Nicolay Gerold

Just thinking about food, sex or dopamine increases the amount as much as the action itself. Once you reach that thing the amount of dopamine goes up even further.

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The haystack-sized pile of AI news needles is intractable. Niche-ing down wasn’t enough for me. That’s why I find Burkeman’s approach to be a better solution:

Treat your “to read” pile like a river (a stream that flows past you, and from which you pluck a few choice items, here and there) instead of a bucket (which demands that you empty it). After... See more

llamafile lets you distribute and run LLMs with a single file. (announcement blog post)

Our goal is to make open source large language models much more accessible to both developers and end users. We're doing that by combining llama.cpp with Cosmopolitan Libc into one framework that collapses all the complexity of LLMs down to a single-file... See more

Kaizen is the Japanese word for improvement. Thephrase was popularized as part of the Toyota Production System. At Toyota, all personnel are given a (literal or metaphorical) red handle to pull that stops the entire production line. If a worker identifies a problem with production, the idea is for them to pull the red handle, gather coworkers and... See more

The VTA in the brain contains neurons that send axons, which send out dopamine. This builds the core pathway for reward. The break for the dopamine release is the prefrontal cortex. Dopamine is a two path process in balancing pleasure and pain. If you get excited in a anticipatory way, the pathway starts firing and creates a desire to move and act.... See more

The choice of programming language is almost always irrelevant to an organization's commercial success. End-users don’t likely care about your programming language choice. You need to upskill your business sense if you’re trying to differentiate your product or service based on the underlying programming language or tech stack.

Lateral reading is a strategy that enables people to emulate how professional fact checkers establish the credibility of online information. It involves opening up new browser tabs to search for information about the organisation or individual behind a site before diving into its contents. Only after consulting the open web do skilled searchers... See more

My top issues with the foundations of the "modern data stack":

• Snowflake - you may only pay for what you use, but you pay through the nose for it. The cost is so high that in many cases it can exceed the cost of binders full of dbas.


• Fivetran - convenient, but they tried to triple my licensing cost last year, they have almost constant 15 minute

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