Advice
- Get a Roomba (or similar robot vacuum).
- Hire people to clean your house.
- If you're getting nose surgery, shave your moustache the night before.
- When I'm looking to work with someone, I'm looking for 1) someone that does what they say they're going to do 2) who can do what I want them to do and 3) will be reasonably pleasant to work with.
- On your mountain bike, get the longest dropper post that can fit.
- I agree with Andrej Karpathy: if you work in ML, you need to understand backprop. The best way is to write your own implementation from scratch. It really does help your intuition.
- When hot waxing skis, use much less wax than you think you need.
- When hot waxing skis, if your edges have recently been tuned, wear gloves. I have 3 bandaids on my fingers.
- Never buy an AC unit; spend the extra money and get the equivalent heat pump.
- Don't buy a road bike unless you're planning to race. Buy a gravel bike. Make sure it can fit at least 40mm, and preferably 50mm, tires.