Johann Van Tonder
@jvt
20 years in ecommerce, now CEO of a CRO agency. Probably doing analysis in R or building stuff with AI. Or walking on the beach. Yeah, probably that.
Johann Van Tonder
"Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)" - Walt Whitman
“The skill of actually figuring out what you need is probably as important as what you do after you figure it out.”
Pradeep GanapathyRaj via Matt LeMay
Underrated life advice: Stop arguing with reality. Start where you are, not where you wish you were (or thought you'd be). Every minute spent denying your current position is a minute stolen from your future. The faster you face today, the faster you can change tomorrow.
Blake Burgex.com@emollick Put in the reps. If you aren't hitting the chatGPT cap multiple times a day, you have 0 business reading a research paper
The open area of research is what can we use LLMs for, not how do we build better LLMs
and the papers are outdated anyways
Nick Dobosx.comAs a lower bound, you have to like your work more than any unproductive pleasure. You have to like what you do enough that the concept of "spare time" seems mistaken. Which is not to say you have to spend all your time working. You can only work so much before you get tired and start to screw up. Then you want to do something else—even something... See more
Paul Graham • How to Do What You Love
we search for grand narratives. But to realize that moving one step forward is the whole game is something most people, if they ever even realize it, don’t realize until much later.
"not dead yet"
Kruschke began his (2015, p. 1) text with “This book explains how to actually do Bayesian data analysis, by real people (like you), for realistic data (like yours).
1 What’s in This Book (Read This First!) | Doing Bayesian Data Analysis in brms and the tidyverse
Your core values are there already. Just slow down and let them be. Values like courage, authenticity, strength, innovation, creativity, wisdom, joy, love are inherent within you. You don't need to strive to create or find them; just remove the mental blocks that hinder their expression. These blocks usually stem from the mind, such as limiting
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