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asking questions to smart people here

[roobz 🌙 🌸 @tishray]

I think the healthiest form of ambition is simply curiosity about your own potential.

How good could I get at this? How far could I take it? What would happen if I gave this everything I had for five years?

A lot of people kill that curiosity before they ever get an answer. They decide what's realistic based on their environment, their age, their circumstances, or what other people have managed to accomplish.

Ambition is just refusing to decide your limits before you've actually reached them.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

“I am twenty-something years old, is it too late for me to learn math/coding/etc.?”

This is one of the most common questions I get, and the answer is no.

Plenty of people acquire new skills later in life, including math and coding, even well beyond their twenties, and put them to great use.

In the grand scheme of life and career, your twenties are still very very early.

[amul.exe @amuldotexe]

Hypothesis:
Your main job is to slow down time

[du @thedulab]

Thinking highly of yourself makes it so much easier to do things. Cold calling a business, asking strangers for what you want, any sort of action that requires an aggressive showcasing of boldness, etc

Completely human to acknowledge that it makes you nervous or kind of freaks you out. But pair that with a positive self image and you might think something like "well if this is scary for me, I wonder how it makes everyone else feel"

If someone as capable, intelligent, and qualified as you feels this way, it has to mean that 99% of the population won't even entertain the idea of doing a fraction of what you've been mulling over in your head. Daunting task suddenly turns into a source of energy. Now there's very little competition if any

Perhaps a bit of arrogance but rebrand it to confidence, self love, etc. Yes it's true that if you don't then who will? If you can't then who can? If you fail then how many didn't even try? Which means you just have to do it. Oh well, guess I'll just succeed. Not many other alternatives

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

If you want intuition then you have to put in reps to amass a zoo of concrete examples. The intuition is the patterns you see in your zoo. Constructing the zoo is a laborious process and there is no shortcut.

It's like how there are many famous, insightful quotes about life, but the way you actually come to understand them is by accumulating lots of life experiences. You can't just read a book of life quotes and understand everything about life by way of those quotes.

In general, the purpose and power of an abstract idea is that it compresses a zoo of concrete examples. But if you haven’t built up that zoo of concrete examples then you miss out on that power.

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

If u remove entertainment & everything that gives u easy pleasure, ur brain gradually starts extracting fun from boring things instead. Eventually, u'll feel more fun doing what everyone else calls unbearable boredom. That's where greatness begins. Hard tasks start feeling easy bcz their torture becomes ur warmup. The only price is enduring a little torture in the beginning. this is the secret that moves everything in ur favour. The brain works on thresholds. The more pleasure u feed it, the higher its baseline becomes. What once felt extraordinary soon feels normal. That's why it also works in reverse. The more u indulge it, the less satisfaction u get. Keep subtracting. Keep growing. Easy.

[Ravi Tiwari🇮🇳 @Ravitiwariii_]

Another finest example of “Men Are Brave”🙌

[Mahaan Developer @user_empty0]

@AnshulGains curd instead of milk?

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

Make the bad habit slightly inconvenient and watch how much of it was just frictionless momentum.

[blue @bluewmist]

what a beautiful gift it is to hit rock bottom. to be striped of any and all pride, ego, and false responsibility. to be left with nothing but possibility. a chance to climb upwards and make anew what once seemed impossible. every man, at one point in his life, could benefit from the raw, pure, and radically humbling experience of being left with nothing to realize that everything is possible.

[tetsuo @tetsuoai]

"You can't engineer luck."

The cleanest framing of P vs NP I've heard.

MIT 6.006 Introduction to Algorithms.

[Valentin Ignatev @valigo]

I made a string library from scratch in C.
Here's how and why

Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
00:15 - Why
02:26 - First style - struct
05:16 - Second - Pascal style
06:50 - Comparing approaches
10:20 - single-header details
11:30 - Library implementation tour
15:05 - Splitting strings
23:50 - Looking at musl and glibc
27:13 - Wrapping up

[Justin Angel @JustinAngel]

https://t.co/x8lD0Wiogs

[Shubham Mishra 🐐 @shubh6200]

To understand how massive files are processed, read "Parsing Gigabytes of JSON per Second" by @geofflangdale and @lemire.

🔗 https://t.co/dlomnFq1fV

Highly recommended if you want to learn SIMD beyond the basic "it makes things fast" trope.

🔗 https://t.co/oAoBcxkWpb

[Sumanth @Sumanth_077]

Build a Large Language Model from scratch!

This repository contains the code examples for developing, pretraining, and finetuning a LLM from scratch.

It is the official codebase for the book Build a Large Language Model (From Scratch).

Notebook examples are included for each chapter:

Chapter 1: Understanding Large Language Models
Chapter 2: Working with Text Data
Chapter 3: Coding Attention Mechanisms
Chapter 4: Implementing a GPT Model from Scratch
Chapter 5: Pretraining on Unlabeled Data
Chapter 6: Finetuning for Text Classification
Chapter 7: Finetuning to Follow Instructions

Link to the repo in the comments!

[Sumanth @Sumanth_077]

Github Repo: https://t.co/Gm8mcpo1Ap

[Vivek Galatage @vivekgalatage]

Awesome breakdown @brotzky

https://t.co/hA3Uf7yM7a

[Vivek Galatage @vivekgalatage]

Maze-tackling is a core challenge robo-cleaners solve. To understand how they find paths, it helps to see how the maze is created in the first place!

https://t.co/o7uJmdv0Ln

[Alpha Africano @AlphaAfricano]

To anyone on a DevOps journey or networking journey looking for labs to practice and get hands on experience especially regarding containers I highly recommend https://t.co/Is3Msz1Dkr