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spinlock_ | 6 months ago | on: The maths you need to start understanding LLMs

For me, working through Karpathy's video series (instead of just "watching" them) helped me tremendously to understand how LLMs work and gave me the confidence to read through more advanced material, if I feel like it. But to be honest, the knowledge I gained through his videos are already enough for me. It's kind of like learning how a CPU works in general and ignoring all the fancy optimization steps that I'm not interested in.

Thanks Andrej for the time and effort you put into your videos.

spinlock_ | 8 months ago | on: YouTube No Translation

I noticed this "feature" after wondering why everyone was using "sie" instead of "du" while searching for reviews on reddit for a new graphics card I wanted to buy. This "shoving AI down your throat" is not just annoying, but also insulting and the accelerated enshittification of the web makes me sad. Thinking about "the good old days" also puts me in a state of nostalgia.

spinlock_ | 1 year ago | on: Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Man, as an European I have the hope that this utterly bizarre and embarassing spectacle yesterday is finally waking us up and we start taking our fate into our own hands. Personally, I would do without a lot of things instead of having to watch europe being paraded around by a narcissist.

spinlock_ | 1 year ago | on: Calculus Made Easy

The last couple of months, I have been studying the fundamentals of algebra using Professor Leonard's YT Channel[0]. My goal is to fill in the gaps in my knowledge before I refresh my Calculus. It takes a while to go through all this stuff, if you do it right. But man, I have so much more confidence in my skills now than I had before, which to me is in itself rewarding and motivating. I had no idea how big my knowledge gaps in algebra were before I started going through his playlists.

My end goal is to be able to follow Andrej Karpathy's "Neural Networks: Zero to Hero"[1] without any big problems So starting basically from "zero" in order to learn the prerequisites before learning what you actually want to learn on your own can feel daunting at times. But I think taking shortcuts will result in frustration. So, here I am taking algebra courses on YT with 38 years.

[0] https://youtube.com/@ProfessorLeonard?si=0kiGvmbZv4b9Sgf9

[1] https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAqhIrjkxbuWI23v9cThsA9Gv...

spinlock_ | 2 years ago | on: High myopia is now the leading cause of blindness in Japan, China, and Taiwan

I started to see floaters this year. First, it scared the shit out of me, because I only have one healthy eye and starting to see this flying dots and strings was a really scary experience. It also was just really annoying.

After the ophthalmologist checked my eye, she said what I'm seeing is called "mouches volantes" and it's something that happens when people get older. I'm "only" 37 and don't have any problems with my eyesight, which makes me wonder what caused these floaters in my case.

Anyway, it's something I have to get used to. It only really is annoying on sunny days because then I can see them clearly floating around.

spinlock_ | 3 years ago | on: Tell HN: Happy Thanksgiving

Fully agree. Without HN, I wouldn't had read books like Code, Designing Data-Intensive Applications or Operating System: Three Easy Pieces (to name just a few). I'm usually a passive reader here, but I wanted to say thank you to all of you who share their knowledge and wisdom and therefore help me to learn new things on a (almost) daily basis.
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