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I would rather be a railroad entrepreneur--ferrying people, harvest, and livestock.
It was “triple” packed because the oil will leak beyond the first layer!
As recent as last month—-my sister-in-law shipped a small plastic jar of fat red chilies pickle to Bangalore which I then brought it to San Francisco via a United flight :-)
All my incoming and outgoing “transactions” are over loosely-coupled API calls.
Is there a point I’m missing?
Sonos is the eiptome of enshittification. Pretty good hardware screwed over by bad software, growth marketing, and middle-finger to UX.
I have half-a-dozen devices at my home--almost 10 years old. I do not use the app, I do not do updates.
My hack: Use them with Echo dot. Apparently the backdoor Sonos team has overlooked so far.
This intriguing paper delves into the creation of autonomous agents through the emulation of human brain functions, perception, and actions. It introduces a conceptual framework for LLM-based agents consisting of three core components:
1. The “brain” module, acting as the central controller, handles fundamental tasks such as memory retention, cognitive processes, and decision-making.
2. The “perception” module is responsible for sensing and processing diverse information from the external environment, encompassing various sensory inputs.
3. The “action” module executes tasks using tools and exerts influence over the agent’s surroundings, enabling it to interact effectively with its environment.
It is laziness to cite a Wikipedia article without doing any research.
[0] https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/05/the-mythical-underwa...
The remains of this 5000 year old capital of Lord Krishna—-archaeologists have found walls, artifacts, and structures off the modern Dwarka.
The city holds immense mythological significance and ancient texts such as Mahabharat corroborate the existence.
Boring companies don’t get funded here—-you either go big or go big.
Next time I got to the Din Tai Fung in my neighborhood ;-)
Your kneeboard “cargo pants of the air” are legit, and turning the cockpit’s windshield pillar into prime real estate for receipt prints? Genius move.
Your journey from regex to JSON wizardry is like a flight plan through the tech skies.
Keep soaring, my friend!
- here’s my website, take whatever you want
- here’s my photo repository, attribute me
- here’s my zoom, anonymize me
Large merchants like Walmart and Amazon pay 50% less fees for every dollar compared to smaller merchants—-Smaller merchants is the channel where the most cashback accrues to cardholders.
- everyone working in big tech is so so lucky. millions of people would do anything for these jobs.
- contrary to what the narrative is set, the kitchen is dirty, shit is on fire, and barring a few no one has a clue.
- recruiters perpetuate the candidate bias manifold. “Get me a dropbox PM” or “Get me a a google ML person” sheer laziness as talent is all around.
I am an introvert--but now trained my mind to be a normal person and not fear people around me. I forced it earlier. If you meet me, you'll not find me an introvert, anymore. 10 years ago, people would politely ask me to talk or share.
It has been years of journey achieving that change.
I don't feel the introvert/extrovert quagmire anymore. However, if I'm in public meetings--presenting, chatting for more than a few hours--then I need to come back and take a hot shower--and fade away the people and conversations.
My wife calls that shower: "Removing the theater from the head."
I always dream of writing a proxy server—-where all videos—-irrespective of device—-get stored in a local cache and served without going outside on subsequent requests.
Gonna try this one, and gonna take that direction.
But nature is the most powerful breeder.
We will see newer species being born, more adapted to the current conditions.
I used to read a 1-minute weather report everyday after someone else did a 5-min news during the morning school assembly.
The weather report was collected from my Geography teacher. He had a weather vane, a hygrometer, a thermometer, and a rain gauge in his porch.
I remember these symbols--though, I never used it, but the weather chart that Mr Sanwal showed had these markings.
HTMLElement root = new HTMLElement(); // serialize as text and send root to output stream
I was like why not send the string “<html>” to the output stream.
Card owners would deny that they dined—-whereas merchants notoriously would add charges to cards even if patrons never visited their stores.
There are lots of layers and history in this part of fintech fraud cycle.
Comes the addressograph POS imprinter where it would take a “copy” of your card numbers and have you sign it!
Aside, credit card history and evolution using is just amazing.