my newly articulated framework for deciding how to price work has 5 dimensions:
how much FUN will it be? (obvious)
how NICE are the people i’ll work with? (also obvious)
how EASY is the work to deliver? (= i’ve done it before and know what to... See more
If you are looking for something to read/study this weekend, I added lots of LLM-related bonus from-scratch coding resources over the last few months (from implementing Llama 3.2 to preference tuning with DPO): https://github.com/rasbt/LLMs-from-scratch?tab=readme-ov-file#bonus-material
I hope you find them useful! (My... See more
Best mental reset I’ve learned:
If your mind is loud — Write.
If your mind is empty — Read.
If your mind is racing — Walk.
If your mind is tired — Sleep.
If your mind is sharp —... See more
If you want your implementation to conform to an architecture, then it must conform to the design decisions prescribed by the architecture. It must have the set of elements prescribed by the architecture, these elements must interact with each other in the fashion prescribed by the architecture, and each element must fulfill its responsibility to... See more
architecture should prescibe constraints on implementation
The fidelity of the system increases as extensions are added, or early versions are replaced by more complete versions of these parts of the software. In some cases, the parts may be low-fidelity versions or prototypes of the final functionality; in other cases, they may be surrogates that consume and produce data at the appropriate rates but do... See more