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learning to build, building to learn. musings on math, physics, ai and God. husband and dad
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me when i realize being a few years late isnt gonna matter much after 40+ years of building
I'm not competing on the same timeframes anymore
doesn't matter how I wasn't efficient with learning as a kid or the time I "wasted" on the way
I've been on a computer and programming for ~20yrs and I'm still "young" dude
it's "King Terry x Jonathan Blow" status by 50 or bust
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linear algebra is much easier if you view matrices as transformations
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stuff i did this year:
- rust book
- nand2tetris w/ rust
- deep learning specialization
- math grind (calc + linear algebra)
- karpathy series
- llm.nvim, tweet.nvim
- raytracer w/ zig
short term goals before EOY:
- raytracer book 2
- cs231n
- leetcode with zig cadence
- 30 min
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here is my backlog of tomes i need to learn. ive read rust, nand2tetris, some of APUE and SICP. missing are OSTEP and PMPP. ill get them soon
i have a strong feeling ill be able to read the math and physics books smoothly because of math academy
just give me a few years. i
The best feeling is going back to technical books that once made no sense and suddenly getting it.
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i quit my job to do mathacademy. this was my estimate at 50xp per day. i am going to shift gears and try to do 150-200xp per day (because i will no longer have a dayjob)
my overarching goal is to be able to read DL papers without the math being a significant bottleneck
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mathacademy is whitepilling me
although you can't generally fix the amount of working memory you have, you can fix this by attaining automaticity i.e. mastery where you dont need to load a lower level skill into your RAM to solve a higher level problem
using this insight, i can
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"never in my life have i had to use math in programming"
- guy who only did crud apps
as someone who’s spent a lifetime programming - a lack of math knowledge has been the biggest blocker of my career.
every time i learn more math, it opens the doors to new kinds of algorithms & software i wouldn’t have had access to previously.
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literally with a resource like mathacademy, where working smart is done for you, all you have to do is to put in the hours and grind the reps. no excuse
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cant believe i can do this now. im going to read all of the math books
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earlier i was wondering "if only i started math academy when it was 2020 i might be doing/learning cool stuff right now"
then it hit me. my future self will be immensely thankful i grinded my ass off last 2024 when it is 2030
you have time. just be sure to keep training
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@0xluffyb
ah yes mad about racism but casually talking about suicide like that. people need to look at themselves in the mirror
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> replaced my $2000 m1 pro with $180 thinkpad
> replaced my $1000 iphone 15 pro with $80 dumb xperia zx1c
> replaced 8gb ram ide with 200mb nvim
tfw you can be happy and productive with less. which aspect of my life should i debloat next?
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might be worth a re read
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@WillManidis
are there studies of how ipad babies end up as teens yet? prolly not because the ipad is only 14 years old. thats the concerning part. what does that generation collectively look like once they are all adults?
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didnt notice im at 8k. im not the guy i was a few months ago. anon are you constantly reinventing yourself?
math II: 98% math III: 78% m4ml: 62%
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math II: 92% math III: 62% m4ml: 14%
learned:
- integration using inverse trigonometric functions
- combining graph transformations of sin and cos
- linear transformations of objects in the plane
- calculating scalar projections
- elementary trigonometric equations containing
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insane like to bookmark ratio. how is a lowbie supposed to handle this fame
stuff i did this year:
- rust book
- nand2tetris w/ rust
- deep learning specialization
- math grind (calc + linear algebra)
- karpathy series
- llm.nvim, tweet.nvim
- raytracer w/ zig
short term goals before EOY:
- raytracer book 2
- cs231n
- leetcode with zig cadence
- 30 min
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quitting the job analysis:
pros:
- no more dumbass meetings where brain gets fried for the wrong reasons
- one less context switch to my day
- no more stupid android studio and unoptimizable devloop (jk android studio is great)
- no more stupid 1-2 hr deployments (that take place
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i will be posting updates of my knowledge graph, im still working through Math II (65%) and Math III (12%)
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new lore chat should i hit send and become instantly jobless? ive been wanting to do this for sometime
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reached the 5k club. currently placed first at sapphire before i wake up tomorrow to see the guys below take my spot. the grind is brutal but it invigorates me
math II: 93%
math III: 64%
m4ml: 14%
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you know what the turning point was that really made me switch to emacs? its compile mode
everytime i watch a
@tsoding
stream and he jumps to files directly from the result of a command like grep or the compiler i get a little more envious. could never do it properly in nvim
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the future of education is going to be self study. the benefits of school in general is a structured curriculum and the social aspect.
we already have x for the latter. once something like mathacademy exists in every domain not sure why we would need schools anymore
From karpathy's advice for undergrads
@karpathy
If grades don't matter then why go to class or even complete the degree - why not skip that and focus fully on:
- self-studying from great books, building out projects
- working on research in labs
- internships & open-source?
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yall really brought me to ~1k follows from ~100 in a day. dopamine receptors are fried. but we did it bois. truly an x miracle. still cant believe my eyes. grateful for the support!
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not one piece but:
- put God first in your life
- embrace the biblical moral axioms
- having a wife and kid speed runs your character development
- choosing a wife is the most important decision you will ever make
- design your life around maximizing peace
- learn what sacrifice
Mature men who are 25+, please drop one piece of advice to men 18 to 24. It can be about anything!
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tbh, i can already do the linear algebra and calculus required by ML basics but i've always felt i didnt have the mastery. this move is going to change my life
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@tab_sebas
i dont track because my environment is chaotic (i have a wife and a 3 yo). naive estimate would be 6-8 hrs on good days
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guys im gonna get so cracked. you know why? i promised my grandma, my mom and daughter. thats three generations right there. cant let them down
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my brother is ripped. listening to
@justinskycak
's recent podcast motivated me to switch to gymnastics. gym academy soon
@justinskycak
how should a beginner start? can you please point me to resources you used when you started? everyone should be good at math and simultaneously
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bro how am i going to learn set theory if i cant write curly braces. its over
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or just hear me out. the people building the modern tower of babel are being scattered by God
Other than Sam, nobody on the OpenAI core team cared about money. Ilya was a researcher. Mira was an engineer. Greg was an indie hacker. They probably left because they wanted to do what they loved, rather than being forced into upper management.
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the hill is steep but our legs are strong. we will climb it bois
i will be posting updates of my knowledge graph, im still working through Math II (65%) and Math III (12%)
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friendly reminder that recreational programming is a thing
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you are a beast anton. this week is gonna be fun. we gotta enjoy it till that shanks guy doing 1000xp/day comes
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its raining outside and its 11:22pm. perfect time to fantasize quitting your job and imagine your day just doing mathacademy and building cool stuff with zig
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happy 4k. managed to rank 1st at sapphire so far.
I NEED ALL THE XP
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cant believe the core of magic-like AI is just a bunch of linear equations transformed by some squiggly function
underneath it all is a bunch of runes being weaved around. thats the closest thing to magic
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you know what? x is like the instagram of cracked results
seeing cracked results on your TL is inspiring but can also be demoralizing
you can be cracked but you wont have these results everyday
remember that life happens. so keep your head up and grind
you have time
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look ma im doing differential equations! (from a guy who didnt understand what the quadratic formula was for)
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leetcoding in C with no LSP like a madman till i get tired of uthash (only because zig isnt supported fml)
tbh i should just use python
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half of the replies are math majors who be like: wait ppl dont know this?
other half got a mini epiphany
linear algebra is much easier if you view matrices as transformations
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gm. rise and grind. no one is going to hand over anything to you. you have to show up put in the work and take it
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cant believe life is so good. i get to wake up and do things i love and have people around me that i love and love me
cant ever let them down
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there's so many smart people here, truly grateful. thank you all for inspiring me
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linear algebra is much easier if you view matrices as a set of basis vectors
linear algebra is much easier if you view matrices as transformations
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my game plan for MA:
finish m4ml at a pace of 150-200xp a day then do everything else at a reduced pace of 50/xp day indefinitely
cant kaioken everyday
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i am the perfect mathacademy student. not only do i have the time but i have the grit and persistence to keep going with high intensity
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i should get back to using anki ngl. i only used to do q&a. any good articles detailing workflows for technical material? recos would be appreciated
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@alexis_acosta__
its not really time management but focus and energy management for me. make sure you got the basics down: sleep, exercise, hydration, diet.
as for the other thing, the only answer is to just do it
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cant believe im not 150 iq its actually over for me. cant believe im ngmi
also my short term memory is screwed. or maybe because its just 2 am (cope)
TIL im a shapecel
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the daughter is so precious. funny how you can learn so much about life from someone who doesnt know a thing about life
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guys ive been grindposting mathacademy for a while now…
finding out that reading a paper and trying to understand the required concepts >>>> three years of math classes
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even though im still generally bad at arithmetic those tons of matmuls and determinants really helped
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eyyy lezgawww jupyter notebooks in neovim haha. im connecting remotely to my basement pc
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looks like yacine fixed twitter search. moots and follows properly show up at the top now
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if you want all the important learning how to learn concepts, you can find them here
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the day i stopped minecraft is when i realized i could do it IRL
I don’t understand why people play factorio when there’s an entire world out there to optimize
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tfw i learned linear algebra and suddenly i feel confident enough to be a data scientist
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great podcast!
about 40 minutes in
@justinskycak
was talking about how it is important to always put a why to the things you're doing
the failure of highschool teachers to rationalize the importance of math hits close to home
the way my brain works is its unable to learn
Recently I've been trying to transition
@ScrapingBits
into a [math, AI, science] podcast as I grow in those fields.
Today, I released an episode w/
@_MathAcademy_
's
@justinskycak
on why you should learn math and how to do it like an athlete!
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this whole thread is sort of a litmus test to whether one actually understands life
trigger alert: women are more precious than men because they are the mothers of our kids. if you dont understand the full meaning of this you are a boy
x is a crazy place, one day i follow someone for being a cracked phd next turns out he’s a little behind the times
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> showed wife pic of my raytracer render
> gave me a fake impressed look
> i realize its because i havent fixed the ptrap hose under the sink she's been nagging me for days
> oh well. atleast 3 yo found the balls fun
brb fixing sink
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did i read that right? limited to 30 messages per week?
We're releasing a preview of OpenAI o1—a new series of AI models designed to spend more time thinking before they respond.
These models can reason through complex tasks and solve harder problems than previous models in science, coding, and math.
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everytime i write the integral symbol it makes me feel like a legit math guy
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