Jimmy Cerone
@jrcii
Software Dev who loves to write, read, and hang with doggos.
Jimmy Cerone
People are starving. To run in the dark across grassy fields holding sizzling sparklers up to the stars, dive into the deep cold blue sea, curl up on the couch with a good book, a big mug of tea, and a nest of blankets near a crackling fireplace. Return to the pure presence of childhood. Experiencing for the sake of experiencing. Unaccountable to... See more
Tommy Dixon • the end of our extremely online era.
“It's tough to be good at something you're not interested in. It's nearly impossible to be great at something you're not obsessed with.”
FS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
Really getting me thinking, especially as I watch Brooklyn 99 and The Bear, both shows where people give a huge shit about what they do.
Competence is how good you are when there is something to gain. Character is how good you are when there is nothing to gain. People will reward you for competence. But people will only love you for your character.”
FS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Action Reduces Fear
Freezers, as my Smeg taught me, provoke strong emotions. They are fundamentally for forgetting, the place where we put food we don’t want to think about right now, or want to save for some unspecified later date. They hold our memories, aspirations, and regrets, and in this strange way they tell us who we are.
Rebecca Flint Marx, Eater • On Having Your Cake and Freezing It Too
From a software maintenance perspective there is little consensus on how to organize ML projects. It feels like websites before Rails came out: a bunch of random PHP scripts with an unholy mixture of business logic and markup sprinkled throughout.
tinyclouds.org • Google Brain Residency
.pocket Wow. Still the same today. Big opportunity. Though folks like Hugging Face are starting to change this.
(One of my favorite pieces of parenting advice: You have to give yourself what you needed when you were a kid, and give your kids what they need now.)
Austin Kleon • The Way You Wanted to Feel
Man I love this. I love that it acknowledges the reality of the needs of your younger self while protecting the needs of your kids, which are distinct.
"If you could just change one thing in your child’s life, it would be to give them autonomy. Humans spent 200,000 years as hunter-gatherers. That’s where our brains evolved. That’s where we evolved in this context. If you look on lots of different continents, children have enormous amounts of autonomy in these communities, which implies that that’s
... See moreFS (Farnam Street) • Brain Food: Maximum Flexibility
Thinking more about this idea since it came up in the Bear Season 2 as well. I’ll struggle with this.