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flying over Kabul is a total WIFI dead zone

Github copilot keeps timing out and wasting premium requests

dont fly over afghanistan if you want to have anything done

instead do spec driven planning and execute once cross indian borders
November 24, 2025 at 5:59 AM
free wifi on economy flight is insane

thought i would be stuck yapping to local qwen

but chatting with gemini 3 Pro for 11 hours straight is on a whole another level
November 20, 2025 at 12:34 PM
just tried Nvidia dgx spark irl

gorgeous golden glow, feels like gpu royalty

but 128gb shared ram still underperform whenrunning qwen-30b with context on vllm

for $5k, 3090 still king if you value raw speed over design

wont replce my mac anytime soon
November 4, 2025 at 12:31 PM
openai atlas behaves like a lazy intern with low self-esteem

gives up mid-task, making up with excuses, needs constant Tony Robbins level motivational pep talks

spent an hour filling excel and got only 98 rows done

openai needs to hook this thing up to claude before it develops burnout
November 1, 2025 at 1:42 PM
after hitting 70 features in my risk model and manually trial-erroring myself whole night, i gave up and let evolution cook

genetic algo now breeds best candidates toward an opt goal. finds top in mins instead of years

model still sucks, but at least i outsourced the suffering to natural selection
October 29, 2025 at 7:29 PM
this is the beginning of the end for B2B SaaS startup scene

why pay $$$ in licenses for turn key when any desperate vibe coding agency can rebuild anything over a weekend?

marginal cost of “custom internal tool” is approaching zero
October 28, 2025 at 2:50 PM
if you think your boss isn’t thinking day and night on how to make you redundant with AI, you’re living in fantasy mode

the top 10% thought they were safe, then the top 1% realized they could replace them

now the 0.01% are working on replacing the remaining 9.99%. It is just a matter of time
October 26, 2025 at 2:45 PM
while everyone’s chasing LLMs, i’m still out here doing classic ML

built a risk model with 35 features, not a degenerate wsb strategy savior, but cuts expected loss by 40% while lowering gains only by 15%

roc-auc 0.774. still same false positives, fewer false negatives
October 24, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Zuck was right.

VR is the future, just not in the cringy metaverse cartoony way.

too bad for him he will never catchup on Google hardware and talent gap
August 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This is gonna be huge for gaming and adult industry

In Genie 3, you can look down and see yourself walking

Fully immersive POV fantasies are coming
August 5, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Vibe coding is fun

Just forked some ancient repo, updated it to the latest stack, migrated every breaking change

And now I’ve got god-tier syntax highlighting in my projects

Would’ve wasted weeks on that otherwise
July 27, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Big 4 accounting is so cooked. A SOTA LLM can nail a one-month forward reconciliation at 100% accuracy.

Now its pure tooling to make it continuous. Remind me what the “$300/hr billable experts” are for again?
July 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Textbook film festival convo when she hit on you:

1. you work in movies?
2. what’s your job?
3. did you arrive by car?
4. this 5 star wasn’t that pricey right?
5. how long you stay?

Score 5/5 or risk failing mandatory KYC onboarding
July 10, 2025 at 1:53 PM
lfmao turns out Cloudflare is just a another google GCP wrapper.

$NET went -5% after hours.

Suddenly EU sovereign DNS and self hosting look like the only survival play.
June 13, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Be me: attend Machine Learning conference

Watch 21-year olds demo AI that literally saves firefighter lives

Return to my desk patting myself on the back for a 0.27% churn drop

Existential dread creeps in
May 29, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Tried a life-expectancy calculator and it turned out I’m good for 89 years.

Now plotting how to blow every last penny by then.

Retire broke and die happy.

Not a financial advice.
May 18, 2025 at 7:46 PM
One step closer to full-on algo trading with Interactive Brokers’ API after 4 hours of sweat, and curses

Now firing off multi-leg options strategies algorithmically with just

"result: rest_client.Result = client.modify_order()"

Feel free to steal the code.
May 9, 2025 at 8:08 PM
What Youtube gurus won't tell you about n8n and no code automation:

No type safety

Debugging in the dark

Context switching PTSD

Poor logic reusability

Your brain doing gymnastics over API calls, states and logic

The no-code hype? Mostly a lie.
May 4, 2025 at 6:10 PM
If you’re not on n8n yet, you’re missing out.

Just spent 4 hours ripping a Go microservice+Temporal orchestration to shreds and redone it as a two-step n8n workflow.

Automation so slick it’s practically cheating.
April 28, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Starting with Reinforcement learning is scary

You need Anaconda, OpenAI Gym… and a prayer.

So I overfit my first agent from scratch. As any beginner would do.

Result: Buy/Sell Acc. 53.54%, Total reward: 7

Definitely not a money printer…but hey, at least got ball rolling
April 21, 2025 at 11:39 AM
In 2024, Jane Street sued Millennium over a stolen $1B trading strategy targeting India’s retail options traders

Their trick? Triggering tiny index moves minutes before expiry, trapping all instantly

Retail thought they found easy money. Turns out, they were the easy money
April 18, 2025 at 10:13 PM
Just a reminder in though times.

Time in the market > timing the market.

Even if you monumentally nailed the COVID peak, DCAing that falling knife still beats staying off.

Yeah, you’ll bleed fees and shave off a bit of return, but at least you’ll actually sleep through the next crash.
April 16, 2025 at 6:36 PM
I am too broke for ChatGPT Pro, yet too eccentric for Gemini Advanced.
April 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Spending my evenings coding my options pricing algo.

Only to have it output prices so far out-of-the-money, it’s practically pricing options on Mars.

Guess my model expects markets to crash harder than my than my motivation on a Friday afternoon.
April 15, 2025 at 8:31 PM
And you wonder why AAPL spiked on friday evening.

Big gap up on monday.
April 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM