This track is so nice. https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=VZSPGs4LaG4

@schizanon (excuse the snark )

Growing up, I used to wish I was born into wealth.Then I look at people who probably have the capacity to look out for themselves, but have other people providing for them…Now I'm thinking, yeah, I'm glad I was raised different.

I'm so glad I'm not the only one saying this.The cynic in me believes the reason why governments don't operate more rentals is because they know they can't follow their own rules that they have established or those in lower jurisdictions (such as provinces and cities) have established.Early on, when governments could have had non-regulatory market involvement, instead they opted to regulate, turning off would-be landlords from ever taking on the role of rental management, thus hurting supply.What could have been an elegant opportunity for tenants to just move from home to home when things became unbearable, instead, governments put a metaphorical chain-link fence, so that the landlord is now just metaphorically barking behind it in hopes the tenant leaves.The tenant would love to leave, but they're grandfathered into a sweet deal thanks to rent control. That, and their wages probably haven't caught up to match rental rate growth.

Would love to read some thoughts from people about this question that I asked on LinkedIn.If you got no thoughts (perhaps you were never in that position yourself), I'd appreciate a repost. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7262249357658193920/

Bias for action.That's my motto for life…(Albeit I'm really bad at it, lmao)

It's just a commentary about talking points from science communities, mostly certain behaviour science communities.They love to throw statistics around about how intolerant the left is of right-wing politics.

The concept of e/acc is dope af

@baillehache_pascal at the rate that my life is going, this image sounds about right, haha

External locus of control when awarded with success; internal locus of control when burdened with failure.

@FenTiger here's an article that apparently has the proof. https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/pappuss-theorem-and-elliptic-curves/I'm going to have to start drawing things on pen and paper to see if the proof holds, and to get an intuition of why the proof is true.Would have been nice to have gotten an intuition from it when I presented elliptic curve cryptography to a group of people.When it came to proving associativity, I just left it at "the Cayley-Bacharach theorem proves it. Now watch this video on your own time to get the intuition. But spoiler: the argument behind Cayley-Bacharach theorem is no different than when you know two points of intersection between a cubic and a line, then you immediately know where the third point lies."But that is so unsatisfying.

I was rather surprised to find out that emotional awareness is not a facet of trait neuroticism (in terms of the big five aspect scale), but rather it is a facet of trait openness to experience.I guess what I can take away from this is that neuroticism isn't about "emotions" but more about not wanting to take ownership of one's feelings.

This is actually a good read.Tons of people live their lives having an enemy, rather than to focus on things to build.

I know people are going to dismiss what I say as a "skill issue", but I do find that the developer experience for implementing sentiment analysis is so much more easier with a fine-tuned LLM that is supplied with a decent system prompt.The same luxury cannot be said of techniques that use sparse vectors.

I don't understand what's so offensive about a distributed ledger.

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Even with LLMs, there are some problems that are hard to solve.A certain mindset is needed to be effective with them.

It took me so long to understand conditional probability.But I finally got it.The conditional probability of A given B is the ratio between the probability of both events A and B occurring together, and the probability of B occurring by itself.Here's a concrete example.Let's say you wanted to know what is the probability of drawing a heart from a deck of cards, given that you know that the card drawn is a red.The conditional probability is defined as the ratio of the probability of drawing both a red and a heart, and just the probability of having picked heart.

Today I encountered an all-in-one embedding database, to which I encountered the concept of a sparse and dense vector, and then went on a rabbit hole to learn more about those. Then, I encounter something with conditional probability on it. And I'll be honest, I don't understand the full scope of how conditional probability works. Then I remembered, conditional probability also goes hand-in-hand with Bayes' theorem.And so, that's how my day went.https://github.com/neuml/txtai

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