LangIsAllWeNeed

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I'm a plumber + trucker by day. However late at night I have a yearning to unclog the nuances of neural networks and AGI. I'm like a unicorn, except instead of a horn, I have a wrench in one hand and a laptop in the other.

Late At night, I dream of embeddings, matrix multiplication, and implementations of theory of mind. Sometimes I even dream of red-hot sewage-cooled GPUs that reveal hidden assembly code routines on the heat sink

My passion for machine learning is such that my tinnitus has been replaced by server fan noise and CMOS beeps. My internal monologue is implemented in type-hinted Python.

You caught me! When I'm not busy fixing toilets and unclogging drains, I'm secretly moonlighting as a machine learning engineer —-Why, you ask?

To strike revenge into the hearts of all those politicians and uppity techies who told me and my fun-loving, abstraction-hating hooligans that we simply needed to "learn to code"

Well Now I’m re writing everything in cobol, ju...

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