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The thoughts of others imprison us if we’re not thinking for ourselves.
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We solved the lightbulb problem over 100 years ago and because it was unprofitable to sell a lighbulb that could last indefinitely, they intentionally made them burn out. This sums up our modern existance. It's why everything sucks. No one is motivated to do something good for sake of it being good.

It's a Mini GPT 🥳

So, about 11 hours later and I finally figured out what was causing the segfaulting. My ROCm and PyTorch versions were completely malaligned. The way PyTorch registered the GPU changed and my GPU was suddenly ghosted. Luckily, the stars aligned and it works now.

So, I've been reviewing karpathys minGPT and nanoGPT code and turns out GPT is like 160 lines of python code is PyTorch. The rest of the code is for training, inference, etc. In middle of trying to adapt it to my mini pipeline. Now I just gotta figure out why my code is segfaulting. Fun!

Automated text formatting is as much a blessing as it is a curse. I love it for handling white space most of the time and in some edge cases I can't stand it, which largely depends on the formatter and the level of available configuration. I've noticed it boils down to code style and language.

After experimenting w/ multiple early prototypes, finally got a working CLI tool up and running. I can now fully automate cloning and generating the SDL Wiki as Markdown, PDF, or Man Pages for version 2 or 3. This enables easy syncing w/ upstream updates. github.com/teleprint-me...

Visual Studio (whatever) is the most inefficient, CPU intensive, software I have ever used in my life. It's like Microsoft's sole goal is to kill end-user CPUs. To wit, a lot of tools are unrefined. Tools like Flake8, Black, Jedi, etc, should all be multi-threaded. For real, what gives?

Sometimes, when I'm super busy and have multiple things on my plate at once, I do incredibly stupid things like write code for converting one format another and its ends up being totally unnecessary because its already in the format I need, but it's somehow useful for future use nontheless.

OMG. This took so much longer than I'd hoped, but after wrestling pandoc into submission, I finally fixed some parsing issues and it's rendering beautifully. Even the page numbers are aligned now! So happy about that one. Downside is that code still overflows off the page. But that's the last issue.

I've been experimenting with different formats using HTML2Text, Pandoc, and GS, and I think I finally nailed the formatting for the output file for the SDL Wiki. What's cool about this is that I can set the output file to be a single Markdown or PDF file or even both.