farcaster vis is ~80% done

might do a post on a cool geometry puzzle

September 20, 2023

got leaflet working -> actually good performance

tiles are in weird order though

but very good progress

need to start reading again

the beginning of infinity is gonna take me 2 years at this rate

current projects:

no new projects until I finish ~2 of these

September 19, 2023

got visualization in matplotlib, hard part is getting it to look good/polished

little side project would be to make sd QR code generator

some of them are really cool

September 17, 2023

what are the élite institutions that filter for agency instead of intelligence?

Maybe YC, but it focuses on a single business instead of the founders alone

there should be a physical buildspace

September 14, 2023

all data preprocessing for farcaster visualization is done

gonna move it to pc, then do training run

might be able to start today, probably not though

todos:

right now similarity is just based on # of replies, not account for recasts or likes

will add that in the future

September 10, 2023

why is IQ the proxy for how smart someone is, when ability to have novel ideas seems more important?

Who are the greatest minds in ~recent past?

feynman's iq was supposedly just above average, yet it is universally agreed that he was incredibly smart

Jobs and Musk's iq are "estimated" to be really high, but that is due to people correlating IQ with novel-ness

the two could definitely be related but it's certainly not the rule

people with very high IQ are going into Quant finance, not become writers/builders/artists

there should be a way to quantify how contrarian someone is

the point is that the greatest minds in history are known for creating new things and having new ideas, which doesn't seem to be concretely linked with IQ

wonder if you can use ~TikTok as reward mechanism

like how people will smoke a cigarette after being productive

seems to be just as stimulating/addictive

got local farcaster hub running

going to make visualization of accounts based on interactions(since there is no following[i think])

September 9, 2023

good progress on pytorch game today

cool use case of llms is indexing/searching through files

September 8, 2023

need to automate all schoolwork

todos for homework bot:

for pytorch game, could write script that takes in pytorch doc link, and creates question based on it

can also add chat so user could ask questions specifically about that torch method

need to become a gwern type mf

September 6, 2023

todos for homework project:

might just work on pytorch game this morning though

September 5, 2023

has anyone made a general use Photomath

could be a fun way to get into computer vision

could have a couple different use cases:

September 4, 2023

maybe pytorch game is better as a companion to the docs

not sure how to turn it from tutorial to game

policy network is not converging

September 1, 2023

gonna get first training run done tonight

todos:

August 29, 2023

need a way to tell model whose turn it is

otherwise it might generalize to a move suitable for both

can just make first dimension current player's stones, and other one is opponent

instead of 0 = white, 1 = black

August 28, 2023

made cool visualization for go game

just demonstration that I am getting correct board state at any given move

should be able to start on policy network tomorrow, since training data is in correct format now

August 27, 2023

August 26, 2023

todos:

finished zero to one

absolute banger

reading log is deployed

need to figure out whether new home page is good idea or not

published to website, may change in the future

August 25, 2023

too tired to do anything useful

gonna build reading list rn

August 24, 2023

first step of go bot is policy network (just CNN trained on pro games)

should be relatively straightforward

good paper to base policy network on

could be cool to look at what different layers of cnn will capture

this paper addresses symmetry of the board in a cool way

“All Rhodes Scholars had a great future in their past”

zero to one is really good so far

August 23, 2023

despite being a little verbose, there is probably some alpha still on LessWrong

lots of value in understanding bayesian thinking and rationality

even if just to understand doomer args

really need to read SICP

have had the book for months now

no better time than the present

gonna get reading list up as a way to apply social pressure

ok im making new home page

done with new home page

not gonna push it till reading log is done

August 21, 2023

there are so many things to learn

need to read more about

coming up with smart/interesting ideas seems to work the same as coming up with good startups according to pg

first you need to get to the edge of innovation, then look for holes

to have interesting commentary about politics/culture/economics, you first need to grind your way to the edge

read more books, use twitter/instagram/distractions less

become a well-read autodidact builder

things to be working on:

first gonna make a go bot instead of poker

might be harder to make it really good, but is much more straightforward due to complete information

would also be cool to add to my website

seems like only new topic is tree search

saying that like it is trivial

August 19, 2023

for poker model, will probably have to start with heads up(only 1 other player)

need to encode all information about a hand, including bets up to this point

betting pre-flop vs post-flop are very different

basic probabilities are easy to compute

information required per hand:

things to decide:

data might be hard to find

slightly sketchy dataset:

August 18, 2023

could keep randomness by sending two functions to run, that both compute answer

has anyone made poker bots

that they could then use for online games

this doesn’t seem that hard to build

problem with poker model is that you don't want to recreate average player

(what you'd get by training on all games)

instead, need some kind of decision tree like alpha go

might work if you get a bunch of pro games

but they would be playing against other pros, which you don't playing against other players

maybe v1 is just on pro games

later version could be alphaGo-style decision tree

August 16, 2023

I have gotten nothing done in the past ~2 weeks

Need to build/read/learn

August 9, 2023

who is making decentralized gpu compute

also would be fun to check out smallville agents

Need to update site

Move current one to ‘old’ subdomain

Maybe just an html page? Looks more aesthetic + faster load time

react is too bloated

Todos:

reading log page

new homepage

write levels for pytorch game

create three animation for game

Refactor

Want it to look something like this

become an autodidact

August 8, 2023

solution is serverless functions(aws lambda)

making solid progress

can run pytorch code and get output

todo:

August 7, 2023

once set up at school ill resume the music generation development

for now just gonna work on pytorch game

gonna take physics or chem next semester

need to become more versed in hard sciences

CS classes are likely going to be fairly straightforward until sophomore year

problem is that python-shell cant install torch on every run

probably gonna have to set up instance that will run the code😔

August 3, 2023

hoping its the former

fun tool would be coding puzzles you solve with pytorch

has anyone made that?

i.e. beginner puzzle would be make tensor of this shape that has these properties

might be hard to make more complicated puzzles though

complicated levels would be to get a model to a certain loss

something like kaggle but more game-like

codeMirror as editor

python-shell to run code on nodejs

should be a game though, not a test

something like this: