Reread Tim Ferriss' 4-Hour Body, and was reminded how much of an iconoclast he was. His ideas and experiments were even bolder than I remember. In any case, I have 2 goals this year, 1 to add lean muscle mass to the tune of 10kg by the end of

Charles Hayward, a cabinet maker and editor of The Woodworker magazine, offers some advice on how to succeed in woodworking (and in life): "One thing is certain: that, even though the craft is a lifetime's study, the application of a few simple principles will assuredly bring success

If I were to characterise 2022 in 1 word, it is uncertainty. The confluence of opposing forces and the reversal of Covid-induced trends, mixed in with the cascading effects of geopolitical crises, means that the picture gets complex very quickly. I entered 2022 on a hopeful note. Covid measures in

Why do we first resize to a large size on the CPU, and then to a smaller size on the GPU? Resizing to a large image and then cropping is done on the CPU because it can only be done serially due to the different image dimensions. It is resized

Just completed Chapter 2 of the fastbook, which is about deploying models to production. Here are some of my answers on the questionnaire. Provide an example of where the bear classification model might work poorly in production, due to structural or style differences in the training data. Your training data

Just finished John Carmack's interview with Lex Fridman. It left me feeling deeply motivated. Here are a few lessons that stuck out. * I deeply resonate with his extreme practicality and lack of sentimentality. He doesn't like theorizing about the ethical implications of AI, nor does he

Been away for 3 months, starting from Bryan's Bali wedding to my family trip in the US to a business trip to Vietnam. Hadn't been the easiest 3 months, but I have grown tremendously. A few areas of growth for me: * Broken phone: I bought a

I had been listening to and reading up on more Dhamma materials recently. It was initially very elucidating to have the Dhamma spelt out so explicitly and clearly in words, and I deeply appreciated it. However, I gradually ran into a side effect where I was relying more on the