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software imagineering™ riichi mahjong 🀅 kidney donor anthropic § linear § browser company § webflow § meta dallas ∞ seattle ∞ https://tarng.com

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rly hard to focus on just learning research rn,,, product quality work nerd sniping me

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

pretty wild to me that apple intelligence hasn’t solved the sms scam problem… these urls are so easy to classify and throw up warnings about

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

still in the market for a honk shoo cap . they don’t make em like they used to

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

i did a colonoscopy without anesthesia/meds, i don’t recommend it, bc it hurts like hell (not in the butt but in the abdomen) but I got to see the live video stream and my GI going ham on the controller like she was playing mario party

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

insulating some pipes in the crawl space

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

brain fried from 48 hours of transcript reading, RL derisk runs, and pipeline errors ahh

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

i know I should be using jupyter for everything but I can’t get over the mental barrier and I’m just raw dogging the python console in terminal which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design a lesson somewhere here

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

love to review preference data collected over 4 weeks only to realize 1/6 of the data is invalid due to a tailwind issue!!! my anti tailwind bias continues…

submitted 49 days ago • 0 comments

started playing in the local riichi mahjong leagues first season, did pretty well today! up +72.8 on 3 games!

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

the quality of your internal tools is a reflection of how you treat yourself and therefore your users

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

another night of “is this python module broken, slow, or just not working in this cluster or dev box?”

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

training the Next Big Model with human preference data for RLHF but what happens if their preferences are WRONG in my humble opinion

submitted 53 days ago • 0 comments

back at work in the new year and literally today this is all I’ve done

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

my friend played valorant w pubs and they found out how old he was and started calling him “unc” i fear this is coming for me in my professional life too

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

so far most of my time as an ai research engineer is either spent fighting with bespoke tooling not working and devboxes, or reading pages and pages of transcripts to make sure the data is good

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

i have started a job where i have no idea whats going on 90% of the time it’s rare to have an opportunity to be a beginner again — i am doing a residency as a research engineer at anthropic

submitted 56 days ago • 2 comments

time for a token-optimized but still human proofreadable js framework

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

in my recent round of interviews i had to unlearn the determinism of traditional engineering and embrace statistical and probabilistic problem thinking to pass the coding screens. was a big hurdle and very humbled but it explains a lot

submitted 71 days ago • 1 comment

rly hard to focus on just learning research rn,,, product quality work nerd sniping me

pretty wild to me that apple intelligence hasn’t solved the sms scam problem… these urls are so easy to classify and throw up warnings about

still in the market for a honk shoo cap . they don’t make em like they used to

i did a colonoscopy without anesthesia/meds, i don’t recommend it, bc it hurts like hell (not in the butt but in the abdomen) but I got to see the live video stream and my GI going ham on the controller like she was playing mario party

insulating some pipes in the crawl space

brain fried from 48 hours of transcript reading, RL derisk runs, and pipeline errors ahh

i know I should be using jupyter for everything but I can’t get over the mental barrier and I’m just raw dogging the python console in terminal which is weird bc I’m always screaming about how there needs to be a Jupyter for software design a lesson somewhere here

love to review preference data collected over 4 weeks only to realize 1/6 of the data is invalid due to a tailwind issue!!! my anti tailwind bias continues…

started playing in the local riichi mahjong leagues first season, did pretty well today! up +72.8 on 3 games!

the quality of your internal tools is a reflection of how you treat yourself and therefore your users

another night of “is this python module broken, slow, or just not working in this cluster or dev box?”

training the Next Big Model with human preference data for RLHF but what happens if their preferences are WRONG in my humble opinion

back at work in the new year and literally today this is all I’ve done

my friend played valorant w pubs and they found out how old he was and started calling him “unc” i fear this is coming for me in my professional life too

so far most of my time as an ai research engineer is either spent fighting with bespoke tooling not working and devboxes, or reading pages and pages of transcripts to make sure the data is good

i have started a job where i have no idea whats going on 90% of the time it’s rare to have an opportunity to be a beginner again — i am doing a residency as a research engineer at anthropic

time for a token-optimized but still human proofreadable js framework

in my recent round of interviews i had to unlearn the determinism of traditional engineering and embrace statistical and probabilistic problem thinking to pass the coding screens. was a big hurdle and very humbled but it explains a lot

what r some news/media you happily subscribe to? trying to use my educational budget at work before EOY

getting more in the hang of blender!

i accidentally upgraded to ios 18 and now it’s running at 10fps