Contributing to OSM was super cool. I've had an issue where my home snaps to the nearest road, which is in fact fenced off from us, rather than the road that our cul de sac connects to (which was not well marked in OSM). Last week, I went in and in about ten minutes used the visual editor to paint in the driveway, read a quick wiki page on how to correctly label driveways, and then submitted it. I got a pleasant jump scare the next time I doordashed some food and saw the little driveway squiggles I added on the map in the doordash app, and then again for lyft -- such a cool feeling!
Would highly recommend the web editor -- what's proposed here looks super comprehensive but way more difficult to use for a first timer.
I'm not OP, but when I started run-jog-walking one mile, three days a week (which is a bit more than two minute stairs every day, but still asking muscles, joints, and heart to wake up), that my back pain lessened, some niggling knee tightness stopped bothering me, and I noticed an increase in how long I could go doing something moderately strenuous before craving a rest (e.g. moving boxes, or walking with a heavy object, or running after something or someone). It doesn't have to be a massive lifestyle shift -- walking a couple times a week can give similar benefits. But the jump from "basically sedentary" to "loading muscles and joints and heart for ~20 minutes 2-3x a week" is truly ENORMOUS when it comes to our biological systems, and a lot of those systems start running a lot happier with that.
Exercise is not a panacea, and those who say it will fix everything and cure depression and make you perfect are quacks. But, it pains my contrarian ass to say, some light cardio every now and again is much closer to what our bodies are happy with than desk life, such has been my experience.
This right there. No, you're right, it's not a panacea. However, it absolutely fixed the period back problems I've dealt with most of my adult life. Now if I do something to tweak my lower back, I can't wait to get to a treadmill or out onto the sidewalk. It's the one thing I know will make it feel better.
Of course, that's going to be different for everyone. It'll make some people worse. For me, though (and apparently for you, too), it is the right way to treat those issues.
For those with knees not tolerant of running, I've taken to also rucking around with a heavy backpack. It's fantastic for building torso strength, and "your body weight plus 30 pounds" is still far less impact than "your body weight, but running". Walk up some hills steep enough to make you pant and wonder if you can make it to the top and your body may thank you for it, the way mine thanks me.
BTW, doctors have a saying: "motion is lotion". Also, "when you stop moving, you die". We are not evolved to take root on a sofa. Our bodies are meant to move and jostle and bounce and twist. Absent specific reasons not to, it can make a huge difference in physical comfort.
The math and core experimentation here is beyond my abilities, but what I think I understand is that there are possible deeper patterns of representation that exist in LLMs that are distillations of core conceptual relations in grammar that we can get our heads around in a mathematical sense rather than apparent layer-smeared noise that somehow, un-interpretably (in a meaningful sense), resolve to correct grammar/inferences.
That's pretty cool. I hope I've got that kinda-right.
I haven't read this in depth yet, though I plan to. If this general line of research is interesting to you, I'd recommend checking out some of the lines of research it touches upon--they're really rich and fascinating, and some are pretty approachable mathematically even if ML research papers aren't usually your thing. The related works section here seems pretty well stocked, but mechanistic interpretability is a pretty interesting peephole into this general vein: https://transformer-circuits.pub/
Not OP, but I use it for personal tasks that are just not worth the claude tokens -- rooting through historical medical records to unify prescription history, super-OCR'ing thousands of PDF pages (i.e. beyond PDF dumping -- vision means it can look at tables, understand tricky things like a continuation of a block quote or aside on the next page, etc.), and when power is cheap I'll just let it noodle on little projects on my data. During my agent's "free time" I give it with a tremendously open ended prompt last week, it did a linguistic analysis of how my texting changes in the lead up to, initiation, maintenance, and ending of romantic relationships.
Query cancels are out of band from the query connection so PGBouncer has to land it on the right server and the right connection. So PGBouncer serves a bogus-but-tracked cancel PID+secret to the client, which then goes to PGBouncer and PGBouncer figures out the right server/process to send the actual PID+secret to. PGBouncer also has to make sure that the connection/PID is still actually running the query; strictly speaking, a client can believe a query is still running when PGBouncer knows it's already complete and the connection has been reused.
Wow, that is a deep level of commitment and learning/exploring; I love it. While I'm sure this is informed by deep preexisting knowledge (to a point -- it's still badass in its own right), I can't help but admire these skills and feel a little inferior about my own.
Adding on to this question, do you anticipate the same people capable of tapping phones to think less of you for a dirty joke? The people whose opinion of me would lower for something off-color and the people who possess the ability to wiretap me are a disjoint set lol.
The point is it would be usable against you, but at the point you are wiretapped and can be used in court all bets are off you are probably in too much trouble may as well tell the joke!
Absolutely. I love building things, but sometimes I want something built. LLM assistance is great for when I want a personal tool, code quality be damned, for a specific purpose, without it taking over a weekend.
I develop an open-source self-hosted client (very mobile friendly) for base-station radios that you want to use from anywhere, and also support MQTT/community observers/bots/webhooks/etc. It spawned out of my need for a daily-driver client that wasn't chained to the radio, and turned into a super fully featured companion client for power users.
The radio API and firmware is open; I have no ire for people who choose to make software closed source so that it can be monetized when there are SO many other options that in many cases supersede the functionality of the closed source option.
I really identify with this. As an engineer, I really do enjoy building things. However, a lot of times, what I want is a thing that is built. A lot of time, that means I build it, which sometimes I enjoy and sometimes I don't; so many of my half finished projects are things that I still think would be awesome to have but didn't care to invest the time in building.
LLM-driven develop lets me have the thing built without needing to build the thing, and at the same time I get to exercise some ways-to-build I don't use as often (management, spec writing, spec editing, proactive unblocking, etc.). I have no doubt my work with LLMs has strengthened mental muscles that are also be helpful in technical management contexts/senior+principal-level technical work.
Would highly recommend the web editor -- what's proposed here looks super comprehensive but way more difficult to use for a first timer.
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