🌸 Fri, Mar 1, 2024 🌸
First, I do not remember my dreams; second, I don’t like to tell my dreams. But this one stuck in my head.
I am in the conference, and the conference is ended; so I am packing to leave my hotel room. And I realize that the backpack is missing. And I remembered that I left it in a different room, and the guy already checked out, so I went to the reception to ask them to open the door. I found my backpack and saw that the laptop was missing…
When I woke up and realized that, in real life, the laptop was not missing; therefore, I did not need to worry about it. So I went back to sleep without any worries.
🌸 Fri, Mar 1, 2024 🌸
LLMs usually have a parameter called temperature, which allows the model to randomly pick from broader sets of words. The usual simplified explanation is that it increases the “creativity” of the model. I am realizing that it is applied only to the last layer of the network; how technically challenging would it be to add some slight noise to the weights of the whole model?
Back in the day, I watched Nerd³ (read it as Nerd Cubed). It just occurred to me that he picked that name because he started with Minecraft let’s play videos, and Minecraft is made out of cubes. 🤯 Such a nerdy choice. 🙂
Ugh… I have the code; I am pretty sure it will work in production, and I cannot figure out how to test it on the dev environment. I read so much documentation today.
Would it be interesting plot twist if the government meant Java under “save” language, not Rust.
While I was in the shower, I had an idea: it’s a search engine without a search bar; it’s going to work like the front page of YouTube, essentially a recommendation engine for the web.
I wonder if it already exists; I would use it.
I have a stupid tick; then I realize I am about to click on the wrong button, and instead of not doing it, I double-click on the button. 🤦🏻
There are two types of hard: (1) it is hard, and you like it; (2) you don’t like it (and it does not matter if it is hard or easy). And it is different for different people. Like fishing, some people like it, some people hate it. Or reading books. Or programming/coding. Find the first type of hard, I want you to enjoy your life.
Many influencers take multiple complicated topics and just pick a side. I think this is one of the reasons why they are becoming popular; it drives engagement. Personally, if I do not understand the problem fully, I tend not to discuss it. Ethics of AI training on human art scraped from the Internet, abortion, vegetarianism, religion(s). Or even might be established ones like piracy.
I feel like some of the topics become ‘obvious’ for everyone because they were beneficial for someone, and they were able somehow to drive insensitive about the topic. For example, piracy. It was okay decades ago when everybody was downloading MP3s from the internet and reading downloaded books. Now, people are ashamed even to admit this.
And I still don’t know by myself if piracy is purely evil. One of my games was pirated, and I think I have gained more benefits from it than losses.
I think in the future, AI training on human art scraped from the Internet will become ‘obviously’ acceptable. Many big companies are going to gain benefits from that AI, and they will drive the narrative to shape insensitive.
I wish I could record my life and look back on VODs, because sometimes I am quite sure I did a thing, but I don’t have proof.
I don’t remember what I did on Friday. What happened on Friday stays on Friday. Happy Monday.
It all started with the cheese on the bottom. smh Google 🙂
While I was on my evening walk, I thought about a type of game called “Memory Palace.” It is not a game but a place in the game engine with an FPS look where you can store your memories: small notes, drawings, reminders, voice records, TODOs, calendars, maps, website links, screenshots. You can arrange them as much as you want.
I am picturing it as a house and you can put your memories on the walls, shelves, tables, in the bed, kitchen cabinets. It will help you memorize things and then when you need it, you can just picture that house in your mind and recall what you stored in it.
And I am thinking if it would be cool to have a VR version of it.
Also, you cannot delete things, but you can push your memories into the different dimension. And you would be able to visit that dimension if you want.
Also, you can personalize your house. If your house runs out of space, you can go and put things in the streets outside the house or add more houses.
And maybe make it online, allowing other players to visit your place.
We have so many productivity virtual worlds, but they are empty, meant to help you ‘focus’. I would love to have a cluttered place as possible. I like to have a lot of tabs in my browser; it helps my mind to wonder and come up with ideas. But tabs are one-dimensional; you only have web sites. I want to have more media: small drawings, some random pieces of text, voice memos, screenshots, maybe even snippets of video.
I would say programming is not the same as coding. Soon, we may not need to code because of the advancement of AI, but we will still need to program for a while.
There is a very simple but still interesting consequence of the pigeonhole principle. No matter how well you mix your Rubik’s cube, every side will have at least two pieces of the same color.
Companies like to slap subscriptions on everything; I think in many cases, they are hurting themselves. I probably would be okay with paying $1 for the service I needed, but then they offer $1/year. Nope… I pass.
A lot of timeless art was made during the artist’s struggles, in poverty. The Starry Night by van Gogh was created while he was in an asylum; Don Quixote was written from prison. I don’t feel we should intentionally put people in struggle to benefit the rest of humanity. Let people have fun and be happy; if we will have less quality games, less inspiring movies, it is ok.
2 years ago, Vladimir Putin started a special military operation in Ukraine. It is still going. 😞
I tried Palworlds for 10 minutes, but my frames were really bad (about 10 FPS). I think it is because I have 3 GPUs and Linux, so the game got confused.
You know, I mentioned we have all the necessary tools to just focus on making products. Can someone smart distract from saving humanity and spend some little time making shader compilers faster, please?
Do you know that emacs has a better version of man pages? It’s called woman.
I think one of the facets of Richard Feynman’s brilliance is his ability to explain phenomena directly using normal human language; he explains things in simple terms, and at the end, he just mentions casually: BTW, this thing we call superposition.
I found that sometimes I get stuck when trying to understand something because I am approaching it from terminology to the actual thing. For example, I had a hard time understanding what is a database or .net. I think we can use Feynman’s approach in explaining computer science concepts. Like stating the problem, we need a room full of computers to run servers, to serve web-sites. It can be some 3rd party company and they can rent you computer powers. BTW which is called cloud.
I am not as good as Richard Feynman, but I hope you understood what I mean.
I never needed glasses; Now I need reading glasses. It is such a pain, they dig in my nose bridge, dust affects the optics, it is hard to clean them, I cannot touch my face. I cannot wrap my head around of the fact, for the rest of my life I have to deal with it.
It is below my paycheck. I’ll happily do it. 🙂
App developers cannot be wrong: X Window System, Xbox, Xcode, macOS X, Xerox, Xfinity, xfce, x86, xz, excel. We must use ‘X’ in the product name. More ‘Xes’ is better. How about measuring the size of the company by the number of ‘Xes’? Triple X tech firm Tesla… 😛
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