Zionist and deep learning enthusiast
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I make about $ 200k per year. I live pretty comfortably, decent neighborhood, drive a new (albeit boring) car, eat good food from whole foods, and my job is pretty dope ngl.
Am I supposed to feel like this is enough and I have no reason to start a company? Is it normal to feel like this is not enough? Should I quit and start a company?
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Juniors and seniors are busy actually building the company. CTO was reading emails.
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Soyboy vscode devs need not follow. All my followers are neovim slinging, zig writing, deep learning paper reading, distributed compute chads who bench press 2x their bodyweight and never skip leg day
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Honestly so fucking excited to go to work tomorrow and do cool things with enormous datasets and nerual networks and get paid fat stacks to do it.
Idk how I got this lucky in life. I was the only one at my school that got into AI. Everyone else just wanted to be a SWE or web dev. I remembered I wanted to code for the rest of my life but I know I didn't want to be a SWE. Somehow I stumbled upon some Siraj raval videos and then took a course on Udacity and I was hooked. The rest is history.
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My brother I appreciate the comment but what do you mean by this. Should I keep being a wagie or should I become a B2B SaaS goblin
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Say what you want about business people. Sure they are dumb. Sure they know more about beer pong than they do engineering. But the one thing you can't knock is their incredible blind confidence and optimism.
Tell an engineer about the side project youve been working on that you want to try to monetize and all you will hear is negativity. "Its been done already", "you're too late."
But tell a business major about your B2B SaaS chatgpt wrapper and its like are a caveman who has seen fire for the first time. And they seem to be willing to put in work. Very useful to have them around sometimes.
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I use both (vscode for work, cursor for goblin grinding).
Its kind of like using an android vs iphone. Sure cursor and vscode use the same models. But the cursor ones just work better. Idk what it is. Maybe better prompting that I cant see. Also cursor tab is way faster and smarter. Using vscode makes me feel like the models are retarded. Using cursor makes me feel like the models are gifts from god.
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If youre learning ML, forget it. Just get really good at writing fast gpu kernels. Become a gpu kernel monkey. Never import torch. Never import sklearn. Just make gpus go fast.
You might ask yourself why you are making them go fast. Dont. Ignore the voices. Just make them go fast and you will be rewarded.
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lmao my company has decided to start tracking productivity metrics by analyzing jira (seeing how many tickets are opened/closed/cancelled/etc).
Is it safe to conclude we are ngmi?
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Go ahead. Install some wacky cool looking theme into your IDE that you had downloaded from a 4chan thread. Get iterm2, alacrity, p10k, whatever. Get your dotfiles from your favorite twitter web developers GitHub. Pay $20/mo for cursor.
The guy who just gets a computer and writes code is better than you. He used the default terminal. Didn't even bother installing an IDE. Rarely uses Claude, or chatgpt, or whatever is better now. No AI knows his codebases better than he does. You'll never be as good as him. That's okay though.
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Im so happy with my job and life.
Im healthy, workout nearly every day. I can afford top quality food. I get to play with 128 H100's with little time waiting in the queue. My boss is chill and I can mostly do what I please so long as it benefits the org.
I dont know what I did to deserve this, but to whomever it concerns, thank you.
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Im a mid level IC at my company and we have like 5-10 meetings a week. 1:1's with manager, team standups, project standups, etc. Some of my friends at much bigger companies tell me this is very few meetings. They get more like 10-20.
Apparently Tesla engineers (on autopilot) have 1 meeting per week. And its with Elon. Thats it. Everything else is just a slack message. No Jira. No Kanban board. No standups. No scrum. Just do things.
WHY THE FUCK DO I NEED 5-10 MEETINGS PER WEEK. YOU CAN JUST DO THINGS.
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I don’t care about doing fancy deep learning with nice equations and lots of GPUs anymore.
I just want to make money. Lots of money. At any cost.
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What you said is exactly what I would do. I would just look it up.
There are so many damn things we run into every day that we dont know exactly how they work or why they are there. Reading a book front to back on every one of those things is the only way to ensure that you never actually make any progress towards a meaningful goal.
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Why are girls so terminal-adverse? Every male at my company are tmux and vim wizards, but ive literally never met a girl engineer who was remotely comfortable with terminal.
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The cure to male loneliness is to find a sufficiently difficult and venerable goal to pour your heart and soul into. Having a good woman is a cherry on top.
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Gonna unfollow a bunch of people soon. I don't care about my follower:followers ratio. I just want to increase the amount of ML and other useful content I see.
Way too many memes and low quality crap on my current tl.
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No code until your last 2 years? What the fuck do they do all day just drink wine and eat croissants?
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These Chinese guys who move to the bay area to work in tech are incredible. They move to the other side of the world, with no family, no friends. They find 2 other Chinese dudes in tech to have as roommates (they are 30 years old keep in mind). They don't buy a car. They just ride bike to work. They wear the same sweatpants and jacket to work every day. They don't invite many friends over. They don't learn English very well. They just work. A few years later they go back to China. I don't know what they do next.
All the while making $300,000+. What the fuck.
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I always tell people to get the most expensive gym membership you can find/afford. Its almost always worth it.
Biggest regrets in life are living a year on a shitty gym membership that does not have a sauna/pool/etc.
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I have concluded that unfortunately I am not in fact GODS CHOSEN MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER. On the bright side however, he is an ex-tesla MLE and sits right next to me at my new job. Time to absorb every bit of knowledge he has.
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The USA is living on borrowed time. Americans are not talented. Nor are they hardworking. They lack ambition. They have no idea how to study and learn.
At CVPR this year in Nashville, I would guess 50% of the attendees were Chinese, 30% Indian, and the remainder were mostly from some European countries and Israel. I think there were no more than 20 attendees who were actually just “American”.
This doesn’t make sense. How is nobody talking about this. American excellence? Yea right. The Chinese are running laps around us.
Meanwhile im sure Brittany is very proud of getting her Jazz History degree from UCLA with a minor in gender studies. That’s going to be very useful when autonomous unitree robots with guns land on our shores. Powered by the same model they use in BYD self driving cars btw.
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Like this post if u can see it pls
I don't think I'm shadow banned or anything I just want some notifications
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this was before AI started getting good so PMs were looking for anything to do no matter how retarded it was
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thats true vscode has made major gains in the last few months. I will keep giving cursor my money if they can just stay 10% ahead of microsoft though.
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Am I the weird one for having 0 desire to be invited to an SF party with 20:1 male female ratio?
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I know this is gonna sound crazy but hear me out. What about a tinybox without any GPUs, but totally gpu-ready? I can't afford your 6x4090 box. But I would buy a 1 or 2x4090 in a heartbeat and just buy more 4090s when I'm ready for them. Any monkey can just plug in a gpu. Please do keep your profit margin though.
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Wasted so much time chasing LLMs. Learning from the basics. Tokenization. Attention. Karpathy nanogpt. Studying distributed training and quantization. CUDA and it's derivatives.
Eventually i realized all I ever wanted to do was make image classifiers. I haven't even bookmarked the llama3 paper. Converging on happiness.
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When moses parted the sea of shit code repos to lead our people out of indian youtube tutorials land
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I grew up in Miami. Not even one of my friends or anyone I went to grade school with ended up in tech. Some drug dealers, some fake real estate agents, some bank counter associates. But no one with remotely any technical or engineering skill.
Nobody showed me the way. Im an only child and grew up in a lower middle class household. My parents are not technical. Everything I've wanted (career wise) I've had to figure out myself.
Absolutely wild that I've ended up where I am. No I don't own some successful YC startup. But I'm in a great company making solid compensation in the bay area and get to be around ludicrously technically skilled people. Very few of them have a background like me, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
The chances of me ending up where I am are ridiculously low and I'm so fucking happy that I've made it this far. A long road awaits, but you guys havent seen nothing yet.
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Just because you "did research" on some interesting topic and published does not mean you have accomplished anything of value or use to society. What matters in the end is if someone used it or not.
I did plenty of research in AI. Sitting on nearly 100 Google scholar citations. All slop. Garbage. Useless waste of time for everyone except myself who learned a few things about software and work ethic along the way.
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I barely feel like I have time for myself already and I’m not even grinding on the startup that hard. I would feel guilty trying to start a family without having a feeling of already being successful.
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Gotta be grateful to my mom every day for advising me against going to a top CS program for bachelors and taking a $150,000 loan and instead go to my state school for free. Im in the same place as these people except every dollar I make goes towards my soon to be gpu cluster.
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Its funny because france as a country has this massive academic superiority complex where people who come from 2nd tier universities are looked down as scum and their ideas as retarded no matter what. Yann comes from a shitty france university and became their most famous researcher. So you would think he would never become such a condescending negative jerk. How the turns have tabled.
Also, a funny story. One of my former advisors was at bell labs with lecun and told me that nobody would sit with him at lunch because he was such a quack who only talked about this "convolutions" nonsense.
it's very sad that Yann Lecun is the way he is, he would be 10000x more palatable if he wasn't such a massively condescending negative jerk
you literally cannot get a fruitful conversation about any top of mind current ML questions because he outright rejects the premise, which in general I think is admirable but here feels like a complete waste because he is so completely euro-academic coded he doesn't seem interested to lead people in understanding "why" he might be right
he's the worst spokesperson imaginable for JEPA models due to this deep snobbish euro-coded academic tone -- making things digestible (or discussing the actual reality of the world)
I understand he's a pure researcher and I think FAIR research is great & needed but I would certainly look at it differently if the spokesperson for it didn't basically call everyone who cares about auto-regressive decoder-only transformer type stuff massive retards
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I need a new twitter like social media with anime pfps so that I can be reborn as a cool anime pfp that is smoking cigarette and my username will be "godless"
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Come to Portugal my brothers with skill issues. A few mornings like this will actually fix you.
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"The fact that you know something is possible is a huge cheatcode"
This is why conviction and belief in yourself is so important.
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What are you talking about you can’t game jira. The number of successfully closed tickets correlates perfectly with worker productivity.
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dude is a chad. Im not there yet, but I would like to be able to send messages of this caliber one day.
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Dogs are incompressible love.
If you take all the love in the universe and try to compress it into as small a volume as possible, you will end up with a dog every time.
Any further compression will inadvertently result in a supernova, later becoming a black hole which will drain all the love that has ever existed.
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Im leaving tpot and I’m not coming back until I’m building something.
Goodbye for now frens
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I wonder if Ludwig just goes to work and acts like he is not the most famous person in twitter every day
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So much research, especially in CS, is so badly done and unreproducible. Perhaps duplication isn't so bad.
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This video is the motivation behind this poast. Be mike tyson. You dont need your gay little vscode theme with 12 different AI assistants and dotfiles you cant even read. Just fucking code. Put a fucking towel over your head and be ready to knock someone out and build some shit.
Go ahead. Install some wacky cool looking theme into your IDE that you had downloaded from a 4chan thread. Get iterm2, alacrity, p10k, whatever. Get your dotfiles from your favorite twitter web developers GitHub. Pay $20/mo for cursor.
The guy who just gets a computer and writes code is better than you. He used the default terminal. Didn't even bother installing an IDE. Rarely uses Claude, or chatgpt, or whatever is better now. No AI knows his codebases better than he does. You'll never be as good as him. That's okay though.
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I don’t want to work at anyone’s company anymore. I don’t care how cutting edge or future thinking your product is. I don’t care how many GPUs you have. I don’t care how prestigious your logo would look on my LinkedIn. I just want to provide a useful service to society and make money.
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was mit media lab ever considered to be a "serious" institution? Dont they just make viral youtube videos or something?
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My stack:
- notion (obsidian is gay)
- vscode (vim bindings, solarized light theme)
- tmux (cause vscode integrated terminal is gay)
- the will and hunger of 3 russian bears after hibernating all winter and witnessing the beginning of the salmon season.
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slop website is one thing
but slop books is another thing entirely.
They killed trees to mass produce this slop.
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I've been in America for a few months now and I've decided this place is not sustainable. 90% of the tech horsepower is on H1-B. They don't want to stay here. The instant that standard of living and salaries in India and China begin to rival the US, it's game over. They'll all go back. Then what are we left with? The world's most powerful military? Protecting a bunch of idiots. We're ducked guys I'm telling you were ngmi.
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Im logging off twitter for the day. I dont know how you highbees deal with so many notifications. Gonna go do some extra wagie work to bump shareholder value by 0.0000002%.
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Strongly considering quitting my deep tech job, leaving Bay Area and moving to Miami, FL or Columbus, OH where I can live off my savings for much longer and build something and actually have a chance at finding a wife.
Thoughts?
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University is the easiest part of life. If you're using performance enhancing substances to get through uni ur ngmi
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Gonna pivot from shitposting to actual alpha in 1-2 months. Please excuse the delay. Bear with me.
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Things I like:
- caffeine
- pushups
- using an entire a100 node on an experiment I've already run 5 times.
Things I don't like:
- coding things from scratch, in c
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Holy shit no AI has ever asked me clarifications questions. This surprised the fuck out of me. A shift in vibes has occurred just now.
o1+deepresearch btw
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To me AGI is already here. The current crop of models is all I could really have asked for. I am no longer limited in doing or learning anything. Sure the models cannot solve the hardest problems end to end, but I never really wanted them to. Nor do I think they will within the next 10 years. All I wanted was to stop getting hung up on the little details of things. I wanted a buddy who understood a lot about everything to bounce ideas off of and help me out when I forget some syntax.
Although the internet is amazing, it often still took hours to figure out some lesser-discussed topics. Especially if your question had not been asked on any of the *-overflow websites.
Of course they will keep getting better. But im already really happy. I feel like there is nothing I cant do and nothing I cant learn.
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I don’t think so. I think it’s more like:
20k -> 50k: drastically improved mood and quality of life
50k -> 150k: even more drastically improved mood and quality of life
150k -> 500k: meh not much difference. Just save more money.
500k -> 1m: meh not much difference but you drive a nice sports car
1m -> 10m: drastically improved mood and quality of life.
Basically I think there is a big slump in the middle
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Pieter levels is a perfect example that you don’t need to be “cracked” or a good engineer in any way to make money. If your goal is to get rich, engineering competency is a bad thing to optimize.
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I am happy to report that my excel spreadsheets are telling me that I finally have enough money saved up that I dont really give a shit if I lose my job tomorrow. I have more than a couple years worth of cash, even if I were to stay in the bay area.
The weight of the burden this takes off my shoulders cannot be expressed by any standardized unit of measuring mass.
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the bitter lesson is that if you cant deadlift 2 plates it doesnt matter how good you are at solving leetcodes nobody will ever love you
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model convergence is a psyop.
It doesnt matter what happens.
as long as it happens ~faster~.
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Just found out the new grads who joined my company at the same time I did paid $100,000 for their masters degrees at Carnegie Mellon. Im sorry but just for doing something as stupid as that I would not hire them.
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Drinking enough water, eating meat, lifting weights and persuing an honorable dream would fix most people.
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Software engineers are not engineers.
Engineers do CAD. They estimate tolerances and optimize material usage. They write design docs to scale a chemical manufacturing process to global proportions. They make sure your apartment building doesnt collapse the next earthquake. They make the planes that we fly. They make the cars we drive. They make the polymer compound used in your lunch container so that you can use it 10k times and you dont get poisoning.
SWEs have their place in society but we are not the foundation. The fabric of society is held together by the things real engineers have done.
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