐𝒑 𝑪𝒍𝒊𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑪𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒆? 🌏🌡️
𝐘𝐄𝐒,𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞'𝐬 𝐥𝐨𝐭 𝐖𝐄🤝𝐂𝐀𝐍 𝐃𝐎 𝐓𝐎 𝐅𝐈𝐗 𝐈𝐓.
Watch video to find why there's NO* in thumbnail.
#climatechange #sustainability #climateaction #ClimateEmergency
https://t.co/CkrAwoASGv

[Google.org @Googleorg]

Introducing @ClimateTRACE, the 🌍's first near-comprehensive #GHG accounting system to accelerate #ClimateAction! Bringing this vision to reality, a #GoogleOrgFellowship team supported @wattTime in developing its concept & infrastructure. More on the tool: https://t.co/p8OFlrUOSZ

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

𝐂𝐨𝐝𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐝🔴⚠️𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐲 as said by UN Secretary-General. There is no time for delay and no room for excuses in Transformation. Join us at 𝐈𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐓𝐚𝐥𝐤𝐬 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟏 𝗥𝗲𝗴𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿 👉 https://t.co/cTbAHDKQSI #sustainability #climatechange #technology

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

𝐍𝐢𝐜𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭 📜 𝐨𝐟 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐈 𝐭𝐨𝐨𝐥𝐬 🛠
https://t.co/Jq3jeFmqJB
#data #opensource #ai #machinelearning

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

Finally, a useful library for video understanding tasks such as action classification, event/action detection and many more. #deeplearning #video #computervision #opensource https://t.co/JzWBWJVoF3

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

Another crisis in making - 𝐅𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐬. Along with 𝗖𝗹𝗶𝗺𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗶𝘀 it will hurt the poor the hardest, also none will be spared.
https://t.co/Va7i2Hdxfq

#financialcrisis #climatecrisis #climatechange #wakeupcall

[Call for Code @CallforCode]

The 2021 #CallforCode Global Challenge has launched! This year in our response to the threat of Climate Change we created 3 focus areas: Clean Water and Sanitation, Zero Hunger, and Responsible Production and Green Consumption. Learn more and get started: https://t.co/1sTZ5B0Uyq

[Choukha Ram @ramchoukha]

@sudalairajkumar Looks similar to Random Walk. A random walk is unpredictable; it cannot reasonably be predicted. Best prediction (naive forecast) we could make would be to use the observation at the previous time step as what will happen in the next time step. #RandomWalk