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As of September 2025: Since my contract ended sometime ago, I have been taking it easy. Now keeping an eye on work, which pays well. Until then, trying to keep the days fulfilling (i.e learning and building, instead of passive consumption). Its not easy, but some days I am good at it.

As of April/May 2022: A programmer who now mostly freelances at present. I am trying to get into big tech, just to keep the stuff interesting, and not getting too comfortable with a particular way of work mode.

I am a 25+ years experienced developer and software architect. With experience in various tech stacks. And always eager to learn new things (For example, was fascinated by Self-Driving cars and did the Udacity course to learn about the tech)

Up to 2018, I was trying to grow my own Startup. Dream of getting back to startup life, or my own projects, at some stage. Hopefully, when my kids have graduated college.

-- My note written, when I first created the account in 2015 --

A programmer who is trying to grow a Startup, organically. Like how a tree grows from a seed. Without the inorganic fertilizers aka VC money. Nothing against VCs. Just like the freedom for now, although could do better with the pace. No easy decision in life.

PS: Not affiliated with AWS. Just created this handle, when I had to ask an AWS specific question (my first post for this handle[1]). And then continued with it for other things.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9810303

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Thanks for your explanation. I did not get it in the first read, and was too lazy to think, until saw your comment.

Just want to point out, that one is actually doing the experiment with a biased coin, then one must ignore all pairs.

e.g in case a coin which is heavily biased, say .9 H and .1 T. One should start with ignoring all the HH pairs, and start only at odd index. Lest, one picks a value like HHHHT (in the case the 2nd HH pair was not skipped, instead they greedily picked up the first HT, which will make the experiment HT biased).

Yep. I too felt that. The insights seem genuine. But probably fell into the temptation to use LLM to structure. I feel increased cognitive load with numbered lists, thanks to LLM.

What I mean is that when its generate a response, the computation happens on a snapshot from input to output, trying to map a set of tokens, into a set of tokens. Model doesn't operate on a context larger than the window

The weights in the model have the larger context, the context length size of data is just the input, which then gets multiplied by those weights, to get the output.

For me google search is still useful for weather, stock prices, flight prices, maps, also to reliably navigate to a website(e.g. of a bank).

But for all other (code/health/taxes/so many others) queries use chatgpt. For code occasionally need to go to API docs, if chatgpt (v4) hallucinates. Not very often, but does happen, if the requirement gets complicated, example involve some specific (older) versions of certain APIs.

I searched for Kadin on the page and came to your post. I was hoping to see a romantic end to their story. But that would have been too much Mills and Boon, I guess (sigh!). TBH large part in the middle does read like that, also the author reflecting on whether she has a crush on him. A very poignant long read.

I wonder where does Mojo (new programming language by Chris Lattner's company) fit in all this? Their promise is to be a super-set of Python (like C++ was to C) and resolve all hardware interface issues.

I know its still in development. But curious to know if someone has played around with it for the kind of needs discussed on this page.

You could start with farmer's carry, if you have some free space to walk in the gym. Lift two equal weights on each side, using both hands and walk for 1 minute. Start with easy weights and increase gradually, over a period of days/weeks to a point, where lifting and walking for a minute makes you really exhausted and by the end of the minute you are ready to drop the weights (but don't!).

Edit: Just be careful of back being straight and firm, while doing it.

Yes, Peter Attia says this precise thing in his book 'Outlive' and also his podcasts. I stopped using the gripper after that.

I started lifting weights 1 year and 2 months back - whole body compound lifts i.e. deadlift, squats, bench press, overhead press - and results are phenomenal.

Before that had been doing body weight for a decade push ups/ pull ups/ planks, and for some reason thought it was sufficient for me. Only when I pivoted to these (lifting weights) after a chronic pain developed due to excessive running, did I feel the difference.

Overall lifting weights and counting protein intake seems to be life changing. The chronic pain also went away.

The apple app indeed received it and promptly sent it off somewhere else. What's even crazier is that the apple app shows this info!

Did you try moving the crypto back to your Android wallet? Sometimes they do move to cold storage, or invest into DeFi schemes. It will be hidden in their T&C.

Great article. And also perhaps, should we always have the steering wheels in Cars even though level 5 FSD is reached?

Edit: If its not obvious, level 5 FSD will assume permanent availability of communication, GPS, sensors etc to be working at all times. So having a steering wheel backup for critical unforeseen situations should be a good redundancy and safety measure.

Mourning Google 3 years ago

Just wanted to thank folks, who helped me cross 500 Karma points :) ... It may not be a big deal for you all. But it seems to matter to me.

Mourning Google 3 years ago

Good post. But it ended as soon as I was sinking in deep to read it. Not blaming, just felt it ended abruptly.

One welcome addition would be support for embedded images - sometimes you need to share some screenshots. For example right now, I am seeing rate limiting messsages from Twitter, from the normal account.

But may be it will increase your costs a lot.

Good for you. But please don't generalize it for every one. Lack of water intake does multiply the hardship many folds. Especially now, when Ramzan(or Ramadan) falling in summer in the northern hemisphere.

Know people who have had strokes or break the fast due to extreme hardship. Domestic helps who are Muslims, or people doing physical labor, simply can't observe it. Its one of the hardest fasts there is, and restraint from drinking water is the main reason.