shutting the minds bg running tabs off and just focusing on a hackathon project is a practice i am liking now. you are in the moment and don't care about anything about the outside world for this 36 hours. kinda peaceful

today i got to feel why tennis players smash their racquets

History doesn’t repeat, but maybe it rhymes.

just loved this blog. insightful optimism beautifully worded. and some of the lines just stay with you. makes you pause and rest at the line for a bit and just admire the brevity of it

i hate this feeling when i am haflway through a snack and the perfectly complimenting coffee that i got ready is about to finish, and there is no way to manage coffee to last till the end of the snack.

my feed at this point is basically a car flipping upside down and gujjus spinning round and round

this is how i imagine kohli would have gone his way up the c-suite if linkedin was his game

gemini 4 is better at creative unhinged writing and UI than opus and sol

the act of helping someone can sometimes mean more to the helper than the person being helped. if the recipient is made to feel the burden of owing a favour, something about the spirit of helping is lost. to be able to help someone is an opportunity in itself. an opportunity to be of use to another person, to contribute something to the world around us. and that's something the helper should feel grateful for, rather than taking pride in having done someone a favour.

"my current address is the rms titanic and after that i am on gods good humour" never not intrigued by this scene from titanic

was just thinking about this. how we were concerned for the last decade on how meta, google, etc are tracking people at all the external surfaces. almost in a sense intruding the privacy by listening, reading activity at all possible instances. and with muse, we are inviting them even more. in all the praise for how good a product muse is, i rarely saw any discourse on tl surrounding the privacy concerns

i got to know that the compute being spent on pretraining is getting way less compared to post, and the analogy here is that pretraining is the preliminary schooling and rlhf is the skill building phase. i wonder will the pretraining compute ever go below a kid's school years.

little did i know that work helps fulfill my non monetary needs too