What I learned this week

Software

LLMs are the commodity, not people

Good video on the GIL

Business/Finance

Gotta love parm

Food recommended to me by an uber driver in DC

More food recommended to me by an uber driver in DC

Math/Stat

Travel

Other

Random thoughts I had about comparison.

How to weigh yourself without a scale.

  • Without a scale or any thing you know the dimensions/volume of… this becomes impossible to do in standard units
  • We constantly create tools to measure ourselves
  • We build these tools with standard units so that we can compare ourselves
  • Things like weight, speed, etc…
  • Even age is just something we’ve codified despite being just how long it takes for our spinning ball to go around a much hotter spinning ball and how fast our spinning ball spins
  • We constantly create these paradigms because they are useful/convenient but they also can become our own enemy
  • Social media creates a level playing field to constantly see what others are doing
  • When we take away these measurements do people become happier? They still seem to seek them out (how to weigh yourself without a scale)