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thisismyswamp··on The startup's Postgres survival guide
the first rule of database management is to not host or manage your database unless you are willing to pay someone to do it full time
thisismyswamp··on OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
the main difference between openclaw and the traditional approach to promoting LLMs is that it can run asynchronously and prompt you, the human, when something happens

I built clawr.ing so my agent can call me on the phone for urgent things like emails I’m waiting for or issues in production for any of my products

thisismyswamp··on Show HN: I built a skill that lets your OpenClaw call you on the phone
Hey guys! Glad to finally be able to share what I've been working on over the past few weeks. I'm happy to answer any questions you may have and to take your feedback on clawr.ing!
thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Share your productive usage of OpenClaw
I built a way for my agent to call me on a real phone: https://clawr.ing

I thought it would be cool to have it reach me proactively when something I care about happens instead of having to look for a notification or ask it directly

The result is pretty surreal, being out for a workout or groceries or something and getting a call about a stock price or an important email feels like I was suddenly transported into the future

It took quite a bit of effort to set up though, there’s a lot of complexity to routing calls in a cost efficient manner and generating realistic human like speech

I’m happy with the result though, you can reply back and the agent can run any tool call while it’s on the call with you, and if it takes a bit of time as in for a web search or so it will put you on hold and you will hear hold music for a few moments

thisismyswamp··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
they don't have to as there's no ingestion of the therapeutic agent
thisismyswamp··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
organic systems seek points of equilibrium, with veering too much off in any axis being detrimental
thisismyswamp··on Psilocybin decreases depression and anxiety in cancer patients (2016)
To be fair, so did a lobotomy. I believe close attention should be paid to any unintended outcomes of a therapy that the patient themselves would no longer be able to identify due to the nature of the treatment itself.
thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Should HN use a different time algorithm for post ranking?
this is another interesting comment on the issue: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41977430

but crucially, it assumes that variations in submissions and voting activity are strongly correlated, which I imagine is not necessarily the case

thisismyswamp··on Why are coffee stains darker at the edges?
fluid pressure pushes particles outwards
thisismyswamp··on Biases in Apple's Image Playground
AI safety people worrying that basketball players don't have a perfectly balanced ethnical representation while mega corporations are trying to establish a monopoly on intelligence
thisismyswamp··on Quit Social Media (2016)
https://wip.co/
thisismyswamp··on Openpilot – Operating system for robotics
exception handling in GO makes it unusable IMO
thisismyswamp··on gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL
Being forced to think about every possible failure state is a sure way to spend a lot of time on not creating value for the end user
thisismyswamp··on gh-116167: Allow disabling the GIL
> Learn golang

Having to "if err != nil" every single function call is a big put off - imagine having to "try catch" everything in a language like C#!

thisismyswamp··on Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
A Boltzmann brain requires a similar underlying reality except with no evolution traceability for the brain's origin.

Not requiring a world around the brain does not make it more likely, but less, as the probability of brains given that worlds exist multiplied by the probability of worlds is still much higher than the probability of brains regardless of the existence of worlds

thisismyswamp··on Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023
Not to mention the odds of dreaming up an entire existence out of the blue, with no base reality for training data
thisismyswamp··on 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets
The next step seems to be applying past advances in reinforcement learning with modern transformer based models
thisismyswamp··on 'A-team' of math proves a critical link between addition and sets
Playing chess & go is also search in a large tree of moves leading to particular game states
thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Porto, Portugal | Remote

https://marcospereira.me/resume

email@marcospereira.me

Background in web, machine learning, and games. Deep learning research at MLC under Rosanne Liu (Google DeepMind). Taken multiple products from zero to market, working with teams ranging from early-stage startups to established corporations. Working remotely for 10+ years.

thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (December 2023)

    Location: Porto, Portugal
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No, but open to traveling periodically.
    Technologies: JS/TS, C#, Python, Unity, and a lot more
    Résumé/CV: https://marcospereira.me/resume
    Email: email@marcospereira.me
Background in web, machine learning, and games. Deep learning research at MLC under Rosanne Liu (Google DeepMind). Taken multiple products from zero to market, working with teams ranging from early-stage startups to established corporations. Working remotely for 10+ years.
thisismyswamp··on Collection of "Today I Learned" notes
Just a few days ago added a "notes" page to my personal website on the same vein

https://marcospereira.me/notes/

thisismyswamp··on Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds
> caffeine’s quarter life is about double its half life

1/2 = 2 * 1/4

Isn't that by definition?

thisismyswamp··on Tracking SQLite Database Changes in Git
> storing binary files like that in Git isn't as space efficient as using a plain text format

Why? Because git stores deltas?

At a first glance I'd expect a binary file to be radically more compact than the plain text equivalent.

thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (November 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Porto, Portugal | Remote

https://marcospereira.me/resume

email@marcospereira.me

Background in web, machine learning, and games. Deep learning research at MLC under Rosanne Liu (Google DeepMind). Taken multiple products from zero to market, working with teams ranging from early-stage startups to established corporations. Working remotely for 10+ years.

thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (November 2023)

    Location: Porto, Portugal
    Remote: Yes
    Willing to relocate: No, but open to traveling periodically.
    Technologies: JS/TS, C#, Python, Unity, and a lot more
    Résumé/CV: https://marcospereira.me/resume
    Email: email@marcospereira.me
Background in web, machine learning, and games. Deep learning research at MLC under Rosanne Liu (Google DeepMind). Taken multiple products from zero to market, working with teams ranging from early-stage startups to established corporations. Working remotely for 10+ years.
thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: What are some easy ways to earn some side money?
The secret is to build stuff and people commenting on hacker news tend to not be focused on building
thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (August 2023)
SEEKING WORK | Remote

  Location: Porto, Portugal
  Technologies: Machine learning, web, and games.
  Résumé/CV: https://marcospereira.me/resume
Developer with a background in machine learning, web, and games. MLC research lab member under Rosanne Liu (Google DeepMind). Unity asset store publisher.

Full time availability but open to partial schedule. Willing to travel periodically.

thisismyswamp··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2023)

  Location: Porto, Portugal
  Remote: Yes
  Willing to relocate: No
  Technologies: Machine learning, web, and games.
  Résumé/CV: https://marcospereira.me/resume
  Email: See resume
Developer with a background in machine learning, web, and games. MLC research lab member under Rosanne Liu (Google DeepMind). Unity asset store publisher.

Full time availability but open to partial schedule. Willing to travel periodically.

thisismyswamp··on How to Do Great Work
The thing I try to keep in mind most when dealing with these kinds of blog posts is that something that must be helpful to a majority of its audience will inevitably lose a lot of the value it can provide to each individual.
thisismyswamp··on Higher- than-recommended doses of Vitamin D reduced risk of atrial fibrillation
They definitely have an incentive to publish results people will care about, as any other researcher that is part of an academic environment.
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