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- Private work.
- Remember tabnine opens a local server on http://127.0.0.1:1123/
- Danny DeVito, broadway, opening october, I Need That. Will get tix later, oct/nov/dec are packed.
- LK99 potential – zero resistance, no massive cooling needed – can do magnetic levitation, nuclear fission, more. Varda in bloomberg tech (Andrew McCalis and Delian). Didn’t end up demonstrating full superconductivity, but still cool.
- Keymer beat Magnus (black) in classical!
- Yoga, souk.
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- Private work.
- UWS.
- Received stubbs & wootton. UES doctor misappointed, wrong location, rescheduled. No suit tailoring notifications.
- Windows update and cumpatches. Fixed teams (independent).
- Only murdersssss in the building.
- Checked the back switches (settings, not keys) on the code keyboard: https://support.wasdkeyboards.com/hc/en-us/articles/1500007230881-V3-CODE-V3-Comprehensive-User-Guide-Firmware-1-20-. None have to do with the power issue, likely the motherboard.
- Priority pass “select” is not a different tier of priority pass, that’s just the name given to the memberships that come via cc partnerships.
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- Private work.
- Greenwich village today. And taco mahal.
- Started 100 years of solitude.
- Updated docker desktop.
- Paid half of festival truck scratch.
- Scheduled haircut for next week.
- Oppenheimer IMAX Lincoln Square.
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- Private work.
- Installed miniconda (py11) on wsl2 ubuntu.
- Played more with llama2, this time on desktop.
- New download link. Only played with two models,
7B and 7B-chat.
- Pytorch out of mem errors. Reduced batch size all the way to 1, still error. Max seq len was set. Even set
PYTORCH_CUDA_ALLOC_CONF=max_split_size_mb:128, still wouldn’t finish.
- Text completion and chat completion both had memory errors.
- Didn’t have time to debug, so didn’t go deep here.
- Overall, pretty poor experience with llama – not a quick smooth sail (although didn’t troubleshoot if was the model’s mem reqs or just the cuda setup on my box).
- Aquarium monthly water change, in addition to usual biweekly maintenance.
- Nate diaz boxed well last night (unfinishable), USWNT eliminated (bad for ratings), sandhagen looked good (wrestling??), FIDE world cup continues with the expected favorites (mostly).
- 10lbs PB from yesterday: roasted peanuts, coconut oil, maple syrup, honey, salt, cinnamon. The only difference from pb -> protein bars: oat milk and protein powder.
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- Equinox then russian baths.
- Received and activated amex platinum. Summarized: (every year, for $650 fee) $300 equinox, $200 uber, $100 saks, $240 nytimes, $189 clear, $155 walmart+, $200 hotel, centurion, hilton/marriot gold status, more.
- Added to apple/google wallets.
- Added to uber wallet, made preferred method, automatically linked amex/uber accounts and provided the $15/mo benefit.
- Added to mint.
- Linked to equinox, updated billing, got the credit.
- Enrolled in lounge/centurion/priorityPassSelect.
- Subscribed to the nytimes (and downloaded mobile app, customized, etc, and got nytimes games) since this is included in the digital entertainment credit.
- Enrolled in $100/yr saks credits, although no plans to use.
- Connected to hilton account to get hilton honors gold status.
- Got Clear Plus account, paid with amex which links and applies full credit. Connected skymiles and united FF programs for a slight discount (although amex covers it all anyway). Next time I’m at the airport, I have to activate this.
- Reactivated walmart+. You get free shipping and paramount+ and a bit more. Amex covers the whole cost, $13/mo.
- Mealprep. Smoothies, maple honey roasted peanut butter, powders, oat milk, protein bars.
- Finished the subtle art. Will start extreme ownership next.
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- Private work. UWS.
- Take care of your backs, software engineers! https://puppycoding.com/2023/07/22/healthy-coding-habits/
- One bite pizza fest presale opened, tier 1 already sold out 2 min after, tier 2 was $170. Just gonna go to the places directly.
- AMZN up, AAPL down.
- Still nothing on gemini/genesis: https://www.gemini.com/earn. Ridiculous.
- Oxford, derby, loafer, chelsea, brogue, more.
- Amazing repository for icons: https://iconbuddy.app/
- Llama 2.
- Played with it today.
- Remember fb, but partnered with many including ms, and open source at the end of the day: https://ai.meta.com/llama/.
- Updated vscode and a bunch of extensions. Installed wget and md5sum into system (and brew autoupdate).
read will error with no coprocess in zsh, run the script in bash.- Diff models with diff weights / numparams. Each a many-GB .pth (pytorch) file.
- Conda remains annoying!
- Torch redirects are not supported on macos, I’ll do this on my desktop later.
- Build a small text completion tool, and small chatbot. Not following any guides, just greenfield exploring.
- Read a lot more of the subtle art.
- Bought city of gods presale.
- More midtown suit shopping, last jacket arrived. Tried both, got all 4 pieces. Submitted both pants for alternation. 3 shirts, body darts. Loafers.
- Did a little shopping on stubbs and wootton, bought a pair in the summer sale (stegosaurus!).
- Blood/urine/all panels came back, all good. Cholesterol, diabetes, STIs, vitamins, prostate, everything.
- Walked through the ralph lauren shop in the UES, both men’s and women’s sides of the street. Amazing.
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- Private work.
- Real estate.
- Did some searching on redfin. Catskills, long island, miami, more.
- BRRRR = Buy Rehab Rent Refinance Repeat.
- Cash-out refinance.
- Sheriff sales, property auctions, foreclosures. Eg https://www.propertyshark.com/mason/NY/New-York-City/Foreclosures
- More negotiation power if it’s been on the market longer (>1mo).
- Air DNA, data on rentals: https://www.airdna.co/. Best cities by occupancy, demand, return, etc. Suggestions for pricing. More.
- Catskills and south beach were ~$300 daily rate, montauk was ~$700. Better occupancy too.
- Updated next rise bundle contents.
- DSCR = Debt Service Coverage Ratio. Typically used for companies to compare cash flows against debts. Can be used in mortgage contexts too, essentially claiming the future rental income of the property as part of the current assets in underwriting to get a loan.
- Black widow antivenom is created by injecting horses with the venom and then taking their blood after antibodies have been developed.
- The other two credit agencies which score countries (besides Fitch) are S&P and Moody’s.
- USA Jigsaw Puzzle Association.
- They have memberships, monthly events, nationals, more.
- Next championship is in San Diego in march: https://www.usajigsaw.org/nationals.
- Last year’s championships:
- Teams of 4, 3 puzzles, 1000 + 1000 + 1500. Winner 4.5h.
- Teams of 2, 1 puzzle, 500 pieces. Winner 33m.
- Teams of 1, 1 puzzle, 500 pieces. Winner 55m.
- 32 players left in fide world cup.
- Upset eliminations in round 2: shak, nodirbek, shankland. More super GMs in tiebreaks tmrw, still on the line.
- Gukesh’s win today makes him India’s #1, displacing Vishy for the first time in nearly 4 decades (!)
- Dermatologist appointment. All good.
- Mealprep, aquarium maintenance, garden maintenance.
- Shareworks now requires an etrade account as exit rails for shareworks tender offer participation (crazy). Created and linked account. Added mobile app. Added to mint.
- Called dentist again. Remember they go on break the last 2 weeks of august. Finally got it scheduled (but with student, not hygienist? not sure).
- AMZN 128.73 (127 put, sold). Good. Earnings beat (lot).
- Credit cards.
- Did a comparison of rewards between CSR and amex platinum.
- Plat best for benefits. CSR best for rewards. Other spot cards best for niches.
- Setup autopay for amex.
