Nicolay Gerold

Bottom-up processing: information is directing your activity deliberately or reflexively depending on your attention. Brain tries to direct as much activity as possible in a reflexive way.

Watching intense light between 10 and 4 at Night reduces the capacity to produce dopamine.

The problem I've found with all of them is it is difficult to get consistent solid results that you would want to build around. Even listening to podcasts this seems to be a theme with the people at the forefront of MAS LLMs.

States of high alertness are generally great for strategy implementation. Creativity is most present in calm, slightly drowsy states.

To build a fast browser extension, it's important to think beyond just writing efficient code. Here are some tips for extension developers

1. Optimize images and assets: Large images can slow down your extension. Compress images and use formats like WebP. Implement lazy loading to load images only when needed.


2. Speed up server requests: Slow server

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UI-kit

UI-kit is the backbone of any frontend application, it must be robust, reusable, and fully customized for the project needs. It’s very important to think carefully and implement a good technical solution as it will influence the entire project.

I’ve been building custom ui-kits for a long time and there are always two types of situations:... See more

We went to OpenAI's office in San Francisco yesterday to ask them all the questions we had on Quivr (YC W24), here is what we learned:

1. Their office is super nice & you can eat damn good croissant in SF!

2. We can expect GPT 3.5 & 4 price to keep going down

3. A lot of people are using the Assistants API to build their use cases

4. It costs 2M$ to... See more

Gemma Scope Tutorial

This is a barebones tutorial on how to use Gemma Scope, Google DeepMind's suite of Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) on every layer and sublayer of Gemma 2 2B and 9B. Sparse Autoencoders are an interpretability tool that act like a "microscope" on language model activations. They let us zoom in on dense, compressed activations, and... See more

Caffeine can increase dopamine release by 30% and might have a protective effect on dopamine neurons.