mental-models on S Anand

Things I Learned - 24 Mar 2024

Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This week, I learned:

Ways to expand mental models
- DISCOVER mental models. Review beliefs diary.
- DIVERSIFY. Find INFLUENTIAL (not dull) people with different backgrounds.
- Experiment! New environment, approach, perspective
- Be open. Change your mind.
- APPLY. Practice regularly
Ways to use inversion
- “Pre-mortem” is an analysis at the beginning of how a project failed. Then avoid that
- “Red team” or “Black hat” are designated to contradict.
Having a PoV IS a hypothesis. Always having a PoV allows us to detect anomalies and learn.
Control vectors in real-time lets you control response in real-time
OIDC is Open ID Connect. It’s like OAuth2 but more. Azure and Google support it.
Planka is an open-source Trello
There is a https://myapplications.microsoft.com/ that serves as a starting point. Might be helpful
Instructor lets you create structured JSON output.

Things I Learned - 03 Mar 2024

Sun, 03 Mar 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This week, I learned:

You can use slots to stream HTML out of order!
Shane Parrish. Short-term patience podcast
- have a frame of reference to relate EVERY experience to. That helps you evaluate (measure) and learn. That’s part of what Charlie Munger’s lattice of frameworks is about
- when there is a very high or very low interest scenario, low interest scenario then go ultra long term. Issued hundred years when the interest rate regime was very low
- short term optimal is rally long term optimal. So you need to learn to take a loss and look like an idiot to play the long-term game
- grit is a behavior that enables long-term thinking. Short term success gives you the luxury to think about long term
- #IMP power is about optionality. It’s about being in a position where you have the options that can affect the positive change rather than circumstances controlling you. Read Robert greene’s book on the 48 laws of Power
- low leverage enables that
- begin with the end in mind. Always
- how do you think about risk? Well, things do happen. It’s as simple as that
- autonomy and decentralization helps derisk
- do more and more of what works. That’s a powerful way of compounding
- long-term investments are better than frequent trading because you get to reinvest the tax you otherwise would have paid. So unless the alternative is super compelling, stay invested
- if you need to be the person who DOES the thing, you delegate less, leverage list, compound less, because you have to DO. BE A PERSON WHO SETS THE FIELD INSTEAD. The coach, the chess master, the director, patient strategist who Waits for the good hit
Being in Control motivates #Lesson. my cycle tires were flat. I thought it was someone pulling out the air and felt very demotivated. But once I carried my cycle pump, I felt so much more in control and power and felt a whole lot better
SourceGraph is the default platform for private code completion & search
MetaVoice 1B offers voice cloning on American & British accents with 30s training
Qwen 1.5 72B appears to outperform Mistral Medium, making it one of the top non-proprietary models
Llava 1.6 is a substantial improvement over Llava 1.5 and slightly better than CogVLM, Qwen-VL
AI scams are growing. Deepfakes scammed $34m. But voice fake for kidnapping is scarier.
Buildspace’s demo is a great demo of how voice and actions can be used effectively.
demucs does an EXCELLENT job of splitting songs into drums, bass, vocals and others

Some people will never program

Thu, 20 Jul 2006 12:00:00 +0000

All teachers of programming find that their results display a ‘double hump’. It is as if there are two populations: those who can [program], and those who cannot [program], each with its own independent bell curve.

Think like a genius

Thu, 23 Jun 2005 12:00:00 +0000

Think like a genius.