they did not use RAG for these tests... how are we supposed to take the report seriously when it does not demonstrate even a cursory understanding of nature of LLMs?
If the claim these folks make is "time spent struggling through a default config on an unfamiliar machine" > "time saved by crafting an workshop to fit your mind", then we are not the same.
(Probably, the dividing line here is time spent coding vs time spent managing infra.)
Absolutely loved TVQ. The insight about mitochondrial DNA inheritance being exclusively from the mother, thus motivating female fingerprinting of male nucleic DNA for gamete viability (via courtship rituals, pheromones, plumage, etc)...
It sounds like you no longer see value in the work. What were your original motivations and goals? How have they changed? From a distance, it's easy to guess that you're not confident the project will be useful to anyone. If that's true, it would make sense that you're demotivated--nobody likes doing work that isn't useful to themselves or others.
If the goal was simply to learn and stay sharp, then perhaps an incomplete project is a success——you did some coding, and learned something about what motivates you. If the goal was more specific, then perhaps you've (subconsciously) re-evaluated the requirements for success, and it no longer feels achievable or worth the effort.
I could be wrong, of course, but this sounds less like a problem of technical ability than one of deepening your understanding of your own motivation. If that sounds right, maybe check out https://x.com/scottdomes — I like his writing about how to identify what you want and why.
This is horrible advice. Getting burnt out is very natural. The first thing that should be attempted is to get space to recharge. If, after there's been some distance, the OP feels the same way, then, yes, consider abandoning the project is valid but it sounds like this is a deeper issue of not being able to complete projects and finding strategies to help.
Even if this project is not valuable to anyone, shipping in its current form or some semblance of it means that it can be iterated on and improved. There are very few projects that are overnight successes on initial release. Better to try and test interest with something tangible and to try and iterate.
Bachelor's in Computer Engineering, 20+ years of experience (Google, YouTube, Facebook) in consumer web doing front-end, full-stack, and systems work; would love to do ML-infra or related!
Nobody involved in the study or the article has ever done even a small dose of psilocybin and interacted with crystals.
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