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if you grew up with these, you're probably easily bored as an adult

Reminder that your bedtime is your most important appointment of the day. Respect yourself and be on time.

i'm toying with this idea of going to bed early (9pm-ish), waking up at 5 am and crushing 5-6 hours of work with no other interruptions (no food, no workout, no walking the dog, no phone, etc.) and then just moving on with my day

You like the feeling of being on drugs? Sleep 8 hrs and work out and you'll be tripping balls.

My week was super exciting at #DataScienceAfrica at Dedan Kimathi University of Technology. Really learnt a lot from the speakers and got an opportunity to network with a number of Developers including Meta Engineers 🔥 - with Mr. Patel 🚀

Starting today, open source is leading the way. Introducing Llama 3.1: Our most capable models yet. Today we’re releasing a collection of new Llama 3.1 models including our long awaited 405B. These models deliver improved reasoning capabilities, a larger 128K token context

We need a complete & total reboot of all US industrial policy, with chipmaking as one part of that bigger effort. But even if we can get it together to do this, the path to that goes through a long period when CCP has root on our domestic systems & steals or sabotages stuff.

1/ If you sleep less than 7 hours a night, read this… + One 4-hour night reduces cancer-fighting immune cells by 70% + Chronic 6-hour nights make you 4.2x more likely to catch colds + 18-24 hours awake = 0.05-0.1% blood alcohol level equivalent (0.08% is legally drunk) Sleep

1/ Reframe Your Identity: You are a professional sleeper Make sleep your #1 appointment in your calendar. Nothing influences your conscious or subconscious existence more. + Plan your day around sleep. + Ignore those who say sleep is for the weak. They’re drunk. + Get support

2/ Have a Consistent Bedtime Choose a non-negotiable bedtime for 7-9 hours in bed each night. + Be consistent, even on weekends. + Use a wearable or journal to track You’re on time for work meetings. Be on time for your bedtime and respect yourself.

Now that I "work on LLM pretraining" -- read a really good paper from Dr. Baack @Mozilla about the Common Crawl, which lays out interesting questions/problems/insights around "good data in -> good models", "what does good even mean" and "what data is missing?"

A GREAT overview paper -- the authors do a great job laying out where LLMs came from, what they're doing, and where they might be going -- all without getting too technical!

Insane that I'm reading a paper for my masters where both Shreya Shankar and Aditya Parameswaran are authors -- shreyas tweets/posts are always great and Aditya actually taught my DB class University of Illinois; little did I know I'd end up @ the intersection of Data x SW x ML Research

Inspired by Shuren and Lelouch 👾 -- one of my christmas gifts to myself was taking the Math Academy Diagnostic -- felt like the 8+ years since I took math in undergrad slowed me down in my AI for Robotics coursework. Placed halfway through Foundations II

A study of 85,670 people –– going to sleep between 10 PM and 11 PM has the lowest risk of mental health issues. Those who went to sleep after midnight had a 48% higher risk. The science is clear on what happens next:

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