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Engineer: but business is not my problem.

Almost every day, watching videos, having meetings, hands on (the agent) coding and playing games.

+1, ultrawide curved monitor user, used to be on sway but the experience of niri is next level.

In this situation, it means "Hey I have been here and observed this!"

Exactly what I had via sunshine and moonlight in my Vision Pro ...

The sample efficiency of the RL algorithm, even for simple games, is not very good. This usually means that we will need a lot of episodes for the policy to learn to excel. Being able to run policy in an environment that can parallel and accelerate could be very helpful for the improvement - for example running a batch of browsers or tabs simultaneously :)

People born in different eras often develop different worldviews by the time they reach their 50s. Not everyone is lucky enough to be born in the "right time".

Sure, write a step-by-step action plan and leave it for

a next fresh new 1M tokens context window.

Thanks that is very inspiring. I thought there are no blower type consumer GPUs, but apparently they exist!

I am curious about the setup of 14 GPUs - what kind of platform (motherboard) do you use to support so many PCIe lanes? And do you even have a chassis? Is it rack-mounted? Thanks!

My suggestion

1. Start by learning a simulation tool, e.g. Mujoco (open source) or Isaac Sim. 2. Learn basics of optimal control and reinforcement learning, reproduce papers/ideas in the simulation. 3. Get your hands dirty on a cheap robot, and try deploy your trained model on it. For mobility and manipulation. Unitree Go1/Go2 for mobility, and robotic arms for manipulation.

I think having to debug to find problem of your system is frustrating. But with NixOS, I at least won't be afraid of "breaking the system" or doing something "irreversible". This is totally a peace of mind when tinkering with my setup.

Thanks so much for sharing your story – hearing about your DIY Enphase install (and epic PG&E battle!) really gives me confidence. And the information you shared is extremely helpful for first-time DIYers like me.

Wow, what a fantastic write-up—thanks for sharing this! I’m a San Jose homeowner (and PG&E sufferer) with a homelab that pulls over 1 kW, and I’ve been down the DIY solar rabbit hole for the past two weeks. Based on my research, I’m planning a roughly 9 kW Signature Solar setup:

20× 455 W Canadian Solar panels (~$173 ea)

1× GridBoss MID V2 (~$2 400)

1× FlexBoss 21 (~$2 400)

4× Eco-Worthy 48 V 100 Ah LiFePO₄ batteries (~$1 500 ea)

18 U server rack (~$500) — total hardware ~$14 760

My big hang-up has been the rooftop work, permitting and inspections—almost no one I call will touch a true DIY system. If anyone here in the Bay Area has recommendations for installers or back-of-house permit-whisperers who’ll partner on a non-Tesla/Sunrun job, I’d love to hear how you made it happen. Thanks again for the inspiring guide!