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@the_void_state Noice

pivoting to something else, i gonna stop learning CS for a while may be an entire time😢

Everyone who is learning something is always accumulating resources while not really studying them is the most common thing in the world. It's as common as drinking water

@calcsam BOOK

last month we wrote a new agents book: patterns for building ai agents it has everything you need to take your agents from prototype to production, like agent design patterns, the basics of security, etc reply to this tweet with BOOK and we'll dm you so you can get a copy

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Attending @pyconindia 2024. Great first talk about getting the most out of python by interfacing with C by Kovid Goyal creator of Calibre and Kitty

Attaining something quick never seems to be the answer. Money, body, knowledge etc but somehow people keep looking for get quick schemes be it in education, exercise or wealth. Do the appropriate work and everything will stay for longer than it took to achieve.

So I installed lazyvim on my mac, hoping to get better at it in the coming time and switch to vim completely.

📚Some ideas & tips on non-fiction books: 1) Nothing in the world can match the ROI of a great book. 2) You don’t need to finish every book you start. Develop the skill of not finishing okay books and bad books. Spend most of your time with great books. 3) A secret for super-learning: Buy many books, start most of them, but finish just a small fraction of them. 4) Don’t turn book reading into a status game. 5) The main function of a book is to act as training data for the LLM inside of you. 6) This also means that you haven’t actually done a great job with reading a book if you can merely regurgitate facts from that book. Regurgitating facts will seem impressive to others, sure. It will make you sound smarter in meetings. But your main job is to augment your LLM with the implicit principles & ideas from the book, not to statically store facts from the book in certain memory locations in your brain. 7) Books don’t come with a user manual for a reason. You can use them however you like. There are no rules that must be followed. 8) Books need not be read sequentially. 9) Most people read books. But books have 2 purposes: they are meant to be read AND they are meant to be used. 10) A good book should be read once, but used multiple times. 11) When reading a book the first time, you’re doing two distinct jobs: learning from it and making it more user-friendly for the future-you. 12) Shed the habit of keeping books in pristine condition. Best way to appreciate a good book is to make it look thoroughly tainted by the time you’re done reading it. With underlines, sidenotes, and dogears. 13) You can use a good book (that you’ve already read) in multiple ways: Got 5 minutes? Skim through your underlines on all the pages you’ve dogeared (the best stuff) 15 min? Skim through all the underlines 60 min? Carefully read all the underlines and remind yourself why they resonated and consider how your recent experience enriches your prior understanding of these underlines 14) Book consumption is less about having the time to read books & more about the physical setting you are in. In some settings, it is impossible to read a book e.g., driving, walking, cleaning, etc. Might as well listen in such settings. A useful policy: listen to a lot of books and then proceed to buy & read the best ones (multiple times). This is better for training your LLM. A useful tip: before investing time towards reading a newly published book, listen to the author’s podcast interview (almost every author does a podcast tour to promote their book), and then decide if you want to buy & read the book. 15) The types of books you choose to read reveal your true priorities better than your stated priorities. Last tip: 16) When learning from a book, pay particular attention to the underlying lesson. Pay very little attention to the stories & the proof that the author deftly presents to support the lesson. Do not outsource your thinking. Once you have some business experience and some baseline wisdom, evaluate the validity of the lesson in the context of that experience & wisdom. When you do that, you will often find that the lesson is actually incorrect or even harmful, even if the story feels super-inspiring and the proof seems bullet-proof. And since most business books are relatively hollow on lessons and overloaded with stories & proof, you will go through them much quicker than everyone else.

Never leaving this website

spent about 15 mins wondering why my refactored function wasnt available to use in main.go then I remembered the function names must be in Capital to be exported. #programming #weekend

If you are an Software engineer/aspiring software engg when implementing side projects turn the damn copilot off its way more fun and way better to learn #programming #Copilot #learning #LearnToCode

@zeddotdev seems like a great editor, just did a simple trial and some things that should be considered is probably having a simple gui autosave toggle in the zed option, rather than having to modify it to one of the values in the default settings manually and having to save it.

When talking abt personal data people share w/ @OpenAI & privacy implications, I get the 'come on! people don't share that w/ ChatGPT!🫷' In our @COLM_conf paper, we study disclosures, and find many concerning⚠️ cases of sensitive information sharing: tinyurl.com/ChatGPT-person…

Is LLMs becoming the sledge hammer for a small nail everywhere?

The top skill that one can develop in the modern life is filtering signal from noise.

Comparison is the thief of joy

Advice is always specific if it's meant to be generic then it's just a means to make money for the person giving the advice.

@CatBoostML I have been trying to install the cargo version of catboost package with --git option, it installs nicely but then throws error about catboost-sys. Is there some documentation on how to install the cargo package ??

@ylecun @erikbryn The simple reason is also English which is the medium of instruction is common across the world due to the English colonization. France, Germany and other destinations are not so viable for many many people because of this very reason

@erikbryn Research -> venture capital -> technology development -> large unified market ? Preceded by attracting the best students from around the world -> grad schools -> academia

What’s the best explanation for the US having so much more real economic growth without more inflation than the other countries in the G7?

@PenguinUKBooks Our mathematical universe by @MaxTegmark

What are you reading this weekend? 📚✨