Vishal Waghmode
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- [2604.21751] Why are all LLMs Obsessed with Japanese Culture? On the Hidden Cultural and Regional Biases of LLMs1 savers
- LLM Inference Handbook1 savers
- Relax for the same result | Derek Sivers6 savers
- Practical Deep Learning for Coders | Practical Deep Learning for Coders18 savers
- MAKING SOFTWARE61 savers
- Write for Yourself1 savers
- Size of Life6 savers
- The Recurse Center17 savers
- Brooke Joseph2 savers
- Juliette — The economy of never enough1 savers
- Preston Thorpe is a software engineer at a San Francisco startup — he’s also serving his 11th year in prison | TechCrunch1 savers
- Why China got rich and India didn't - David Oks2 savers
- Apocalypse Early Warning System1 savers
- Personal Cybersecurity Guide vs AI - Google Docs1 savers
- Artemis II Mission Dashboard1 savers
- Brighter Lamp | 60,000 Lumens of True Daylight1 savers
- Solvitur ambulando1 savers
- Pranit Garg | Prompt Library1 savers
- Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs39 savers
- The happiest I’ve ever been - ben-mini2 savers
- AI vs. the Pentagon - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmine’s substack1 savers
- Code is cheap. Show me the talk. - nadh.in3 savers
- pussy for pay - by angela vang - angel hour5 savers
- You can't lose if you never quit - by Aadil - Alexandria1 savers
- 25 years of Wikipedia2 savers
- Doing the dirty work - by Aadil - Alexandria2 savers
- Elo rating system4 savers
- Free To Choose 1980 - Vol. 01 The Power of the Market - Full Video - YouTube1 savers
- A New Year’s letter to a young person - by Luis Garicano2 savers
- Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman - Wikipedia1 savers
- Vikash Dhorasoo - Wikipedia1 savers
- Guide to Date Conversation Starters, Discussions & Questions : r/hingeapp1 savers
- Joie de vivre4 savers
- Nat Friedman57 savers
- Fast · Patrick Collison48 savers
- Advice · Patrick Collison67 savers
- How to Do Great Work67 savers
- Career Advice That Doesn’t Suck27 savers
- My techno-optimism27 savers
- How to be More Agentic - by Cate Hall - Useful Fictions24 savers
- sparkly people and how to find them - by Anson Yu21 savers
- Webpage archive14 savers
- Startup advice, briefly - Sam Altman7 savers
- Grant Guide - Merge Club7 savers
- I write code 100 hours/week, here's why I probably won't stop | Hexops' devlog6 savers
- Silicon Valley history · Patrick Collison5 savers
- Energy & Humanity4 savers
- How Superhuman built an engine to find product-market fit3 savers
- Learning to learn | K/L2 savers
highlights — 47
The antidote to overconsumption is selection.
Juliette — The economy of never enoughSolvitur ambulando (Latin: [ˈsolwitur ambuˈlandoː]) is a Latin phrase which means "it is solved by walking",
Solvitur ambulandoUnix. Ken Thompson wrote the first version in three weeks. Source: UNIX: A History and a Memoir.
Fast · Patrick CollisonWhere do you get your dopamine?
Nat FriedmanThe replication crisis is not an aberration
Nat FriedmanA week is 2% of the year
Nat FriedmanIf I could give any advice to someone who needs it, I’d tell them to write down the things that have made them happy, and then explore why.
The happiest I’ve ever been - ben-miniThere’s always a gap between the time something is good and the time it makes money and is recognized by the masses
You can't lose if you never quit - by Aadil - Alexandria“I think running every day is showing up for yourself.”
You can't lose if you never quit - by Aadil - AlexandriaThe head of engineering at a manufacturing plant I know well must decide who to hire, which machines to buy, how to lay them down in the plant, negotiate with the workers and the higher ups the solutions proposed, and mobilise the resources to implement them. That task is extraordinarily hard to automate. Artificial intelligence commoditizes codified knowledge: textbooks, proofs, syntax. But it does not interface in a meaningful way with local knowledge, where a much larger share of the value of messy jobs is created. Even if artificial intelligence excelled at most of the single tasks that ma…
A New Year’s letter to a young person - by Luis Garicanoknown for his pioneering efforts in the field of Computer Science Education in India.[1][2] He is credited with the establishment of the first academic program in computer science in India, which he helped initiate at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur in 1965.
Vaidyeswaran Rajaraman - WikipediaEscaping the bind takes more than hard work. You have to actually go out and generate your own sense of meaning. You have to build, often without a surrounding social structure, a way of creating value on your terms.
No One is Even Trying | Applied Divinity Studies“Work smarter not harder” is some of the worst advice I’ve received. You need to put in the hours and understand the context to determine what’s important and what’s not
Career Advice That Doesn’t SuckDhorasoo is an Indo-Frenchman of Indo-Mauritian origins. His ancestors were Telugus from Andhra Pradesh, India who migrated to Mauritius in the last century.[15][16][17][18][19]
Vikash Dhorasoo - WikipediaThose people, the tenacious ones who care about sources and have critical thinking skills, or at least tools to help them think critically, seem the highest performers to me
How to Be a Good Intelligence Analyst - by Santi RuizThe Tunguska event is the largest impact event on Earth in recorded history, though much larger impacts occurred in prehistoric times. An explosion of this magnitude would be capable of destroying a large metropolitan area.[10] The event has been depicted in numerous works of fiction. The equivalent Torino scale rating for the impactor is 8: a certain collision with local destruction.
Tunguska eventEntropy is the universe’s tax on time. The constant battle against entropy is the driving force behind much of what we do. The constant struggle between order and disorder is the source of change and progress
Entropy: The Hidden Force That Complicates LifeSprint hard the first 15-20 hours to impress initial memory, then decelerate to a more regular pace.
Learning to learn | K/LBuild a personal curriculum to become an expert and avoid the trap of the expert beginner.
Learning to learn | K/LWhen you’re starting something new, the most important thing is knowing what to learn.
Learning to learn | K/LYou can do more than you think
Nat FriedmanAs human beings it is our right (maybe our moral duty) to reshape the universe to our preferences
Nat FriedmanIt's important to do things fast You learn more per unit time because you make contact with reality more frequently
Nat FriedmanAmazon started to implement the first version of Amazon Prime in late 2004 and announced it on February 2 2005, six weeks later
Fast · Patrick CollisonBrendan Eich implemented the first prototype for JavaScript in 10 days, in May 1995
Fast · Patrick CollisonThe first contract was awarded on February 21 1900. 28 stations opened and general operation commenced on October 27 1904, 4.7 years later
Fast · Patrick CollisonOn August 9 1968, NASA decided that Apollo 8 should go to the moon. It launched on December 21 1968, 134 days later
Fast · Patrick CollisonThe Eiffel Tower was built in 2 years and 2 months; that is, in 793 days
Fast · Patrick CollisonDee Hock was given 90 days to launch the BankAmericard card (which became the Visa card), starting from scratch. He did. In that period, he signed up more than 100,000 customers
Fast · Patrick CollisonIt is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap, and your work will be as good as your ambitions.
Quote by Ira Glass: "Your taste is why your creative work disappoints you"The professional recognizes that sources of distraction are toxic rocket fuel for resistance.
Professionals vs Amateurs. When we are amateurs our life was about… | by Srinivas Rao | Mission.org | MediumThe first step is to decide what to work on. The work you choose needs to have three qualities: it has to be something you have a natural aptitude for, that you have a deep interest in, and that offers scope to do great work.
How to Do Great Workthe truly great part about exploring what you find fascinating is that even if doesn’t lead to riches, you’d be better off as you would have lived life on your terms, did what you thought was interesting, and had a lot of fun along the way.
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted Passion“I decided to take a calligraphy class.. I learned about serif and sans-serif typefaces, about varying the space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful. And I found it fascinating. None of this had any hope of any practical application in my life. But 10 years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me…
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted Passionwhat keeps pushing the world forward is the treasure hunters, the explorers, and people who are quirky about things they work on, not caring about the big goals.
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted PassionYou can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted Passionf explore interestingness you can’t predict what exactly you’ll find, but you can be sure you’ll keeping find amazing and valuable artifacts along the way!
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted PassionExploration makes you a treasure hunter – you won’t know what you’ll find, but you’ll (eventually) find something worthwhile.
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted PassionThe lesson here is that ambitious goals are only hit when they’re one-hop away. The more unknowns there are in the path, the more unlikely you’ll hit them. What’s more likely is that you’ll end up spending a lot of time and energy exploring deceptive corners surrounding where you are right now.
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted PassionWhen we see the history of innovation, it typically comes completely out of the blue.
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted PassionSetting an ambitious goal actively works against you as it leads to deceptive incremental plans that don’t work.
Getting things done by not trying - Inverted Passionand the main goal of e/fuck is to have good vibes and make as many actual friends as possible. you have to actually like spending time with them, and the optimal action is always to be nice and help your friends if you can, even if you don't necessarily get anything in return
e/fuckIf you own 49% of a company and your enemy owns 49% of the company, who has all the power? Whoever owns the remaining 2%. They get to choose the leader, and kick out the other.
God ModeBut when your company is on the brink, you'll do what's necessary to save it. If that requires becoming a benevolent dictator, like Lee Yuan Yew had to do to resurrect Singapore, it becomes worth it.
God ModeDestruction is akin to invasive surgery, and similar to surgery, it's only possible with a god-like omniscience about the entire system.
God Modeone of my biggest learnings last year was that doing hard things and better self-esteem has such a strong positive correlation.
Hardeep on X: "one of my biggest learnings last year was that doing hard things and better self-esteem has such a strong positive correlation." / XOne of the best pieces of feedback I’ve received was about asking good questions. The advice was to start with a brief overview of the issue, share what I’ve tried, and then ask a specific question that will solve the issue.
Brooke Joseph on X: "One of the best pieces of feedback I’ve received was about asking good questions. The advice was to start with a brief overview of the issue, share what I’ve tried, and then ask a specific question that will solve the issue. Ppl like to help when you're respectful of their time." / X