A quote, misattributed
Joe Rogan mentioned a remarkable quote he attributed to Abraham Lincoln, which turns out to be false. Since no one else seems to be able to attribute this quote to anyone, I’ll happily oblige to take credit until someone else pipes up. Here’s the quote:
Good things come to those who wait, but only what’s left from those who hustle.
It’s a great principle and one that does not contradict itself, despite its dualistic tone. I believe there are two lessons in this proverb:
- Go and get after it.
- Be patient and savor the journey.
Feel free to credit me with this legendary quote until Abraham Lincoln rises from the coffin to have a word with me. Maybe we can find out what really happened in that theater.
Consistency and compounding effort
If you only work the days you want to, you’ll always be poor and unsatisfied. If you only show love to the people you like, your relationships will all be artificial. If you only work out when it’s convenient, you’ll get fat and die early. And if you wait till you’re rich to invest, you’ll never grow financially.
“Rome wasn’t built in a day.”
“The only way to eat an elephant.”
These are metaphors for the same principle: compounding efforts produce unimaginable results.
Go forth and hustle.
“Good things come to those who wait, but only what’s left from those who hustle.”
– Eric Knaus
I loaded a LLM on my computer
If you haven’t yet, check out Ollama – the tool that enables you to load a multitude of LLM’s and generative AI’s on your own computer (or a virtual server). Do keep in mind, this will require a graphics card.
I loaded Llama 3 (the latest open-source LLM from Meta) on my Macbook and it’s surprisingly powerful. Similar to ChatGPT I can engineer prompts to get exactly what I need. Unlike GPT4o predecessors, Llama can browse the web, if my computer is connected to the internet. (GPT4o is now capable of web browsing.)
I should caveat this all by saying I do not trust the organization Meta to respect my privacy, nor to honor the claims it makes to protect personal privacy. The organization’s existence is contrary to individual privacy. For that reason, I am extremely cautious with any information I feed the LLM on my computer.
I am still very much in the experimentation stage and I’d love to hear from people who’ve already mounted a LLM on their computer, and how you use it. Anyone mounted a LLM on a remote server? Do share with me in reply to this email.
Question: How do you find out where scenes are filmed?
If you want to know info and history about movies, series, actors, you go to Wikipedia. If you want to know the cast of movies and TV shows, and cross-reference the acting history of actors, you go to IMDB. I constantly find myself curious about film locations of specific scenes.
So where do you go if you want to know the filming location of specific scenes in movies in TV shows? If it doesn’t exist would someone please create this asap??
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