25岁生日——新航路
雨季打乱了出行的很多行程，虽然是由于徒步路线多而来了这个小岛，但实则在诡变的天气下所有路线都关闭了。不过这也没有太打乱我的心情，总有些可做的事情。最近思绪很杂乱，我也需要去理清楚一些堆积的问题。
原本订好了一个山里徒步的活动，凌晨五点半我就在出发地点等待直到发现活动在前一个晚上被临时取消。挣扎了一段时间要不要继续这个路线，去起点和回程可以用打车替代，只是会贵一两倍的样子。等到天亮时我终于决定了出发。在路途中我仍然在怀疑这个选择的正确性，真的有必要在不那么好的天气下非去不可么？在房间里躺着不比出去折腾要舒服？以及，我真的走得完那个路线么？但在越靠近路线起点，在看到日光在林道上爬升时，我明白了我必须要做的是 seize the moment，不管结果如何。有时候，能够抓住的只有当下的一个瞬间，如果错过这个瞬间，就再也来不及了。
结果有好有坏。坏处是发现路线只能走到一公里左右的地方，后面全部被封闭了。此时我还不知道徒步路线的状况，只是看到陆陆续续有很多人走向 PR1 或者在回程中。心里暗自疑惑这不是个单向路线么？好处是天气还算可以，要知道不下雨已经是很好的状况了对徒步来说。在短短的一小部分路上，我仿佛走在塞尔达世界里，水滴从悬空的石头上滑落，斜坡上的草地，群山环翠隐隐约约。只可惜我没有林克的矫健度飞岩走壁。不过更重要的是，我选择了跟随内心。
天气已经不太能影响我出行的心情，只要不到极端恶劣的程度，我都喜欢事物呈现它本来的样子。在从机场开到小镇的路上正是傍晚，海边的路灯，不远处一整个山坡闪烁的灯光，好像刺客信条奥德赛里的村庄。人生也正如游戏，我们又何尝不是在玩一个大型实时实况游戏呢？即使在里斯本老是下雨的几天里，我也感受到了不一样的乐趣。大雨倾盆下连接近地铁站入口的电梯上都能感受到的水汽，被雨水阻挡的行人临时停靠在门槛上躲避，而雨停后有波光粼粼的街道和依旧繁忙的行人。葡萄牙人有一种难得的热情和友好，以至于即使我没能听懂对方的话，依然能够妥善地取走我忘在饭店里的伞。在傻傻地等待红绿灯时，有个路人跟我说这里的信号灯坏掉了:) 出行正是因为意外更加独特，偶遇的小猫，寻常的小巷，弹唱的街头艺术家，飞旋的海鸥，蓝蓝绿绿的内港。
不过我仍有烦恼的问题。我想做什么？我该怎么做？翻了一个博客的 transcripts 后我有了答案，我只需要去做就可以了。逃避犯错而不去做就是什么都没做。而我们做的每一个选择和决定都塑造了现在的自己，成为现实的一部分。所以不要逃避做出选择和真实的自我了。
Takeaways[1]:
- iterations of teaching: say like taking 10 hours to create one hour of content. When teaching someone else, you realize your gaps in knowledge. Then go back to basics.
- pre: the source of content is the code not slides. We are building a story out of it.
- need 10,000 hours to become an expert
- general advice for beginners:
- “Focus on just the amount of work you’re spending on a thing. Compare yourself only to yourself, not to others.”
- how to pick the thing? Find Max(interest of things) for a thing and stick with it.
- answer: artificial intelligence only takes one property from biological intelligence which is the form of neural networks. Artificial neural networks share nothing else with biological nerual networks. It simply does compression and composed of mathematical formations and many knobs to tweak.
- transformer: attention is all you need. Transformer is one form of neural networks.
- definition of reasoning: information processing and generalization
- consciousness = modeling insight (?) : “in my mind, consciousness is not a special thing you will figure out and bolt on. I think it’s an emerging phenomenon of a large enough and complex enough generative model sort of. So, if you have a complex enough world model that understands the world, then it also understands its predicament in the world as being a language model, which to me is a form of consciousness or self-awareness.”
- books/textbooks/papers: books sometimes are high-level abstraction of abstractions and general consumption. Textbooks take one layer down to the details. But for new areas, textbooks are often outdated. That’s where we read papers in those areas. At least abstract and introducation is readable, even for laymen. Then read from Appendix.