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sebgon Street-Fighting Mathematics (2008)

Previous time it got posted had some good comments -> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23637629

sebgon Ask HN: Best resources to learn/master prompt engineering and fine-tuning LLMs

Have you seen this paper -> https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06608

sebgon Ask HN: How can I sleep more and deeper?

What helps me is exercising to the point of almost overdoing it. If I don't exercise enough I have trouble sleeping, the sleep that I do get is not very deep, and I'll also have trouble going to bed.

Eye masks have also helped tremendously.

sebgon I run a software book club

I'd love to see examples of the actual groups as well as the "Intro email"?

Thanks! Really good read.

sebgon Ask HN: What's the best way to learn machine learning in 2024?

Hi Friend -

This question was recently asked in the /r/machinelearning subreddit.

You can find the link here: https://www.reddit.com/r/learnmachinelearning/comments/18yzv...

Generally the first question I ask when someone asks me that question is:

What are you trying to do?

If you are learning machine learning to do research, your answer will be very different than if you are learning machine learning to start a business or create something with the ML tools/applications available today.

General knowledge ML book:

* Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques to Build Intelligent Systems 3rd Edition by Aurélien Géron

General knowledge data applications book:

* Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems 1st Edition by Martin Kleppmann

General knowledge statistical machine learning book:

* The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition (Springer Series in Statistics) 2nd Edition by Trevor Hastie (Author), Robert Tibshirani (Author), Jerome Friedman (Author)

Tooling wise, the rabbit hole goes very deep depending on what technologies and what areas you are exploring. Anything from PyTorch all the way to programming GPUs and how to store / work with massive data as well as general algos to work with all of this.

sebgon Ask HN: What are some good and worthy paid newsletter for tech

Not sure if you've seen it (not affiliated), but substack has a "paid" newsletter leaderboard for tech:

https://substack.com/leaderboard/technology/paid

sebgon A Large-Scale Investigation of Everyday Moral Dilemmas

From the abstract:

" We combined state-of-the-art tools from machine learning with survey-based methods in psychology to analyze a massive online English-language repository of moral dilemmas. In 369,161 descriptions (“posts”) and 11M evaluations (“comments”) of moral dilemmas extracted from Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?” forum (AITA), users described a wide variety of everyday dilemmas, ranging from broken promises to privacy violations "

sebgon Yale will again require standardized test scores for admission

sebgon Japan to introduce six-month residency visa for 'digital nomads'

If you haven’t run into it, the keyword you're looking for is "world schooling". I have some friends who home school and they decided to travel while doing it. They move to a location for a few months and use a "world school" in the new location. The school is global and has a ton of branches in different countries so there is continuity in philosophy and assessment and whether the kids are curriculum-wise.

sebgon Ask HN: What do you do when you feel alone and sad

Try one and see how it goes. Best of luck!

sebgon Ask HN: What do you do when you feel alone and sad

Doing drives emotions wisdom: watch stand up comedy on youyube to change your mood

Agentic wisdom: make a list and a plan to do something fun that you enjoy this weekend

Strong wisdom: go and lift heavy weights

sebgon Ask HN: What do you do when you feel alone and sad

https://twitter.com/visakanv wisdom: focus on what you want

Beginner writing advice: write down everything going through your head without censoring or editing for the next 20-30 minutes and just get it out no matter how crude, jumbled, disorganized, hateful, etc it is. You can only write after everything that is stuck in your head is cleared up.

General talk-therapy advice: write down 1 positive thing you did in the last 24 hours

sebgon Ask HN: What do you do when you feel alone and sad

Hi!

A few things.

Reddit advice: delete Facebook and hit the gym

Things I tell my kids: drink water and go for a walk outside

Old lady from down the street wisdom: find someone to help and help them whether it’s a local nonprofit or soup kitchen or somewhere else, helping others will help you

sebgon Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game

Oh - didn't see that! Thanks. Forgot to check https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=figgie.com before I submitted it. Good catch (and has gone on my notes to double check before submitting)

sebgon Jane Street's "Figgie" Card Game

Hi Friend - I tried that yesterday and it didn't get any upvotes so sent it out as a newsletter. I don't know what dang thinks of replacing the link once it's on the front page. Happy to do it (or have him replace it). (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39133955)

sebgon Ask HN: A newsletter that summarizes the most interesting, recent ML/AI papers?

Maybe arxiv sanity lite is close to what you want?

https://arxiv-sanity-lite.com/about

Otherwise, there are a bunch of newsletters/Substack's that add a layer on top of the arxiv stream.

Are there any you're already on? That would help me recommend a few more..

sebgon Ask yourself dumb questions and answer them (2020)

Do you have a simple example prompt set? I am having trouble figuring out how to try it on my own? Thanks!

sebgon Ask HN: Best information sources to learn about VC

This post is a few years old (https://alexfmac.substack.com/p/angel-investing-a-toolkit-) but it tackles your question from the Angel Investing side.

If by "fundraising", you mean you are an investor raising funds to invest in startups, then the above has myriad links for you to explore.

If by "fundraising", you mean you are a startup raising money, then the above could still be helpful to understand what the other side of the table will be looking at when you approach them with your company.

sebgon Ask HN: Who needs help this holidays?

For boxes, in the past I've had luck with liquor or wine stores. Call them up or show up and ask if you can take any boxes. They usually give them to me for free and are very sturdy.

sebgon Ask HN: Are there any good sources of randomness in the human body?

Did you see this discussion from a few years ago?

=> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4508980

Might be helpful to think through.

This reddit post also has a few interesting tidbits:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/15vnpu/is_it_po...

sebgon The Bluffers Guide to the Mythical Man Month

Intrigued to hear what else is on your list?

sebgon Ask HN: How do you organize yourself as a solo founder

I'm going to assume organize yourself to do everything means that you a) know what to do and b) are having trouble keeping track of all of the things you need to do, have done, and want to do.

I generally break it down into - [ongoing] text file with all of the todos

- [daily] categorize added todos since the last day

- [daily] calendar things into when I have agreed with myself that I'll work on $project

- [weekly] if I find myself doing repetitive tasks, then I do a recurring calendar item with the specifics

So I only need a calendar of choice (google calendar for me), text file (apple notes/reminders), email (superhuman for delayed email functionality).

For me, I generally want to: a) put out new content once a week

b) create emails

c) answer calls

d) build tech

All of that sounds recurring other than c), so I first time box a daily time limit each day and slowly start figuring out what goes in where.

It changes as things progress (lots of tech needs to be built, content creation for a week I"m on vacation, etc)...

Happy to chat (my info in the profile). I've done the 9:5 + side project as well as stay-at-home parent + side project + a mix and can share more of what has worked for me.

sebgon Ask HN: How do you organize yourself as a solo founder

I'm going to assume organize yourself to do everything means that you a) know what to do and b) are having trouble keeping track of all of the things you need to do, have done, and want to do.

I generally break it down into - [ongoing] text file with all of the todos - [daily] categorize added todos since the last day - [daily] calendar things into when I have agreed with myself that I'll work on $project - [weekly] if I find myself doing repetitive tasks, then I do a recurring calendar item with the specifics

So I only need a calendar of choice (google calendar for me), text file (apple notes/reminders), email (superhuman for delayed email functionality).

For me, I generally want to: a) put out new content once a week b) create emails c) answer calls d) build tech

All of that sounds recurring other than c), so I first time box a daily time limit each day and slowly start figuring out what goes in where.

It changes as things progress (lots of tech needs to be built, content creation for a week I"m on vacation, etc)...

Happy to chat (my info in the profile). I've done the 9:5 + side project as well as stay-at-home parent + side project + a mix and can share more of what has worked for me.

sebgon Start a Data Engineering Career

Browse reddit's /r/dataengineering

For example, from the last week, this article named, "A senior engineer's experience in the current job market" might be of interest to you: - https://www.reddit.com/r/dataengineering/comments/16nlvln/a_...

sebgon Ask HN: Have you ever tried working in a VR office?

Some articles that might be of interest:

- https://www.newyorker.com/culture/office-space/can-virtual-r...

- https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/12/15/7393

- https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frvir.2022.8907...

sebgon So you want to learn physics (2021)

Previous posts, if you want to take a look at the comments there:

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=susanrigetti.com

sebgon Ask HN: How do you handle tech use with your kids?

Regarding home schooling English / Language arts curriculum. Did you use any program in particular? I've looked at MCT LANGUAGE ARTS (https://www.rfwp.com/mct-language-arts/, not affiliated ) though haven't committed to it yet.

sebgon An exponential improvement for diagonal Ramsey

Found this Twitter thread from Timothy Gower that gives some interesting color: https://twitter.com/wtgowers/status/1636632071069106181

sebgon I'm Being Drugged to Death

https://hsh.sfgov.org/services/how-to-get-services/accessing...

PROGRAM NAME LOCATION OPERATING HOURS

Next Door Shelter 1001 Polk Street San Francisco, CA 94109 Intakes Between 4pm-10pm

MSC South 525 5th Street San Francisco, CA 94107 Intakes Between 4pm-10pm

Sanctuary 201 8th Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Intakes Between 4pm-10pm

Canon Kip Senior Center 705 Natoma Street San Francisco, CA 94103 Intake begins at 6pm

Given you're at Next Door, maybe you could try the other ones?

sebgon The incompatibility of open core and profit

The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software. Coined by Andrew Lampitt in 2008,[1] the open-core model primarily involves offering a "core" or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software.[2][3]

From here -> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open-core_model