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* Gradient descent for solving a variety of optimization problems. * Vector Space embedding as a conceptual tool for a variety of complex AI problems.
considered fundamental knowledge?
Personally, I think of fundamental knowledge as something that is covered in a school/college curriculum?
What am I missing?
Learning to adequately estimate probabilities and make decisions based on those probabilities is extremely powerful, and that's true whether you use those skills in your investments, your career, or your relationships. You can get a lot of practice on sites like Metaculus[1] and Manifold Markets[2]. I've also found a lot of useful discussion around these and similar skills on LessWrong, a site dedicated to the art of…
Software developers are notoriously terrible at estimation and lately I've been thinking that we should look to Superforecasters[1] for inspiration about how to improve.
* Quantum theory
* String theory
* Lenin's works except The State and Revolution
* Muqaddimah of Ibn Khaldun (by Ibn Khaldun)
* Vienna Circle's works especially Language, Truth, and Logic (many skip this one)
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I'm going to go a different advice route then other commenters here. If you went to the gym and did a really easy workout that was comfortable.. that would be a bad gym session. The goal is to push yourself. Not to injure yourself but to go until failure. We don't learn in the comfort zone. We learn and grow by pushing ourselves where we feel like we might fail and then pushing until we fail. Success isn't a game of…
There comes a point in your life where this may not still be true. At 70 I doubt I'll be pushing "to failure" in training sessions. In fact, I'll probably consciously reduce the intensity of my training sessions and use them to maintain muscle mass for as long as possible into old(er) age. The same goes for work. I'm a hard worker, but I'm not gonna bust my balls at some startup so the CEO and his buddies can make a…
Regardless, everything has a cost. If you are in a place where you can spend time at your leisure then that is something to be admired. You likely paid the cost for that (by grinding 50 hours a week) up front.
For the younger crowd here, perhaps they should grind 50 hours a week so they too can build their "fortress of solitude".
But if they can do it at half the cost, that would be ideal wouldnt it?
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> High tolerance for feeling ignorant, confused, silly, inadequate, a novice: none of these states should phase you: you should not have a comfort zone: let your mind feel at ease in not understanding something: go to the eye of the storm and weather it: you'll come out being more capable; I’d love to be more at ease on uncomfortable situations. Any tips?
I will give you a fairly specific answer that comes from my history of going to therapy for anxiety and depression. Whenever I find myself in an anxious or uncomfortable situation, the thing that I need to remind myself is that things are going to turn out okay for me, whatever happens. I do this by working my way up a version of Mazlowe's hierarchy: 1. Am I physically safe? Can I breathe? Can I move my body? 2. Do I…
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Can you elaborate on how this "virtual worker" works in practice? I'd love to learn more.
She logs in remotely on my email. To get her up to speed she watched what and how I replied to things for about a week, until I had her start drafting emails as replies that I would approve (or edit) and reply. After a while she just got it. She's based in the Philippines and works from 11p - 3a her local time. I proactively schedule my conflicts and times in my calendar, and then she can schedule anything in the ope…
Never parse a data file with regex or string functions. Always spend the small extra time to at least write a state machine.
Never is a strong word. If I have a data file that I'm not going to use very much I'm definitely going to write 10 lines of python using re.find and string.find to get what I want out of it. Unless you have some nice way to quickly create a state machine besides using regexes?
The trouble with most simple regexes to solve this, is the state machine is often not closed.
A regex is way better than strcmp, ltrim, rtrim, mid and friends all held together with gum and tape.
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No, it was my impact drill I was under the fallacious understanding you only needed an impact drill if you were trying to remove really stuck-on nuts/bolts (like rusted lug nuts) As it turns out ... they're AMAZING for driving deck and roofing screws :)
Oh, cool, 100% agree, too! I switched to using star or square drive screws for putting the 1x4s on porches and stuff, that coupled with even a cheap impact driver means no more snapped screw heads, and i usually don't have to use the countersink bit i have. I wonder if your logic was because of the larger pneumatic "tire gun" style things. Anyhow, sorry for going off topic!
No apologies needed :)
And yes - the only impact drills I'd ever seen were pneumatic, so I made the (wrong, but (hopefully) understandable) jump that the battery-operated one was for the same type of work :)
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As someone who struggles with ADHD and depression, this isn’t always possible . At 38 years old, what I have discovered are ways to make myself valuable to my employer even when I’m not at my peak. The move to a more “architectural” role has been a Godsend for me. It means that I’m a let to serve to some degree in an advisory capacity for others. When I’m not able to enter “flow” with my primary project, I can usuall…
ha, lucky. I have a similar constellation of problems and never found an employer willing to tolerate it long term. I can put large volumes of high quality work for 3-5 weeks at a time followed by 2-4 weeks of a low output slump. I usually get fired on the fourth or fifth cycle, freelance for a while, then try again. Always hoping to find somewhere willing to accept the inconsistency in output but haven't found it ye…
This sounds 100% like me.
I currently work for a healthcare company in the mental health space. We’re definitely hiring. Shoot me an email, and we’ll see if we can’t get you into the interview process.
nominallyanonymous@protonmail.com