Farooq Qureshi

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If a lamplighter could see the world today, he would think the prosperity all around him was unimaginable. And if we could fast-forward a hundred years from today, the prosperity all around us would feel just as unimaginable.
The Intelligence Age
I don’t think you need to be happy to innovate, but I do think you need to be sufficiently compelled by what you’re working on. And that can only happen if you truly believe in it. If doing that thing is truly you.
How Tech Hype is Ruining College Students in Tech
t's a great thing to be rich in unanswered questions. And this is one of those situations where the rich get richer, because the best way to acquire new questions is to try answering existing ones. Questions don't just lead to answers, but also to more questions.
How to Do Great Work
The trouble with exponential growth is that the curve feels flat in the beginning. It isn't; it's still a wonderful exponential curve. But we can't grasp that intuitively, so we underrate exponential growth in its early stages.
How to Do Great Work
Birds chirp everywhere in the world. But when you’re wrapped up with your inner drama, you won’t hear them. When you’re calm and present, you will. Pursue a life of inner stillness. The birds will let you know when you’re on track.
40 Unconventional Pieces of Advice That Most People Ignore
You probably know that you saw some plus signs and some X’s, and that the colors were red, green, blue, and yellow. But were the vertical bits of the red-green plus signs red or green? You’re most likely unsure, unless you go back to check. Wolfe says that’s because “binding” the colors to their orientations requires selective attention. The visual system has two pathways. One is nonselective — it is able to appreciate the colors, orientations, and layout of the scene, but it can’t read, recognize a face, or parse which lines of a plus sign are green. The other pathway is selective — it recogn…
The Limits of Computer Vision, and of Our Own | Harvard Medicine Magazine
If we're not supposed to dance, Why all this music?
To Be Alive by Gregory Orr - Your Daily Poem
These quartiles are denoted by Q1 (also called the lower quartile), Q2 (the median), and Q3 (also called the upper quartile). The lower quartile corresponds with the 25th percentile and the upper quartile corresponds with the 75th percentile, so IQR = Q3 − Q1[1].
Interquartile range - Wikipedia
Int or None. If an int, model & optimizer variables will not be updated at every step; instead they will be updated every gradient_accumulation_steps steps, using the average value of the gradients since the last update. This is known as "gradient accumulation". This can be useful when your batch size is very small, in order to reduce gradient noise at each update step.
RMSprop
the value is in the struggle more than it is in the result. The struggle to make something of yourself seems to be worthwhile in itself. The success and fame are sort of dividends, in my opinion.⁠⁠30⁠
You And Your Research · Gwern.net
Why is it bad to have multiple threads writing to the same memory? Determinism or the lack there of. When two thread read and write to the same memory location there isn’t a guarantee in the order of operations. Sometimes thread A writes first and other times it is thread B. This leads to nondeterministic results.
how fast is javascript simulating 20 000 000 particles
One heuristic for distinguishing stuff that matters is to ask yourself whether you'll care about it in the future. Fake stuff that matters usually has a sharp peak of seeming to matter. That's how it tricks you. The area under the curve is small, but its shape jabs into your consciousness like a pin.
Life is Short
f life is short, we should expect its shortness to take us by surprise. And that is just what tends to happen. You take things for granted, and then they're gone. You think you can always write that book, or climb that mountain, or whatever, and then you realize the window has closed.
Life is Short
“The early goals were nebulous but what always served as a litmus test: ‘Do I feel the person behind this website? Do I get a hint of their personality? Their taste?’” XH said. “I’m purposefully non-prescriptive on how you use mmm.page, because I really want to see how people create websites, if it were as easy as scrapbooking.”
mmm.page could make you enjoy the internet again | TechCrunch
For example, imagine you’re working on speeding up database reads. Not all reads are equally as important in the product. If you know which user flows matter most, then you can focus just on optimizing those. Considering the product improves your directional thinking.
Product Thinking - by Ryan Peterman - The Developing Dev
Once we get AGI, we won’t just have one AGI. I’ll walk through the numbers later, but: given inference GPU fleets by then, we’ll likely be able to run many millions of them (perhaps 100 million human-equivalents, and soon after at 10x+ human speed). Even if they can’t yet walk around the office or make coffee, they will be able to do ML research on a computer. Rather than a few hundred researchers and engineers at a leading AI lab, we’d have more than 100,000x that—furiously working on algorithmic breakthroughs, day and night.
II. From AGI to Superintelligence: the Intelligence Explosion - SITUATIONAL AWARENESS