luca

@fahrenheit

ML researcher, interested in math and probabilistic machine reasoning.

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Only the future can tell. But we need to mend our ways. Otherwise, nihilism will win and we will deconstruct ourselves into oblivion. Maybe this is will be the million dollar question of the next century. What do we do, when we do not have to do anything?

refinement | llct

"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."

- Ray Bradbury

Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh

The glow in the centre of the k-space image represents the lower spatial frequencies, which contains the bulk of the image contrast information. As we move away from this central glow, the finer details and edges, representing the higher spatial frequencies

Nadav Levi • Visualising MRI data in Python

Fino alla fine, con gli occhi aperti e il cuore saldo. A testa alta - sempre.

Until the end, with eyes open and a steady heart. Head held high - always.

— 5th May 2025 5:20 AM, somewhere in London

In the work with LLMs lies a deeper question, that I have not been able to answer for myself properly so far. I can use an LLM to extract information, summarise, distill, but it feels like I am fooling myself. The work that I have done is not done by me. I am have not made any connections in my brain. It feels like we should not use them for

Things to think and maybe write about

Differential geometry is all about constructing things which are independent of the representation

Metacademy - Differential geometry for machine learning

The risk in designing any personal knowledge system lies in the overemphasise of the acquisition system to the detriment of the review system. Acquisition can masquerade as work, but collecting without review is pseudo-work.

Things to come back to when I’m feeling meh

your life is your life

don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.

be on the watch.

there are ways out.

there is light somewhere.

it may not be much light but

it beats the darkness.

be on the watch.

the gods will offer you chances.

know them.

take them.

you can’t beat death but

you can beat death in life, sometimes.

and the more often you