At the time I went through it 2004 / 2005 time frame, EMT was 3 or 4 months. Paramedic was approximately 13 months but it was a school that just did EMT and PM classes. I'm not sure if standalone EMT / PM schools are…
Back when I was hired in 2006 and going through fire school we were told 70% of the United States is volunteer. Either due to the remoteness of rural living or just people in rural areas have more grit, the call volumes…
Yeah, fair question. To me "real" is crunching numbers, doing experiments, figuring stuff out, along the lines of what I did in my core college classes. "Paper" is pushing paper, almost in the literal sense. It was just…
We live about 2 hours away from great dive spots. At the time we, my wife and I, were diving our kids were small, so we had to find someone to watch them. By the time it was said and done and we picked up the kids,…
The one thing I feel I can point is being able to talk to people either one on one or giving a presentation. Part of it could be getting older but I do feel like the FF/PM experience played a significant part in it.…
> Compensation is one thing, but the experience for me has been priceless. Yep. When I got hired on at the fire department I took a $12,000 pay cut. Overtime was abundant so it was easy to make up the loss plus some.…
Shit, vomit, piss, etc. Go into majority of nursing homes and the smell is a combination of shit, piss and disinfectant
I have written about this before here on HN. I obtained a BS in Aerospace Engineer in 1998. After job jumping several times I realized I didn't care for it. I was basically a "paper" engineer, which was my fault as I…
> This is why I have always said, that a degree in CS is useless without some degree of passion towards it. I would add I don't know how anyone can do any degree and career without some sort of passion for it. For me…
I still have my HP 48G and love it. I don't use it much and take the batteries out so they don't corrode in the case. Every time I use for more than a couple of calculations I think how much I prefer a RPN calculator.
This is me to a big extent. Sometimes I feel like I to learn for learning's sake. Which is okay, or at least that is what my therapist tells me. I struggle with the fact that I "think about doing" vs actually doing. My…
I used pg vector chunking on paragraphs. For the answers I saved in a flat text file and then parsed to what I needed. For parsing and vectorizing of the GCP docs I used a Python script. For reading each quiz question,…
I tried scripts but got blocked. I used wget to download tthem
Everything I run, even the small models, some amount goes to the GPU and the rest to RAM.
Hmmm...now that you say that, it might have been the 20b model. And like a dumbass I accidentally deleted the directory and didn't have a back up or under version control. Either way, I do know for a fact that the…
> I'm not his target demographic Me either and I am a dev as well > He's a good presenter and his advice makes a lot of sense. Agree Not that I think he forms his answers on who is sponsoring him, but I feel he couldn't…
> Zero trust in remote systems run by others with unknowable or questionable motives. This all day long. Plus I like to see what can be done without relying on big tech (relying on someone to create an LLM that I can…
gpt-oss-120b is amazing. I created a RAG agent to hold most of GCP documentation (separate download, parsing, chunking, etc). ChatGPT finished a 50 question quiz in 6 min with a score of 46 / 50. gpt-oss-120b took over…
I loved Compute!'s Gazette. I miss good print magazines
I know exactly what you mean, same but different I did start early at 12 y/o with a C64. Then trying to get drunk or laid took over and I only dabbled with it here and there. Got married, had kids, did other things and…
> "paralysis by analysis" is a form of perfectionism > it can also mean DOING NOTHING because you dont see a way to do it perfectly. I had a professor point this out to me while in undergrad.
Lots of truth to this. However, I have difficulty in doing a personal site just for my own benefit and pleasure. I enjoy learning, I enjoy the THOUGHT of building and doing but my execution sucks.
Excellent point
Virtual hat tip to ya! I finally have four ideas that I think worthy to build that I would like to monetize. All would be well within my abilities to build. No vision of grandeur that I'd retire from any of them and if…
Correct, there is no public IP address exposed to my home. Right now my "servers" are Dell micro i5s. I've have used RPI 3 and 4 in the past. My initial foray into self-hosting were actual servers. Too hot, too noisy…
At the time I went through it 2004 / 2005 time frame, EMT was 3 or 4 months. Paramedic was approximately 13 months but it was a school that just did EMT and PM classes. I'm not sure if standalone EMT / PM schools are…
Back when I was hired in 2006 and going through fire school we were told 70% of the United States is volunteer. Either due to the remoteness of rural living or just people in rural areas have more grit, the call volumes…
Yeah, fair question. To me "real" is crunching numbers, doing experiments, figuring stuff out, along the lines of what I did in my core college classes. "Paper" is pushing paper, almost in the literal sense. It was just…
We live about 2 hours away from great dive spots. At the time we, my wife and I, were diving our kids were small, so we had to find someone to watch them. By the time it was said and done and we picked up the kids,…
The one thing I feel I can point is being able to talk to people either one on one or giving a presentation. Part of it could be getting older but I do feel like the FF/PM experience played a significant part in it.…
> Compensation is one thing, but the experience for me has been priceless. Yep. When I got hired on at the fire department I took a $12,000 pay cut. Overtime was abundant so it was easy to make up the loss plus some.…
Shit, vomit, piss, etc. Go into majority of nursing homes and the smell is a combination of shit, piss and disinfectant
I have written about this before here on HN. I obtained a BS in Aerospace Engineer in 1998. After job jumping several times I realized I didn't care for it. I was basically a "paper" engineer, which was my fault as I…
> This is why I have always said, that a degree in CS is useless without some degree of passion towards it. I would add I don't know how anyone can do any degree and career without some sort of passion for it. For me…
I still have my HP 48G and love it. I don't use it much and take the batteries out so they don't corrode in the case. Every time I use for more than a couple of calculations I think how much I prefer a RPN calculator.
This is me to a big extent. Sometimes I feel like I to learn for learning's sake. Which is okay, or at least that is what my therapist tells me. I struggle with the fact that I "think about doing" vs actually doing. My…
I used pg vector chunking on paragraphs. For the answers I saved in a flat text file and then parsed to what I needed. For parsing and vectorizing of the GCP docs I used a Python script. For reading each quiz question,…
I tried scripts but got blocked. I used wget to download tthem
Everything I run, even the small models, some amount goes to the GPU and the rest to RAM.
Hmmm...now that you say that, it might have been the 20b model. And like a dumbass I accidentally deleted the directory and didn't have a back up or under version control. Either way, I do know for a fact that the…
> I'm not his target demographic Me either and I am a dev as well > He's a good presenter and his advice makes a lot of sense. Agree Not that I think he forms his answers on who is sponsoring him, but I feel he couldn't…
> Zero trust in remote systems run by others with unknowable or questionable motives. This all day long. Plus I like to see what can be done without relying on big tech (relying on someone to create an LLM that I can…
gpt-oss-120b is amazing. I created a RAG agent to hold most of GCP documentation (separate download, parsing, chunking, etc). ChatGPT finished a 50 question quiz in 6 min with a score of 46 / 50. gpt-oss-120b took over…
I loved Compute!'s Gazette. I miss good print magazines
I know exactly what you mean, same but different I did start early at 12 y/o with a C64. Then trying to get drunk or laid took over and I only dabbled with it here and there. Got married, had kids, did other things and…
> "paralysis by analysis" is a form of perfectionism > it can also mean DOING NOTHING because you dont see a way to do it perfectly. I had a professor point this out to me while in undergrad.
Lots of truth to this. However, I have difficulty in doing a personal site just for my own benefit and pleasure. I enjoy learning, I enjoy the THOUGHT of building and doing but my execution sucks.
Excellent point
Virtual hat tip to ya! I finally have four ideas that I think worthy to build that I would like to monetize. All would be well within my abilities to build. No vision of grandeur that I'd retire from any of them and if…
Correct, there is no public IP address exposed to my home. Right now my "servers" are Dell micro i5s. I've have used RPI 3 and 4 in the past. My initial foray into self-hosting were actual servers. Too hot, too noisy…