Gregory's Server
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Earlier this year I met someone named Kearan. I never heard that name before, yet now I keep seeing/hearing it over and over again in some form or another (Kieran, Kieron, ...). Is there a name for this "you only see it when you know it" phenomenon? If so, I'm really vulnerable to it (also a lot with foreign words or phrases). π @garritfra Yes! It's called the Frequency Illusion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion (Also called by a name taken from a German terrorist organization: the 'BaaderβMeinhof phenomenon') `brew cleanup -s` is still running, having cleaned up 40 GB of outdated build caches so far... Had to document this in a blog post: It occurs to me that LLMs ("AI," if you like) are used pretty much exclusively in areas where quality is difficult to define. Art, service, design, communication, writing...arenas full of ambiguity, where it's hard to quantify success or failure. It strikes me that LLMs are deployed mainly here, rather than in less equivocal places, at least in part because this masks the terminal flaw of LLMs: They are designed for generation, not for accuracy. They are not at all truthful or reliable. @collinsworth and the reliability cannot be fixed without breaking the generation. Writhing that realm LLMs are also deployed where "not very good" is considered "good enough." That is, "it's better than i can do and it's irrelevant that it's not as good as the human i can't afford to hire." Art and design are also faster to verify and avoid the worst mistakes. Solid pace and banger 160 BPM playlist = 30:34 min / 5 km. New post-pandemic personal best, and only ONE second shy of my actual PB from 2018. Dang it!! π My knees are finally getting a lot better. These sprint intervals felt great! πͺ Opening your talk? Skip the waffle. No one cares where you work or how many awards you've worked on. Grab attention with a hook like, a question, or a bold statement, then get straight to the good stuff. Remeber - useful AND Interesting  @d_yellowlees This is absolutely one of the key points ... how to start. There is some great advice on-line, but your point is exactly on point. Start with a hook !!! This is one of those brilliant posts you sometimes randomly stumble upon. Feynman's Garden @ marginalia.nu Had to go easy on my knees, but the faster pace felt really good. @robchapman actually I'm quite jealous of people living in chess-like US cities because they can draw anything they want and then run it https://www.runnersworld.com/runners-stories/a32433537/strava-art/ Going from self hosted to managed software. Just stumbled upon the #IronLakeChallenge: https://rockyourgoal.de/en/iron-lake-challenge A challenge to run/hike around the 10 largest lakes in your state. In my case (#IronLakeChallengeNiedersachsen), it's ~145 km to get a medal, with the longest trip being ~30 km around Steinhuder Meer. Certainly sounds fun! @garritfra I've been tinkering with an ARM-only #Kubernetes cluster using the Hetzner cloud this week. I'm running three control-plane nodes and six worker nodes, totaling 30 vCPU and 55 GB RAM, for about β¬ 38/month. Hetzner is awesome. Everytime I work with Helm in #Kubernetes I'm reminded of why I want to stay away from Helm. I just wasted a good hour trying to figure out why our ingress-nginx helm release wouldn't deploy a service monitor. The solution was to ugrade the chart by setting `controller.metrics.enabled` to false and then true again, which triggers a new helm reconciliation. The whole point of Kubernetes is to match a desired state with the actual state, and then Helm comes along and breaks this behavior. FML. @garritfra That's not the worst part. The worst part is when you try to figure out how a specific chart works and they have broken the chart down into a million and one subcharts. @garritfra One of my goals for 2024 [1] was to get my butt out of the door and run at least one 10k, and I'm proud to say that I just reached that goal [2]! π₯³ [1]: https://garrit.xyz/posts/2023-12-30-2023-in-review Living Life Without Owning A Car Come along on a ride of how I was able to obtain my dream car in a challenging situation, but it all ended in a completely different direction.  @garritfra I wrote the post π. I may do another one about my driving history and the automobiles I've had. |
