Three things: 1. Consider your guest. Those people who can give you what you want — figure out what they want and work to give it to them. 2. Get crispy. Find a specific niche. 3. More specific to "self as product": Be earnest. Do these things make sense
A random variable is not a number. Instead, it's an abstract outcome. We can ground it, if we can ground it, to an abstract outcome of a concrete process. For example, say we have a question-answering dataset and a script to run GPT-3 on it. The script runs
What I love about fighting games is the way you can see a person in how they play the game. When you play against someone you're seeing and reacting to their decisions on a split-second level. You get to appreciate sometimes their sneaky tricks. There are so many
PSA: It is worth giving yourself permission to be bad at things. Recently I found myself avoiding doing things because I might do them "badly" in some sense. I can't guarantee I won't. If I reach out to someone, whatever I say, they might
(spoilers for Dune, but... it is Dune.) There's sequence in the middle of Dune where a Fremen named Jamis, their resident angry dude, challenges Paul to a duel to the death. Paul wins, of course, and kills Jamis. What happens next is interesting. I expected the Fremen to