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I tried to learn ML a few years ago but gave up because I couldn't install CUDA on my machine for some reason. The landscape seems to change dramatically.
I am interested in transformers in particular completing incomplete images like what https://openai.com/blog/image-gpt/ does, is there a project that implements that and can let me start training?
I'm excited but I just get overwhelmed as to where I need to focus my attention on.
My goal is to utilize something like image-gpt but for a more narrow domain (ex. only dealing with cats), how can I build my knowledge and skills towards that goal?
Much thanks for your answers I'm really looking to learn these stuffs
Lots of language here I don't understand like what is he referring to when he says 1.5B or 1T weights?
What resources/videos can I watch in order to start tinkering with this?
Take a minute to reflect back on what happened.
> Being a highly paid software engineer, like most of you reading this, did not stop a bully van flying up the curb I was walking on and 7 City of London police officers pinning me against a wall with guns in my face. They wouldn’t believe it was possible for someone like me to work in central London till one of them searched me and found my work ID. All this because I fit a description. What was this description? I don’t know, black male between 4’11 and 7’4 probably. What did I do after that? I carried on with the rest of my day like nothing had happened because I’ve fucking been there and done it all before. Out of curiosity I asked my manager, who is like 20 yrs older than me, if he had ever been stopped and searched, he said not once in his life.
this is fucked.
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It if had a sustainable business model it would be deploying it now.
I've also been wary of LSD being possibly chemically unpure and the possibility of it causing schizophrenia according to an HN comment I read long time ago, so I've only done psilocybe mushrooms a handful of times.
Microdosing is popular but unfortunately its mostly a placebo effect, your body grows tolerance to psilocybe very rapidly. It can't be done weekly and even monthly use will not yield its maximum potential.
I haven't done it since summer last year but it seems to have gotten rid of my depression and I've tried just about every anti-depressant there is. Zoloft to my memory has been the absolute worst. While it can be beneficial in some cases, I found Psilocybin mushrooms to be the best for me.
Your mileage will vary. I suggest first reading/listening about its properties from people like Terrence McKenna first. He will suggest 5 grams or nothin but tbh its way too much for a beginner.
I would say start off with far less. I actually did like 2 or 3 grams and it was absolutely amazing.
Your setting is important and your mood too.
I guess the most important thing about Psilocybin is that it is very much mechanical and feminine. It appears that you can communicate with it.
For a transcendental experience 5 grams is needed. Ego death is very scary because it feels like death but after the comedown, it seems to have had a radical shift in my values and thinking. It's impact does seem to fade however but the values it instills appears to persist.
I don't think we need to fear this any longer. We are past the Puritannical age of immaturity and ignorance for the most part.
Also once you try it you may never want to do it again because of what it surfaces internally within you. Just a warning that it may make one open minded and consciously aware of itself.
Just remember in any part of the journey, its very very hard to kill yourself by eating a bunch of mushrooms and pooping it out the next day. Yeah it does feel like you poisoned yourself when you start tripping and your ego desperately claws at the edges of reality desperate to not let go of the facade.
I hope that more people will see reality for itself rather than what they've been subconsciously programmed to believe from early on. I wouldn't describe it as NZT-48 from Limitless movie but it's somewhat close. It feels more like the red pill from Matrix because your view of reality will never be the same again.
Disclaimer: I absolutely do not condone you taking substances which you are unfamiliar with.
It's exclusively for the super rich. I don't get why it is so ridiculously expensive. It's why nobody does it and instead the party drug of choice seems to be North Korean meth which is literally Walter White purity levels (it aint blue)
again I don't know which clubs in Gangnam you can buy these things from. It is what I hear on the streets.
marijuana is ridiculously expensive too, like a gram of indica would fetch around $200 USD.
I can't even imagine what the cost is like for Singapore because the punishment for smuggling and using is extreme.
Interesting that Twitter and Facebook also not labeling the concerns about AZ as "Fake News" so likely there is some merit to the claims against AZ.
I am also against taking AZ as well. If HN folks are confident it is fine go ahead. I will choose what I'm comfortable with and Germans or anybody else for that matter should have a say.
edit: according to my friend. I don't know the names of the clubs in Gangnam. I know nothing.