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- Home from SF trip. Parents, blake st, redwood, saul wedding, berkeley, food, games.
- Got the clearPlus (one-time) verification at SFO.
- Earplugs. SNR = single noise reduction. NRR = noise reduction rating. NRR is usually a few dB lower than SNR. The highest I could find were NRR=33dB, ordered.
- Chicken 65 is rapidly nearing korma as my fav. It’s not 65 spices, it was invented in 1965.
- Coinbase and circle now split usdc 50/50: https://coinmarketcap.com/alexandria/article/coinbase-acquires-minority-stake-in-circle-which-will-be-sole-issuer-of-usdc
- Received/replaced/activated expiring citi card.
- Private work.
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- Private work.
- Talk To Me.
- Spain England WWC final sunday morning. Magnus Nijat Fabi (Prag Arjun) FWC semifinals.
- Bathroom sink leaking. Joint above p-trap. Submitted building link request. Fixed within a few hours. Re-fit, tape, snake.
- NYT crosswords.
- Any puzzle done in the archive is blue, regardless of checks. If you solve the daily puzzle without checks (before day end), it’s gold and your streak continues. The mini is always blue, erroneous.
- “A good crossword should feel like getting a cocktail with someone a little bit smarter and funnier than you.”
- Good times: 10 -> 60 min, increasing through the week.
- Returned costume to whole foods. Simple process, self-serve machine.
- Plant and aquarium maintenance. For the garden, I used white vinegar to lower the tap water pH (~1tbsp/gal) since I was out of pH balance.
- Prep for SF tomorrow. Laundry, clean house, pack, more.
- Received and activated priority pass. I have two accounts now, one from CSR and one from AmexPlat. The latter has a newer/longer expiration, so that’s what I’m logged into on the PP mobile app. This has the digital membership card, so I don’t carry in person (won’t add to apple wallet rn tho, the app was bugging).
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- Private work.
- Doctor. Low glucose on panel (hadn’t eaten that morning) and high creatinine (protein/meat diet), everything else perfect. Be hydrated (for red blood cell count not being high) and eat before next test.
- Picked up suits from tailor.
- Dentist. 3hrs for standard cleaning. Wrong appt, wrong room, broken equipment, etc. No more student dentistry (for prophylaxis at least; ortho is fine).
- Returned amazon costume, ordered directly from spirit.
- Got resy for burlingame.
- Many crossword repeats. Lerna doone, arco, schwa, ono, drs.
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- Private work.
- Jacob riis beach yesterday then ayce korean (gen).
- Drain unclogger in sink + shower. Cleaned black mold from grout as well. Most common sneezing/coughing/eyes/etc, not lethal, but airborne. Don’t need a respirator, just gloves + goggles + n95 or n99 mask.
- For 2023 US: Amazon has ~38% of ecommerce, walmart is #2 at ~7%.
- NYT crosswords.
- Quotes are synonyms of the verbalization (“stop!” = HALT).
- Brackets suggests an answer that might be nonverbal ([I don’t care] = SHRUG).
- Minis 5×5, midis 11×11, regulars 15×15, sundays 21×21.
- Monday easiest. Saturday hardest. Increasing difficulty (clue abstraction) through the week. Sunday is not the hardest; it’s ~midweek difficulty, but they’re larger.
- Homonyms are the general category of all.
- Homophones = diff meaning, any spelling, same pronunciation.
- Homographs = diff meaning, same spelling, any pronunciation.
- Heteronyms = diff meaning, same spelling, diff pronunciation.
- https://resources.messari.io/state_of_market_Q2_2023.pdf
- Gukesh, Arjun, Pragg, and Vidit – all through to final 8. Amazing show from the Indian youth.
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- Private work.
- Bailiwick = area of interest/skill. Detente = pacification. Aphorism = general truth (concise).
- Billions final season.
- Finished first sunday crossword without cheating. 2.5hrs. Some cool moments but absolutely not worth multiple hours when compared to other weekend activities.
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- Private work.
- Bram Moolenaar (VIM) dies at 62: https://j11g.com/2023/08/07/the-legacy-of-bram-moolenaar
- Gather Data Sampling (GDS) and Gather Value Injection (GVI) to access data stored by other programs via revealed hardware registers: https://downfall.page/
- Updated vscode.
- Magnus gets past keymer to advance to round 5 of the world cup. Pragg beats hikaru. Arjun and gukesh advance as well.
- Remember apache spark for data analytics. Aws kinesis for streams, aggregating sources. And lake for unstructured data, warehouse for processed/structured data. Always forget these.
- Soho house, chelsea market, gramercy, cafe panne, more.
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- Private work.
- Reached out to suitsupply (email) for alteration update.
- Crossword hints.
- Singular, plural. Always look for Ss.
- Can be a sentence without spaces (vs a single word).
- Alternate meanings of clues, often smart-ass (like taking a famous quote with a known meaning, but then interpreting it literally).
- Question mark means pun or wordplay (don’t take face value).
- Still hate them. Require specific knowledge (unlike most games being inferable), half the answers are bullshit, half the answers aren’t real words, not satisfying.
- Magnus wins on-demand to survive and push tiebreaks with keymer.
- Stephen King’s Rest Stop was made into a movie (The Passenger). Didn’t know.
- White hat security vulnerabilities on points.com: https://samcurry.net/points-com/.
- Almost all vulnerabilities were unauthenticated endpoints or access to auth.
- Still very manual. Poke around, find an admin endpoint, check how auth works, inspect the js, register or fake auth or spoof from a real account or intercept real users.
- Look for “gift” or “transfer” options in APIs. They usually allow actions on accounts you don’t have auth for.
- Lol: “The Flask session secret for the website that was used by points.com employees to manage all rewards profiles, loyalty programs, and customer orders, was the word “secret”.”
- What to run on the server vs client: https://www.mux.com/blog/what-are-react-server-components.
- Old-everything-server-approaches. Then move to client side rendering, SPAs. Then server-side-generation of next, where server generates html for initial load as well as well as sending js for interactivity.
- Then react server components and client components. Explicitly define what you want to run, and where. That way, both sides don’t do ALL html and js work. You define what you want to gen where.
- Does Money Stuff affect market volatility? https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4386256
- Did some thinking about AI.
- What’s the key for intelligence? Is it inference? Connect-ability? Knowledge (data)? The answer should be the same for natural/artificial. (This is pretty generic, and maybe obvious, but worth stating) Turns out it’s learning.
- Then what’s the key for learning? Turns out it’s information.
- And the key for information is simply machine ingestion of everything. Scrape the whole internet – earth’s best (single) repository for knowledge.
- But then how do you use intelligence? How do you interact with it? How do you get it to provide solutions, creations, etc? The key is simply communication. If you can have the intelligent-fully-digested-knowledge-base speak the same language as you, you can extract answers from it. Just teach the AI english.
- And the key to that is simply text completion. Guess the next word that makes the most human sense, based on the context of the sentence/paragraph/question/etc and the dataset of language that you are trained on.
- This is the key for E2E AI. It’s not just “what’s the capital of germany” and searching for wiki articles until a most-likely statistic is determined. It’s “how do I discretize a desire into step-by-step probabilistic solutions until I can create anything, based on what we already know?”
