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random wisdom pt.1

The best save to earn $1 is to save $1When reading a long form essay, save it as pdf since you can keep track of the pages and pick up againSeek advice not feedbackIf we don't live in the moment, we not never be living at allSimplest explanation usually the

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40 questions to ask yourself each year

kepano's original What did you do this year that you’d never done before?Did you keep your new year’s resolutions?Did anyone close to you give birth?Did anyone close to you die?What cities/states/countries did you visit?What would you like to have next year

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a look at synthetic data's future

The world of machine learning is hungry. It gobbles up data like a starving gremlin, demanding more and more to fuel its algorithms and produce insightful results. This hunger has led to a growing concern: are we approaching a data exhaustion crisis? The answer, fellow data geeks, might lie in

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confidence isn't built, it must be earned

“Build your confidence!” It’s a phrase we hear often, but is it really that simple? The idea that confidence is something you can just summon from thin air is misleading. Confidence isn’t built; it’s earned, and often through a combination of hard work, perseverance, and small victories

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the Dixon-Coles model: outsmarting the bookies (maybe?)

The Dixon-Coles model reigns supreme in the realm of football prediction models. While the independent Poisson model serves as a decent foundation, Dixon and Coles, in their seminal 1997 paper, proposed key refinements to address its inherent shortcomings. The Draw Conundrum: Unveiling the Bivariate AdjustmentOne notable weakness of the independent

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Differential Transformer -transformers with noise cancelling headphones on

The world of Large Language Models (LLMs) is constantly evolving, with new architectures emerging to push the boundaries of performance and efficiency. The recently unveiled DIFF Transformer is one such innovation, and it's causing quite a stir in the AI community. From a geek's perspective, what's all the excitement about?

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Bitcoin's power law

Today, we're strapping on our metaphorical lab coats and venturing into the fascinating, and often heated, debate surrounding the Bitcoin Power Law Theory. Buckle up, because we're about to explore a model that claims to unveil the secrets behind Bitcoin's price movements, including those exhilarating, and sometimes nerve-wracking, bubbles. The

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how LLMs get scary good at reasoning

You know that feeling when you're trying to solve a tricky puzzle, and suddenly, it's like a lightbulb goes off in your brain? You see the connections, the logic clicks into place, and the solution unfolds before your eyes. That, my friends, is the power of reasoning – that magical ability

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quantization, LoRA, and the quest for the ultimate Tiny AI!

Buckle up, fellow AI enthusiasts, as we embark on a geeky exploration of model compression — the magical realm where we try to cram those monstrously large AI models into smaller spaces, ideally without sacrificing their smarts! Quantization: The Art of Rounding for Fun and Profit!Imagine yourself staring at a

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can quantum computing break Bitcoin?

Hey there, fellow crypto-enthusiasts and tech aficionados! Let's talk quantum computing and its potential impact on our beloved Bitcoin. Now, I won't bore you with the nitty-gritty details of quantum mechanics – superposition, entanglement, and all that jazz (although fascinating, I assure you!). Instead, let's cut to the chase: Can these

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why you should write more

In our fast-paced digital world, the simple act of writing often gets pushed aside. We dash off quick texts, fire off emails, and maybe scribble a to-do list, but how often do we really take the time to write? The truth is, writing, in its many forms, offers a wealth

a URL shortener system

To design a scalable system, you should design a system which can handle up to millions of URLs generated per day. The length of the generated URLs should be as short as possible. They can be a combination of characters (a-z, A-Z) as well as numbers (0 - 9)

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singleton design pattern

The Singleton pattern is one of the simplest Design Pattern in the field of Computer Science Simply put, this pattern involves a single class which is responsible to create an object while making sure that only single object gets created. There are many ways in which we can implement the

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one thing at a time

We all know that the rich and successful people whichever category they fall into — whether businessmen, entertainers or even politicians — all have some sort of habit that makes them unique and highly productive. Some of it may sound really extreme, but it somehow helps them achieve the things they want