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Worth the Travel?
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Training an LLM for a Marathon
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Your First Meeting
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One thing AI will never be able to do
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How about Fixing Traffic?
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I got Skillzzzz
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Who Generated this Code?
1 week ago
What Meetings Do I need to be In?
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The Strategy Session
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Ecosystems Aren’t Built
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Is your work worth the travel? Is what you are getting out of it – paycheck, experience, knowledge, teaching, training worth the travel? Does it get you all of those things or just some? Is it worth more in the long run vs the short run? If it takes 2 hours to get there, but you get compensated with meals, does that make up for the travel time? What if you need to stay late on Wednesdays? The only person you can decide whether your job is worth the travel is you; you’re the only one who can make that …
Training an LLM for a Marathon
Greg Thomas
Training a Language Learning Model is much easier than training to run a marathon. You assemble your data, you set your parameters (depending on the scope, you do a bunch of other things), and then you click “Train”. And it runs, for however long it needs to run, it runs. It does its job, you walk away and let it work, let it run, let it train. Everything we do today is not nearly as clean or as easy as clicking the “train” button – if it were, I’d be selecting different models and hitting “train” all the time. Want …
2 days ago
Your First Meeting
Greg Thomas
As far as I can think back, my first professional meeting was when I was working part-time at A & W, and we had to have some sort of staff meeting on a Sunday night. I had no idea what was happening, but I got paid to be there, and we had free pop and danishes. The Impetus for the meeting is someone had just been fired, and it became a bit of a forum to air dirty laundry. My biggest issue was that my pants were 3 sizes larger than I wore, and it was an awkward belt I …
1 week ago
Ecosystems Aren’t Built
Ecosystems evolve; they aren’t built. The frog, the lake, the bugs, the fish – they didn’t just get together one day and decide to jive and make a system. They evolved into it, one begat the other, something was enticing that spurned interest. Over time, it grew and evolved. Ecosystems don’t evolve overnight either; it takes time. As much as we don’t want it to take time, it does, it always will, there is no way around it. That’s the beauty of an ecosystem, always evolving, always growing, no start, no end – it just happens over time. Want …
2 weeks ago
Now is the Time to Learn
There has never been a more important time to always be learning. I don’t know if there ever will (maybe when we get transporters). Each day, come out with something new – it doesn’t have to generate mass revenue and hockey stick growth in a day. It might not even pay off today. But in the next month, three months, or six, it will pay off. Now is the time to learn, schedule it, make it part of your daily cadence. Want more? Check out my book Code Your Way Up – available as an eBook or Paperback on Amazon …
2 weeks ago
Throwing Solutions at a Problem
It has never been easier than it is now to throw multiple solutions at a problem. Solutions you can validate, attempt, and see what they do. That’s what you are up against now: systems that throw solutions at problems, not ideas, not blue-sky thinking, not options, but the actual solutions. You probably can’t throw multiple solutions at any one problem, but you can come prepared, ready to work, ready to put together a solid list. You can throw your will, design, purpose, and value at the problem. Harder to measure, but easier to see in the end. Want more? Check …