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New comment by bulldog13 in "Ask HN: How do I balance all my 200 interests in life?"

bulldog13 — Wed, 29 May 2024 12:34:34 +0000

I would just remind you of the paradox of Buridan's ass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass

"It refers to a hypothetical situation wherein an ass (donkey) that is equally hungry and thirsty is placed precisely midway between a stack of hay and a pail of water. Since the paradox assumes the donkey will always go to whichever is closer, it dies of both hunger and thirst since it cannot make any rational decision between the hay and water."

If you have many interests it is easy to not make any appreciable advancement in any of them. Rate your interests. Pick maybe 2 and work those until you are content with them or find out you dont really like them.

Ask HN: Great, concise resource to learn LLM technical fundamentals?

bulldog13 — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 12:16:22 +0000

Can anyone recommend a great, concise resource to learn LLM technical fundamentals including transformers, pre-training, fine-tuning, etc from the ground up starting with neural networks?

The resources I can find are either how to use langchain to write LLM apps, which is not what I want, or very deep graduate level book study, which I don't have the time for.

Something that starts with neural networks (which I am familiar with) and takes you all the way to how LLMs work, but as concise as possible.

My goal is to be able to talk about LLM technical fundamentals cogently, not necessarily code one from scratch.

Thanks!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39714687

Points: 1

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New comment by bulldog13 in "Candy sells faster than fentanyl in San Francisco's open-air drug markets"

bulldog13 — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 13:26:34 +0000

Cheaper. Candy is stolen or originally bought for free with food stamps.

New comment by bulldog13 in "An ex-Googler's guide to dev tools (2020)"

bulldog13 — Thu, 30 Nov 2023 13:39:50 +0000

Besides the tools mentioned, what are some other AI tools that can be used to accelerate coding for established codebases? I have some money to try out new tools, but am wondering if there are that are less "black boxy" and would work with a company's private instance of Azure ChatGPT?

New comment by bulldog13 in "Ask HN: What are your most used Chat GPT prompts"

bulldog13 — Mon, 13 Nov 2023 00:05:22 +0000

This is gold. THANK YOU.

New comment by bulldog13 in "Time to short Japan's 'bad governance' stocks, hedge fund says"

bulldog13 — Tue, 24 Oct 2023 22:10:08 +0000

Have you tried googling or asking chat-gpt? That is what I do when I don't understand things.

New comment by bulldog13 in "How to calculate how much water you should drink"

bulldog13 — Fri, 18 Aug 2023 12:28:05 +0000

I am surprised they don't mention salt.

New comment by bulldog13 in "Jaded with education, more Americans are skipping college"

bulldog13 — Thu, 17 Aug 2023 12:05:44 +0000

It doesn't work because the state interfered. College is so expensive because of federally guaranteed loans. This means colleges can charge any price they want because the student has access to any sum of money.

New comment by bulldog13 in "More hospitals create police forces"

bulldog13 — Tue, 16 May 2023 01:54:37 +0000

Of course, there is nothing so invaluable in modern society than the life of a junkie.

New comment by bulldog13 in "The Leverage of LLMs for Individuals"

bulldog13 — Wed, 10 May 2023 12:30:52 +0000

Anyone have any good examples or tutorials of specifically how to use ChatGPT for greenfield code development ?

Ask HN: Where do I begin studying to run LLMs locally or in a private cloud?

bulldog13 — Wed, 03 May 2023 20:53:40 +0000

Where do I begin studying if my goal is to run LLMs locally or in a private cloud with solid software engineering practices? I am unsure of where to even begin.

Let's say I want to:

0.) Find the locally run LLMs and identify which are applicable. 1.) Containerize the LLMs 2.) Use source control to capture changes to the LLM. Versioning output. 3.) Develop repeatable pipelines driven by APIs for sending data to it. 4.) Prompt engineering. 5.) Best ways to use langchain (or others) to make the system data-aware and agentic.

Any thoughts are appreciated.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35807652

Points: 34

# Comments: 2

New comment by bulldog13 in "Effective Spaced Repetition"

bulldog13 — Mon, 10 Apr 2023 12:40:04 +0000

I use SuperMemo https://super-memo.com/ for memorizing things. It uses spaced repetition. It has a bit of a learning curve, but once you figure it out, very effective. I feel like I have seen an article on HN about it before.

New comment by bulldog13 in "Get Running with Couch to 5K"

bulldog13 — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 17:01:03 +0000

What do people think about during their runs? Anything over 30 minutes I find very mind numbing and boring.

New comment by bulldog13 in "Using ChatGPT to make Bash palatable"

bulldog13 — Thu, 22 Dec 2022 13:16:38 +0000

Wow man, this is amazing, thank you for responding!

New comment by bulldog13 in "Using ChatGPT to make Bash palatable"

bulldog13 — Wed, 21 Dec 2022 23:25:15 +0000

Can anyone recommend some more articles about this ? Specifically, using chatgpt to write code? The more in depth, the better.

New comment by bulldog13 in "Show HN: Tweek Calendar – A minimal weekly planner and to-do list"

bulldog13 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 22:07:36 +0000

The world can't have enough ToDo web apps !

New comment by bulldog13 in "Ask HN: How to deal with regret of not having kids"

bulldog13 — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 12:47:21 +0000

Look at the bright side, at least you are not an indentured servant to some lady who got pregnant and left you.

One of my friends is literally paying for the house his ex-wife brings boyfriends home to.

:: shrug :: Things could be worse.

If it really means that much to you...adopt ?

New comment by bulldog13 in "Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job"

bulldog13 — Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:46:58 +0000

Could you be more specific ?

Like if your weakness is poor communication leading towards unintentional hostility to coworkers or inability to prioritize work, that weakness is probably worth be developed.

New comment by bulldog13 in "Do you remember Ultima Online?"

bulldog13 — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 12:35:27 +0000

I recently started playing "Shards of Britannia" - a Legends of Aria Community server. I am loving it.

It plays exactly like UO at its core, with some new frosting layered on.

Most importantly, you get that UO experience with a nice fresh GUI.

https://shardsofbritannia.com/

New comment by bulldog13 in "Random Ultima Online anecdote #2 – Horses inside players (2014)"

bulldog13 — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 14:56:20 +0000

My malware bytes goes nuts when I try to visit http://www.uoforever.com - is this the correct URL ?