unbearded

I use sparkey / hammerspace for caching static data (tried rocksdb but hammerspace was faster) for many years.

It helps me have a 20ms on a 100r/s on a ruby on rails app (ruunning on a ryzen 5950X). I keep seeing people brag about 100ms on applications and maybe I’m old school or haven’t seen enough, but 100ms breaks personal SLO. will trigger a 5-alarm alert. Also use redis a lot. But when possible, I use hammerspace/sparkey instead of it.

I guess the people who are not aware of this effect might make a lot of decisions in life and a confident AI agent will be like a high-tech con-artist.

As a child, I would read the horoscope of the day with the wrong sign for mother and her female friends and they always thought it was talking about them and I never had the courage to tell them I switched as a joke. I keep imagining a fine tuned GPT for insights from the "mystic realm".

I don’t think it’s the ADHD. I have it but I’m very conservative on the stack. And I know many developers who don’t have ADHD, some newbie and some who code longer than 20 years and are going after the latest shiny thing.

I think it’s more of what people assume it’s a status symbol among their peers. I noticed for example, in church, that some people think the more boring is more saint and don’t like more a church with a more contemporary dynamic approach and I think the same effect applies in the software development world.

Maybe should be called Prompt Science or Prompt Discovery or even Prompt Craft.

I have a 40 million BERT-embedding spotify-annoy index that I keep experimenting with to make a better query vector.

One way that I’m doing is getting only the token vectors with the highest sum of the whole vector and averaging the top vectors to use as the query vector.

Another way is zeroing many dimensions randomly on the query vector to introduce diversity.

But after experimenting with “prompt engineering” I found out that prefixing the sentences for the query vectors with “prompts” yield very interesting results.

But I don’t see much engineering. It’s more trial, feedback and trying again. Maybe even Prompt Art. Just like on chatGPT.

In my experience, there's the "software developer" and the "formware developer," and as more companies go through a real "Digital Transformation," they begin to require their programmers to do more advanced tasks that go beyond form-based CRUD applications.

As as person who got diagnosed with ADHD as an adult and looked back to a life of potential wasted, and while I don’t agree with calling the benefits of any drug “superpowers”, I can understand why some people would. I exercise almost every day, meditate, eat and sleep well and yet, it was a pill that made the biggest difference in treating my difficult on keeping focus.

The doctor recommended that I tried Strattera first and see if worked before trying stimulants. Atomoxetine is one pill per day and works 24 hours. But doesn’t work for everybody and some people have some undesired side-effects. I had some of the “undesired side-effects” in the beginning but they went away after a few days. Also, in my case, it took 20 days until I felt that it was working. I noticed it started working one day after a looked back at one situation where I would normally get stuck and dread and it had gone as without any issue.

Have been taking Strattera for a few months and wonder how many years of my life I would have not wasted if I had been diagnosed with ADHD earlier in my life.

I just turned 40 and I never thought I had ADHD until recently. Before I just thought my lack of attention on things was just the price of being a 10X on productivity (and I was a little arrogant because of it).

The reality was that I chose to put my time on tasks that I found interesting and engaging and when that choice was not available, I would feel anxious, stuck and totally unfocused. Still, I thought that was just normal procrastination that everybody goes through.

Some changes in my life and goals limited my time to act and required me to be more focused, but instead of getting into action I got more stuck than ever and very anxious as the deadlines got closer and got missed.

Treating my ADHD helped me change my relationships for better and widened the possibilites in my work and I would recommend to anybody in the same situation.

Thank you! She will see another doctor and do some more exams today.

In the case of COVID, I don't think we need two years. My wife had COVID a few months ago and got beat up pretty badly.

She would be the last person you would think would get seriously ill - she eats only healthy food, is(was) a Crossfit rat, vitamins, meditation. She checks all the boxes for a healthy lifestyle and some).

We would go on 30 miles bike rides often and now she can't go up a hill mounted on the bike anymore. She was still going to a Crossfit gym that was (illegally) open during the pandemic but just for sanity. She couldn't do much of the workouts.

That was up to three weeks ago. One day she woke up with a swollen leg and has gone to three doctors already and is going to another to try to find why her leg is that way.

My suspicion is that COVID affected her circulatory system and is caused the problem that she is having on her leg. I hope that it's not the case, but this worry is enough to lose some sleep.

I believe that Brazil gives a good case study on the subject. The whole sector used to be state-owned and electricity used to be more expensive and outages a very regular thing. Currently, some parts of the country have private generation and transmission with targets sets for the number of planned shutdowns, outages and inspection set by the regulatory agency. The private companies are light-years ahead on any metric that you can think of. The parts of the sector that are still public-owned are legendary on their wastefulness and lack of accountability.

I would say the quality is relative to your input and to what type of application you need results for.

If you are gonna use the pointcloud as a cheaper and faster alternative to LIDAR and need to take measures with centimeter precision, you will need a lot of overlap (we use 75%) and the drone to take the photos automatically to be sure it covers most of the desired area. I would also recommend a commercial tool for the task. We have jobs that take one week to process with state of the art hardware.

But if you just want to do it for fun, you won't need to get this complicated and can do even with your phone.

DJI drones stores that on the image itself. No need to use the logs.

I'm familiar only with the DJI drones and they do capture Pitch, Yaw and Gimbal and a few other variables as well. It stores them on the "extended" part of the EXIF.

At work, we tried DroneDeploy and Agisoft, but we settled with Pix4D, expensive, but we got better accuracy and the people who operate the drones found it easier to use.