Love beam

I just wish elixir had static typing built in :)

Give Elixir a try anyway, you might be surprised:

https://arrowsmithlabs.com/blog/you-might-not-need-gradual-t...

Then you'll love Gleam -- it's a BEAM language with static typing!

https://gleam.run/

I wonder if fasting of some sort is able to reset these effects somehow - shoot any material on that if you know of it!

The idea is that fasting does encourage aptopsis of cells.

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Or for that matter, a transform that's learned from the data :) A neural net for the transform itself!

That would be super cool if it works! I’ve also wondered the same thing about activation functions. Why not let the algorithm learn the activation function?

This idea exists (the broad field is called neural architecture search), although you have to parameterize it somehow to allow gradient descent to happen.

Here are examples:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2009.04759

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.09529

Mostly because of computational efficiency irrc, the non linearity doesn’t seem to have much impact, so picking one that’s fast is a more efficient use of limited computational resources.

> When you approach work with humility and curiosity, you learn more and participate more fully. Good collaborators value these qualities. A beginner’s mind is an asset. Staying close to your authentic self helps you find your true calling.

Love this.

> Theirs a reason this guy is writing blogs

They seem very successful:

> I am a principal research scientist at MongoDB Research. Ex-AWS. On leave as a computer science and engineering professor at SUNY Buffalo.

It’s a man. He seems very successful.

Thankyou for the correction, but the singular 'they' has been used in gender-unknown or gender-irrelevant cases for centuries. I was not aware this person was male -- but it did not matter to me. Ie, it matches both points.

My personal feeling is using a more widely applicable pronoun is more respectful, in general, so I use 'they' frequently, especially referring to people I don't know and so where I don't know their identity.

https://www.oed.com/discover/a-brief-history-of-singular-the... is interesting reading.

My experience has been that in a healthy working environment, it’s clear who contributed what (I do make sure to communicate clearly what I achieve towards the team and above), and lifting the entire team up does not jeopardize one’s own position in that team.

Maybe the key here is a good work / team culture? I can also imagine some places or contexts in which the work might be more invisible / harder to attribute to specific individuals.

What’s the saying? Twice the work, half the credit?

In all seriousness tho, I don’t buy it. It’s pretty hard to solo-achieve things in most complicated work environments. Saying you’re part of a group effort means more to those more interested in collaboration, good groups know to select on that criteria.

Make sure to put "I do not collaborate" in your resume.

Ain't noobboddy goott tiimmeeee

You're living in the perfect time then! With tools like Cursor AI, I find myself writing less and less code to achieve a product outcome.

First question will be what do you enjoy and how can you do more of that? Or enjoyment aside, what is it you would like to achieve.

Difficult, I know.

I often say, "happiness is over a hill". :)

And capitalists! Those who _own_ the means of production (AI, robots....).

If you have equity in an AI etc company, you'll be flying.

Wealth concentration may increase, barring a revolution.

Love it! Like Toucan but with LLMs.

Looking forward to being able to save specific words/phrases for future review + audio functionality + pinyin for Chinese please :)